MIA IN MAIMI///THE FINAL RECAP///BEST IN SHOW…

December 18th, 2007

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Collector & Miami road dog Lance Armstrong cowboys up with Yoram Wolberger’s “Gunslinger” sculpture at Pulse…

Yeah, yeah, we know, ART BASEL ended over a week ago, but if you had the kinda time we did down there, you’d just be getting around to putting up your final recap too. After speedwalking through almost 15 different shows, we’ve got a quick lookback on some of the pieces that caught our eye most. Some of the names might be missing, but after seven days of art, it all just started to blur together. One thing we can say about the art trade show that is Basel, it was far and away the best one yet HAVE A LOOK:

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A defining moment…

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Keeping the pigs in perspective…

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The Jim Phillips Lite-Brite. Original imagery is dead…

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Tom Sach’s zip gun travel kit…

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…approved for use on all major airlines…

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Tim Biskup’s girl…

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Michael Bevilacqua x Scott Campbell…

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(detail)…

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Face time at Geisai…

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No name, but we’re sweatin the technique…

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Son of Neck Face…

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Nara x South Park…

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A matter of scale…

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“Street art”…

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Edible miltiples by Timothy Berg…

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(detail)…

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Greta Frau…

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Sign of the times…

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Rogerio Degaki…

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Massive marble paper airplane. Insane…

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Tim Biskup with muse by Hideaki Linuma…

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LA Gear…

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Rhinoplasty…

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…using recycled tires.

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Vintage Joe Coleman…

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Plasticine paranoia…

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(detail)…

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Zhang Dali…

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(detail)…

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Han Yajuan…

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(detail)…

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Mellow Mao…

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Dani Tull…

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Jorn Vanhofen…

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Zhang Hui…

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Ted Tucker’s teenage terror…

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Ted Tucker…

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Johannes Huppi…

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Face-tastic (artist unknown)…

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Rai Escalé…

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No size 11…

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Cat scratch fever…

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“Fuck You”…

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The boy wonder…

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John Baldessari…

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Solomon Huerta…

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Woman attempting to use “Art ATM”…

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Oliver Payne upps his shoe game…

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Oliver Payne…

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(detail)…

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Oliver Payne…

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Live art in the parking lot…

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Skullphone x X-Mas…

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Weezer’s Brian Bell with some not-so-super-heroes…

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Double trouble…

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Ling Jian…

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(detail)…

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(detail)…

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Hillary ‘08…

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No child left behind…

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Davide Zucco…

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Jon Rappleye…

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Don Ed Hardy…

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Don Ed Hardy…

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Simon Willem…

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(detail)…

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Mark Ryden’s new monster…

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Klaus Wanker. Too good to be true…

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“Mr Wanker, I presume?”…

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The masterwork of Julie Heffernan…

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Todd Hebert’s snowman…

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Jason McLean…

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(detail)…

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Marcel Dzama…

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Marcel Dzama…

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Marcel Dzama…

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Jason Jagel…

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Randall Sellers (this hand-drawn image is only 2″ wide)…

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Amy Bennett…

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Craola-by-numbers…

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Patricia Piccininni…

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The Clayton Brothers…

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The Clayton Brothers…

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Dark days…

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Erik Sandberg’s masterful technique…

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Aiko Nakagawa…

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Yumi Karasumaru…

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(detail)…

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Asgar Gabriel…

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Mars-1 spacescape…

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Breast in show…

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iPolitiks…

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Miron Schmuckle (possibly the most amazing pseudonym ever)…

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Christian Parkes with the graphite-on-paper tower of power…

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(detail)…

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Paul McCarthy’s chocolate Santa buttplugs…

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William Scott…

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William Scott…

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Art is the new bling..

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Amen…

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Tomoo Gokita…

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Tomoo Gokita…

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Hall of Meat greatest hit…

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Epic vintage Barry McGee…

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Dylan in repose, artist unknown…

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Georganne Deen…

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Manuel Ocampo…

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Manuel Ocampo….

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Superm…

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…is on the way.

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Rachell Sumpter…

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Blue light special…

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