Art Basel Miami Beach 2011: Winners & Losers

Oh my God, Wynwood was a freakin' nightmare of jibaros, not at all the Boho set that established roots there. Food trucks everywhere, freakin' giant Abosolut bottles and crap music. Plus the Occupiers were there, preaching to the don't-give-a-fuck-about-government-and society party goers. ugh. It was like Coconut Grove on a Thursday night.

No word from Peta on the convulsing sick pig? I think this is the third article New Times has published championing the same gallery. There were thousands of art events over Basel of international consideration, most of which are actually contributing something new to the contemporary art dialogue. Too much Retna. Too much about over done and out-of-date nude performance art topics. Not enough attention to the scope of the week as a whole or in Miami New Times's case the multitudes of local artists and galleries that had successful showings.

LOL @ "Wynwood Gap"

Hahaha. 

Local artists who sold artwork and threw events won as well. 

Whatever, we had a ton of bands playing at the Multiversal event. No lines, no BS (well the occasional power-outage), just $5.

What about Miami's Independent Thinkers? Didn't they have a bunch of music?

Cashmere Kitties had a big lineup.

The Stage had a bunch of stuff going on, too.

Who else? I'm sure there were plenty more.

Too bad the occupy movement isn't about protesting rich people, but about ending corporate influence in politics... so no, a protest outside the convention center would not have made much sense.