Thursday, December 7 through Sunday, December 10, 2006

Art Basel Miami Beach
Thursday, December 7 through Sunday, December 10, 2006

Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Entrances: Convention Center Drive and Washington Avenue

Duration and opening hours:
Thursday, December 7 through Sunday, December 10, 2006 
Daily from noon to 8 p.m. Closing day from noon to 6 p.m.

www.ArtBasel.com

Art Basel Miami Beach
From December 7 through 10, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, will be home to the leading international art show of the Americas. 200 of the most prestigious galleries from the USA, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa will be taking part. Picked by the Selection Committee from a record number of over 650 applicants, they will present works by over 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. 25 new galleries will be enhancing all the sectors, making the list of participants at this years Art Basel Miami Beach more illustrious than ever (list see www.ArtBasel.com ). 22 young galleries are showing works in exhibition spaces created out of shipping containers on the beach (Art Positions). Following its success last year, the special «Art Nova» sector will be extended to comprise 62 booths presenting new works by 200 artists. An exciting program of special exhibitions, visits to private art collections, and crossover events will round out the varied presentations awaiting visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach.
New «Open Air Cinema»
Premiering this year, Art Positions is enhanced by the new Open Air Cinema under the starry skies of South Beach featuring samples from the rich history of music video. The musicians and artists represented in this program have dealt with sound, music and pop culture in a broad variety of ways and include Yello, Rineke Dijkstra, Meredith Danluck, Tony Oursler, Seth Price, Wiliam Wegman, The Residents and others.
New «Art Salon»
Art Salon is a new and open platform for discussion with an emphasis in current themes in contemporary art. Informal in its format yet international in scope, Art Salon encourages experimental round table discussions with an array of speakers ranging from artists, curators, authors, and architects. Art Salons daily program is located in the newly launched Art Guest Lounge, where it will also host book signings and museum groups. Participants include prominent art personalities such as Chuck Close, Lawrence Weiner, Daniel Birnbaum, Josh Baer, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Craig Robins, Jerry Saltz, Dennis Hopper, Bob Colacello, Jack Persekian, Michael Rush and many others.
«Art Kabinett»
«Art Kabinett» gives 14 participating galleries from six countries the opportunity to present small curated exhibitions. The chosen projects will be shown in a separate room of the exhibitors booth. The exhibition concepts for «Art Kabinett» are diverse, representing everything from thematic group exhibitions and one-person shows to installations and tributes. The spectrum ranges from modern masters to established artists and the youngest generation. «Art Kabinett» is an additional attraction for visitors and enables galleries to complement the arrangement of their booths with a curated exhibition. In undertaking this initiative, Art Basel intensifies its efforts to achieve a meaningful combination of commercial and cultural exhibition activity.
«Art Perform»
«Art Perform» features daily performances by internationally renowned young artists such as Daria Martin, Robin Rhode, Spartacus Chetwynd, Gareth Moore, Carlos Amorales, and Joao Maria Gusmao & Pedro Pavia. «Art Perform» is curated by Jens Hoffman, Director CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
«Art Video Lounge»
American curator Michael Rush has put together three programs: «Surrender to Illusion: Video in a Time of War», «Aesthetic Field: No Appropriation: Directors Direct/Performers Perform», and «In Brevitas Formositas: Short and Beautiful», featuring two dozen works by seventeen internationally known artists. The pieces have been selected to offer a broad survey of contemporary trends in video art. In tribute to the late Nam June Paik videos by the father of video art will also be shown every day.
«Art Projects»
One of the most exciting platforms of Art Basel Miami Beach is «Art Projects», where 8 projects by internationally renowned artists are on show in public spaces in Miami Beach. These works engage directly with the spectator, interrupting the daily routine of passersby in poetic, alienating, or surprising ways. With its array of purchasable works by such artists as Michael D. Linares, Daniel Buren, Jonathan Monk, Tea Mäkipää, The Palm dOr Social Club, Erwin Wurm, Sislej Xhafa, and Thorsten Passfeld «Art Projects» offers fascinating insight into leading contemporary artists interpretation of new art in public spaces. Most of the pieces are newly created or installed site-specifically for Art Basel Miami Beach.
«Art Basel Conversations»
The «Art Basel Conversations» forum organized in association with Bvlgari promises to be very exciting this year. Panelists include such top-flight artists, art collectors, and museum directors as, Richard Flood, Ryan Gander, Julia Peyton-Jones, Jennifer Allora, Lidia Leon, Ai Weiwei, Sebastian Lopez, Ramiro Martinez, Natalia Majluf, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, José Ignacio Roca, Ivo Costa Mesquita, Dan Graham, Jorge Pardo and many others. They will be discussing questions based around the subjects of «The Future of the Museum: Focus Latin America», «Architecture for Art: Artists Who Build» and «Art Collections: Collecting and Memory.»
«Art Sound Lounge»
With its «Art Sound Lounge», Art Basel Miami Beach presents a forum where visitors can take in music and audio pieces in the attractive surroundings of the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. Listeners are provided with wireless headphones as they stroll through the gardens to a program featuring music and sound by and about plants, insects, and birds including tracks from John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, Peter Coffin, Terry Riley, Arto Lindsay, Shelley Hirsch and many others.
«Art Loves.»
Art Basel Miami Beach incorporates crossover events including film, music, and design. «Art Loves Music» presents a concert of the provocative singer «Peaches» with her band. «Art Loves Film» will feature an evening with director Dennis Hopper presenting his classical movie «Easy Rider». The «Art Loves Design Party» in Miamis Design District will include exhibitions by Vitra Design Museum, Centre Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and many others. The design show «Design Miami/2006» will feature 17 leading contemporary design dealers.

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