What's it like for an artist to visit a show where complex artworks become no more than high-priced retail? Or for a local museum that has to compete with it? Jill Spalding gets it from the horses' mouths as artists Julian Laverdiere, Tom Levine and Pat York join her, with Milwaukee Art Museum director David Gordon for a poolside heart-to-heart.

Julian LaVerdiere has drawn international attention for his contribution to the Tribute in Light. The twin beams projected over the site of the World Trade Center every September 11 to commemorate the lives lost in the terrorist attacks of that day. He was in Miami to install a new work for "CUT: Film as Found Object," an exhibition of film-related video artworks at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. At ABMB, his work was shown by Lehman Maupin Gallery, which represents him in New York. At the moment he is designing a permanent laser light installation for the Queens Museum of Art, debuting in Spring, 2005.

Photographer Pat York showed her "Celebrity Nudes and Cadavers" at Cologne's Galerie Gmurzynska booth.

David Gordon is director of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum, where adjunct curator Stefano Basilico originated "CUT/Film as Found Object," the film and video exhibition that premiered at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art during the art fair.