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'None but the Rich Deserve the Fair'

Marc Spiegler
Synopsis

Reviewing Art Basel Miami Beach at the five-year mark. The artworld started skeptical. ‘There’s something truly humorous about having a Swiss chic fair in such a tacky city,’ artist Candice Breitz observed. Five years later, magazines such as Vanity Fair and W devoted massive space in their December issues to the artworld. And the artworld has learned to love Miami's tropical craziness. My hot take: 'Once "The artworld goes to Miami", Art Basel Miami Beach has now become ‘the artworld goes Miami’.

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Telegraph

Date:

December 17, 2006

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