That’s right, art-lings. I’m not there again. But neither are a lot of other people. I was just ahead of my time:
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kelly Crow gives a comprehensive bad-news report on the scene at Art Basel Miami, where “crowds and sales have dropped off.”
Alexandra Peers and Erica Orden in NY Magazine give us the then-and-now comparison of a hot art fair in a cold economy.
Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz of ABC News low-blow the fair by tenuously connecting it with the criminal investigation of its sponsor, UBS. What we really wonder is what’s going to happen to UBS’s important contemporary art collection, some of which was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2005 exhibition, Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection. (That show included 40 works promised to MoMA, as well as 30 other works owned by the embattled Swiss bank.)
We know that the NY Times‘ art writers must be somewhere in Florida, or they wouldn’t have let me scoop them on the important National Academy deaccession story. But so far the the Timesters have been too busy partying to file a report.
Just kidding: I’m sure we’ll see the definitive Beach wrap this weekend.