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\n(image: DIFC Gulf Art Fair 08-10 MARCH 2007 brochure)<\/p>\n
\n(image: DIFC Gulf Art Fair 08-10 MARCH 2007 brochure)<\/p>\n
The first ever DIFC GULF ART FAIR opens tonight. It runs from 08-10 MARCH 2007.
\nIt takes place in DUBAI, UAE (United Arab Emirates), which wants to add another
\n“must-be” destination to the already over-taxed schedule of wealthy collectors.
or seen another way, brings …
\nhigh end\/high priced “blue chip” art directly home to the mother lode of petro dollars.
\n(right off the bat – the locale sure looks a lot better than the Armory piers !!)<\/p>\n
Some of the 40 international galleries participating:
\nDiana Lowenstein MIAMI
\nGalerie Enrico Navarra PARIS
\nMalca Fine Art NEW YORK
\nMax Lang NEW YORK
\nSundaram Tagore NEW YORK
\nWhite Cube LONDON
\nAlbion LONDON<\/p>\n
the above image – on the brochure is: <\/strong>: guess we really are a decadent, or dying civilization, reminds us of the ROMAN’S love for Greek art, or our own fascination with our vanquished Native American art. Next on the agenda: petro dollars franchise The Louvre ! (price: approx US$540 million)<\/p>\n now, if only it was just as cheap for hordes of dead broke artists to hop a plane to Dubai, as it is to grab a cheap flight to Miami ! they’d have it made. .. the beach looks great. … the fair must be kosher, New York City slang for “alright” – its got artnet.com listed as a sponsor . .. has WALTER ROBINSON finally hit the big bucks for covering an ART FAIR ? and what’s this, OMG – can there really be a “TimeOut – DUBAI” ..<\/p>\n and . . . just what exactly is that ‘DIFC gulf art fair’ logo design trying to say. . .
\nMARIKO MORI, Beginning of the End (Future)<\/em>, 1996-2006,
\nJumeriah, Dubai, courtesy the artist and Albion, London
\nnote<\/strong>: that’s MARIKO MORI in one of her spaceship bubbles in the foreground. <\/p>\n
\nGo for it boys<\/em>: go get those petro dollars and bring them back home, at least we have something they want ….. who’d have ever thought it .. artists .. contemporary artists, no less .. key to Western economic stability.<\/p>\n
\nbut better leave the ‘bad’ coke at home !<\/p>\n
\n(1st image below – on the lower right hand corner ?)<\/p>\n![\"Gulf](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Gulf_fair___2.jpg\")
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