Tragicomedy;bloody attack bystanders saw as performance art
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:14 pm
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainmen ... rylink=cpy"‘I thought I saw a performance, and I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood.’”
A section of Art Basel Miami Beach was transformed into a crime scene after a fight escalated to a stabbing at the show’s main event inside the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday night, police said.
A woman pulled an X-Acto knife and stabbed another woman in the arms and neck, said Miami Beach police spokeswoman Det. Kathleen Prieto.
“The injuries are non life-threatening,” Prieto said. The victim was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital; the assailant, whom police did not identify, was arrested at the scene.
Both women were patrons of the art show, not exhibitors. Some patrons thought the stabbing was a performance art presentation. Others believed the police tape cordoning off an area of the convention center was part of an art installation.