Now Shopping | The Art Basel Miami Wish List

‘‘Lili’s Legs,‘‘ 2008. (Mickalene Thomas/Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York)

In which T’s editor in chief, Stefano Tonchi, jots down remembrances of things passed over.

What I should have bought yesterday at Art Basel Miami….

• Something plush, like a giant, furry, talking orang-outang or a Gelatin teddy-bear sculpture.

Dressed to Kill | ‘Decampment’

“We never intended to make a film,” explains Nicola Kuperus from the Detroit-based electronic band Adult. “We were planning to make music to go with my photographs and put it all together as a complete story. After we sketched it out, we got a call from the Detroit Institute of Arts asking us to play, but we weren’t interested in playing live, so we decided to do something special.”

The result is “Decampment,” a silent horror film made by Kuperus and her bandmate/husband Adam Lee Miller which was recently screened at NYC’s Anthology Archives and will screen at L.A.’s Silent Movie Theatre on November 18. The forty-minute art house slasher flick, complete with live throbbing techno-electro soundtrack by Adult, revolves around a sharply dressed coven of murderous female zombies in tight fitting black dress suits with matching high heels and hand bags that wouldn’t look out of place on the set of “Mad Men” —

Go Johnny Go | Pigozzi on Paparazzi

Linea Italiana, Rome 1970’s. (Helmut Newton)

Long before Steven Meisel was plumbing the depths of tabloid culture for satirical editorial spreads in Italian Vogue, influential photographers were zooming in on the subject of celebrity and presaging the paparazzi phenomenon that has overtaken pop culture. “Pigozzi and the Paparazzi,” a show currently at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, blurs the line between art and commerce–and high and low–presenting the work of eight influential photographers with a unique perspective on the art of pursuing famous quarry.