Lucian Freud “Sally Clarke” “David, Pluto and Eli” and “Woman Sleeping” at Acquavella Gallery
Spectacle ensues as Pamela Anderson and David LaChapelle visit 303 Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach
This year’s Art Basel Miami Beach began with a great deal of trepidation over where the level of sales would be in comparison to that of last year. While volume was undeniably less this year, there was still a minimum level of sales completed which seemed to determine the event’s eventual success.  The art fair seemed to normalize to a level where the high quality of art that was brought down could be viewed, and in some cases purchased, at more measured, civilized pace. Similarly, the corresponding events had a tone that was neither frantic nor somber; in some cases they were anticlimactic, elsewhere they were just fun. The art market players are resting for a bit now after so much work and festivities in one short set of days, and few regretted the trip.
Eli Broad, Jay-Z Tour Slower Miami Art Fair, Collectors Haggle [Bloomberg]
Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 Roundup [Artinfo]
Miami Memories 2008 [Artnet]
Exceptionally High Quality at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 [ArtDaily]
Feeling the pinch in the Miami vice [TimesUK]
Fair Enough [ArtForum]
The art market: Strong voting for the art party [FinancialTimes]
Slowdown In The Art Market [Forbes]
Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 [Vernissage.tv]
At Fairs by the Beach, the Sands of Creativity [NYTimes]
Art Basel Miami Beach | Under Construction [NYTimes]
Soft landings in hard times [ArtNewspaper]
Loyal buyers secure a positive start [ArtNewspaper]
David Lynch’s diamond dome [ArtNewspaper]
Basel sees a bright side [MiamiHerald]
Art Basel sales show slowdown in tough economic year [MiamiHerald]
Kmart Special Time at Art Basel Miami [NYMag]
Terence Koh Dazzles Art Basel Miami With Thrilling Nonperformance [NYMag]
Seven Things We Learned at Art Basel Miami [NYMag]
Miami ///The Recap: Art Basel’s Amazing “It Ain’t Fair†[SuperTouch]
Miami ///WTF?!? Files ///Takashi Murakami Gets Loose at Art Basel [Supertouch]
Art Basel: Cartier Dreams, Forbes Yacht Party, Caviar & Grace Jones [BlackBook]
Art Basel: Actually, It Was Awesome [BlackBook]
more AO original photos after the jump…
Banks Violette “Not Yet Titled (Modular Wall unit with Table, Bench and Chairs)” at Team Gallery
Jaume Plensa “Kneeled Shadow” at Richard Gray Gallery
Zhang Huan “Ah Jing” and Mario Garcia Torres “Sometimes the World is Heavier than an Artist’s Breath” at White Cube
Wim Delvoye “D-11 Scale Model 2.0” at Sperone Westwater
Evan Penny “Murray, variation #3” at Sperone Westwater
Dash Snow “Untitled (Bell jar/nest)” at Peres Projects
Aaron Young’s “Fence Miami” at Bortolami
Ai Weiwei “Bubble” at Galerie Urs Meile
Andreas Slominski “Ohne Titel”
Anish Kapoor “Shadow II” at Nitsch/Paragon
Barbara Kruger “Untitled (You Kill Time)
Bruce Nauman “Double Poke in the Eye II” at Nitsch/Paragon
Chuck Close “Phil Houndstooth” “Self Portrait” and “Phil Crosshatch” at Two Palms Gallery
Damien Hirst “Memento” at Nitsch/Paragon
Damien Hirst “Oleoylsarcosine” at Nitsch/Paragon
Damien Hirst “Victory Over Death” at Nitsch/Paragon
Diango Hernandez “Discipline” at GalerÃa Pepe Cobo
Ed Ruscha “Corkscrew Clause” at Acquavella
Esther Stocker “Untitled” at Krobath Wimmer
Evan Holloway “Reverse Gray Scale” at Harris-Liebermann
Farhad Moshiri “Run like hell” at Perrotin
Franz Ackerman “Untitled” at Alexander / Mai 36
Gary Hill “Up Against Down” at Donald Young Gallery
James Rosenquist “Memory Continues but the Clock Disappears” at Acquavella
James Rosenquist “Target II” at Acquavella
John Baldessari “Accordionist (with Crowd) at Gemini G.E.L.
John Baldessari “Person with Guitar (Orange)” at Gemini G.E.L.
Katsura Funakoshi “The Sphinx is Eating a Grasshopper above the Forest” at Greenberg van Doren
Pae White “Suncloud” at Francesca Kaufmann
Kehinde Wiley “Luiz Carlos Neves Dos Reis Study II” at Roberts & Tilton
Kris Martin “For Whom” at Sies + Hoke
Loris Cecchini “Gaps (libri IV)” at D’Amelio Terras
Louise Bourgeois “The Maternal Man” at Nitsch/Paragon
Marcel Duchamp at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
Mickalene Thomas “Oh Mickey” at Lehmann Maupin
Mindy Shapero “Head Costume” at CRG
Olafur Eliasson “The Constant Colour Circle” “The Double Constant Colour Circle” and “The Triple Constant Colour Circle” at Borch Jensen
Pablo Picasso “Buste d’Homme” at Acquavella
Liz Craft “Black Widow” at Patrick Painter
Pascale Marthine Tayou “Les Genies Bamileke” at D’Amelio Terras
Richard Prince at Two Palms
Richard Serra “Untitled” at Gemini
Tom Burr “Black Vinyl” at Galleria Franco Noero
Tom Sachs “A Rebours” at Sperone Westwater
Tom Sachs “Hours of Devotion” at Sperone Westwater
Tom Sachs “Night Train” at Sperone Westwater
Tony Oursler “Squish” and “Soot” at Lehmann Maupin
Tracey Emin “It just happens” at Lehmann Maupin
Tracey Emin “Legs” at Lehmann Maupin
Walton Ford “Housatonic Ghost Cats” at Paul Kasmin
Wolfgang Tillmans “Beerenstillben” at Maureen Paley
John McCracken at David Zwirner
Dan Flavin at David Zwirner
Neo Rausch at David Zwirner
Elizabeth Peyton at David Zwirner
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Aida Ruilova “A-Z” at Salon 94
Andreas Gursky “Shanghai” at Matthew Marks
Anish Kapoor “Hex Hex” at Lisson
Anish Kapoor “Untitled 2008” at Lisson
Antony Gormley “Chord” at White Cube
Barbara Kruger at Spruth Magers
Carl Andre “Flags 1963” at Andrea Rosen
Cindy Sherman at Spruth Magers
Damien Hirst “Allopurinol” & “Wretched War” at White Cube
Dave Muller “Ari’s Top Ten” & Friedrich Kunath “Wetterbericht” at Blum & Poe
Doug Aitken “start swimming” at 303 Gallery
Ellsworth Kelly “Green Black” via Matthew Marks
Francesco Clemente “Deborah Voigt as Gioconda” “Natalie Dessay as Amina” “Diana Damrau as Lucia” and “Angela Gheorghiu as Magda” at Deitch Projects
Gary Hume “Untitled” via Matthew Marks
Jake and Dinos Chapman “CFC76311561.1” via White Cube
Jason Rhoades “One-wheel waggon-wheel chandelier” at Hauser & Wirth
Jenny Holzer at Spruth Magers
Jitish Kallat at Arndt & Partner
Jitish Kallat at Arndt & Partner
Jon Kessler “Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Part 2)” at Deitch Projects
Julian Opie “Christine swimming 04” via galerie bob van orsouw
Kehinde Wiley “The Veiled Christ (Study) via Deitch Projects
Lucian Freud “Eli” via Matthew Marks
Paul McCarthy “Captain Morgan Poopdeck” and “Chocolate Silicon Blockhead” via Hauser & Wirth
Richard Jackson “Dick’s Ducks” via Hauser & Wirth
Robert Longo “Untitled (Bodyhammers: Revolver .38, 9mm, Beretta)” via Metro Pictures
Rodney Graham “Inverted Drip Painting” via 303
Subodh Gupta “(Untitled)” via Hauser & Wirth
Takashi Murakami via Gagosian
Tom Sachs “Viagra” at Thaddaeus Ropac
Tracey Emin “For You” at White Cube
Willem de Kooning “Woman Study” at Matthew Marks
William Cordova, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Mark Aguilar “Moby Dick” via Arndt & Partner
Yukinori Maeda “Light Deposit” via Taka Ishii
