Bizarre Art Works at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 – There comes a point during every Art Basel season when you find yourself staring at something patently ridiculous — be it a painting of Fran Drescher making out with Dwight D. Eisenhower, or a sculpture of Felix the Cat reading a copy of Eat, Pray, Love — without cracking a smile even once. You simply stand there, lost in the swirl of self-seriousness that is Basel, making some sort of asinine comment about how the painting of Ike and the Nanny is really a comment about the growth of capitalism between generations.
If Miami Art Week has a downside, it’s the fact that for seven days, every single event — art fair, music performance, fashion show, bar crawl — is Serious, with a capital S. The city dresses in its finest gowns and sport coats and doesn’t so much as crack a joke for a full calendar week. But there’s a hell of a lot of silliness and absurdity that goes on during Art Basel Miami Beach every year. For example: Someone covered a Jesus sculpture in avocados outside the Bass in Miami Beach this year. It certainly had a point, but if you’re unable to see how wonderfully silly the sculpture was, you need to lighten up.
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So with Basel 2016 formally behind us, it’s officially time to take the piss out of the whole affair and point out the straight-up silly things we witnessed this week. So whip out your tuxedo T-shirts, everybody — it’s time to hand out some awards.
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