Richie Budd
HUFFINGTON POST ARTS & CULTURE Blouin Artinfo "A Rundown of Miami's Art Fairs, As Explained Through High School Stereotypes," *Scope: The Frat Boy 12-20-12
December 20, 2012
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A Rundown of Miami's Art Fairs, As Explained Through High School Stereotypes
Posted: 12/04/2012 1:42 pm
By our count, 1,087 galleries will be trekking down to Miami this week to participate in more than 20 art fairs around the city. With that much art for sale, there's bound to be something for everyone -- if you can find it. To help, we've put together a handy primer to Miami's many satellite fairs. But this one comes with a twist.
If the art world, with its constant rumor-mongering and public spats, is a lot like high school, then December in Miami is the high school reunion. At the risk of oversimplifying things, we've paired each fair with a high school archetype that best encapsulates its attitude. We'll be the first to admit these analogies are reductive and inelegant: As anyone who has seen "The Breakfast Club" can tell you, stereotypes are limiting and we're all a little bit of a brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal. But like high school, Miami is cutthroat and time is short, so we've glossed them for you as best we can. Happy fairgoing.
* Scope: The Frat Boy
The frat boy may not technically be a high school archetype, but high schools are filled with future Greeks. Those rowdy, sometimes macho, always devil-may-care personalities are a good analogy for Scope. Plus, in a bizarre example of analogy collapsing into reality, some real live frat boys made an appearance at the fair two years ago in New York. (Artists Richie Budd and Will Robinson invited four New Jersey Greeks into a glassed-in cube to drink beer for hours on end and generally make mischief as part of an art installation called "Come on Guy.") We can't imagine that kind of stunt would fly at any other fair (excerpted from original article).
100 NE 36 Street at Midtown Boulevard, Miami, December 4-9.
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HUFFINGTON POST ARTS & CULTURE Blouin Artinfo "A Rundown of Miami's Art Fairs, As Explained Through High School Stereotypes," *Scope: The Frat Boy 12-20-12
December 20, 2012
HUFFPOST ARTS & CULTURE
ARTINFO
The online authority for art news and gallery reviews
A Rundown of Miami's Art Fairs, As Explained Through High School Stereotypes
Posted: 12/04/2012 1:42 pm
By our count, 1,087 galleries will be trekking down to Miami this week to participate in more than 20 art fairs around the city. With that much art for sale, there's bound to be something for everyone -- if you can find it. To help, we've put together a handy primer to Miami's many satellite fairs. But this one comes with a twist.
If the art world, with its constant rumor-mongering and public spats, is a lot like high school, then December in Miami is the high school reunion. At the risk of oversimplifying things, we've paired each fair with a high school archetype that best encapsulates its attitude. We'll be the first to admit these analogies are reductive and inelegant: As anyone who has seen "The Breakfast Club" can tell you, stereotypes are limiting and we're all a little bit of a brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal. But like high school, Miami is cutthroat and time is short, so we've glossed them for you as best we can. Happy fairgoing.
* Scope: The Frat Boy
The frat boy may not technically be a high school archetype, but high schools are filled with future Greeks. Those rowdy, sometimes macho, always devil-may-care personalities are a good analogy for Scope. Plus, in a bizarre example of analogy collapsing into reality, some real live frat boys made an appearance at the fair two years ago in New York. (Artists Richie Budd and Will Robinson invited four New Jersey Greeks into a glassed-in cube to drink beer for hours on end and generally make mischief as part of an art installation called "Come on Guy.") We can't imagine that kind of stunt would fly at any other fair (excerpted from original article).
100 NE 36 Street at Midtown Boulevard, Miami, December 4-9.
www.huffingtonpost.com/artinfo/a-rundown-of-miamis-art-fa...