BLOG PHOTO RECORD, Kimberly Brooks - I just returned from attending Miami Basel for the first time and a week later all I can still say is WOW. In seven short years Miami Basel has become one of America's most important art fairs with a huge international audience and it turns out that the art is not the only worth staring at--- the people watching, the parties, Miami itself-- it all combines into an intoxicating brew that will surely take a year to recover.
Miami Basel Reflections (Huffington Post)
People are beginning to speculate on what this new mood might mean. At a talk entitled This is the End: the Rising Tide of Money Goes Out of the Art World and All Boats Are Sinking, the esteemed American critic Jerry Saltz speculated that it was time for the old guard to change. Artists such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami came under scrutiny, and were described as "gods of Mammon".
Miami diary 3: Arm wrestling for art (Guardian)
This year, as in past years, the highest standards of art not straining for iconic status and unvarnished by hype were to be found away from the Convention Center. The Pulse fair and the new Art Asia fair abounded with artworks of beauty and substance -- not surprising, perhaps, as Pulse features untrendy top galleries not in the main fair and Art Asia offers the distillation of an entire continent's contemporary art.
Quality? There's the Rub (WSJ)
Meanwhile, back in New York, with sales at the bellwether autumn auctions of impressionist, modern and contemporary art amounting to less than half the total of last year's sales, Sotheby's
Slowdown In The Art Market (Forbes)
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