ART SALONAll Art Salon talks take place in the Art Guest Lounge, Entrance D, Miami Beach Convention Center What is Art Salon?Art Salon is an open platform for discussion with an emphasis on current themes in contemporary art. Informal in its format, yet international in scope, Art Salon encourages experimental discussions, presentations and events such as book signings, with the range of speakers including artists, curators, authors, and architects. The program offers an intimate experience for the audience, allowing them to engage with prominent and thought provoking guests on a variety of current events in the visual arts, as well as to explore the challenges of artistic practice within the public realm. THURSDAYDec 4, 20081 – 1.30 p.m. ARTIST TALK Ai Weiwei| Artist, Beijing Michele Robecchi | Art Writer and Editor at Phaidon Press, London 1.30 – 2 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH ’Le temps pris, le temps de l'oeuvre, le temps à l'oeuvre’ Christine Macel | Chief Curator, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Anri Sala | Artist, Paris 2 – 2.30 p.m. SPECIAL TALK 2nd Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan Jens Hoffmann | Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporar y Ar ts, San Francisco and Co-curator, 2nd Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan Julieta González | Co-curator, 2nd Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan Adriano Pedrosa | Artistic Director, 2nd Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan 3 – 3.30 p.m. SPECIAL TALK The Paul Thek Case – Rediscovery of a Legendary Artist Ted Bonin | Alexander and Bonin, New York Harald Falckenberg | Art Collector, Hamburg Elisabeth Sussman | Curator, Whitney Museum, New York Lynn Zelevansky | Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Depar tment Head Contemporar y Art, LACMA, Los Angeles 4 – 4.30 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH 'Unseen Mendieta' Olga Viso | Director, Walker Ar t Center, Minneapolis 4.30 – 5 p.m. SPECIAL TALK This is the End: The Rising Tide of Money Goes Out of the Artworld and All Boats are Sinking Jerry Saltz | Art Critic, Journalist, New York 5 – 5.30 p.m. FILM TALK 'Herb and Dorothy' Bob Colacello | Special Correspondent to Vanity Fair, New York Megumi Sasaki | Film Director, New York James Siena | Artist, New York Herb and Dorothy Vogel | Art Collectors, New York 6 – 6.30 p.m. REGIONAL FOCUS Will Art Transform the Political Face of the Middle East? Talk with Lara Baladi | Artist, Cairo Judith Greer | Author, Collector and Art Patron Dr. Lamees Hamdan | Commissioner, Office of the UAE Pavilion for the Venice Biennale Ali Yussef Khadra | Founder, Canvas, Dubai Shirin Neshat | Artist, New York FRIDAYDec 5, 20081 – 1.30 p.m. SPECIAL TALK Prospect.1 New Orleans Dan Cameron | Curator Prospect.1 and Visual Arts Director, New Orleans Contemporar y Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans plus artists of the biennial 2 – 2.30 p.m. ARTIST TALK Francesco Vezzoli Francesco Vezzoli | Artist, Milan Scott Rothkopf | Senior Editor, Ar tforum, New York 3 – 3.30 p.m. MARKET TALK Why Buy Art Now? Matthew Armstrong | Curator, Lightyear Capital, New York Josh Baer | Publisher of Baer Faxt and Art Dealer, New York 4 – 4.30 p.m. SPECIAL TALK Stella Art Foundation, Moscow Alex Rytov | Director, Stella Ar t Foundation Boris Manner | Curator, Stella Ar t Foundation 5 – 5.30 p.m. ARTIST TALK Dan Graham and Corey McCorkle Dan Graham | Artist, New York Corey McCorkle | Artist, New York SATURDAYDec 6, 20081 – 1.30 p.m. RECORD TALK Dave Muller’s Top Ten Dave Muller | Artist, Los Angeles Lionel Bovier | Director, JRP/Ringier, Zurich 2 – 2.30 p.m. BIENNALE TALK Sharjah Jack Persekian | Artistic Director, Sharjah Biennial 9 Tarek Atoui | Artist, Beirut 3 – 3.30 p.m. LEGAL AFFAIRS Art on the Move Gregor Kleinknecht | Founder and Managing Partner, Klein Solicitors, London Lara Levinson | Associate General Counsel, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Viola Raikhel | Director, 1858 Limited, London Howard N. Spiegler | Par tner, Herrick, Feinstein LLP, New York 4 – 4.30 p.m. FUTURE FOCUS Digital Rights: Tracking Copyright and Ownership in a Digital World Peter Andersson | Scandinavian Trust Group, Sweden/Switzerland Christopher Eamon | Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, USA Isaac Julien | Artist, London Ray Nightingale | Director, Policy GTC Market Support, Sweden Lars Nittve | The Moderna Museet, Stockholm 5 – 5.30 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH Young Chinese Artists – The Next Generation Christoph Noe | Editor, Curator, Founder, The Ministry of Art, Beijing Cordelia Steiner | Editor, Curator, Founder, The Ministry of Art, Beijing SUNDAYDec 7, 20081 – 1.30 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH ‘Georges Adéagbo: Grand Tour of an African, Venice-Florence-Rome‘ Georges Adéagbo | Artist, Cotonou, Benin Ute Meta Bauer | MIT Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture, Director and Associate Professor, Cambridge, Massachusetts Stephan Köhler | Chair, Kulturforum Süd-Nord e.V., Hamburg 2 – 2.30 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH ‘Resonance‘ Robert Buck | Ar t Historian and retired Museum Director, Brooklyn Museum, New York Federico Diaz | Artist, Prague Alanna Heiss | Director, P.S.1, New York 3 – 3.30 p.m. SPECIAL TALK State of the Art Market Richard Feigen | President, Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York 4 – 4.30 p.m. SPECIAL TALK United States of Education Ricardo Basbaum | Artist, Rio de Janeiro Roger M. Buergel | Chief Curator, Miami Art Museum, Miami 5 – 5.30 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH ‘The Art Fair Age: Addressing the Concept of a New Fairism‘ Paco Barragán | Independent Curator and Cultural Broker, Madrid Michele Robecchi | Art Writer and Editor at Phaidon Press, London Walter Robinson | Writer and Journalist, New York Lara Taubman | Writer and Curator, Phoenix |