A stabbing was mistaken for performance art at Art Basel on Friday night.
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5 that two women began fighting inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, the main location for the event.
“The attack was an isolated incident that was immediately secured”, said Art Basel’s Sara Fitzmaurice.
According to Detective Kathleen Prieto of the Miami Beach Police Department, Siyuan Zhao had been following the unnamed female victim around the exhibit prior to the attack, bumping into her several times.
“Our thoughts are with the victim”.
Prieto said the Miami-Dade County police would investigate the shooting, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Miami Beach police would investigate the bank robbery. Paramedics took her to Jackson Memorial Hospital. The injuries were non-life threatening, however it caused a substantial loss of blood. He’d been arrested in Georgia, Nevada and Florida, police said. The video does not capture dialogue between the police and suspect. The shooting, under department policy, will be investigated by the Miami-Dade Police Department, he said.
Another person thought the police tape around the scene of the incident was actually an art installation.
Moments later, the officer fires the rifle – two shots can be heard – and the man falls backward onto the street, clutching his chest. Many believed that the blood was fake and all part of the show. “It’s terrible… I’m so freaked out”. The four-day fair closes on Sunday. When asked what had happened, patrons were originally told that a very large statue had fallen on the woman. Naturally, everyone was shocked when they were informed that the events that transpired were very real.
Sculptor Gregg Hill told the Herald that people were told a sculpture fell on the woman and went back to looking at the exhibits.
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Art Basel Miami Beach attracts key players from the art set, and features 27 site-specific installations and performances by artists from over 11 countries. “It was calm and everyone was milling around and talking”.
