What matters the most? Is it the fairs you saw or the ones you heard about but never made it to? The bars, the parties, the preplanned happenings? Or is it simply showing up?
ABMB is the place for a New York artist to get a New York Gallery. It is where a collector can slum it with the dealers, the dealers can slum it with the artists and the artists get out of their slums for a long weekend. So if you came to Miami to see art you will certainly see it in the best high priced shopping mall the USA can import from Europe. There are many ways to sell a Rauschenberg or Basquiat, but pitting hedge fund managers against one another has become a spectator sport. At some point this market will find reality, and when it does artists may find that their pay day is a bit smaller, but the permission to actually make art will have been granted. ABMB is the one place where an artist can be inspired by the fact that collectors and dealers alike are desperate for quality contemporary work.
At the bar, the genuine nature of contemporary art is best displayed with pink, back lit, weary legs looking for the bartender and hoping it'll be a strong one.
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