Art Basel rewind: Our favorite moments from Miami Art Week

🖥️ Swiss artist Marck blurs reality with his evocative video sculptures at Art Miami. 

• Marck uses video loops, screens and clever framing to bring his subjects to life. 
• "Gear Nerds" shows a tattooed woman with an iron chain draped on her shoulders. A real life-chain dangling below the screen moves as the woman tugs on it in the video.

🍌 Basel and bananas have been intertwined ever since "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan – a plain banana duct taped to a wall – debuted at Art Basel in 2019. 

• This year banana imagery was everywhere, from the cover of Miami New Times to actual Chiquita banana stands around the Miami Beach Convention Center. 
• The most coveted bit of Basel swag might have been this yellow and blue Chiquita banana duffel bag, per Artnet. 
• The Basel gift shop sold $8 banana stickers and we saw some banana-inspired art around the fairs, like Mr. Debonair's "Bang-nana," a banana-shaped grenade that poked fun at the art world.

✌️ Talking up local artists at the various open-gallery events is low-key one of the best parts of Art Week. 

• Take the Bakehouse Art Complex's Baker's Brunch on Thursday or the City State Open House last Monday, where dozens of artists opened their studio doors to talk with visitors about the projects they were working on. 

These flexible paper sculptures by Li Hongbo were turning heads at Art Miami last week. ("Bust of Ben Franklin" was listed at $28,000 and "Portrait of a Woman" $18,000.)

• Handlers in white gloves manipulated the busts like Slinky spring toys.