Last week I visited Art Basel Miami Beach, its surrounding satellite fairs, and some of Miami's public and private collections. My tour included Art Basel at the Miami Convention Center, the satellite fairs Untitled, Art Miami, Context, Miami Project, Red Dot, and Aqua, the Rubell and Margulies collections, and the Perez Art Museum Miami. My full report will appear in the upcoming January issue of The New Criterion. In the meantime, here is an informal 140-character glimpse of what I saw.
ART overfloweth @MZM_Collection #abmb pic.twitter.com/Zf3j2D8rl5
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 6, 2013
I told Ai Weiwei to pace himself #abmb @ Rubell Family Collection pic.twitter.com/CcpHPFPI6i
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 6, 2013
This is less dramatic than @powhida led me to believe http://t.co/OcYA2KDu2M #abmb pic.twitter.com/HK0FWsJNdO
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 6, 2013
@JamesPanero sorry there's no giant artist-run shanty town! #fairs
— William (@Powhida) December 6, 2013
Great pair at Francis Naumann: Walter Pach from 1912 (which was in The Armory Show) to Pach in 1916 #abmb pic.twitter.com/QiHagmSHDf
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 6, 2013
Duchamp, Duchamp, Duchamp (via Ai Weiwei & Jasper Johns). Sold as a set at Francis Naumann #abmb pic.twitter.com/xdyeX7Seu9
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 6, 2013
@ddotpalmer yeah prolly so
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 6, 2013
Great color studies updated by Richard Garrison @rhcontemporary at Aqua #abmb pic.twitter.com/RtyPyVHSh5
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
More of this please: Clemente Padin from the Sackner Archive @pamm pic.twitter.com/TjeWozxkbg
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
Hibiscus (1943) by Cuban modernist Amelia Pelaez @pamm pic.twitter.com/xdG3KmYfxt
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
Dustin Yellin at Richard Heller @Miami_Project #abmb pic.twitter.com/J4QjYAyCSK
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
Alice Neel quality to these portraits by Girls' Jemina Kirke at Fouladi Projects @Miami_Project pic.twitter.com/LElsAGUag7
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
Banking on #banksy @Art_Miami pic.twitter.com/cqq0Cib8dp
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
@paulbehnke_net Look what I found @Art_Miami pic.twitter.com/k4uFU8rodn
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
USA! USA! USA! #NSA @aiww @pamm pic.twitter.com/xU48e4YQ9v
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 7, 2013
RT @JamesPanero: USA! USA! USA! #NSA @aiww @pamm https://t.co/XPyI3SjKap
— 艾未未 Ai Weiwei (@aiww) December 8, 2013
Tweet that Mother #abmb pic.twitter.com/Mc5hJfIcBw
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 8, 2013
Will that be cash, credit, or poker chips? #hellynahmad #abmb pic.twitter.com/Cdzzulbhqc
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 8, 2013
Reliving @Hyperallergic Aqua Art Party Bedlam http://t.co/97AoPnAIlH Good thing I bought back the rest of the roll from this @Grossmalerman
— James Panero (@JamesPanero) December 12, 2013
For this last link, the artist persona known as Grossmalerman, playing party photographer, called me "an inexplicably intriguing subject." Something for the blurb file! Full report here.