 12/14/04 Artforum
SCENE & HERD at artforum.com (http://www.artforum.com/diary/) Artforum's new online diary launches from Art Basel Miami Beach. LOG ON to read day-by-day behind-the-scenes reporting from around the globe. Scott Rothkopf on Art Basel Miami Beach "The real action, it seemed, was elsewhere-which is where the action at this fair always seems to be. For unlike Basel proper, which comes with fewer private parties and (as might be expected) poolside cabanas, the overabundance of simultaneous events in Miami induces a near-manic paranoia in clued-in visitors endlessly worried that they're in the wrong place at the right time. READ ON (http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry8021) Alison Gingeras takes in the art at collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz's unofficial Art Basel kick-off party "On the way upstairs, another uniformed maid-I counted at least ten-requested that guests park their shoes. Here, finally, was the psychedelic wallpaper I'd been expecting! Once ascended, I ran into a New York gallery director who advised me that the work on the second floor was a replay of assume vivid astro focus's Whitney Biennial installation (complete with spiral staircase), but despite her encouragement to do an about-face and have another drink in the garden, I forged ahead into the 'environment'. . ." READ ON (http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry8022) And David Rimanelli surveys the scene in the garden party below "As the evening wore on, and on, and on, the party, which I had enjoyed for some hours in high spirits, began to take a difficult, not to say sour turn, as taxis, cars, and limousines clogged the driveway. Egress was exceedingly painful. 'Reminds me of my favorite novel, Day of the Locust,' a ne plus ultra art-world insider said, laughing." READ ON (http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry8016) Coming next: The East Village grows up. Artforum.com looks in on the denizens of downtown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art's "East Village USA" opening and afterparty. ARTFORUM.COM EVERYWHERE THE ART IS Visit Artforum online at http://www.artforum.com To subscribe, visit http://www.artforum.com/subscribe Visit our free online directory of international museums at http://www.artforum.com/museumfinder/ |
