| MA2Dweek - Art Basel 2011 |
| Friday Night, Dec. 3 2010 What and Where |
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| Seduce Me, Invitation only, Wolfsonian Musum 8 to 11 pm |
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| Voyeur Magazine, MAM Contemporaries and the Louvre, Friday Night |
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| Art Loves Film, Waste Land, documentary about Vik Muniz |
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| Friday Night at the Standard |
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| Tresspass Friday Night |
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| Thursday Night party scene |
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| Swarovski exhibit at DesignMiami; Nocturne, Thursday night invitation only |
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| Tonight, Thursday night, will have to work hard to live up to last night. Or to the expected tomorrow night. Here's a quick rundown.
Miami Beach
Reception for Nadja Swarovski at the Webster 6 to 8, by invitation, 1220 Collins Avenue
Andre Balazs celebrates the All-American series of photographs by Bruce Weber, the Standard, 6 pm to 8 pm. Invitation only. 40 Island Avenue,
Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman Art Basel dinner, Solea, the W South Beach, invitation only, 2201 Collins Avenue, 7 to 11 pm.
Reception for Fantom, and Fabien Baron, among others, at the Webster, 7 to 9, by invitation, 1220 Collins Avenue
Nocturne at DesignMiami, 8 to 10 pm, by invitation (isn't this a second vernissage?), Parking Lot P , Meridian and 19th Street
Interview dinner party, with LVMH and Fendi, by invitation only, 8 pm to 10 pm, the Delano Hotel, 1685 Collins
MoMA, PS1 and Interview Magazine Cocktail Party (kinda late for a cocktail party) 10pm to 1am, the Water Salon, Delano Hotel, 1685 Collins Avenue
Vito Schnabel, Alex Dellal, Stavros Niarchos the afterparty, the Wall, W South Beach, by invitation only, 11 to 5 am.
Black Book Art Basel Party at Set nightclub, by invitation, 11 pm to 5 am, 320 Lincoln Road.
Le Baron pop-up nightclub at the Florida Room, Thursday night. Theoretically open to the public, but you'd better look cool, or hip, or be (art world) famous to get in. 11 pm to 5 am. Delano Hotel, 1685 Collins.
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And, below, one more attempt by Interview magazine to dominate Thursday with a "special night performance" from 9:30 to 1 am at the Water Salon of the Delano. But, hello, this invitation admits ONE? Guys, there's a lot going on tonight. Do you really think you'll be swamped?
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| Musical Performance, Thursday Night |
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Design District, Wynwood, etc. Now that DesignMiami has moved to Miami Beach, the Design District had to come up with something new. Tonight is it. Lots of openings, some music, lots of shopping, some art. The "Cultured" program has been running for a day or two, but tonight (Thursday) is being treated as the launch.
Dror Benshetrit's TRON chairs at Cappellini, opening 7 to 10 pm by invitation, 10 NE 79th Street, Design District.
Nektar DeStagni Market: Opening night for a curated selection of design, artists' editions, and publications, 7 to 10 pm by invitation, 155 NE 38th Street, Design District.
Avant Gallery, Airline Chair, opening, 7 to 10 pm, by invitation, 3850 North Miami Avenue, Design District
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| The Airline Chair, Avant Gallery, Design District |
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Opening party, United Nude, Chinese Contemporary Photography, 6 to 10 pm. Invitation only, 161 NE 40th Street, Design District.
Unframed, MaXAlto Showroom, by invitation, 4141 NE 2nd Avenue, Design District 6 to 9 pm by invitation
Scope Miami celebrates Afrobeats at Charcoal Studio, sponsored by Stoli vodka, 7 pm to 10 pm, invitation only (or RSVP to rsvp@artistswantedorg.scope, 60 NW 22nd Street, Wynwood.
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| United Nude, Design District |
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| Konstantin Grcic, Designer of the Year |
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| At Luminaire, transFORM with pieces by Angelo Mangiatto, Gruppo T and Konstantin Grcic. 7 to 9 pm. Open to the public Luminaire Lab, 3901 NE 2nd Avenue, Design District.
Friends With You/Paper Magazine opening night party, Pharrell Williams performs, or so the rumor goes. 3930 NE Second Avenue, Design District. Invitation only.
Perry Farrell at Bardot, invitation only, and they meant it, have you seen this place? (PS, if you ARE invited, and are from out of town, the entrance is in back, via the parking lot.) 11:30 pm, 3456 North Miami Avenue, Wynwood
Ballylove, laser show by Peaches, Moore Building, 191 NE 40th Street, # 100. Design District.
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| After Last Night: Wed. Dec 1 2010 |
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| Mr. Chow at the W South Beach |
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| Wednesday is the winner for busiest, biggest night of the fair, even though competing schedules made some events other than Larry Gagosian's dinner at Mr. Chow, a little underpopulated. The other events were the sold-out sit-down dinner at the Wolfsonian ($1,000 a plate), with what looked like five wine glasses at each place setting; a party "in the garage" for the hip store Alchemist; a Jeffrey Deitch party, a Steve Martin book signing, and a blow-out event at the Bass Museum, plus, of course, the vernissage.
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Larry Gagosian dinner at Mr. Chow: celebrities: China Chow, Ben Stiller, Steve Martin, Julian Lennon; manager of Madonna: Guy Oseary; art world figures, nonlocal: Steve Cohen, Marco Brambilla, Julian & Vito Schnabel, Dasha Zhukova, Aby Rosen, Nicholas Berggruen, Klaus Biesenbach, Jean Pigozzi; art world figures, local: Mera & Donald Rubell, Jason & Michelle Rubell; art publicist: Bettina Prentice; socialites: Daphne Guinness, Nicky Hilton, Princess Firyal of Jordan, Annabelle Dexter Jones; models and designers: Linda Evangelista, Calvin Klein; designer’s agent: Stuart Parr; wife of media mogul: Wendy Murdoch; showmen: Andre Balazs, Bob Shaye; press: Guy Trebay, Horacio Silva, Stefano Tonchi, Linda Yablonsky, Derek Blasberg; baseball player: Alex Rodriguez.
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| Abby Kellett Pop-Up Store, Gretel, Is at the Bass Museum |
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| Abby Kellett owner of Gretel Home |
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| The charming English lass, Abby Kellett, formerly the creative director of the design magazine Florida InsideOut, has opened a no-less charming store in Miami called Gretel. Already discovered by The New York Times T magazine, and several other design publications, Gretel is now producing a special Art Basel event, Once and Again, with limited edition pieces, which will be on exhibit until the Sunday afternoon, Dec. 5. Online until midnight. Bass Museum on Collins Park, near the Convention Center. Quirky, delightful and affordable, Gretel's wares are worth a look. It's hard to pick just one, so here are a few.
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| Embroidered pillow by Gonzalez $190 at Gretelhome |
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| Culora paper bowl large $170 at Gretelhome |
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| Wonderland candle holder $172 from Gretelhome |
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| 7 1/2 inch tall pedestal table, top 9 inches in circumference from Gretelhome, $120 |
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| Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage 2010 |
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| Andy Warhol, "Cars." 1987 |
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What is there to say about the private openings of Art Basel Miami Beach? Certainly getting in at 2 pm is cooler than waiting until 6. And getting in at noon is cooler yet. And then there is the array of VIP cards: VIP, Special VIP, etc. It's all some game. The actual vernissage, at 6 pm, saw the following notables: Calvin Klein, Danny Glover, George Hamilton, the Miami developer Jorge Perez, Ben Stiller, Tony Shafrazi, Isabella Rossellini, Lucas & Isabelle Bscher, Mary Boone, Julian Schnabel, Pilar Crespi, Adrienne Vittadini, Thomas Kramer (the Miami developer who says he is now 10 months sober), Kenny Schachter, Kim Heirston Evans, Sildy Cervera (the Miami Beach condo specialist), Laura de Gunzburg, Michele Oka Doner, Barbara Guggenheim, and Mickey Wolfson. Lots of self-important Miamians skipped looking at the art and once again huddled in the Collector's Lounge, with other Miamians.
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| A snail approached Alton Road |
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Pink Snails. The Cracking Art Group of Rome (Italy) has commited itself to public works, like these plastic beasties. The snails, slowly "crawling" from the western side of Miami Beach to the ocean, or at least Collins Park, are made of recycled plastic, dyed a kind of Pept-bismol pink heading toward fuchsia. Their slow progress is intended to teach us to slow down. Also, to give us more time to get used to them and perhaps buy one. There are 45 of them, 20 big and 25 small. A small one is crawling across the floor at BASE on Lincoln Road, where the asking price is $5,000. .
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| After Last Night: Tues Nov 30 2010 |
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| Barry Friedman, Design Miami vernissage |
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| Ingrid Donat's animated bronze dresser |
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| Heard opening night of DesignMiami: "People are buying." Those are encouraging words. Champagne-glass wielding shoppers and lookers (thanks Veuve Clicquot, $16 a glass for nonVIPs) hovered over chairs, stuffed artworks (don't call them toys), dressers, tables, lamps, rugs, and sofas in the new exhibition tent, this one done in vinyl by Moorhead & Moorhead in New York.
DesignMiami moved to the beach this year, and it paid off. "I've been on my feet since noon," Barry Friedman said at 9 pm, sporting what he said were comfortable white Paul Smith lace-up shoes. He had already sold one of Ingrid Donat's fascinating bronze dressers, with side gear action, for $125,000. (He has one left at the same price, and the last two in the series of eight will be more, so hurry!)
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| Shelley Acoca tries out a $64,000 sofa at DesignMiami |
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Jean Royere's Elephant sofa sold right away at Patrick Seguin's booth at Design Miami. To sum up: if you like this sort of thing (French Art Deco), you'll really like this sort of thing. And Todd Merrill's booth had some knockout pieces carved from olive ash by Joseph Walsh, a Irish furniture maker. The asking price for Walsh's dining table was, according to DesignMiami, $145,000. It sold.
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| Enignum II dining table by Joseph Walsh at Todd Merrill |
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Cristina Crajales had another amazing piece, a wooden cabinet with dozens (hundreds?) of hinged, moving parts. At the vernissage, she was deep in discussion with a couple looking at the piece.
Lighting was big, with a giant serpentine chandelier, oh, excuse us, an "illuminated sculpture," by Jeff Zimmerman at R 20th Century. It was so large it would fit only in an opera house, or perhaps a basketball player's house. (You hear us Alonzo?)
There was also a, as far as we can tell non-crystal, chandelier in the Swarovski booth, with clever gears operating lights that dunked themselves in little pools of water, making pools of light on the floor.
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| The Cristina Grajales booth at Art Basel |
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| rAndom lighting from Carpenters Workshop in London |
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Another chandelier (lightwork?) was at the Carpenters Workship Gallery in London, a newcomer this year at Design Miami. The folks behind this one call themselves rAndrom, who also did the interactive mirrored ceiling at Alchemist, the groovy store on the fifth floor of the Herzon & de Meuron parking garage on Lincoln Road. (Thank Rene Gonzalez, an underappreciated Miami architect, for enlisting rAndom in the project.) The lights in their triple chandelier at Carpenters Workshop seemed to be linked to sound, which was funny because people stood awestruck and silent watching it not so much. But put one of those pieces over a dinner table, and wow-eee.
Even the food in the Assouline concession was terrific, with cute, attentive waiters. "May I carry that tray for you?" one asked as we carried two champagne flutes, and he carried a smartly dressed salad, a small sandwich, and a little cup of pesto. ($45)
The prices you ask? In the R 20th Century booth there were handmade stuffed toys by Renate Muller for $4,500 to $5,500. Pretty much sold out. "But we can get them for you in New York," a gallerista said. More to the point, R sold the Poul Kjerholm architect's cabinet "in the first 15 minutes."
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| November 30: Party Edition |
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| Nektar DeStagni, DJ at a party at the Standard South Beach to launch a new Marc Newson boat |
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| Tuesday night parties: Who was where
Soho House dinner for Design Miami: attending, Craig Robins, Li Edelkoort, Ambra Medda, the designers Mathieu Lehanneur and Konstantin Grcic, Nadja Swarovski and Pharrell Williams. (It was the second night in a row for Pharrell at a Craig Robins party at Soho Beach House.)
Townhouse rooftop, reception for Bensimon and Trey Speegel
Art in America sit-down dinner at Asia de Cuba, the Mondrian, Miami Beach
UBS cocktail party the Mondrian, South Beach.
Marc Newson's new boat, the Aquariva, launched at the Standard Hotel, sponsored by Dom Perignon: attending, Princel Firyal of Jordan, Johnny Pigozzi, Jeffrey Deitch, China Chow, Nadja Swarovski, Sam Keller, (Baby) Jane Holzer, Michael Wolfson, Valentine Uhovski, Stefano Tonchi, the DJ was the local design maven Nektar Di Stagni.
Netjets: Sam Keller, Marc Spiegler, Annette Schonholzer, Stefano Tonchi, Shari Applebaum (MOCA in LA), Beth Rudin de Woody, Kim Heirston Evans, Tony Oursler, David Maupin.
Gaetano Pesce, the Webster: attending, Horatio Silva, Klaus Biesenbach, Beth Dunlop, Valentine Uhovski, Michele Oka Doner, Anthony Haden Guest.
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery: the closing party of the satellite of the French gallery. Attending: Daniel Arsham, lots of trendy artsy people, including Eric Newill, the jewelry designer William Belack, and the hotelier Fernando Canale.
Vanity Fair sit-down dinner for 200 at the Wynwood Kitchen, to celebrate the show of Bruce Webber and Jonathan Meese at MOCA in North Miami and to admire Wynwood Walls, paintings on the walls of pretty much every property Tony Goldman owns in Miami.. Attending: Jonathan Meese, Bruce Weber, Ingrid Sischy, Walid and Suzy Wahab of Miami, the Goldmans, the photographer Roxanne Lowit, Johnny Pigozzi (in a different shirt), Stefano Tonchi (in the same suit), Irma Braham, Bonnie Clearwater, director of MOCA, Ron London. the Goldmans, Julian Schnabel, Alonzo Mourning, Jerry Bruckheimer, Naomi Campbell. And an unconfirmed report that there were not 200 people there -- more like 100.
Wandering somewhere around Miami: Lance Armstrong.
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| a detail from the Wynwood Walls, photo by Fernando Canales |
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| After Last Night: Monday Nov 28 2010 |
Perrier sponsored an opening night party for Design Miami at the Standard South Beach. And then the same crowd traveled across the island and uptown to Soho Beach House, where the quaff of choice was Veuve Clicquot. (What they did for Veuve.) It was called a BBQ, but some guests couldn't find any. Others said you had to grab what you could from a passing tray.
Craig Robins and Wava Carpenter hosted the party. But Craig, who lives in Miami Beach, is not a member of Soho Beach House, the private club that opened at 41st Street and Collins in October. "I don't believe in those membership things," he said, a sentiment often heard in Miami. Besides, he said, he knew lots of Miami people who were members, so he was invited there all the time. Another common Miami Beach sentiment.
Guests included Pharrell Williams (music producer and, um, clothing designer), a lot of people speaking French, a lot of people speaking Italian, a lot of pretty girls, the Miami architect and designer Luis Pons, and the business partners Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, who own the R 20th Century design store in New York.
Best part of the evening: after the nightmare at the valet parking on arrival, leaving was a breeze.
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| Luis Pons and Evan Snyderman at Soho Beach House for the Design Miami party |
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| Veuve Clicquot served at the Design Miami party, Soho Beach House Monday Nov 28 |
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| Charles Burchfield, 1957 "Twilight Phantom" watercolor |
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| ABMB opens on Wednesday, December 1, with the invitation-only vernissage. Design Miami opens November 30, this time at a new temporary structure in a parking lot near the Convention Center. (It growed up and decided to join the big boys.) There are nine satellite fairs, from Art Asia to Verge. (Photo Miami canceled at the last minute.) There are pop up stores. International museums have booked their dinner parties. New restaurants have sprung up. Soho Beach House will challenge Abe Rosen's W hotel as this year's hot spot, starting with a party on Monday night, Nov. 29, hosted by Veuve Cliquot for a new bed. Art stars (Robert Indiana, Marc Newson, Hans Ulrich Obrist), celebrities (Julian Lennon, Isabella Rossellini, Tilda Swinton, Steve Martin) and luxury products (Cartier, Netjets, and see Veuve Cliquot above) will jostle for attention.
MA2Dweek (Miami Art, Architecture & Design Week) is here for the fourth year to tell you who is here, what is happening, when to go, where, and why you should care. At left, Charles Burchfield's 1957 watercolor, "Twilight Phantom," at the DC Moore booth in the Convention Center.
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Copyright © Linda Lee 2010
Photo Miami, which popped up during Art Basel 2005, dropped out in late October this year, with the announcement that Photomarkt, its parent company, was unable to raise adequate funds. Also among the missing are familiar names like Aqua and Zone, and at Design Miami, Moss. But the others are sticking with it. NADA found a new home last year at the Deauville, in the far-north location of 67th and Collins. It seemed doomed, but art dealers and buyers were thrilled. Great location. The gallerist got rooms upstairs, right over the store, at decent rates, and had a view of the ocean. Goodbye Ice Palace! The behemoth Art Miami will anchor the fairs at Midtown, on the mainland. It hunkers down at 31st and NE First, alongside Red Dot, Art Asia, and the nearby Fountain Art Fair, at 25th and North Miami Avenue.
The third fair in Midtown, Scope, took a spot in the same neighborhood, at 3055 North Miami Avenue (that's 30th Street) between North Miami Avenue and Midtown Boulevard, also known as NE First Avenue. Pulse, the other must-see satellite, grabbed the old spot that NADA abandoned at 1400 N Miami Avenue. (Hello Ice Palace!)
The final three satellites, INK, Pool and Verge will settle in at, respectively, the Dorchester, the Carlton and the Catalina Hotels in Miami Beach.
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We're off to a fast start in 2010, with a few exhibits opening here and there (a mural at the Townhouse Hotel, Sculpt Miami in Wynwood and at the Downtown Campus of Miami Dade College), a cocktail party at Ornare in the Design District to celebrate architects and designers, a cocktail party at the Webster for Gaetano Pesce, and two welcoming events for Design Miami, a reception at the Standard South Beach, and a Champagne BBQ at Soho Beach House hosted by Craig Robins and Wava Carpenter. See Schedule Nov. 29.
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| Studio Job, Wrecking Ball Lamp |
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Now we begin. Tuesday night will see the vernissage for DesignMiami (without Moss Gallery from New York, but with the Carpenters Woodshop Gallery, out of France, offering limited edition items like the Wrecking Ball Lamp, above), a media preview for Julian Lennon's show of photographs, the openings of the big satellite fairs (Scope, Pulse, Art Asia, Art Miami), the private NetJets cocktail party for the high-rollers, a party to show off Marc Newson's new boat, the Acquariva, at the Standard Hotel, and the always welcome Vanity Fair-MOCA kickoff party in North Miami.
But don't stay out too late. Tomorrow is the vernissage for the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. The Tuesday Schedule is here.
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| Jeffrey Deitch, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
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| Larry Gagosian, Gallerist |
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It's official. Finally, the Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage. There's also an opening downtown, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, of an exhibit of 20th Century art to be sold Spring 2011 by Christie's, including works by Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol. The annual Art Loves Music free performance on the beach is, this year, by a Canadian group called Metric. A $1,000 a plate dinner for Isabella Rossellini, hosted by the Wolfsonian and Robert Mondavi wines, has food by Jean Georges Vongerichten and a hook-up with Bvlgari (tickets are pretty much gone, padres). And there is the annual opening night reception at the Bass Museum of art, following the Convention Center vernissage. Steve Martin signs books at the W, invitation only. Jeffrey Deitch, above, throws his traditional opening night party at the Raleigh, very very invitation only. And the uberdealer Larry Gagosian, above, takes over Mr Chow. The coolest people in town will manage to snag invitations to both events. See the complete listings for December 1 here.
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| Metric, Art Loves Music, 10 pm Wednesday, Free on the beach |
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| "Jungle Time," Kenny Scharf, Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf |
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Art Basel Miami Beach opens to the public at the Convention Center, with 250 galleries. Artists' studios in Miami are open to the public. Private museums -- the Margulies, the Rubell, CIFO, the de la Cruz Collection and World Class Boxing -- are open to the public. MAM throws a VIP reception at its downtown plaza. Nadja Swarovski signs a book, invitation only, at the Webster. Cay Sophie Rabinowitz's exhibit of photographs of the sea opens at the Webster. Private dinners and cocktail parties ensue.
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As some of the high rollers leave town, there's a farewell VIP brunch for Creative Time at the Webster, invitation only.
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| Art Loves Film, "Waste Land" a documentary about Vik Muniz |
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| Susan Sarandon brings ping pong to Basel |
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Ok, calm down. So you missed the Visionaire party, and the Gagosian dinner, and the Deitch party. You couldn't get into Le Baron and you didn't eat dinner with Isabella Rossellini. There is still time to not only see art and design, but to live la vida loca. Case in point: a reception for Susan Sarandon, sponsored by MOCA (the one in North Miami). Also on deck: matinees for the film about Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana (tickets a must). And if you have an extra $750, and there are still tickets left, you can head to the Mandarin Oriental for the Annual MAM Ball. For a complete schedule, look here.
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