Walked to lecture at Basel. During the talk Dave Hickey said you wouldn’t find the next Frank Stella in Montana, I raised my hand there on the second row with about 150 people behind me. I sat next to a couple artists from Miami and their wives. After the talk I gave my cards to two writers one on dead art and one on Latin art who recognized me as the artist from Montana. Then walked with Raphael Rubinstein Senior editor from Art in America introducing myself as Stella from Montana and asked if he completed his ten items he set out to in the discussion, he said no. The art critic from the London guardian said he didn’t cover my area but I assured him I would be showing in London some day. Later in the day I met the doctor wife of the head of Art in America’s sister Latin version. She was on the shuttle from NADA.
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2007/12/05/nada-miami-art-fair-2007/
http://newartdealers.org/members/
She knows Raphael Rubinstein very well.
Went to Fountain.
http://fountainexhibit.com/blog/
Then Ram Miami, which didn’t seem to have much traffic or sales but painters that I would fit best with of all the shows.
Then Red Dot
http://reddotfair.com/reddotfair-miami.htm
And Art Now
Walked to Puerto Sagua restaurant, met a banker lady from Australia and a construction guy from Antilles. Went to Grillfish for dessert sat next to Steven Zevitas president and publisher of New American Paintings Magazine
http://www.newamericanpaintings.com/
And a friend of his. I told him a lady from Birmingham had stressed that I need to enter the New American Paintings competition just the day before. He said that Ted Waddel gave him the biggest bear hug the next time they saw each other after Ted was featured. At one point I asked how much the entry fee was and he said $35 and asked if that was too much in an incredulous way. I told him my paintings were too normal and that usually it seemed more cutting edge by unrepresented artists. His friend said there are different jurors and representation didn’t matter. Later I met Michael Tokala (sis)? A very personable and colorful guy who claimed to have had lunch with Pamela Hearst earlier that day. He also was plotting my press release and wanted to know if I could handle 20 minutes on Oprah. He was really interested in “Waiting” and told me $1600 was way too cheap it should be $5400 I told him I would wait until Tuesday to raise the price. I left him a stack of cards just in case he was as connected as he claimed.
Some of the fairs I missed;
Russia Miami
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2007/12/11/russia-miami-2007/
MOCA
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2007/12/05/jorge-pardo-house-moca-museum-of-contemporary-art-miami/
French Kissin’
Design
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2007/12/07/design-miami-2007-vernissage/
Chinese
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