By Melanie Klesse

“This is the largest museum on earth for four days.”

Mike Kelley, Chicken Dance

So says Bob Goodman, Florida representative of Art Basel, referring to the magnitude of the sister event to Art Basel Switzerland, “the most important annual art show worldwide for the past 36 years.” Or at least that's what their public relations agents say and—despite a possible occupational hazard of a lack of objectivity—it doesn't seem as if this statement is far from the truth.

The “American sister” is throwing a party on the Beach. And what a party it is.

By Mary Damiano

Gary Keating

When Craig Fashbaugh decided to form a gay men's chorus in Miami Beach in 1999, he went to Miami Beach City Hall to find out from the Arts Council to he needed any licenses for this new business. He was met with chuckles of disbelief and then this comment: “Oh my. You mean a gay event on Miami Beach where we won't need ambulances?”

“The first couple of years I was here and would talk to people about doing a chorus, they said it would never happen, you won't get it you won't organize it,” Fashbaugh says. “Then they'd say, ‘Well, you might get the members but you won't get the audience.' We proved all that wrong.”

Making It Legal
Local Org Helps Artists with the Business
Side of Art
By: Ana Trujilo

A Playground for the Imagination
By: Gretel Sarmiento

Film Notes
Three Events Offer Cinematic Satisfaction
By: Mary Damiano

First Person:
Traveling Artistically
By:
Irene Sperber

Artist Spotlight
Daniel Garcia