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Choire · 12/10/07 03:50PM

Anthony Haden-Guest goes to Art Basel in Miami and finds commerce! "It was here in the lounge that a clean-cut fellow from Cartier exulted that 'art is at the heart of Cartier.' It was also here that I was told that 12 brand-new Audis had been flown in from Stuttgart for the fair—'Each has a team of five'—just for promotional purposes. You realize just where you are—at the center of an Art/Media/Marketing complex." [Radar]

Choire · 12/05/07 12:50PM

Are the Miami art fairs, going on now, doing something bad to Miami? "'You've got all these new Miami collectors who used to be happy shopping at Neiman Marcus,' says Wynwood gallerist and Basel exhibitor Kevin Bruk. 'They went to Basel for the novelty of it, saw all these beautiful people down from New York going crazy for art, and now they want in.' Dealers and collectors now prowl the halls of the city's two art magnet high schools like NBA scouts." [NY]

Terry Richardson Shoots For 'Penthouse'

Choire · 06/07/07 08:40AM

Penthouse is younging and sprucing up—it's not your creepy uncle's backwoods porno magazine anymore, no sir! We imagine that by later this year, Annie Leibowitz will be shooting the chestiest working women of the world in flat full color. Then she can repurpose the photos into crappy prints on foamcore and show them at the Corcoran! Also Mario Testino's going to shoot Tawny Kitaen.