What's an art fair without a few provocateurs?

New York City artist Gregory de la Haba is unabashedly trying to shock us all with Between Nothingness and Paradise -- a towering sculpture installation of horses in a threesome, on exhibit at the Bridge Art Fair in Miami's Wynwood Art District. Clad in Vegas-style headpieces and sequined garter belts, two mares and a stallion are frozen into their assigned sexual positions (anatomically impossible for one of the mares, by the way), their organs engorged and exposed.

Not satisfied with the stupefied expressions of visitors on opening day Tuesday, De la Haba plans to take his threesome into the streets of Miami via a giant image of the installation propped on a truck.

''It's going to be traveling around the streets of Miami for a whole month,'' he says. e``Can't wait to see what Miami police are going to do.''

We thought they might yawn. But the artist reported that, an hour's drive later, at 2:45 p.m., Miami police stopped the truck and asked him to cover up the offending parts ``or risk arrest.''

De la Haba put red and white tape over the horses' genitals, and proceeded to send a ''media alert'' in huge bold letters: ``MIAMI POLICE CENSOR NEW YORK ARTIST.''

-- FABIOLA SANTIAGO

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