ART BASEL, MIAMI 2024

At Art Basel, it’s all in-between genres where performance, politics, sculpture, video, sound, photography, painting, interior design, fashion, wild pheromones and visionary weirdness overlap. As the season of tinsel and silver bells descends, art's most formidable tempest unleashes its bourgeois-cheeseball fury, a spectacle both grandiose and grotesque.

Welcome to Art Basel, Miami Beach 2024 — a confluence of just about every element of consumer culture: instant gratification, conspicuous consumption, masquerading (Maurizio Cattelan - Meat at Gagosian sold for $850.000), hyped aesthetics and premium priced everything (Keith Harring); the majestically surreal worlds of Marguerite Humeau and Lucy Bull colliding at the ICA Miami, fashion pop-ups and cocktail soirées at the Design District (the Margiela x Kozo collaboration, a sartorial fever dream), beach installations with 100 life-sized wooden elephants and freaky fashion.

Art Basel Miami 2024 - Mark di Suvero - ANARCHY DAILY - aleksandra dinic.jpg

The preview day buzzed with a renewed excitement and upbeat outlook for the art market. ANARCHY DAILY witnessed the fierceness and fabulosity of Florida's sun-soaked 'Gesamtkunstwerk' endurance run. From the fair’s most spectacular and the most expensive artwork (a $30 million black-and-white Picasso "Couple with Cup", Mark di Suvero’s massively scaled swing via Paula Cooper, Alice Aycock’s breathtaking sculpture to Julio Le Parc's dazzling gold mobile "Mobile losange doré" (sold for $395,000), and Albert Oehlen’s magestic abstract painting, the show is far out entropic whirling vortex.

Julio Le Parc's dazzling gold mobile "Mobile losange doré”.

The fair also showcases the art system's credentialed class in full bloom, with the all glammed up globetrotters mingling with Hollywood celebs (eco-imposter/actor Leonardo DiCaprio attempting to be subrosa), collectors (Jorge M. Pérez), hedge fund impresarios, prominent artists, A-listers, B-listers, and the multitudinous party-goers.

ANARCHY DAILY’s art editor Aleksandra Dinic captured the energy as the extravaganza opened. As we transition into next zeitgeist, the fourth turning has never felt so good. Welcome to the art world's wonderfully weird sunlit playground. Tune in as ANARCHY DAILY keeps you up to scratch on all things Art Basel Miami.

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