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Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami

This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB (Art Basel Miami Beach) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel, Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as ...

Anri Sala and Marshall Allen: Video duet at the Royal Theater

Some came for the music, others for the art; but I suspect the majority of the audience came for a glimpse of the evocative decay of the Royal Theater’s once splendid interior; the theater at 1524 South St. was built in 1920 when movie houses were still palaces, but has been closed for the past 40 years.

Anri Sala work in Hidden City Philadelphia

Mari Shaw developed and curated the showing of the Anri Sala video piece for Hidden City. The piece opens June 10 at the Royal Theater on South Street. We were particularly interested since we had seen Sala’s work at Temple Gallery in 2005, and Andrea had seen his work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2006. Here’s Mari’s report: The work of  internationally-acclaimed video/film artist Anri Sala will be presented in Philadelphia on the evenings of  June 10 and June 11, 2009  at the Royal Theater as part of the “Hidden City” citywide exhibition.