The Most Infamous Moments in Art Basel Miami Beach Week History

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A recap of ArtBaselMiamiBeach, from Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana to a stabbing mistaken for performance art:

exactly what it sounds like

. In 2014, the performance artist Lena Marquise took over the booth of Vector Gallery—a since shuttered Satanic space— at the satellite Select Fair with an exhibition titled "Body as Commodity." Usher, who was then a burgeoning art collector, decided to drop by. Ostensibly, he was then forced to consider "whether using a doll for sexual pleasure commodifies sex more or less immorally than using a real body for amenities that can be monetarily quantified such as energy.

In 2015, the Nova section of the fair played host to an exhilarating piece of performance art. At least, that's what plenty of fairgoers thought when they witnessed a womananother woman with an X-acto knife, stabbing her arms and neck. Confusion lingered even after the victim was escorted to the hospital, drenched in blood; the crime scene's proximity to a booth led some to believe it was an installation featuring police tape.

fell from its display and shattered well beyond repair. Much more notable than the damage, though, was the manner in which Koons brushed it off. "It's not the end of the world. All these things are very relevant and you never like to see anything go to waste, but that can be re-created," he told

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