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Wonder Woman� Trump beats �rocket man� Kim at Miami art show.
Painting of three-legged, three-breasted US president as superhero defeating North Korea's
leader is star attraction of international art festival.
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AFP) � A painting of US President Donald Trump dressed as Wonder
Woman and defeating �Rocket Man� � North Korea�s Kim Jong Un � is a star attraction
at international art festival Art Basel, which opens Thursday in Miami Beach.
Also on display at the fair � which has become the Americas� main art dealing hub
since its first event in 2002 � are various works by Roy Lichtenstein and a painting by
Willem de Kooning valued at $35 million.
The painting featuring the US president, entitled �President Trump Becomes a Wonder Woman,
Unifies the Country and Fights Rocket Man,� was one of the top works at a private viewing
on Wednesday.
The parody piece by Peter Saul shows Trump in the iconic garb of the female superhero,
punching caricatures of Kim Jong Un.
A 1979 painting by the Netherlands� de Kooning is likely the show�s most expensive, valued
at $35 million, according to Paul Gray of the Richard Grey Gallery, where it is being
shown.
Other attractions include a work by Ellsworth Kelly and a 1969 Lichtenstein that has not
been displayed in years, said Noah Horowitz, director of the Americas for Art Basel.
Art Basel Miami Beach � which runs through December 10 � kicks off weeks after the
art market showed its strength at a New York auction, where a Leonardo Da Vinci painting
sold for a record $450.3 million.
Tens of thousands of artists, gallery owners and art lovers also tour parallel exhibits,
fairs and other events that fill the streets of Miami Beach for a week.
One of them is a night show in which 300 drones fly over the city and form different shapes,
like sculptures, up in the sky.
�This is what we are.
We are Miami Beach, we are an arts and culture destination,� said Mayor Dan Gelber.
The last edition of Art Basel, an annual event which also takes place in Switzerland and
Hong Kong, brought 77,000 visitors to Miami Beach � despite fears surrounding the Zika
virus.