Friday, March 29, 2024
 

Installation Banned at Art Basel Miami


An Art Basel Miami installation has been denied by Miami City officials.

Miami officials have barred the installation of artist Cooper’s Roman-style, black-ink-spewing Dark Fountain, which was commissioned for the fair, from a public park. “The ink stains,” says Max Sklar, the city’s tourism honcho.

Cooper says his work dramatizes the increasingly toxic state of the environment. “This isn’t Disney pretend,” he says. “This is real, live public art. You can look at it and enjoy it.

Sklar isn’t budging. “We’re not asking him to change the very nature of his work,” he says. “Just to accommodate it to a public setting.”

See full story at New York Magazine.

 

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