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BABELGUM METROPOLIS ART PRIZE

A free public screening across three Jumbotron monitors in Times Square of the nine winning art videos from the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize, an international search for the best and edgiest artists sponsored by Babelgum.

The screening will be kicked off by Isabella Rossellini, the actress/video artist who served as head judge for the contest, who will be seated in an antique electric chair to also herald the premiere of “Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair” an art video short co-directed by the actress and Guy Maddin. The event is the latest innovative effort by the Times Square Alliance to bring cutting-edge art to the people of New York.

GRAND PRIZE:
The Magnitude of the Continental Divide (Christopher Coleman)
RUNNERS UP:
Wonderland (Hye Yeon Nam)
Cardboard (Sjors Vervoort)
STREET ART AWARD:
Mask (2501)
RUNNERS UP
Pixelator (Jason Eppink)
Suspended Garden of Babylon (Jeorge Simas and Filipe Morozini)
AUDIENCE AWARD:
Subway Yearbook Photos (Improv Everywhere)
RUNNERS UP:
Last Kodachrome 40 for a Nizo S800 (Davide Pepe)
Simple Present - Future Perfect (Davide Pepe)
Visit the ART PRIZE PAGE to find out more.

Where: Times Square at Duffy Square, 47th and Broadway adjacent to TKTS Booth.
Screens featuring the art videos include Fox News Corp (43rd St. and Broadway), MTV (Broadway between 46th and 47th Sts.) and Clear Channel / CNN (47th St. and 7th Ave).

When: December 17 from 7 – 8 pm.

You are also invited to the VIP drinks reception and awards presentation following the event:

Jonathan Levine Gallery
529 West, 20th Street
New York

From 8 pm

RSVP to metropolis@babelgum.com

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Cheers,
Lee

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And they are off to buy over 100 million dollars in contemporary art in the course of the Basel Miami week of art fairs. They say there are over 17 various fairs going on. Kinda crazy art world mecca point. Can the market hold it all together or will signs be seen by all that sales have become deluted. Oh well just so long as the artists are making money thats what really matters. Below I have listed the major fairs that I have found going on.

 If you know of anything I missed please let me know and I'll add it on.

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  Art Fairs Miami 2006

    Listings via: ArtInfo & ArtForum

Art Basel | Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center, Hall A and D, Miami Beach FL 33127
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it www.artbaselmiamibeach.com
Dec. 7-10

Along with the main show, an expanded Art Nova returns with 61 galleries bringing new works by rising artists. Art Kabinett, which gives participating galleries the opportunity to show small, curated exhibitions, returns, as does Art Basel Conversations. Art Positions, a beachfront village of shipping containers, brings 20 young galleries with cutting-edge projects to Miami Beach again this year. Art Salon is a platform featuring artists’ talks, book signings and presentations from art institutions. Plus a featured 6 minute sample of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. http://www.perpetualartmachine.com . [PAM] an interactive video installation containing work by over 500 of todays hottest video and new media artists

Scope - Miami
Dec. 7-10
Roberto Clemente Park, 101 NW 34th Street, Miami Beach FL 33127  Tel: 1 305 5343800
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it www.scope-art.com

Scope Miami will have a venue change this year. Though the Townhouse Hotel on Collins Avenue will serve as Scope Miami’s networking hub, the fair is moving to a pavilion of containers in Roberto Clemente Park in the Wynwood Art District.

“For Scope Miami 2006, we are constructing an artist-designed, 40,000–square-foot pavilion,” explains Scope president Alexis Hubshman. “The Pavilion is lined with containers, which are also used to construct the custom-built facade. Plus a featured installation by [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. http://www.perpetualartmachine.com . [PAM] and interactive video installation containing work by over 500 of todays hottest video and new media artists.
Not to miss. 

NADA Art Fair
The Ice Palace, 1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami FL 33136
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it www.newartdealers.org
Date: December 6-10

The New Art Dealers Alliance returns to Miami with 81 exhibitors and a projected 2006 attendance of 16,000 to 18,000. Nineteen other new exhibitors from around the globe will take part in the 2006 fair. Admission for the fair, at The Ice Palace, is free, and all events are open to the public.

Aqua Art Miami
Aqua Hotel - 1530 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach FL 33139
Aqua Art Miami.com
Dec 7 - 10, 2006

Aqua Art Miami, which bills itself as an alternative art fair, will again take place at the delightful Aqua Hotel and, returns to Miami Beach for another year. Organized by Seattle artists and dealers, Aqua features nearly 40 galleries from throughout North America and Europe, with an emphasis on West Coast galleries and emerging artists.

PULSE Miami
Dec. 7-10
2700 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami FL 33136  Tel: 212 255 2327
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it www.pulse-art.com

The goal of Pulse Miami, in the Wynwood Art District, is to establish a global and local cultural partnership with young gallerists, dealers and collectors while drawing an audience of art patrons and enthusiasts, critics, curators and academics. Organizers aim to do so by concentrating on new artistic trends and exhibition concepts.

Design Miami
Dec. 8-10

The organizers of Design Miami—last year dubbed design.05—are bringing an eclectic mix of furniture, decorative arts, textiles and fine arts back to the Miami Design District for what should be a hearty encore. Additions to last year’s 15 participants, which are expected to return, will bring the best in design from Brazil, Sweden, Italy and the United States.

“We will have fantastic satellite exhibitions, and collaborations will take place with major institutions, design schools and companies, including the Centre Pompidou from Paris, Vitra Design Museum from Germany, Droog Design (presenting the Smart Deco show), Established and Sons and Moss,” says director Ambra Medda.

Photo Miami
Dec 6 - 10, 2006
photo MIAMI
The International Contemporary Fair of Photo-Based Art, Video and New Media.
The Dorissa Building, Wynwood Art District, 2751 North Miami Avenue, Miami FL 33127
Tel: 323 937 4659 - www.artfairsinc.com

Flow - Miami Art Fair
Dec 6 - 10, 2006
The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, North Building
1756 Collins Avenue, First Floor
South Beach FL 33139 
Tel: 216 990 3349

Trying to start fnding the time to start logging on with whats been going on. PAM is on fire and our scheduals are filling up through next year very rapidly.  We will probably be returning to Split 2-3 more times in the next year. We have been asked to organize an exhibition of new media art for th Split Media Arts Center. Reciently renovated, the museum quality space has 30 foot cielings and a dynamic layout. More to come on that. We also have invitations to take the show on a national tour throughout the country.

By far one of the most beautiful places in the world. The people, the food ,the landscape and weather.  The perfect combination of everything mixed with a cutting edge international film and video program of the festival. Split is an undisturbed gem with a deep love of culture and art that has gone back 1000's of years.

Put it on your to do list.

 

More to come 

For as much as I would like to be critical  I cant seem to find a video on this site that I would consider lacking in quality and creativity. Keep up the good work everyone and thank you for being a part of the fun.

There is more to come.