A stabbing occurred at Art Basel Miami Beach on Friday night. At 5:15 p.m., a woman stabbed another visitor to the fair with an X-Acto knife, saying, “I had to kill her and two more!” The injuries were non-fatal, but some witnesses thought they were witnessing performance art. [Miami Herald]
artBaseLina winners&losers @NewTimes el pantano de sagitario (can't stop laughing...) is a winner, alabadus... la chinita asesina... not so much... as tragic as violence is, in any form, i'm sorry, but i find this incident very comical... absurd... the whole swampOFsag thing...
(Swamp of Sagittarius When times are tough, people often turn to the cosmic realm for clues to uncover what lies in store and how to improve their lives. Even JP Morgan founder, John Pierpont Morgan, was noted as saying, "Millionaires don't use astrologers, but billionaires do." Artists Naomi Fisher and Agatha Wara both have interest in the otherworldly and decided to bring "Astro-driven Forecasting Solutions for Contemporary Art" to the largest art market in the country, Art Basel. For their interactive performance installation "Swamp of Sagittarius" at Hidden Bar in the Nova Section of the Miami Beach Convention Center, they brought in their artist-astrologer friends Marty Windahl and Morgan Rehbock to divine the financial futures related to the contemporary art market of folks visiting the fair. We followed the smells of essential oils cast in lovely wax sculptures to this peaceful enclave for a reading of our natal chart. Read about our revealing experience here.) ...
IT all happened at artBasel!! an x-acto knife!! two women... mmm, now, there is enough seed for a fruitful tree of assumptions... but nothing else has been said about that...