Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century
by
Georgina Adam
Published 14 Jun 2014
pagewanted=all&src=pm. 108 Interview with the author, September 2013. 109 Interview with the author, October 2013. 110 Interview with the author, October 2013. 111 Anonymous, interview with the author, May 2013. 112 Thompson, The $12 million Stuffed Shark, p.53. 113 This and further quotations: conversation with the author, October 2013. 114 Freeland, Plutocrats, p.4. 115 Perrotin has denied to me on a number of occasions that he gave his pass, saying he was the ‘fall guy’ for other dealers who had done the same thing. 116 Anonymous, conversation with the author, 2011. 117 Conversation with the author, Art Basel, 2011. 118 Kenny Schachter, ‘Further adventures in the Wade Guyton Market’, Gallerist, 22 October 2013, http://galleristny.com/2013/10/further-adventures-in-the-wade-guyton-market. 119 Conversation with the author, September 2013. 120 Thomas Seydoux, interview with the author, March 2013. 121 Thompson, The $12m Stuffed Shark, p.186. 122 Isabelle Graw, High Price – Art Between the Art Market and Celebrity Culture, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2009, p.73. 123 Maria Lind and Olav Velthuis (eds.), Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012, pp 118–19. 124 Skate’s Art Market Research, ‘2012 Annual Investment Report Part 2’, Skate’s, February 2013, http://skatesart.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/skates-annual-art-investment-report-2012-part-2.pdf, p.11. 125 Interview with the author, 2013. 126 Anonymous, interview with the author, February 2013. 127 Conversation with the author, March 2013. 128 ‘The Art Basel effect: How the fair has impacted Miami’s economy’, AFA News, 30 November 2011, http://www.afanews.com/home/item/1095-the-art-basel-effect-how-the-fair-has-impacted-miami per centE2 per cent80 per cent99s-economy#.UcLO8PmTjKA. 129 Interview with the author, February 2013. 130 Conversation with the author, December 2013. 131 Anonymous, conversation with the author, May 2013. 132 Adam Lindemann, ‘Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach now!’, New York Observer, 29 October 2011, http://www.adamlindemann.com/occupy-art-basel-miami-beach-now. 133 Lindemann, ‘Occupy’. 134 ‘Critics’ roundtable: What was the cultural event of 2012?’
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‘When I say I exhibit at the Basel and Frieze fairs, it tells them about us.’125 Fairs are the dealers’ party – happening at fixed dates, for just a few days, with the same high-octane ‘now-or-never’ atmosphere as an auction and the same sense of being one of the select. The first day – or two, in the case of Art Basel – is reserved for VIPs, who, armed with their special card, get access to the fair and much more, including a fleet of shiny black BMWs or Audis to ferry them around. And some VIPs are more important than others: Frieze and Art Basel operate a three-level system granting access at different times of the day. As all the big collectors tend to come on the first day alone – by the weekend, even the gallery owners have left, leaving juniors to look after the stand – there is certainly a ‘now-or-never’ feeling, with pressure to close a deal before someone else does.
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127 The advantages for a location to host a fair are obvious – it brings business and a raised profile to the city, along with big-spending visitors. The economic benefits of holding a fair are difficult to quantify, but according to one report,128 between 2002, when Art Basel Miami Beach was held for the first time, and 2010, revenue from the average Miami-Dade hotel room grew 51 per cent, and in December alone, it grew by 79 per cent. Even the local airport benefits, with private jets paying landing fees during the fair. Art Basel Miami Beach – and the multitude of satellite events that are held at the same time – has enabled Miami to rebrand itself as a cultural centre and boost its tourism industry.
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
by
Michael Shnayerson
Published 20 May 2019
Traditionally, dealers large and small had traveled to a handful of fairs: FIAC in Paris, New York’s Armory Show, and the most established fair, Art Basel Switzerland. When Art Basel Miami Beach joined the pack in 2002, and Frieze London in 2003, the pace remained, for a while, manageable. Yet each year, more new fairs sprouted, in one country after another. From Frieze Masters and Frieze New York in 2012 to Art Basel Hong Kong in 2013, the list of major shows had steadily expanded. Clare McAndrew, the consulting art-market economist who now worked for Art Basel, counted 260 major fairs, with almost 50 added in the last decade, including the newest: Frieze Los Angeles, opening in February 2019.
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Their arrival coincided with the sixth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, youngest of the three Art Basels. Brett Gorvy came to Art Basel Hong Kong bearing a vintage De Kooning from 1975, called Untitled XII, put up for sale for $35 million by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen—perhaps a hint, in retrospect, of his impending, premature death. Barely had the doors opened when it sold. No less impressive in its own way was Hauser & Wirth’s solo Mark Bradford show. All of the dozen paintings sold out almost immediately. Plenty of Chinese art was shown that week at Art Basel Hong Kong, but a corner had been turned: Western art was now part of the mix too.
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It was originally named Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. 3. Julia Halperin, “Here Are All the Basquiats at Art Basel, Worth a Combined $89 Million,” Artnet News, June 14, 2017, https://news.artnet.com/market/here-are-all-the-many-basquiats-at-art-basel-991865. 4. Dodie Kazanjian, “House of Wirth: The Gallery World’s Power Couple,” Vogue, January 10, 2013, www.vogue.com/article/house-of-wirth-the-gallery-worlds-art-couple. 5. Alexander Forbes, “Art Market Rebounds at Art Basel in Basel,” Artsy, June 13, 2017, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-art-market-rebounds-art-basel-basel. 6. Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi, “As Art Flies Off the Walls at Basel, Buyers Beware, Experts Warn,” Reuters, June 15, 2017, www.reuters.com/article/us-art-basel-idUSKBN19623G. 7.
Back to Blood
by
Tom Wolfe
Published 1 Jan 2012
But this “A.A.” girl had something else, too. She was in the know. Advising rich people, like Fleischmann, about what very expensive art to buy was her business, and she knew all about this “fair.” If somebody called it “Miami Art Basel,” thinking that was the full name, she would inform him in some mostly polite way that it was officially Art Basel Miami Beach… and that those in the know didn’t call it “Miami Art Basel” for short. No, they called it “Miami Basel.” She could fire off sixty in the know cracks a minute. At this very moment, A.A. was saying, “So I ask her—I ask her what she’s interested in, and she says to me, ‘I’m looking for something cutting-edge… like a Cy Twombly.’
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She even remembered his name, Heinrich von Hasse. He had made billions manufacturing… something about industrial robots?… was that what they said? Whatever else he did, he had spent so many millions buying art at Art Basel in Switzerland six months ago, people were talking about him at practically every party she and Norman and Maurice had been to. “—about to see it! A measles outbreak, baby!” “—and no time to kick the tires!” “See it—like it—buy it! That’s all you—” “Art Basel in Basel?” That was A.A. piping up again. “Have you ever been to Basel? The only place worse is Helsinki. There’s no place to eat! The food is not anywhere near as good as the food here.
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How had Norman managed to get a slip for his cigarette boat in the famous marina at Fisher Island?… Maurice… How had he managed to be among the very first in line for the mad rush on the opening day of Art Basel? Maurice. How had he managed to be invited to dinner at Chez Toi by one of the leading figures in the Miami art world, Sergei Korolyov?… Because Sergei had seen him in Maurice’s entourage at Art Basel… Anyone who didn’t realize that Norman was a shameless climber would have to be blind. She thought of a way to get Norman on that subject without being too obvious. There was nothing out of place for her to ask—and so she did: “Norman,” she said, “you think Maurice will be there Friday night?”
Isn't That Rich?: Life Among the 1 Percent
by
Richard Kirshenbaum
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Michael Gross
Published 9 Jun 2015
A few days later, I was having breakfast with a good friend in his Madison Avenue aerie, where the morning sun illuminated the Greco-Roman sculptures, Renaissance paintings, Georgian silver, and midcentury Modern furniture. “When I go to Art Basel, I don’t see art collecting as much as I see competitive spending,” he said. “I see the same people who thirty years ago were at Studio 54 who are still behind the velvet rope. Only now it’s Art Basel, and the entrance fee to an A-list party is a hundred thousand dollars for a starter piece.” He offered me a serving dish of gravlax on toast points. “Does that get them the piece and the invite?”
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When my husband and I were first married, we went to an old-line gallery and purchased our first nature morte. While it was less expensive then compared to today, we still put it on a layaway plan. It took us a year to pay off, and we thought we were so daring. Anyway …” She took a spoonful of salmon mousse. “It was a different time. Today, it’s ‘I want it, and I want it now.’” “Are you going to Art Basel?” That’s the question one hears up and down Madison Avenue in October and November. Recently, I was having lunch with a public relations professional who puts together events for the annual Miami art confab. She explained how her clients go to parties while their consultants roam the fair, snapping iPhone photos.
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“When someone under the age of eleven asks you if you are flying private or commercial, you know things are out of hand.” “That cannot be true.” I coughed. I was at Sant Ambroeus with Jannsen (not his real name), an art dealer who resides in Europe. “But it is.” He sipped his Negroni. “It was a client’s son. He wanted to know how I was getting to Miami Art Basel. When I told him that I was on Delta, he said, ‘Catch a ride with us.’ I was floored. I am not used to being invited on a G-4 by someone who comes up to my belt loop. What’s next? Lighting up a Cuban in his Volcom hoodie? Very inappropriate.” “Did you say that?” I asked him. “Richard, these people are my clients.
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by
Nate Silver
Published 12 Aug 2024
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT join a DAO: Kevin Roose, “What Are DAOs?,” The New York Times, March 18, 2022, sec. Technology, nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/technology/what-are-daos.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Art Basel weekend: “NFTs Took Over Art Basel,” Coinbase, December 8, 2021, coinbase.com/bytes/archive/nfts-took-over-art-basel-miami. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT meet Alex Mashinsky: John Mccrank and Hannah Lang, “Who Is Alex Mashinsky, the Man Behind the Alleged Celsius Crypto Fraud?,” Reuters, January 5, 2023, sec. Technology, reuters.com/technology/who-is-alex-mashinsky-man-behind-alleged-celsius-crypto-fraud-2023-01-05.
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It was a happy time for crypto; three weeks earlier, Bitcoin had achieved an all-time-high price (later surpassed in early 2024) of $67,566.83, larger than the average annual American salary. The mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, was onstage as part of an event called NFT BZL, a festival that was piggybacking off Miami’s famous art fair Art Basel. Like almost everything else in Miami that week, the VIP area was a shitshow, serving at once as an anteroom for speakers as they entered and exited the stage, a place for journalists to mingle and conduct interviews, and a party zone where a fancy French brand was giving out free champagne. It isn’t right to say the crypto industry had sprung out of nowhere.
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On the one hand, the mood was so confident—FTX, which had barely existed two years earlier, had spent $135 million to put its name on the Miami Heat’s basketball arena—that one could almost be forgiven for thinking that crypto had been part of the landscape all along. The lavish parties and the exuberant advertising, and the attempts to associate with established brands like Art Basel, were a play to create institutional legitimacy and a feeling of ubiquity—and to inspire fear of missing out in those who hadn’t joined the party yet. On the other hand, some of it was just so obviously ludicrous. I went to one party on a yacht that never left shore, where crypto degens tipped bartenders $20 for bottles of water—in some cases because they were high on white powdered substances, and in others because early crypto adopters felt like they’d won the lottery and had infinite money to burn.
The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
by
Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 7 Mar 2019
As the algorithms pinged information back and forth, the hope was that the Generator algorithm would be pushed to create new things that would fall in the sweet spot of the Wundt curve. Elgammal calls these Creative Adversarial Networks. So what did people make of the output of these algorithms? When a group of art lovers were shown new works at Art Basel 2016, the flagship fair for contemporary art, and asked to compare them with new art works generated by Elgammal’s Creative Adversarial Network, they reported finding the computer-generated art more inspiring, and identified more closely with the images. (To see the images: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07068.)
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I don’t think anyone would rank the product of DeepDream as good art (whatever that is). As the columnist Alex Rayner, who first wrote about these images, commented: ‘they look like dorm-room mandalas, or the kind of digital psychedelia you might expect to find on the cover of a Terrence McKenna book’. Not things you’ll find at Frieze in London or at Art Basel. But it still represents an important new way of understanding something of the internal world of the algorithm as it classifies images. The algorithm is the art Are these new tools pushing the visual arts into interesting new territory? I decided I needed to make a trip back to the Serpentine Gallery to talk to Hans-Ulrich Obrist and hear his thoughts on the role of AI in the art world.
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AARON 117–18, 119, 121, 122 Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 66–7, 268 adversarial algorithms 132–42, 298, 300 AIVA 229–30; Genesis 230 Alberti bass pattern 197, 197 algebra 44, 47, 65, 158–60, 158, 171, 182, 237 Algorithmic Justice League 94 algorithms 2, 5, 11, 13, 17, 21, 24; adversarial 132–42, 298, 300; art and see art; biases and blind spots 91–5; characteristics, key 46; computer vision and see computer vision; consciousness and see consciousness; dating/matching and 57–61, 58, 59, 60; first 44–7, 45, 158–9; free will and 112–13, 300, 301; games and see individual game name; Google search 47–56, 50, 51, 52, 57; language and see language; Lovelace Test and 7–8, 102–3, 219–20; mathematics and see mathematics; music and see musical composition; neural networks and see neural networks; Nobel Prize and 57; recommender 79–80, 81–91, 85, 86; reinforcement learning and 27, 96–7; spam filters and 90–1; sports and 55–6; supervised learning and 95–6, 97, 137; tabula rasa learning and 97, 98; term 46; training 89–91; unexpected consequences of 62–5 see also individual algorithm name Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad 46, 47, 159 AlphaGo 22, 29–43, 95–6, 97–8, 131, 145, 168, 209, 219–20, 233 AlphaZero 97–8 Al Qadiri, Fatima 224 Altamira, Cave of, Spain 104, 105 Amazon (online retailer) 62, 67, 286 Amiga Power 23 Analytical Engine 1–2, 44 Android Lloyd Webber 290 Annals of Mathematics 152, 170–1, 177, 243 Appel, Kenneth 170, 174 Apple 117 Archer, Jodie 283 Argand, Jean-Robert 237 Aristophanes 165 Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric 166 Arnold, Malcolm 231 art: AARON and 117–18, 119, 121, 122; adversarial networks and generating new 132–42, 135, 136, 137, 140; animals and 107–9; BOB (artificial life form) and 146–8; bone carvings, ancient 104–5; cave art, ancient 103–4, 156; coding the visual world 110–12; commercial considerations and 131–2; copyright ownership and 108–9; creativity and see creativity; definition of 103–7; emotional response, AI and 106–7; fractals and 113–16, 124–5; future of AI 148–9; identifying artists and waves of creativity with AI 134–9, 135, 136; mathematics and 99–103, 106, 146, 155; origins of human 103; ‘The Painting Fool’ 119–22, 200, 291; Pollock, attempts to fake a 123–6; Rembrandt, recreating 127–32; rules and 1; sale of computer generated work, first 141; visual recognition algorithms, understanding 142–5; Wundt Curve and 139–40, 140 Art Basel 141, 142, 143, 145, 151 artificial intelligence (AI): algorithms and see algorithms; art and see art; birth of 1–2, 67; computer vision and see computer vision; consciousness and see consciousness; creativity and see creativity; data, importance of 67–8; games and see individual game name; language and see language; Lovelace Test and 7–8, 102–3, 219–20; mathematics and see mathematics; music and see musical composition; neural networks and see neural networks; systems see individual system name; term 24; transformational impact of 66–7 Ascent of Man, The (TV series) 104 Ashwood, Mary 48 Associated Press 293, 294 Atari 25–8, 92, 97, 115–16, 132 Atiyah, Michael 179, 248–9 Augustus, Ron 127 Automated Insights 293 Babbage, Charles 1, 7, 65 Babylonians, Ancient 157–60, 161, 165 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 189–90, 193–4; ‘Inventions by Which Six Measures of Double Counterpoint Can be Written without Knowledge of the Rules’ 193–4 Bach, Johann Sebastian 10, 185, 186–7, 189–93, 204, 205, 207, 230, 231, 299; AIVA and 230; algorithms and method of composing music 189–94, 191; The Art of Fugue 186, 198; DeepBach and 207–12, 232; Emmy and 195–6, 197, 198, 200, 201; The Musical Offering 189–94; ‘Ricercar’ 192; St John Passion 207–8 Baroque 10, 13, 138 Barreau, Pierre 230 Barreau, Vincent 230 Barry, Robert 106 Barthes, Roland 251–2 Bartók, Béla 186–7, 197, 205 Batten, Dan 234 Beatles, the 224; ‘Yesterday’ 223 Beckett, Samuel 17 Beethoven, Ludwig van 10, 41, 127, 200, 230, 244 Belamy, Edmond 141 BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos 87–8 Berlyne, D.
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following
by
Gabrielle Bluestone
Published 5 Apr 2021
Take, for example, the attractive, photogenic orange drink Americans suddenly started knocking back in 2017, in large part because Campari paid JWT New York handsomely to “position the Aperol spritz as the real ‘Italian aperitivo’ and go-to drink for the Social Striver (a trendy Millenial [sic] that doesn’t mind splurging on the new/hot product if it advances their social status), with its bright orange color and easy preparation as the key message,” at least according to the agency’s case study.22 To put it in English, Campari mostly just put its product in places where influencers were already taking pictures: out and about in the Hamptons, in front of aesthetically pleasing backdrops at trendy music festivals, and with branded merch distributed at places like Miami’s Art Basel. Of course, Campari paired those efforts with a blend of traditional advertising—bus wraps, billboards, magazine ads, and the rest—but they did it all with a narrow focus on well-heeled millennials and their social media audiences. And it was wildly successful. It’s not exactly a new concept—remember, Borte was inspired to write The Joneses, fifteen years earlier, after seeing a news story about models being paid to order Campari and sodas at popular bars.
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“Everyone got caught up in the fantasy, including us,” Knox told reporters, as patrons at the bar started buying them drinks, including an $800 bottle of Champagne.96 But gonzo engagements aside, getting long-term access to these deep-pocketed fools generally means making them feel comfortable with you first, which means you’ve got to show your face over and over at events like Art Basel, where the superrich feel safe and ensconced enough to engage with their peers. That’s where Knox says she’s headed for her next stealth shoot, and it’s also where Kamer got himself written up in the Daily Mail as a French businessman named Nimrod-Frederic Kamer after he approached the model Kelly Brook mid-photoshoot with a checkbook, offering her €1 million to go on a date with him and let him touch her knee.
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If there was ever a time they could have and should have turned back, it was in early February, when almost every outside contractor—and in particular, the beleaguered Tablelist staff bearing the brunt of the public dissatisfaction—was starting to freak out. “I mean, I kept urging them. I work on big projects. I never worked on a project that big, but just like a small project, that’s how much work it takes, you know? I wanted to introduce them to the people who put on Art Basel. They’re right in Miami, and they could have actually implemented the infrastructure for this,” the publicist said. “But they were just, like, oblivious and traveling back and forth to the island. It was just crazy.” “Ja Rule,” Cal Wells said, “who’s not known for his financial acumen and a failed tech entrepreneur, can’t throw a music festival together in nine months if it was on dry land in the middle of Ohio, much less the logistical nightmare of flying in aircraft, dealing with foreign governments, passports, permitting, insurance.
Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
by
Laurence Scott
Published 11 Jul 2018
The recent proliferation of the #MeToo movement has seen its aims both celebrated and contested, with some arguing that it ‘does little to dismantle the underlying problem’ of sexual abuse. Many others, meanwhile, cheer its attack on that ancient fortress of misogyny. The American Civil Liberties Union, in particular, has promised to continue the work of #MeToo in ‘Dismantling Sexual Harassment’. Discussing the women artists showcased at the 2017 Art Basel Miami Beach, Guardian journalist Janelle Zara challenges the ‘prevailing mythology’ that ‘the gendered power balance of the status quo will magically dismantle itself’. Intentionally or not, the rhetoric of these movements echoes the famous activist Audre Lorde’s maxim of resistance, ‘The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.’
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Jeremy Hunt is dismantling our health service by stealth’, Yorkshire Post, 4th December 2017, Simon Tilford, ‘Brexit poses a bigger threat …’, Independent, 25th March 2018; ‘is dismantling the …’, Malcolm Nance interview with ‘AM Joy’, MSNBC, 18th December 2017; ‘dismantling democracy’, David Cay Johnston interview with Michael Krasny, KQED News, 14th February 2018; ‘the long project …’, see Jude Blanchette, quoted in Tom Phillips’s article ‘Xi Jinping to cement his power with plan to scrap two-term limit’, Guardian, 25th February 2018. 11 ‘help expose and …’, Sirry Alang, ‘How to dismantle racism and prevent police brutality’, USA Today, 12th May 2017; ‘does little to …’, see Sarah Sophie Flicker, ‘Why the “Me Too” Moment is Just the Start of a Necessary Cultural Shift’, W Magazine, 22nd November 2017; ‘“prevailing mythology” that …’, Janelle Zara, ‘“There’s a lot of grief to process”: how the #MeToo movement gripped Art Basel Miami Beach’, Guardian, 13th December 2017; ‘The master’s tools …’, Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (Trumansberg: Crossing Press, 1984). 12 ‘(picnic, lightning)’, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (London: Penguin, 1995 [1955]). Bedtime Stories 1 ‘yellow cream and …’, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (London: HarperCollins, 1995 [1968]); ‘your part of …’, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (London: Puffin, 2015 [1908]); ‘wonderful tales’, C.
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by
Bruce Katz
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Jennifer Bradley
Published 10 Jun 2013
Both Florida International University and the Miami Ad School have partnerships with ESPM, a São Paulo–based university particularly known for advertising and communications. Students at ESPM’s business school are eligible to transfer to the Certificate in International Business program at Florida International University for a minimum of two consecutive semesters.89 Finally, cultural affinities continue to bind the two regions. The most recent example: Art Basel, the largest series of art events in the world, staged its eleventh art show in Miami in December 2012. The event showcased 260 galleries from across five continents. Miami’s exhibit had fourteen Brazilian galleries (eleven from São Paulo); at the June 2012 show in Basel, Switzerland, by contrast, only four Brazilian galleries were represented.90 These shared tastes, behaviors, languages, and amenities attract well-traveled visitors from São Paulo and can curb the fear of the unknown for a São Paulo business eyeing the U.S. market or a Miami entrepreneur hoping to expand in Brazil.
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Florida International University, College of Business, “Graduate Dual Degree,” 2013 (http://business.fiu.edu/international_programs/ip_graduate_dual_ degree.cfm). See also Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, “Dual Degree Requirements,” 2013 (www.espm.br/Unidades/SaoPaulo/PosGraduacao/MBA Executivo/Documents/ESPMAppendix1MBA.pdf). 90. See Art Basel, “Miami Beach: 2012 Galleries,” 2012 (www.artbasel.com/en/ Miami-Beach/About-the-Show/2012-Galleries). 91. McKinsey and Company, “Winning the $30 Trillion Decathlon,” pp. 9–10. 92. Henri Pirenne, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe (Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2006), p. 150. 93. Mark Lardas, “The Heritage of the Hansa,” German Life 2 (October– November 2004). 94.
Lonely Planet's Best of USA
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Lonely Planet
z Thanksgiving On the fourth Thursday of November, Americans gather with family and friends over day-long feasts. NYC hosts a huge parade, and there’s pro football on TV. December Winter arrives as ski season kicks off in the Rockies (out east conditions aren’t usually ideal until January). z Art Basel This massive arts fest (www.artbaselmiamibeach.com) is four days of cutting-edge art, film, architecture and design, plus much hobnobbing with a glitterati crowd on Miami Beach. z New Year’s Eve Join festive crowds to celebrate or plot a getaway to escape the mayhem. Whichever you choose, plan well in advance.
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Street signs, Design District / GLOW IMAGES, INC / GETTY IMAGES © Wynwood Walls Public Art Map Google Map In the midst of rusted warehouses and concrete blah, there’s a pastel-and-graffiti explosion of urban art. Wynwood Walls is a collection of murals and paintings laid out over an open courtyard that invariably bowls people over with its sheer color profile and unexpected location. What’s on offer tends to change with the coming and going of major arts events such as Art Basel, but it’s always interesting stuff. (www.thewynwoodwalls.com; NW 2nd Ave, btwn 25th & 26th Sts) Wynwood / PETER PTSCHELINZEW / GETTY IMAGES © 1 Coral Gables & Coconut Grove For a slower pace and a more European feel, head inland. Designed as a ‘model suburb’ by George Merrick in the early 1920s, Coral Gables is a Mediterranean-style village that’s centered around the shops and restaurants of the Miracle Mile, a four-block section of Coral Way between Douglas and LeJeune Rds.
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back
by
Oliver Bullough
Published 5 Sep 2018
Donald Soffer arrived from Pittsburgh in the 1960s and transformed a stretch of swamp into the city of Aventura, which is home to America’s fifth largest shopping mall, as well as tens of thousands of people. His children are now developers in their own rights, and legitimate members of the global elite, with daughter Jackie married to Craig Robins, who brought Art Basel to Miami. Son Jeffrey, at the time of Monica’s and my conversation, was married to supermodel Elle Macpherson, although they split up shortly thereafter, amid a welter of tabloid speculation. Both Jackie and Jeffrey have homes in Indian Creek village. The tower they are building in Sunny Isles Beach will have 154 residences over fifty-four floors, with swimming pools cantilevered out on both sides halfway up, as well as a pool at the ground floor level for swimmers with vertigo.
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‘Soon after it joined the QI programme, UBS helped its US clients structure their Swiss accounts to avoid reporting billions of dollars in assets to the IRS.’ Birkenfeld told the Senate committee how he had been part of a ‘formidable force’ of around seventy private bankers who used to attend UBS-sponsored events like Art Basel in Miami with the goal of picking up wealthy attendees. The bankers quadrupled the amount of US-originated money they held between 2004 and 2006, and were looking to quadruple it again in 2007. ‘You might go to sporting events. You might go to car shows, wine tastings. You might deal with real estate agents.
Tel Aviv 2015: The Retro Travel Guide
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Claudia Stein
Published 30 Mar 2015
Dan Hotel, HaYarkon 87, Tel. 03-529.3548, Su.-Th. 10.00-19.00, Fr. 10.00-13.30, http://www.art-time.co.il 3.) Dvir is THE reference for established Israeli and international artists and those who are about to consolidate their career. The gallery participates in international art fairs (Frieze New York, Art Basel, etc.), thus the art exhibited in their own space is of top-class. Reshit Chochma 14, Tel. 03-604.3003, Tu.-Th. 11.00-18.00, Fr.-Sa. 10.00-13.00, http://www.dvirgallery.com, info@dvirgallery.com 4.) Since its founding in Neve Tzedek in 1985, the Chelouche Gallery has exhibited works from local and international artists and is today renowned for contemporary art.
1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
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Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007
The International Art Market Does Miami ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH Miami Beach, Florida It began in the Swiss town of Basel, where since 1969 art collectors and connoisseurs have gathered each June for the prestigious Art Basel fair. In 2002 the fair’s management held its first U.S. sister fair in Miami Beach’s art deco district, and within three years the event had become the hottest annual art event in the country, eclipsing longtime standouts like New York’s Armory Show and Art Chicago. Blame Miami itself, maybe. Already feeling confident as one of the new stars of international favor, the city took to the fair. Art Basel Miami Beach represents the apotheosis of the art scene arguably created by Andy Warhol in the 1970s and ’80s: a mixture of fine art, fashion, film, music, nightlife, and ostentatious wealth.
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Miami’s museums stage special exhibits, buildings by renowned architects offer tours, private collectors open their homes for invitation-only parties and exhibitions, and the unaffiliated New Art Dealers Alliance stages its own fair at the nearby Ice Palace Film Studio. The great part, of course, is that you don’t have to be an art collector to enjoy the show and its attendant circus. You’ll probably have a better time if you’re just trying to enjoy the Next Big Thing—not buy it. Art Basel Miami Beach features 20th- and 21st-century artworks by over 1,500 artists. WHERE: Miami Beach Convention Center and other venues. Tel 305-674-1292; www.artbasel.com. COST: day tickets $20; 3-day pass $50. WHEN: 3 days in early Dec. NEW ART DEALERS ALLIANCE FAIR: www.newartdealers.org. When: 5 days in early Dec.
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Cost: from $220 (off-peak), from $440 (peak). THE DELANO: Tel 800-606-6090 or 305-672-2000; www.delano-hotel.com. Cost: from $315 (off-peak), from $550 (peak). THE SHORE CLUB: Tel 877-640-9500 or 305-695-3100; www.shoreclub.com. Cost: from $225 (off-peak), from $525 (peak). BEST TIMES: Jan–Apr for the weather; 1st week in Dec for the Art Basel Miami Beach festival (www.artbasel.com). Art Deco on the American Riviera SOUTH BEACH Miami Beach, Florida Some places and times just go together, and South Beach seems right now to be one of those places, embodying the cultural mash-up of fashion, celebrity, design, hip beach culture, and wealth that defines American fabulousness.
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
by
Casey Michel
Published 23 Nov 2021
Court records show that at one point Teodorin launched his own record label, TNO Entertainment—named after Teodorin’s initials—whose greatest claim to fame was an album from no-name rapper Won-G, featuring a song called “I Love TNO.” The song can still be found here: https://www.allmusic.com/album/explosion-mw0000216311. 40. Silverstein, The Secret World of Oil. 41. “The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2019,” Art Basel, 8 March 2019, https://www.artbasel.com/news/art-market-report. 42. “The Art Industry and U.S. Policies That Undermine Sanctions,” U.S. Senate, 29 July 2020, https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020-07-29%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20The%20Art%20Industry%20and%20U.S.%20Policies%20that%20Undermine%20Sanctions.pdf. 43.
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by
Edward Chancellor
Published 31 May 2000
Zürich With a quaint old town, the flagship Kunsthaus, world-class restaurants, and a dynamic alternative bar and club scene in the post-industrial spaces of Zürich West, this financial city is also a very attractive cosmopolitan destination. Basel The city that hosts major contemporary art fair Art Basel has year-round reasons for culture buffs to visit, with the superb galleries of Museum Tinguely and Fondation Beyeler the highlights. Bern Surrounded on three sides by the River Aare, the federal capital is a charming citywith a beautiful medieval Old Town. Create your own itinerary with Rough Guides.
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Big-name architects are revitalizing the cityscape, new restaurants with fresh ideas are springing up all over town, and the city’s long-standing patronage of the arts has resulted in dozens of first-rate museums and public art installations. Three annual events above all define the city for different markets. Every June the art fair Art Basel is one of contemporary art’s highest-profile gatherings, with world-famous artists, dealers and wannabes packing the city amid glitzy shows and events. BaselWorld every March is the most prestigious jamboree in the more traditionally Swiss world of watchmaking and jewellery. Expect every hotel room in the city to be taken at these times.
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The daily brunches are also first-rate, and include a vegan option. Fr.Fr. Basel festivals Basel’s huge carnival, Fasnacht, held over three days from the Monday following Mardi Gras, attracts attention from all over Switzerland, as does January’s Vogel Gryff festival, centred specifically on Kleinbasel. The most prestigious of the city’s many events is Art Basel (artbasel.com), the largest contemporary art fair in the world, held at the Messe in mid-June. Although more trade- than public-oriented, it’s fascinating to attend, with major galleries exhibiting a range of work and many arty happenings staged citywide. The night before the Swiss National Day – July 31 – sees a festival of folk music on the Rhine, with stalls, traditional foods and a huge fireworks display, and the last Saturday in October marks the start of Basel’s two-week Autumn Fair, Europe’s longest-running traditional fair, held without a break since 1471 and now comprising funfairs and street jollity.
The Rough Guide to Switzerland (Travel Guide eBook)
by
Rough Guides
Published 24 May 2022
Zürich With a quaint old town, the flagship Kunsthaus, world-class restaurants, and a dynamic alternative bar and club scene in the post-industrial spaces of Zürich West, this financial city is also a very attractive cosmopolitan destination. Basel The city that hosts major contemporary art fair Art Basel has year-round reasons for culture buffs to visit, with the superb galleries of Museum Tinguely and Fondation Beyeler the highlights. Bern Surrounded on three sides by the River Aare, the federal capital is a charming citywith a beautiful medieval Old Town. Create your own itinerary with Rough Guides.
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Big-name architects are revitalizing the cityscape, new restaurants with fresh ideas are springing up all over town, and the city’s long-standing patronage of the arts has resulted in dozens of first-rate museums and public art installations. Three annual events above all define the city for different markets. Every June the art fair Art Basel is one of contemporary art’s highest-profile gatherings, with world-famous artists, dealers and wannabes packing the city amid glitzy shows and events. BaselWorld every March is the most prestigious jamboree in the more traditionally Swiss world of watchmaking and jewellery. Expect every hotel room in the city to be taken at these times.
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The daily brunches are also first-rate, and include a vegan option. Fr.Fr. Basel festivals Basel’s huge carnival, Fasnacht, held over three days from the Monday following Mardi Gras, attracts attention from all over Switzerland, as does January’s Vogel Gryff festival, centred specifically on Kleinbasel. The most prestigious of the city’s many events is Art Basel (artbasel.com), the largest contemporary art fair in the world, held at the Messe in mid-June. Although more trade- than public-oriented, it’s fascinating to attend, with major galleries exhibiting a range of work and many arty happenings staged citywide. The night before the Swiss National Day – July 31 – sees a festival of folk music on the Rhine, with stalls, traditional foods and a huge fireworks display, and the last Saturday in October marks the start of Basel’s two-week Autumn Fair, Europe’s longest-running traditional fair, held without a break since 1471 and now comprising funfairs and street jollity.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
by
Ottessa Moshfegh
Published 9 Jul 2018
Here is a spoiled brat taking the piss out of the establishment. Some are hailing him as the next Marcel Duchamp. But is he worth the stink?” I don’t know why I didn’t just quit. I didn’t need the money. I was relieved when, at last, in June, Natasha called from Switzerland to fire me. I had messed up a shipment of press materials for Art Basel, apparently. “Out of curiosity, what are you on?” she wanted to know. “I’ve just been really tired.” “Is it a medical issue?” “No,” I said. I could have lied. I could have told her that I had mono, or some sleep disorder. Cancer maybe. Everybody was getting cancer. But defending myself was useless.
The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management
by
Reuvid, Jonathan.
Published 30 Oct 2011
In the contemporary market, art fairs provide the opportunity to see the work of hundreds of different artists under one roof and are good for judging what’s on the market. For SLAD members the most popular fairs are the 20/21 British Art Fair, Grosvenor House and TEFAF, New York International Fine Art Fair, Art Islington, and Palm Beach Art and Antiques, with Art Basel the most highly rated. According to a SLAD trade survey, trading conditions have much improved since 2002, with 70 per cent of output sold to private buyers. The majority of SLAD dealers trade in post-war contemporary art, Impressionists and 19th-century European pictures. According to LAPADA members in 2007, 54 per cent of their turnover is from shops or galleries, 39 per cent at fairs, 4 per cent on the internet (58 per cent have sold and 39 per cent bought via the internet) and 2 per cent at auction.
The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
by
Guy Spier
Published 8 Sep 2014
For me, there were lessons simply from observing his reaction to missed appointments and to people who behaved badly. I’ve seldom encountered anybody with his blend of calm and rational equanimity. On that same trip, we also attended a TEDIndia conference in Mysore. I loved it. In the years that followed, I cofounded the TEDxZurich conference, attended events like the Art Basel show in Switzerland, and got more involved with supporting institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. I don’t know if these things have made me a better investor, but they have certainly broadened my thinking, brought me many interesting relationships, and invigorated my life.
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
by
Peter Pomerantsev
Published 11 Nov 2014
And I thought it would be great to create a space like that in the Russian context,” says Dasha Zhukova, with the disarming simplicity only the really, truly rich can carry off: she’s building a new modern art museum in Moscow as we speak. She is the daughter of one Russian tycoon, the longtime girlfriend of another, Roman Abramovich. I’m interviewing her before an event at Art Basel that she is sponsoring. (I’m taking up a bit of writing to paper over the gaps in television work.) Trying to set up a meeting has been complicated. Within a few hours the location switches from London to the south of France to Moscow to New York. We end up meeting in Los Angeles, where she grew up.
Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
by
Currid
Published 9 Nov 2010
Of the 187 places around the world represented in the photo database, London, New York, and Los Angeles are not only the most photographed locales but also the most connected to one another. When my colleague Gilad Ravid and I looked at which places stars attended events we found that they tended to move around among just these three cities. During their annual star-studded events, Cannes, Miami (during Art Basel), and Park City (during the Sundance Film Festival) act as specialized, temporary celebrity centers (see Figure 3). Las Vegas lures some stars off their normal stomping grounds but mainly for parties rather than prestigious industry events. But besides a select few cities no other place is a real player in the geography of stardom.
Eastern USA
by
Lonely Planet
Goombay Festival CULTURE (www.goombayfestivalcoconutgrove.com) This massive fest, held in Coconut Grove on the first week of June, celebrates Bahamian culture. White Party MUSIC (www.whiteparty.net) This weeklong extravaganza in November draws more than 15,000 gay men and women for nonstop partying all over town. Art Basel Miami Beach ART (www.artbaselmiamibeach.com) An internationally important art show held each December – a sister event to Art Basel Switzerland. Sleeping Miami Beach is the well-hyped mecca for stylish boutique hotels in renovated art-deco buildings. To find them and other chic options, check out www.miamiboutiquehotels.com. Rates vary widely by season and all bets are off during spring break, when rates can quintuple; the summer months are slowest.
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THANKSGIVING On the fourth Thursday of November, Americans gather with family and friends over daylong feasts – roast turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, wine, pumpkin pie and loads of other dishes. New York City hosts a huge parade, and there’s pro football on TV. December Winter arrives (though skiing conditions in Eastern USA usually aren’t ideal until January). Christmas lights and holiday fairs make the region come alive during the festive season. ART BASEL This massive arts fest is four days of cutting-edge art, film, architecture and design. Over 250 major galleries from across the globe come to the event, with works by some 2000 artists; plus much hobnobbing with a glitterati crowd in Miami Beach (www.artbaselmiamibeach.com). NEW YEAR’S EVE Americans are of two minds when it comes to ringing in the New Year.
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
by
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Published 14 May 2017
As the economist Robert Frank observes, with the outcry over inequality in full swing, public hedonism and overt luxury spending have become flashpoints in the debate (which is not to say they aren’t spending money), and thus those in top income groups find new channels for their money that are known only to those in their circles (whether it’s a live-in housekeeper or, for the very rich, NetJets to Art Basel Miami).26 Conversely, the middle class, those in the 40th to 60th percentile income bracket making on average $47,000 a year, are returning to their pre-Recession conspicuous consumption behavior while reducing their spending on inconspicuous consumption in the post-Recession period. Historically, they have always spent significantly more on conspicuous expenditures than inconspicuous consumption, and at the height of the financial crisis barely reduced their spending on clothes, watches, cars, and other Veblen goods (see fig. 3.1).
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by
Zeke Faux
Published 11 Sep 2023
“I don’t know if it’s a coincidence,” he said. “I prefer synchronicity.” * * * — PIERCE TOLD ME that Chakra was not his personal ship. Like-minded crypto fans could buy an NFT (non-fungible token, a kind of one-off crypto asset), then stay on the yacht when they pleased as it traveled from the Caribbean to Art Basel in Miami, the Monaco Grand Prix, and the Cannes Film Festival. He described it as “the first mega yacht club for the crypto community” and a floating home for crypto superheroes. “We’re the Avengers,” he said. “It’s the Avengers ship.” I realized I had walked in on a presentation for a timeshare that I would pay money not to join.
Fodor's Seoul
by
Fodor's Travel Guides
Published 29 Nov 2022
E157 Jong-ro, Jongno-gu P02/755–0195 wjm.cha.go.kr A₩1,000 CClosed Tues. mJongno 3-ga Station. Kukje Gallery ART GALLERY | Nothing screams “modern art gallery” quite like the cube architecture of Kukje, which aims to share the work of contemporary Korean artists like Kwon Young-Woo and Ha Chong-Hyun with the world. The gallery regularly participates in Art Basel and other globally acclaimed art festivals. International artists such as Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Anish Kapoor are also represented. E54 Samcheong-ro, Jongno-gu P02/735–8449 wwww.kukjegallery.com mAnguk Station. Museum Kimchikan OTHER MUSEUM | FAMILY | At this institution for learning about and making kimchi, visitors can take a self-guided tour of the museum’s exhibit highlighting the history and significance of the beloved fermented cabbage dish via a free audio guide.
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
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Nicholas Shaxson
Published 11 Apr 2011
Internal Revenue Service dismantle a $20 billion UBS program to help wealthy U.S. residents evade taxes and forced Switzerland to accept a new, somewhat more transparent tax treaty with the United States. Birkenfeld described in court how UBS bankers would frequent events like the UBS Trophy yacht race off Rhode Island, the Art Basel contemporary art fair, classic car shows and concerts, and—his personal favorite—a ten-thousand-dollar-a-head evening with Elton John at the Waldorf Astoria in 2005, illegally soliciting client business. “I’d say, ‘Do you want to go to Wimbledon, have lunch and see the match?” Birkenfeld recalled.2 “‘Do you want to come to Oktoberfest and drink some beer and look at hot girls?
Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil
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Alex Cuadros
Published 1 Jun 2016
Art, like any other product, follows the laws of supply and demand. The canonical works (Picasso, Cézanne) tend to appreciate faster than the S&P 500—but unlike stocks, blue-chip art is as crisis proof as a penthouse on Central Park West. THE ART INDUSTRY NOTICED the rise of the Latin rich early on. In 2002 the people behind Art Basel in Switzerland started an offshoot of the fair in Miami. For a week each December, Miami Basel fills the half-million-square-foot Miami Beach Convention Center with a few billion dollars’ worth of paintings, photos, and found objects cleverly arranged. The fair is open to the public, but serious buyers attend the day before the general opening.
How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
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Cat Marnell
Published 30 Jan 2017
Now, what did I want to write? My media brain also knew to switch things up—to do something drastically different. I decided to get weird. Back at home, I climbed back under my duvet and cranked out my first of eleven dissertations on race relations in America today. No, I wrote about coke sex and Art Basel. The dark, druggy vignettes were beauty product–free, and less accessible than anything I’d ever done. I called the series “Amphetamine Logic,” like the Sisters of Mercy song. These columns turned out to be such a big hit that they began eclipsing my work at xoJane! Kids stopped me in the street to tell me they loved my writing on Vice.
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
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Katherine Clarke
Published 13 Jun 2023
Competing agents accused the brothers of being nepotism babies and indiscreet publicity junkies, but the brothers saw it as part of their job to be ubiquitous at events for the rich and famous. The Alexanders believed in spending money to make money. They showed up at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, at the Super Bowl, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, at Art Basel in Miami and the Frieze Art Fair in London. Often, clients came too. Once, the developer Michael Stern joined the pair in Las Vegas to watch a fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. “The hashtag that we live by is #nevernotworking,” Tal said. “I meet some high-net-worth individuals on the ski lift in Aspen around Christmas time.
The Future Is Asian
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Parag Khanna
Published 5 Feb 2019
A number of the most prominent Japanese and Chinese artists learned to express themselves fully during long stints in the West, especially New York, where Ai Weiwei began his career as both an artist and a prolific political critic; he now resides in Berlin. Asia’s leading cities are ramping up investments in becoming cultural hubs. Tokyo is already an architectural mecca for students and admirers of the buildings of Kengo Kuma, Tadao Ando, and Toyo Ito. Hong Kong’s annual Art Basel week has attained a stature equal to its counterparts in Switzerland and Miami. Now other Asian metropolises are undergoing an artistic renaissance as dilapidated industrial sites are converted into lofty ateliers as in Taipei’s Songshan Cultural Park, Beijing’s lively 798 Art Zone, and Shanghai’s M50 Creative Garden.
USA Travel Guide
by
Lonely, Planet
Goombay Festival CULTURE (www.goombayfestivalcoconutgrove.com) This massive fest, held in Coconut Grove on the first week of June, celebrates Bahamian culture. White Party MUSIC (www.whiteparty.net) This weeklong extravaganza in November draws more than 15,000 gay men and women for nonstop partying all over town. Art Basel Miami Beach ART (www.artbaselmiamibeach.com) An internationally important art show held each December – a sister event to Art Basel Switzerland. Sleeping Miami Beach is the well-hyped mecca for stylish boutique hotels in renovated art-deco buildings. To find them and other chic options, check out www.miamiboutiquehotels.com. Rates vary widely by season and all bets are off during spring break, when rates can quintuple; the summer months are slowest.
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Come again a few weeks later and you’ll see entirely new collections – that’s the beauty (and despair!) of the NYC art scene (Click here). Washington, DC The capital has treasured halls dedicated to outer space, history and art (western, eastern, African, Native American) – plus woolly mammoths; and they’re all free (Click here). Art Basel Art lovers descend upon Miami each year to take in edgy exhibitions, music and copious amounts of alcohol at this massive revelry-loving art fair (Click here). Off-beat America When you tire of traipsing through museums and ticking off well-known sights (perhaps because some guidebook suggested you shouldn’t miss it), unbuckle your safety belt and throw yourself into the strange world of American kitsch and nonesuch.
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THANKSGIVING On the fourth Thursday of November, Americans gather with family and friends over day-long feasts – roast turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, wine, pumpkin pie and loads of other dishes. New York City hosts a huge parade, and there’s pro football on TV. December Winter arrives as ski season kicks off in the Rockies (out east conditions aren’t usually ideal until January). Aside from winter sports, December means heading inside and curling up by the fire. ART BASEL This massive arts fest (www.artbaselmiamibeach.com; Click here) is four days of cutting-edge art, film, architecture and design. More than 250 major galleries from across the globe come to the event, with works by some 2000 artists; plus much hobnobbing with a glitterati crowd in Miami Beach. NEW YEAR’S EVE Americans are of two minds when it comes to ringing in the New Year.
Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg
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Lonely Planet
There’s also an impressive program of art-house movies. Live Music & Cabaret Major international artists are most likely to play Forest National (%02-340 22 11; www.forestnational.be; Ave du Globe 36; j81) or the somewhat smaller, more central AB (map Google map; Ancienne Belgique; %02-548 24 84; www.abconcerts.be; Blvd Anspach 110; jBourse). Art BaseLIVE MUSIC (map Google map; %02-217 29 20; www.art-base.be; Rue des Sables 29; hFri & Sat; mRogier) One of the best little venues in town for music fans with eclectic tastes. It resembles someone’s living room, but the programming is first rate, and it’s worth taking a punt on Greek rebetiko, Indian classical music, Argentine guitar or whatever else is playing.
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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W. Bernard Carlson
Published 11 May 2013
Snow’s The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959). For a challenge to this critique, see Samuel P. Florman, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976). 13. Posting by Mike, 12 January 2009, on “Feel the Heat: Tesla Roadshow Hits Miami during Art Basel” Blog, Tesla Motors, http://www.teslamotors.com/blog3/?p=88. 14. Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008); Jeffrey Stanley, Tesla’s Letters: A Play in Two Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1999; Daniel Michaels, “Long-Dead Inventor Nikola Tesla Is Electrifying Hip Techies,” Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2010, p. 1.
Lonely Planet Switzerland
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Lonely Planet
Basel Pop 176,117 / Elev 273m Historically, Basel's position astride the mighty Rhine has contributed to its growth as a key trade and transport hub. Today, it's a global centre for the pharmaceutical industry – titans Roche and Novartis are both headquartered here. But that's of little interest to the many thousands of art and architecture lovers who visit each year for the world-famous ART Basel festival and the city's wealth of galleries, museums and iconic buildings. Basel's position at the juncture of the French, German and Swiss borders adds to its multicultural appeal, and it's perhaps the place where Switzerland's Franco-Germanic roots are most evident, although the dominant language spoken is Swiss-German.
Switzerland
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Damien Simonis
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Sarah Johnstone
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Nicola Williams
Published 31 May 2006
Later they dance in the streets of Kleinbasel. Trade fairs have long played an important part in the city’s calendar. Leading events include the MUBA (www.muba.ch in German) Swiss industries fair every spring, the Herbstmesse (Autumn Fair) in October, the Baselworld: The Watch and Jewellery Show (www.baselworld.ch) in March and ART Basel (www.artbasel.ch), the contemporary art fair in June. The Swiss Indoors (www.davidoffswissindoors.ch) tennis championship, held every October, is Switzerland’s biggest annual sporting event. Sleeping You must book ahead if coming for a convention or trade fair, when prices also rise. There are no trade fairs in July or August, but annoyingly some Basel hotels also close then.
USA's Best Trips
by
Sara Benson
Published 23 May 2010
* * * ART BEYOND THE BEACH Miami’s Design District is for foodies and art lovers alike. Here a contemporary gallery scene thrives, neatly bounded by NE 38th and 41st Sts and NE 2nd and N Miami Aves. Culture vultures can also head north to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA; www.mocanomi.org) or time their trip for December’s international Art Basel (www.artbaselmiamibeach.com) event. Back in SoBe, peruse the eccentric all-media collections of the unique Wolfsonian Museum (www.wolfsonian.org), inside a historic art-deco movie palace. * * * For a sweet ending to a hot night of clubbing, northern Miami Beach’s La Perrada de Edgar doles out Columbia hot dogs with kookily delicious toppings (bacon, eggs, potato sticks, pineapple and/or whipped cream, anyone?).
Lonely Planet China (Travel Guide)
by
Lonely Planet
and
Shawn Low
Published 1 Apr 2015
Man Hong Kong International Literary FestivalLITERARY (www.festival.org.hk) March. Hong Kong International Film FestivalFILM (www.hkiff.org.hk) March to April. Le French May Arts FestivalARTS April to May. Tin Hau Festival & Buddha’s BirthdayCULTURAL April or May. Cheung Chau Bun FestivalFOOD (www.cheungchau.org) Apr or May Art Basel Hong KongART (hongkong.artbasel.com) May. International Dragon Boat RacesSPORTS (www.hkdba.com.hk) May to June. Summer International Film FestivalFILM (www.hkiff.org.hk) August to September. Hong Kong International Jazz FestivalMUSIC (http://hkja.org/blog) November. Clockenflap Outdoor Music FestivalMUSIC (www.clockenflap.com) 4Sleeping Hong Kong offers the full gamut of accommodation, from cell-like spaces to palatial suites in some of the world’s finest hotels.