Art Basel Miami
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Lehmann Maupin Gallery sold one of two editions of South Korean artist Do-Ho Suh’s silk fabric replication of a gateway at his home, for “somewhere in the six figures.” The piece, pictured at right, was private dealer Ann Nitze’s favorite at the fair. Nearby, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Glenn Lowry, exchanged ideas about conservation with the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anne d’Harnoncourt, far right. At a panel yesterday morning, Mr. Lowry said that public hostility to modern and contemporary art has “changed, to wit, this art fair, and others like it.” Also spotted at the Miami Beach Convention Center yesterday afternoon were Whitney board president Robert Hurst and his wife Soledad admiring a Jaume Plensa metal sculpture at Richard Gray Gallery; London art dealer Stephen Friedman showing Beth Rudin DeWoody work set aside in the back; and journalists-turned-television writers Ilene Rosensweig and Rick Marin, taking a private tour of the fair with art adviser Kim Heirston.