Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on
about 13 months ago (12/09/2023)
Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 blog Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on Plus: Scope gets in a pickle(ball), Perrotin says do look up and Elberto Muller takes the slow train The Art Newspaper 9 December 2023 Share Kate Pierson, singer with the 1980s band the B-52s, with one of the works on show at the Spectrum Miami art fair that were jointly created by band members and a group of chimps. “Boy, can some of those chimps paint!” Pierson said modestly Save The Chimps Now we’ve seen it all: a popstar-primate collab Iconic retro-funster band the B-52s—”it’s 15 miles to the Love Shack!”—are doing their bit to help the animal kingdom this week in Miami. The band members Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson collaborated with chimpanzee artists from the Save the Chimp sanctuary in Fort Pierce, creating a collection of paintings based on the lurid colours of the group’s most popular album covers.