artscope magazine: January/February 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Office Space North Shore Originals Rania Matar: Lebanon at the crossroads Ad/Agency Sticky Bun City The Museum of Russian Icons One Hundred Years of Art: The Whistler House Museum The Owbow Gallery artSPACE@16 Currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis New Acquisitions 2007 Dennis Lucas: Provincetown artist migrates inland for the season Lean back. Consider it for a moment. Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network(WREN) ART, art, ART, and more Art: Sixteen Boston art dealers go to Art Basel Miami 2007 Edurne Esponda: Codico propio (personal code) Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project The Little Dog Laughed Puppetry in New England: Bread and Puppet Theater, The Tanglewood Marionettes and Dan Butterworth artscope Capsule Previews The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

ART, art, ART, and more Art: Sixteen Boston art dealers go to Art Basel Miami 2007 Susan Schwalb Art, sunshine, beaches - how could one resist the lure of Art Basel Miami? Beginning with one large fair at the Miami Convention Center and a couple of allied fairs and events in 2002, this “fair” has ballooned into a major destination for art lovers world-wide. From December 5 to 9, more than two-dozen art fairs and a host of exhibitions and private collections were open to the public. Boston area artists and their dealers made a surprisingly significant presence. Sixteen dealers participated in nine different fairs with paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and installations. The fairs were roughly divided into two locations: hotels that were mainly on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, several blocks from the Miami Convention Center (home to Art Basel), and huge tents or commercial buildings in the Wynwood Art and Design District in Miami proper, a little over a half hour from the convention center. In the hotels, each dealer had his or her own room with different limits on the changes allowed; sometimes all the furniture was removed, but elsewhere gaudy chandeliers had to remain in place along with decorative and overpowering wall paper. Often the dealers also slept in their rooms, removing the artwork from the beds each night. In Wynwood on the other hand, the spaces were generally large, clean and well lit and more closely resembled the traditional fair experience. Art Basel was the largest fair with over 200 dealers Read the entire article in our magazine pages...