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This week: Mark Staff Brandl reports from Art Basel 2011!

Design Miami/Basel: The Blog

This is the week the design world heads to Basel, Switzerland for Design Miami/Basel which opened in Basel, Switzerland Tuesday, a day ahead of Art Basel is closer then ever before if your curious about the design worlds activities. This year they are starting their own blog, the cleverly titled Design Miami/Basel Blog.

Posting images, quotes, news and other updates from participants in the fair like designers and gallery owners for fans and journalists alike. They even went as far as publicizing a RSS feed so nice to see someone is listening to the youthful techie in the group since the larger art world seems allergic to RSS feeds on a whole.

Wallpaper* Magazine's colection of Tart Cards

Hope everyone has had a great week. On this weeks roundup we check out Murakami’s latest video for Louis Vuitton, a new article on Marina Abramović, and Wallpaper Magazin’s collection on Tart Cards. Have a good weekend and hopefully we will see you at the closing of Green Lantern.Viva La GL!

• Lori Waxman has a great article on the Tamms Year Ten mud stencils in New City.
• Takashi Murakami released his new ad for Louis Vuitton, Superflat First Love. Why do I feel like I have already seen this?
• Wallpaper Magazine lets designers take a stab at London’s tart cards. Here are my faves: 1, 2, 3,
• Art Review has a write up on Marina Abramović.
• Disco jail?  Adrian Searle’s video of the Venice Biennale highlights.
• Want to know what is going on at Basel besides Brad Pitt and his new Neo Rauch? Check out what Art Fag City is checking out here, here, and here.
• IDK if anyone has said this but ThreeWalls has extended their residency and project deadlines until July 1. So, get on it.
• Camera or Voltron? The toy I always wanted.
• The Museum of Modern Art will be hosting a retrospective of Tim “I ruined Planet of the Apes” Burton on Nov. 22

Wonder what the painting Brad Pitt bought looks like? Well search no farther, the Oil on Canvas by Neo Rauch entitled “Etappe” which sold for just under 1 Million USD is pictured below. I know there are strong feelings on either side of the fence with this but the early narrative on Basel this year seems to focus on “Buy! Cause everything’s on sale and Europe hasn’t seen a fire sale like this since Dresden.” This only continues that take.

Neo Rauch's Etappe

Read more everywhere but also here Also thanks to Britton Bertran for the heads up, Perez Hilton though? Really?