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We obviously must hookup this masked Italian duo @ Dim Mak Records with some GURU Original.

When I told our friend Guruphiliac that I was going to cover Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 for the blog and asked him to share some thoughts about the gurus of the Art World, he took a crack at it, picturing Warhol as the GURU of the current scene:

“The contemporary artists with the biggest buzz and the biggest prices— Hirst, Prince, Jeff Koons, and Takashi Murakami—are all sons of Warhol, chameleonic pop ironists who could have master’s degrees in marketing.” In times of recession, pop art captures the spectator’s mind and symbolism reaches climax.

Deric Carner, collector and manipulator of signs and messages, was one of the 26 artists chosen by Takashi Murakami’s artist-led art entreprise Kaikai Kiki to showcase their work at Gesai Miami 2008. He was photographed by Faith Ann Young early evening on Saturday, December 6 when we sneaked into Pulse after opening hours (thanks to my unshakable power of persuasion.)

Log onto his site to browse his artist portfolio.

Photos by the New Yorker, Faith Ann Young, words by Ladyshark

We mentioned earlier throwing sand castles on hipsters soaked in champagne at the Art Basel Visionaire party: the most daring artists and the true visionaires were invited by the Accompanied Literary Society, Create The Group, to the Raleigh Hotel on Saturday to play paintball in the sand to honor a selection of new paintings by Andrew Cramer. Invitees included Glenn O’Brien, artists Aaron Young and Ryan McGinley, we-don’t-know-what-she-has-to-do-with-anything web-deb Cory Kennedy, and always dashing Andre Balazs (who seemed to be at every party at Basel).

A beautiful metaphor and an impeccably executed event, it reminded me that drinking rum is sexier than drinking champagne… and that any sort of human game is what truly makes art.

Photos by Faith-Ann Young, words by Ladyshark

Over-Sized Typographic Furniture by Set 26

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