Art Basel Miami Beach 2004As of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site to access newly added programs. WPS1.org was the official radio station for the third edition [2004] of Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), the world's most important (and most intensely social) trade mart for modern and contemporary art. Here we offer a recap of WPS1's live daily coverage of the five-day fair, originally broadcast from a poolside cabana at the Delano Hotel, from Wednesday, December 1, 2004 through Sunday December 5, 2004. What follows is what happened, on-air, just the way it happened. Listen also to the programs recorded at: Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 |
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The Yay/Nay ShowABMB, Day One: Art and Commerce - listen | listen with RealPlayer Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace acclimate themselves to the high-powered commerce of Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center by gathering some of the comforts of home -- artists and writers -- in their cozy cabana by the Delano Hotel pool. Artists Daniel Schmidt, Christian Holstaad, Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom are the artists who perform together as Black Leotard Front. They are represented by the Daniel Reich Gallery in New York and performed on December 2 at the Ice Palace Film Studios, the location for the NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) Art Fair in downtown Miami. Christian Marclay is well-known for sculptures, video installations and collage works which effectively visualize the nature of sound. "Shake, Rattle and Roll," a new multi-screen video that he made while in residence in 2004 at the Walker Art Center, will be on view from January 8 to February 7, at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. A retrospective exhibition organized by the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, is currently on an international tour. Two individual video works are currently on view through January 30, 2005 in "CUT: Film as Found Object," at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Christopher Mason is the author, most recently, of The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Art-House Scandal. Amei Wallach has been arts commentator for PBS' Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and has made significant contributions to such books as Ilya Kabokov: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away. Ilya Kabokov and his wife left the Soviet Union for the U.S. in 1988. Kabokov is well known for his large-scale, psychologically complex installations evoking life in a large bureaucracy; Robert Fitzpatrick directs Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. |
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Miami on the Mind, ABMB, Day One - listen | listen with RealPlayer What's it like for an artist to visit a show where complex artworks become no more than high-priced retail? Or for a local museum that has to compete with it? Jill Spalding gets it from the horses' mouths as artists Julian Laverdiere, Tom Levine and Pat York join her, with Milwaukee Art Museum director David Gordon for a poolside heart-to-heart. Julian LaVerdiere has drawn international attention for his contribution to the Tribute in Light. The twin beams projected over the site of the World Trade Center every September 11 to commemorate the lives lost in the terrorist attacks of that day. He was in Miami to install a new work for "CUT: Film as Found Object," an exhibition of film-related video artworks at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. At ABMB, his work was shown by Lehman Maupin Gallery, which represents him in New York. At the moment he is designing a permanent laser light installation for the Queens Museum of Art, debuting in Spring, 2005. Photographer Pat York showed her "Celebrity Nudes and Cadavers" at Cologne's Galerie Gmurzynska booth. David Gordon is director of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum, where adjunct curator Stefano Basilico originated "CUT/Film as Found Object," the film and video exhibition that premiered at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art during the art fair. |
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Bald Ego Online: ABMB, Day One - listen | listen with RealPlayer Glenn O'Brien was trading poolside art quips with WPS1's Linda Yablonsky and fashion and Clinton family photographer Todd Eberle when photographer Lisa Eisner blew in dressed to meet the fez-capped subjects of her new book, Shriners, - text by Glenn O'Brien - at their Raleigh Hotel pub party. |
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WPS1 Interviews, ABMB, Day One: Art Loves Music - listen | listen with RealPlayer For this epochal confab, P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss and Senior Curator Klaus Biesenbach climb into a poolside cabana with Scissor Sisters' hottie Jake Shears and his Fischerspooner idol, Casey Spooner. Casey Spooner is, with Warren Fischer, the duo leading the sumptuous music/performance troupe Fischerspooner, whose new cd, "Odyssey" will be out in the spring of 2005. Under the auspices of the Deitch Projects gallery, the Grammy-nominated Scissor Sisters rising fast from the international gay underground, performed on the beach for Art Basel Miami Beach a few hours after this interview, giving conventioneers a hoped-for thrill. Frontman Jake Shears dropped his falsetto for this interview with Alanna Heiss, founding director of both P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and WPS1.org. Senior curator Klaus Biesenbach, founding director of Kunstwerke in Berlin, Germany, was recently appointed to the cura/torial staff in the film and video department of the Museum of Modern Art. |
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Art Statements Roundtable, ABMB, Day One - listen | listen with RealPlayer The "Art Statements" section of ABMB was devoted to 15 galleries from 8 countries presenting younger artists in one-person exhibitions at their galleries' booths. For each of his broadcasts during the art fair, WPS1.org managing director Brett Littman invited artists chosen for this special presentation to speak to introduce themselves to the art-radio audience as well. In her photographs and video installations, Dorit Magrieter examines unspoken social rules in ways that make use of the physical architecture underlying film and television projection. She is represented by Galerie Krobath Wimmer in Vienna. The stained glass, video projections and popular paper-cut drawings by Pablo Vargas Lugo at ABMB were presented by Massimo Audiello, his New York gallery. |
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Rush Interactive: ABMB, Day One - listen | listen with RealPlayer Before he hosted his own show on WPS1.org, Michael Rush was director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, which he put on the map with several exhibitions devoted to new art forms in all disciplines. His guests here, on his first day in Miami, were no less distinguished. Artist Paul Pfeiffer, in Miami to oversee the installation of several works selected for the "CUT/Film As Object" show at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, took in the art fair with Christian Haye, who represents him at The Project gallery on 57th Street in New York, where he had a concurrent show of video and photographic works at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. He is joined here by collectors Mickey Cartin (former vice-president of the Board, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford) and Miami's own Dennis Scholl, who with his wife, Debra, puts part of his collection on public view at World Class Boxing in the Wynwood section of Miami. The second half of this special edition of Rush Interactive features Harry Philbrick, a curator and director, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Jill Snyder, Director, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art; Joe Ketner, Director, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, in Waltham, MA; Nancy Doll, Director, Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC; and Charles Stainback, former director, SITE Santa Fe and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY. |
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The Yay/Nay ShowABMB, Day Two - listen | listen with RealPlayer Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace pack them in with several pairs of strange bedfellows, beginning with Documenta curator Rodger Buergel and Art Newspaper editor Anna Somers Cocks, adding JP Morgan Chase art advisor Manuel Gonzales and critic Phyllis Tuchman, and coming to a rousing finish with collaborating artists Lawrence Weiner and Julião Sarmento. Whew! Rodger Buergel was in Miami for the opening of "How Do We Want To Be Governed? (Figure and Ground)," an exhibition he curated with critic Ruth Noack for Miami Art Central. On view through January 30, 2005, it is the third in a series of five - titled Die Regierung (The Government)- taking place in five different countries. Buergel is an independent curator and lecturer in visual theory at the University of Luneburg in Germany, and the first recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for curatorial achievement presented by the Menil Collection. He has also been appointed artistic director for Documenta XII opening in June, 2007. Anna Somers Cocks is the very terrific editor of the The Art Newspaper, the international weekly based in London. She produced a special daily edition for each day of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. Manuel Gonzalez is Global Art Executive at JPMorgan Chase bank. Phyllis Tuchman is an art historian and critic, and the author of monographs on George Segal, Dale Chihuly, Anthony Caro and Nancy Graves, among others. Lawrence Weiner is known the world over for his enigmatic stencils and films that use the history of language and its cultural baggage as his primary medium. (He is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery. For Miami's nonprofit Moore Space, in Miami's Design District, Weiner collaborated on a film, "Drift," with the artists John Baldessari and Julião Sarmento, who is represented by the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The film is projected on several screens that wrap around the viewing space - and the viewer. It has also appeared at the Fundacao Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal and the Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. |
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Art Statements Roundtable, ABMB, Day Two - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1 Deputy Director Brett Littman interviews artists having solo shows at the art fair: New York's Beth Campbell (with Peter Krieder) and L.A.'s Stephanie Taylor. At Art Basel Miami Beach, Beth Campbell showed her enigmatic bathrooms, a stream-of-consciousness installation that materialized an inner psychic state, at the booth for the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, which represents her in New York. She shares both a studio and a domestic life with artist Peter Krieder, who accompanied her on the show. Stephanie Taylor transforms words related by their sounds as the basis for a fascinating narrative which she realizes in books as well as in sculpture. She shows at the Daniel Hug Gallery in Los Angeles. |
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The Collectors' Forum ABMB, Day Two: David Meets Goliath - listen | listen with RealPlayer Althea Viafora-Kress in an unusual tete-a-tete with Dr. Petra Arends, who represented UBS (a fair sponsor) and its art collection, and Javier Peres, proprietor of Peres Projects, one of the few galleries granted a shipping-container showroom right on the beach. Dr. Arends is Collection Executive of the UBS Art Collection, which was created from the merger of PaineWebber and UBS financial services companies and claims world-class holdings of the art of the last fifty years. Peres Projects opened on L.A.'s Chung King Road in March 2003, and continues to foster relationships between international contemporary artists, collectors, critics, curators and consultants. Artists who have exhibited there include Assume Vivid Astro Focus, AsianPunkboy, Amie Dicke, Terence KOH, Jim Drain, John Kleckner and Matthew Greene. |
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On the Mark, ABMB, Day Two: Fighting for -- and over -- the New Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer Be a fly on the wall during this vivid conversation with private collectors mixing considerable enthusiasms and pet peeves in this balmy Miami cocktail of a radio show. Host Mark Fletcher leads the way with MoMA trustee Doug Cramer and his partner Hugh Bush; Dianne Wallace (also a MoMA board member); and collectors Dominique Levy and her partner Dorothy Berwin. |
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WPS1 DJ Hour @ ABMB, Day Two: Ani Phearce - listen | listen with RealPlayer Beats and booze by the beach were natural talking points for DJs Jeannie Hopper and her guest, Ani Phearce, during this live show from the Delano Hotel. Phearce is a New York native who settled in Miami four years ago and now deejays weekly at Club Crobar, at a roving party called "Back-Door Bambi," and rules the rockin' karaoke night at Sushi Samba. Phearce is at home with rock and funk as well as electro classics and pumping new dance tracks. For his interview with Hopper, he plays cuts from CDs on his Phearce Musica label, including the super-Latin house jams "Babalu" and "Alegria, " and his remixes of Carlos Santana's "The Vibe" and the Scissor Sisters' "Comfortably Numb." |
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The Yay/Nay Show ABMB, Day Three - listen | listen with RealPlayer Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace get hip to Miami art politics with artists Kenny Scharf and Tania Bruguera, and Moore Space director Silvia Karman Cubiñá. Kenny Scharf, at one time a Miami resident, returned to the beach from his current home in Los Angeles for the opening of a show of the Pop Surrealist's new work at the Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami's Design District. Tania Bruguera lives in both Chicago, Illinois and Havana, Cuba, and exhibits all over the world. For Art Basel Miami Beach she sent a loudspeaker-outfitted truck through the streets broadcasting political messages relating to U.S./Cuban relations. She also produced a newspaper whose content was made up of slogans from the Cuban revolution - in typical poster typefaces - that seem especially relevant now. Silvia Karman Cubiñá is an international curator and the director of the The Moore Space, a nonprofit art center in Miami's Design District founded by the collector Rosa de la Cruz. |
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Rush Interactive ABMB, Day Three - listen | listen with RealPlayer With the art market looking like the Wall Street of the 1990s, some ask if such trade shows as Art Basel are not toxic places for artists to visit - too garish if their art is selling, too depressing if it isn't. Or are art fairs valuable places for artists to develop contacts with the rest of the art-world food chain? Here California College of the Arts graduate dean Lawrence Rinder, in Miami as curator of "Wiggin Village" the exhibition by Jim Drain and Ara Peterson at The Moore Space, in Miami's Design District, joins Oliver Herring and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy to weigh in on the "art" part of art fairs. |
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On the Mark ABMB, Day Three - listen | listen with RealPlayer Mark Fletcher draws out the secret strategies of an leading group of a new generation of collectors buying at the top of the contemporary market: Richard Pops, Leigh Pops, Amalia Dayan, Paul Bessier and Mario Russo Leigh and Richard Pops (CEO Cambridge, Mass.-based Alkermes, Inc.) are prominent collectors of contemporary art in Boston. Paul Bessire, formerly of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, is currently Director of External Relations at that city's Institute for Contemporary Art, where Mario Russo is a member of the board of trustees. Amalia Dayan, a former contemporary art specialist at Phillips de Pury, is an independent dealer in New York. |
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P.S.1 Interviews ABMB, Day Three - listen | listen with RealPlayer What happens when the directors of two great art institutions meet with the director of Sao Paulo's leading contemporary gallery and MoMA's most recently appointed film and video curator? Just business as usual at WPS1.org. Only at WPS1, art radio. Alanna Heiss is the founder and director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art. Glenn Lowry has been the museum's director since 1995. Maria Fortes is director of Galeria Fortes Vilaca in Sao Paulo, representing artists who include Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Vic Muniz, José Damasceno, Valesca Soares, Janaína Tschäpe, élio Oiticica & Neville d'Almeida and Iran do Eírito Santo. Klaus Biesenbach, an associate curator in MoMA's Department of Film and Media,is senior curator for P.S.1's second "Greater New York" exhibition, a widely anticipated international showcase for emerging art organized by a team of curators from both P.S.1 and MoMA. |
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Sonorama ABMB, Day Three - listen | listen with RealPlayer Elliott Sharp presents all of WPS1's great "Sonorama" music shows. He also tours the world with his various bands so often that the best place to find him is either on stage at a club near you or on his web log. You can also preview his latest release, the collaborative "Radio Hyper-Yahoo," right here, at WPS1.org |
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The Collectors' Forum ABMB, Day Four - listen | listen with RealPlayer The art-rock puppet show, "Don't Trust Anybody Over 30" (DTAOT) by Dan Graham and Friends (Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, and Paul McCarthy with live music by the two-man band, Japanther and the Huber Marionettes), was the hottest ticket in Miami - but it may soon be coming to an art space near you. Hear all about it from its producers, backers and presenters Sandra Antelo-Suarez (for TRANS>, producer), Francesca Thyssen-Hapsburg (for the ThyssenBornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, co-producer), Tim Nye (for Foundation 20 21, co-producer), Ali Hossaini (for LAB, the world's first 24-hour Hi-Def art-TV channel on the Voom satellite system) and curator Philippe Vergne, (currently senior curator at the Walker Art Center, copresenter, and recently named director of the Francois Pinault Foundation of Contemporary Art), as Althea Viafora-Kress gets the lowdown at the WPS1 hoedown. |
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Miami On the Mind ABMB, Day Four - listen | listen with RealPlayer John Baldessari drops in on Jill Spalding to gently tout his part in "Drift," his knockout, hexagonal video collaboration with Lawrence Weiner and Julião Sarmento presented by the Design Districts Moore Space. No sooner is he gone than who should appear but photographer Brian McKee, speaking of the loss and violence pervading his large-scale works at Vienna's Galerie Hilger Contemporary, with the last word going to photographer and performance artist Janine Gordon, otherwise known, of course, as Jah Jah. Her fascination with male subcultures, in photographs at MitchellInnes-Nash capture the energy of the macho audience at rock concerts that sometimes turns them violent. She closes the show with a song from her performance in the lobby of the Townhouse Hotel, home of the Scope Art Fair. |
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Art Statements Roundtable ABMB, Day Four - listen | listen with RealPlayer Brett Littman in a poolside chat with the wildly illustrative Clayton Brothers (Rob and Christian) and, through a translator, the highly political Salvadoran artist Ronald Moran. Ronald Moran's installation at Art Basel Miami Beach consisted of an all-white room made from white foam padding and furnished with objects found in nearby Dumpsters. The piece was an extension of an earlier work that Moran made to address the subject of domestic violence in his native El Salvador. It now resides in the private collection of Miami's Martin Z. Margulies. Moran is represented by Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contemporaneo, San Rafael de Escazu. You can see recent work by The Clayton Brothers in a group show at Dinter Fine Art, on view from January 27 through March 26, 2005, and curated by artist Taylor McKimens. Together they make spontaneous, densely plotted, illustrative paintings teeming with narrative possibilities. Both teach painting and illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and were represented at the art fair by Houston's Mackey Gallery. Released October 2003, "The Most Special Day of My Life" is a 192-page, full-color, hardcover volume containing works by Rob Clayton, Christian Clayton and the Clayton Brothers, with essays by Michael Criley, Jeff Kling and Long Gone John. The brothers live in Los Angeles. |
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SONORAMA: Elliott Sharp's "Living Room" ABMB, Day Four - listen | listen with RealPlayer Elliott Sharp's "Living Room" is a performance piece based on feedback and room resonance - spoken text, vocal sounds and the sound of the microphone itself as Sharp swings it through the air to create textures and rhythms - with a live mix of music you always wished you could hear but were afraid to turn on - you'll be glad you did. Playlist Willie Dixon - Pie In The Sky, Banda Polyphony - Linda Music 1, Othar Turner - Running Through The Jungle, Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie Electroniksche, Bernard Herrmann - Klaatu, Trong Quang Hai - Guimbardes Du Monde 9, Sun Ra - Journey Through Outer Darkness, Balinese Jawharp Orchestra - Katak Ngongkek, Michiyo Yagi - Seawall 1, Edgard Varese - Octandre. Interspersed are three versions of "Living Room" and three of "Serf Music." |
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SONORAMA: Elliott Sharp's "Living Room" ABMB, Day Five - listen | listen with RealPlayer There is nothing wrong with your computer! What you hear here is the sound of Elliott Sharp swinging his microphone and catching the "true" sound of Miami Beach in high style. You'll also hear him spin other tales and real music: Playlist Bus Ratch - Con, Robert Pete Williams - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere, Neil Young - Dead Man Theme, Gyorgi Ligeti - Chamber Concerto 3rd Movement, Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451-Fire Engine, Willie Dixon - Dead Presidents, John Fahey - Desperate Man Blues, Miles Davis - Black Satin, John Lee Hooker - Misbelieving Baby, Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451-Flamethrower, Turgun Alimatov - Music From Ouzbekistan, Willie Dixon- It don't Make Sense If You Can't Make Peace, Olivier Messiaen - La Grive Des Bois. Interspersed are three versions of " Living Room" and three of "Serf Music." |
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P.S.1 Interviews: The Spit Roast Boys ABMB, Day Five - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1's Alanna Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach say what's-uppp to Stunners International Brit party guys and producers Wade and Spike. A P.S.1 exclusive! Wade and Spike are record producers and entrepreneurs who put on dance parties around the world. Under the Stunners International banner, they also represent such acts as Whitey, Akira the Don, Babyshambles, Cazals, and Stunners International Sound System. |
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"Last Call," ABMB, Day Five - listen | listen with RealPlayer As the collectors and dealers start to pack their bags, artist Jen Denike, co-founder of the Frisbee Art Fair and Eathon G. Hall, Jr., Program Director of Ajira, a new, nonprofit art space in Newark, NJ, join P.S.1's Brett Littman and WPS1's Jeannie Hopper to wind up the week from an alternate perspective. Jen Denike, founder of the Frisbee Art Fair and an artist with the Massimo Audiello joins Eathan G. Hall, Jr., program director of the nonprofit Ajira art center in downtown Newark, NJ and host Brett Littman to consider the impact of alternative fairs on Art Basel Miami, their importance to younger galleries and especially to artists of color. WPS1 station manager DJ Jeannie Hopper, adds an outside-art perspective. |
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Wrap Up ABMB, Day Five - listen | listen with RealPlayer The amazing Samuel Keller, director of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, stops by the WPS1 cabana to have the joyous last word from the temporary center of the world. Meet Samuel Keller at the next Art Basel, # 36, which commences in Basel, Switzerland, on June 15, 2005. |
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