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Guide to 2011 Art Basel Miami Beach Fairs

This year's best picks: Pig pens, pop-up pianos, and hip-hop pioneers.

Ten Best Things to Do During Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

​Regardless of your approach, the sad truth is it's impossible to catch every piece of art worth experiencing during Basel week. With 250 exhibitors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, not to mention hundreds of others operating at the more than a dozen satellite fairs, this year's tenth edition ... More >>

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Naked! Plus Five Other Arty Moments Inspired by Pop Stars

Photograph: Daniel Edwards/Cory Allen Contemporary ArtJustin and Selena as One by Daniel Edwards. ​Artist Daniel Edwards is best known for casting a life-sized sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth on all fours, hunched over a bear skin rug. (As if Brit were that earthy!) But now Edwards has sh ... More >>

Toys Art Us and Peregrinos

Artist William Powhida Mocks Art Basel With Huge Drawing, Calls Miami 'Hooverville'

Art Basel is many things to many people. Some see it as a drug-infused bacchanal where, occasionally, art is appreciated. Others see it as the art world's seasonally scheduled hangover. Most would agree it's a catastrofuck of major proportions. William PowhidaDo you remember anything from last year ... More >>

Dzine and La Coleccion Jumex at the Bass Museum

Thomas Crow to Lecture at MAM

Wikicommons "Puppy" by Jeff Koons, BilbaoMiami Art Museum is two-for-two in 2009 lectures.On March 15, the museum delivered artist Richard Tuttle, and next Sunday, August 2nd at 3 p.m., it'll host Thomas Crow.Crow is the Rosalie Solow professor of modern art history at the Institute ... More >>

One Piece at a Time

2 Live Crew's Supreme Court Win May Impact Shepard Fairey's Case

created with Obamicon.me Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist behind that highly stylized Obama poster you saw just about everywhere last year is preemptively suing the Associated Press. The image he used as the basis for the poster was an AP stock photo, and the AP wanted recognition and money in re ... More >>

Gus Van Sant's Milk Spotlights Gay Rights

Sean Penn stars in what was originally an Oliver Stone flick.

Miami's Big Moment in the Arts Hits the Screen

A pair of filmmakers kicks off a series of home movies with the Wet Heat Project.

Fast Track to Nowhere

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

A Family Affair

Four decades on and the Rubells are still at it

Copycats

In this age of artistic appropriation, everything is fair game

Nature Rules

Props to Hip-Hop

Artist captures a culture

The War of Art

Competing fairs are locked in a battle for collectors

Great Scot

Twenty years of Momus and the jury's still out: Wit or twit?

BEST ART CHAT

Pillow Talk

Beach House Bal Harbour

All Over the Plate

Something for every taste, from world-beat canvas to small portraits to tongue-licking china

Let's Only Entertain You

Well, that's one way to look at art

Artwork Defiant and Defining

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Art in Cuba

Just when an artist can't find a tube of paint or a strip of canvas, the international art world has come knocking on Havana's door -- with money in hand

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