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Art Basel Miami: Scope Takes Things Outside

By Margery Gordon

Published: December 8, 2006
Photography in a range of formats and prices was one of the strengths of this year’s Scope fair. Angelo Musco’s small but eye-catching photographs of pregnant women—surrounded by nudes and set against digitally treated backgrounds—were installed in a honeycomb pattern at Agró/Glickman Step (1). Contrary to typical photo editions, the individual images decline in price with the number purchased and were available for $500 apiece at this writing.

Pregnant women also star in Parthenogenesis, a performance Musco is staging Friday night at the Nikki Beach club at the base of Ocean Drive. Private dealer and curator Rena Glickman said the months Musco spent in the womb informed his exploration of “women’s bodies as a container for life.” One could argue the same about the shipping containers that frame Scope’s new Miami home. The once hotel-bound fair, too, has grown and emerged renewed.

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