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In the course of the last few years, the first weekend in December now sees the art world (and we mean the entire art world on a planetary scale), descend on the Greater Miami, Florida region for an astounding number of art fairs featuring tens of thousands of artists, all anchored by the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. About 25 "satellite" art fairs have popped up all over the Miami region in the last half decade, and as a result, art collectors, curators and art symbiots from all over the world hang around Miami visiting art fairs, absorbing and buying art, soaking up the sun and sand, eating Cuban food (and discovering that black beans are never, ever served together with the white rice but in separate bowls, and that a true mojito is made with guarapo (sugar cane juice)). We wish all of the Philadelphia galleries partipating in the art fairs (Pentimenti, Projects and a few others), the best of luck in Eff-LA, and please bring us back some tostones.

Time again to stroll through galleries and art venues as the First Friday openings and extended hours for November take place in gallery clusters around the city. Starting at Washington Square, the Bridgette Mayer Gallery will have a solo show of Scottish painter Dana Hargrove titled Divide and Consider. This new collection of work stems from the artist's recent summer residency in South Africa. During her time there, Hargrove (who is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Rollins College in Florida) discovered the still present consequences of colonization, imperialism, and segregation. The show will run from November 4 - November 29, 2008 with an opening reception on First Friday, November 7th, 6:00-8:30pm. The Bridgette Meyer Gallery is located at 709 Walnut Street, between South 7th and 8th Streets.