--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stabbing at Miami Art Show Mistaken by Some as Performance Art > Sponsored content. 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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"}}]}] ```