art-is-dead

New York Art World Fueled By Booze And The 'AIDS Thing Going On'

Joshua Stein · 12/07/07 04:40PM

Down in Miami, Art Basel and its retinue of smaller art fairs are gradually destroying that city's sun-addled stale-air mind. Here in New York, however, it's just another reason to party. Gawker videographer Alex Goldberg (not the horrendously messed-up NoLIta child Alex Goldberg) was there to ask why the assembled art lovers had taken the time out of their busy schedules to attend a party called Bazel Shmazel.