Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon
December 1–4, 2011
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For a decade now, Art Basel Conversations has offered the public a chance to see dynamic dialogues between prominent figures of the international artworld, debating the key issues facing the artworld today and offering their first-hand perspective on producing, collecting and exhibiting art.
Daily from Thursday, December 1, to Sunday, December 4, 2011
10–11am | Panel Discussion
11–11.30am | Meet the Panelists
Location | Miami Beach Convention Centre, auditorium adjacent to Info Zone D
Admission is free | Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis
THURSDAY | December 1 | Premiere | Artist Talk | Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco, Artist, Mexico City/New York/Paris
In conversation with Michelle Kuo, Editor in Chief, Artforum, New York
FRIDAY | December 2 | Public/Private | The Evolution of Museum Missions
Margarita J. Aguilar, Executive Director, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Moderator | András Szántó, Author and Consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York
SATURDAY | December 3 | Collector Focus | Art Basel Miami Beach and South Florida: A Decade of Transformation
Irma and Norman Braman, Collectors and Patrons, Miami
Carlos M. de la Cruz, Collector and Co-Founder with his wife, Rosa, of the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami
Martin Z. Margulies, Collector, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
Dennis Scholl, Collector, Miami
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Collector, Founder and President of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami
Moderator | Bonnie Clearwater, Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
SUNDAY | December 4 | The Future of Artistic Practice | The Artist as Poet
Gerry Bibby, Artist, Berlin
Tracey Emin, Artist, London
Olivier Garbay, Artist, London
Karl Holmqvist, Artist, Poet and Performer, Berlin/Stockholm
Jonas Mekas, Writer, Curator and Filmmaker, Brooklyn
Moderator | Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London
Videos of Art Basel Conversations are available the next day at artbasel.com/conversations
Art Salon
The Art Salon program serves as an open space for short presentations, such as panel discussions, lectures and performances, with the range of speakers including artists, curators, academics, authors, art lawyers, critics, architects, musicians and many other cultural players.
Daily and throughout the day, from Thursday, December 1, to Sunday, December 4, 2011
Location | Miami Beach Convention Centre, auditorium adjacent to Info Zone D
Access via show floor | General admission ticket includes access to Art Salon
THURSDAY | December 1
1pm | The Global Artworld | ‘Regionalism’
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jens Hoffmann, Chelsea Haines
2pm | Artist Talk | Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto, Adriano Pedrosa
3pm | Art Law | 10 Cases: And Why They Matter To You
Josh Baer, Peter R. Stern
4pm | Artist Talk | Inspiration, Cultivation and The Philip Johnson Glass House Collection
Todd Eberle, Liam Gillick, Amei Wallach
5pm | Artist Talk | ‘Movement Studies’
Haegue Yang, Doryun Chong
6pm | Art History | Remembering Louise Bourgeois
Tracey Emin, Jerry Gorovoy, Nancy Spector, Ulf Küster
FRIDAY | December 2
1pm | Art Public Talk
Theaster Gates, Glenn Kaino, Christine Y. Kim
2pm | Art Video Talk | ‘Dancer’
Dara Friedman, David Gryn
3pm | Art Film Talk | ‘Gerhard Richter Painting’
4pm | Talk | Biennials: Critical and Curatorial Interventions
Cuauhtémoc Medina, José Roca
5pm | The Global Artworld | Focus on Argentina
Tanya Barson, Marlise Jozami, Guillermo Navone, Abaseh Mirvali
6pm | Art Media | Latin American Art Magazines: Now and Then
Sandra Antelo-Suarez, Celia Birbragher, Rodrigo Moura, Adriano Pedrosa
SATURDAY | December 3
1pm | Artist Talk | Is Anyone Home?
Erwin Wurm, Peter Doroshenko
2pm | Artist Talk | The Idea of Utopia in Art and Life
Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Sir Norman Rosenthal
3pm | Artist Talk | Performa
4pm | Artist Talk | Art Attack
Dan Cameron, Raphael Castoriano, Ryan McNamara, Richard Tuttle
5pm | Artist Talk | ‘Color on Color’
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Aldo Rubino
6pm | Art Law Talk | Art Law in the Digital Age
Lawrence M. Kaye, Howard N. Spiegler
SUNDAY | December 4
1pm | Artist Talk | ‘Rolling Stop’
Mark Handforth, Bonnie Clearwater
2pm | Artist Talk | ‘Cloud Cities’
Tomás Saraceno, Hans Ulrich Obrist
3pm | Talk | Bas Fisher Invitational: artist-run project in Miami
Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain, Christy Gast, Richard Haley
Videos of all Art Salon talks will be available the next day at artbasel.com/salon
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