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SoFlo: ART SPLASH -

# From Edward Helmore's breezy take on this week's Art Basel in Miami for First Post, an English online zine:

For Miami... the art fair has helped to raise property prices and spur the redevelopment of run-down commercial districts... some of the biggest art collectors in the city... are also among the city's richest property developers.

... the fair offers unparalleled access to super-wealthy, art-hungry collectors from South America.

... gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch notes [the fair] is "starting to feel like the Cannes Film Festival."

# Also from today's edition, Andrew Bowler reports that fans of the late graphic artist and cartoonist Will Eisner have something to look forward to:

Norton is publishing Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City, a compendium of four far lesser graphic works. The Big City (1981) and City People Notebook (1989) are loose collections of vignettes. Also, The Building (1987) and Invisible People (1990).

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