--- title: Art Basel Miami Stabbing Mistaken by Some as Performance Art description: A fight between two women ended when one of them pulled out an X-Acto knife canonical: https://time.com/4137608/stabbing-art-basel-miami/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-05T18:00:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:25.055Z og:title: Stabbing at Miami Art Show Mistaken by Some as Performance Art og:description: "I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood" og:url: https://time.com/4137608/stabbing-art-basel-miami/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5a3edcf9594ec3f/698873e30b72e3ada16e71e2/art-basel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrities Attend Art Basel Miami Beach - November 30, 2011 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stabbing at Miami Art Show Mistaken by Some as Performance Art twitter:description: "I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5a3edcf9594ec3f/698873e30b72e3ada16e71e2/art-basel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stabbing at Miami Art Show Mistaken by Some as Performance Art by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 5, 2015 6:00 PM UTC  Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Nov. 30, 2011 in Miami Beach, FL. Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Nov. 30, 2011 in Miami Beach, FL.Gustavo Caballero—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 5, 2015 6:00 PM UTC Some visitors to Art Basel Miami originally mistook a [stabbing](http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article48069515.html) that they witnessed as a piece of performance art included in the exhibition. A fight between two women inside the convention center came to a boil when one of them pulled out an X-Acto knife and repeatedly stabbed the other in the neck and arms, the Miami _Herald_ reports. Some patrons initially thought that the ensuing blood and police tape were all part of the show. “A guy walked up to me and said, ‘I thought I saw a performance, and I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood,’” Miami artist Naomi Fisher, whose work was featured at the art show, told the paper. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital; her injuries were not found to be life-threatening. \[[_Miami Herald_](http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article48069515.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4137608/stabbing-art-basel-miami/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4137608/stabbing-art-basel-miami/"},"headline":"Stabbing at Miami Art Show Mistaken by Some as Performance Art","datePublished":"2015-12-05T18:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:25.055Z","description":"\"I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood\"","url":"https://time.com/4137608/stabbing-art-basel-miami/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5a3edcf9594ec3f/698873e30b72e3ada16e71e2/art-basel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5a3edcf9594ec3f/698873e30b72e3ada16e71e2/art-basel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrities Attend Art Basel Miami Beach - November 30, 2011","caption":"Celebrities Attend Art Basel Miami Beach - November 30, 2011","creditText":"Gustavo Caballero—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4137608/stabbing-art-basel-miami/","name":"Stabbing at Miami Art Show Mistaken by Some as Performance Art"}}]}] ```