Rambo star Sylvester Stallone is generating some press at Art Basel Miami after selling two paintings for $90,000. The 63-year-old action star unveiled a handful of broad-chested pieces with Zurich-based Gmurzynska Gallery, including a rough rendering of a decrepit, aging superhero. Painted in his post-Rocky V phase, “Toxic Superman” is about the “ups and downs of Hollywood,” according to Stallone, who goes on to tell The Art Newspaper about the hardship of being a man, noting that “the US working male is a dying breed.” |Daily Mail|

Michael Jackson makes his latest posthumous appearance down at Miami’s art mess. Riding a white horse in gilded clothes and cape, the King of Pop was unveiled in a massive Kehinde Wiley painting inside Deitch Projects’ booth at the Basel art fair.

Although the pop star passed away while the portrait was being planned, Wiley completed it, saying, “I think that his idea of collaborating with me was something that he really wanted to see through…I felt a responsibility to him to get it done.” Smaller pieces of the pop singer were also on display, including photographs by David LaChapelle, a mixed media take on Jeff Koons’ pet monkey sculpture as well as a rendition of his infamous white glove, which you can see courtesy of Arrested Motion. |The Art Newspaper|

Photo by Arrested Motion

Pharrell Williams continues trying out new careers, designing another piece of furniture for Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Following last year’s “Perspective,” a chair resting on a man and woman’s legs in a unsubtle homage to sex, comes “The Tank.” Riding on plexiglass treads, the leather seat, upholstered in blue, black, white or pink, will be unveiled at Art Basel Miami next week to help generate some hype.

Though decorative wall calendars are pretty much obsolete, the Swiss Institute is releasing a “cutting edge” version at next week’s art world clusterf#$% in Miami. Fulfilling basic timekeeping needs, the 2010 calendar features portraits of “today’s most famous artists on their bikes,” including David Byrne, Ryan McGinley and Terry Richardson and others. Shot by photographer Lukas Wassmann, the calendar, “Artists on Their Bicycles New York,” can be bought for $45 in a limited edition of 500 or just downloaded for free.