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Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, Day 5


Beg Borrow and Steal" Catalogue front cover.

The First stop of Day 5 Art Basel Miami was the Rubell Family Collection. Each year they curate a new show timed for the Basel festivities this year the show is called "Beg Borrow and Steal" and it will run through May 29, 2010. If you're in Miami around then I highly recommend checking it out.

RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION, Beg Borrow and Steal 2009


Jennifer Rubell "Old-Fashioned," 2009. 1,521 Dunkin Donuts Old Fashioned Donuts.


I ate some "Old-Fashioned"


They tasted "Old-Fashioned"


Nate Lowman, "More or Less," 2003. Mixed media installation.


Foreground: Peter Coffin, "Sculpture Silhouette (J. Koons ‘Balloon Dog’ 1994-2000)," 2009. Powder coated aluminum. Background: Richard Prince, Untitled (joke 7), 1987
Powdered graphite and gesso on canvas.


Jason Rhoades, Untitled (Chandelier), 2004. Glass, wire, neon, Plexiglas, fabric and plastic.


Left, Peter Coffin, "Untitled (Designs for Colby Poster Co. # 5, 9, 33, 19, 51)," 2008. Letterpress ink on five coated cardstocks. Right: Dan Flavin, "Untitled (Monument for V. Tatlin)," 1964-1965. White flourescent lights, Ed. 1/5.


Peter Coffin, "Untitled (Designs for Colby Poster Co. # 5, 9, 33, 19, 51)," (detail) 2008. Letterpress ink on five coated cardstocks.


Maurizio Cattelan, La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi, 2000. Polyester resin figure, felt suit and metal and plastic coat rack.


Second Floor installation at "Beg Borrow and Steal."


Stephen G. Rhodes, "Interregnum Repetition Restoration (Upholstered)," 2008. Single-channel video and mixed media.


Steven Shearer, "Puffs," 2006. C-print mounted on aluminum.


Steven Shearer, "Puffs," (detail) 2006. C-print mounted on aluminum.


Damien Hirst, "Dance Naked," 1997. Stainless steel, glass, surgical equipment and plastic skeletons.


Rashid Johnson, "Promised Land," 2008. Spray enamel, mirror and wood.


Aneta Grzeszykowska, "Untitled Film Stills," 2006. Seventy C-prints.


Aneta Grzeszykowska, "Untitled Film Stills," (detail) 2006. Seventy C-prints.


The Miami landscape near the Pulse Art Fair.


Khaela Maricich aka the blow played at the Pulse Art Fair.


Khaela Maricich aka the blow played at Pulse.


Khaela Maricich aka the blow playing in Lindsay Lohan mode. Here is the scoop from Pitchfork..


Khaela Maricich aka the blow playing in Lindsay Lohan mode, shoe detail. Maricich really did finish the show by saying, "Could you imagine Lindsay actually performing that? Could you get an idea? Now take that image and subtract it from what I just did. The sum of that is the difference between a girl like me and a girl like Lindsay." perfect.


Induce at Freegums and Poplife Sky's the Limit event held at the Electric Pickle.


at Electric Pickle


Dr. Jay at the Freegums and Poplife Sky's the Limit event held at the Electric Pickle.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, Day 4

I took it a bit easy on the Friday of Art Basel and only ventured out to see some of the satellite fairs starting with a very sad Photo Miami. I'm not 100% sure but they were inside of a old Circuit City location and the wold building just dropped with Bankruptcy. I really don't think separation of a medium in an art fair as a very sustainable model.

Sure I enjoy photography more and I look for it when I am at an Art fair. But walking around in an all photography fair felt flat to me. Maybe it was just the overall quality of everything there was weaker then normal? Either way I only ended up taking a few pictures of work I liked. Also my friends who were with me and didn't have a press pass had to pay the insane price of $20 to get in. They were not happy nothing in there was worth a $20 entrance fee just to look at it.

PHOTO MIAMI 2009


Photo Miami cover photo by Sean Higgins, Raga Jog, 2009, courtesy of Collette Blanchard Gallery.


Rinko Kawauchi at Mountain Fold Gallery, New York, NY.

After that sad experience we drove off to the NADA Art Fair. This Year's NADA fair was in the Deauville Beach Resort in North Miami.

NADA 2009


Daniel Gordon's "Flying Pictures" at Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY


Tony Matelli's Weed, painted bronze at Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY


Jacob Dyrenforth at Renwick Gallery, New York, NY.


Jacob Dyrenforth (detail) at Renwick Gallery, New York, NY. I love this detail. Do you think I could have plugged in my iPhone?


Another Daniel Gordon. This is from at Callicoon Fine Arts / Photios Giovanis, Callicoon, NY. Its not surprising that was everywhere at this years fairs. Reciently he was included in the 'New Photography 2009,' MoMA show reat the 'NY Times Review here. What does surprize me is how different his two bodies of work look.


Daniel Gordon at Callicoon Fine Arts / Photios Giovanis, Callicoon, NY.


Jasper Niens' installation piece "5 ROOMS" at Galerie West, the Netherlands. Consisted of a small maze of hallways and doors, echoing Dan Graham a little.


Zipora Fried at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY.


Zipora Fried at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY.


The best booth of all the fairs goes to twenty twenty projects, Miami, FL. Believe it or not but the book was turned into a FM transmitter / low power radio station. Re-broadcasting a famous Miami pirate radio station that has since been shut down.


Hanging at the pool, Deauville Beach Resort in between looking at art.


Ellen Harvey, "The Room of Sublime Wallpaper II," 2009 at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY.


Ellen Harvey, "The Room of Sublime Wallpaper II," 2009 (detail)


SVA MFA Alum Yamini Nayar was showing these great built enviorments this one entitled "BY A THREAD," 2009, 30 x 40 inches at Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY.


Brendan Fowler, on the left side - "Fall 2009 (Flowers Outside Silk Flowers Show in LA 1, Fall 2008 West Coast Tour Poster - C, Flowers on Walk With Andrea/Terry/Cindy 1, 2 Screen Flower Print), 2009, Digital C prints, silk screen ink on paper, frames, plexi, 46.5 x 49 x 5 inches (variable) at Rental Gallery, New York, NY

Tonight, Opening: Johanna Heldebro: To Come Within Reach of You


Johanna Heldebro, "Night Watch chapter 4 excerpt," 2009

2009 Fall Solo Show Artist
Johanna Heldebro Presents

To Come Within Reach of You
December 18, 7 to 10 p, Free Admission & Drinks

Johanna Heldebro presents images and video documenting the daily life of her father, who disappeared from her life two years prior. After searching his name on the internet, Heldebro travels to Stockholm, Sweden to obsessively follow him, creating a series that refigures comfortable notions of adult identity. Join us for this compelling body of work that is at time as coldly detached as it is uncomfortably personal.

Complimentary Bear Flag Wine & Colt 45. Music from DJ Tanner.

RSVP events@3rdward.com

On display through December 27.

More images from Johanna Heldebro's series:


Johanna Heldebro, "Finding My Way Inside chapter 2 excerpt," 2009


Johanna Heldebro, "Finding My Way Inside chapter 2 excerpt," 2009


Johanna Heldebro, "Autonomy chapter 5 excerpt," 2009