Generally speaking: Black means it's public and/or you can buy a ticket. Red means you need an invitation, a VIP pass, a press pass, an Exhibitor's pass, and sometimes two or three of those. Or you need to know the publicist or host.
Wed. Dec. 5
Morning press registration for Art Basel Miami Beach. Last year 1,400 “journalists” registered. It’s clearly a way to get into events, plus you get a free catalog. We’re not saying you should lie. We’re saying a lot of people are already lying. Second floor, Miami Beach Convention Center.
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 am to noon
Open house, “French Kissing in the U.S.A.” at the Moore Space, 4040 NE Second Ave., Second Floor, Design District, Miami, www.themoorespace.com public.
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 am to noon
Breakfast and open house, CIFO, 1018 N. Miami Avenue, Miami www.cifo.org public
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 am
Open house, Hernan Bas, John Stezaker, “Euro-Centric, Part 1,” new European art from the Rubell collection; the Rubell Family Collection, 95 NW 29th Street, Wynwood, Miami. www.rubellfamilycollection.com public
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 am to 2 pm
Open house, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, special exhibit, sculpture from Marty Margulies’s private collection including de Kooning, Judd, Flavin, Lichtenstein, Miro, Noguchi, Oldenburg, Segal, Serra, Smith, Warhol; free, 581 NW 27th Street, Miami. www.margulieswarehouse.com public.
Wed. Dec. 5, 10:30 pm
Fluxus Concert, with Robert Chambers. At CIFO, 10th Street and North Miami Avenue, Downtown Miami. Public
Wed. Dec. 5, 11 am to noon
Opening Art Video Lounge, Botanical Garden Building, and look for the Cartier Dome, 2000 Convention Center Drive public
Wed. Dec. 5, 11 am to 6 pm
Casa Décor, 1444 Biscayne Boulevard. $22.50. Miami. www.casadecor-usa.com
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 am to 5 pm
Jorge Pardo, “House,” museum exhibition at MOCA, 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami. Adults $5, seniors, $3. Free shuttle bus every 30 minutes from the Sagamore Hotel, 1671 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, from 9 am to 1 pm.
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Wed. Dec. 5, 11 am to 7 pm
Art Miami, $15 adults, $9 seniors, children under 12 free. NW Second Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets. www.art-miami.com
Wed. Dec. 5, Noon at the Convention Center
Stampede of the high rollers. You may not be able to get inside, but watch art world heavies like Glenn Lowry of MoMA and Lisa Dennison of Sotheby’s get an extra early start. By the time of the Vernissage, the big-deal pieces will already be sold. (If not at this hoo-ha, then even before this. See the story in The Wall Street Journal.)
Wed. Dec. 5, 1 pm to 9 pm
SeaFair, the Miami Beach Marina, 300 Alton Road; free admission with reservation, www.expoships.com
Wed. Dec. 5, 5 pm to 7 pm Reception for the book "K/R: Projects/Writings/Buildings", by John Keenen and Terry Riley; at the penthouse of the Raleigh. (And since we can assume anyone going there has already been inside the Convention Center, an even more private dinner at Terry's house in the Design District will give honored guests a chance to see a house Keenen/Riley designed.) Invitation only
Wed. Dec. 5 Vernissage, 5 to 8 pm, preview
This is the official start to the fair. If you want to see the Lou Reed film by Julian Schnabel on Saturday night, run straight for the VIP desk and ask for a free ticket. While you’re at it, get a free ticket for the Jacques Herzog lecture on Friday night too. Both are at the Colony Theater on Lincoln Road. Also, ask for the map of the walking tour of Wynwood, which starts at 9 am tomorrow morning. And wisdom of the Vernissage: unless you want to pay $15 for a flute of champagne, you will have to talk your way into the UBS lounge, the Island Gardens Lounge or the Dellis Cay booth at S8, which opens for early birds at 4 pm. Entrance to Vernissage: invitation, VIP card, press pass or exhibitor pass.
Wed. Dec. 5, 6 pm to 10 pm
Opening Art Positions, 20 cutting edge art galleries display works in shipping containers on the beach. (Yeah, but when they started doing it, in 2002, it was a new idea.) Don’t wear high heels. DJs selected by Alanna Heiss, curator at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, and Klaus Biesenbach, curator of the media department at the Museum of Modern Art. Also performance art. Free, open to the public.
Wed. Dec. 5, 6 pm to 10 pm
Book signing reception for “Aqua: Miami Modern by the Sea,” a book about the architect-design project on Allison Island by Beth Dunlop and Terry Riley, with photographs by Steven Brooke; 201 Aqua Avenue, South Pool, Allison Island, 162nd Street, west of Collins Avenue. Invitation
Wed. Dec 5
Very private dinner celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Emilio Pucci line with Laudomia Pucci Castellano, Delphine Arnault-Gancia (voted one of the 50 women to watch by The Wall Street Journal) and the designer Matthew Williamson; at 4821 Pine Tree Drive; invitation only (we’ve seen an increasing number of Pucci prints inside the Convention Center during Art Basel, but that alone won’t get you an invitation; only a close connection at LVMH will help.)
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Wed. Dec. 5
Opening of the Sound and Video lounges and Cartier Dome in the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Across from the Convention Center. Public.
Wed. Dec. 5
The annual Swarovski dinner party. Last year's was nearly blown off a platform built above the pools at the Setai. Very dramatic. Expect architecture heavies like Zaha Hadid (who has her own party tonight... but it doesn't start until 9) and the honorees this year, Elizabeth Diller, Rick Scofidio and Charles Renfro. Their "Light Sock" is the only creation in this year's Crystal Palace, but it's 48 socks filled with Swarovski crystals. Since MA2Dweek wasn't invited to dinner, we can say... don't bother pocketing the extra crystals that are piled on the table. They're not diamonds. They're GLASS.
Wed. Dec. 5, 7 – 11 pm
Invitation only, UBS dinner in a tent on the beach behind the Delano. If you want to try to get in, talk to someone at their publicity company, Ruder & Finn, but be aware that UBS has 4,000 clients and special guests at Art Basel this year. They expect 1,000 tonight.
Wed. Dec. 5, 8 pm
The Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, reunion tour, American Airlines Arena, $55 to $160, www.ticketmaster.com.
Wed. Dec. 5
Scope Dinner for 150 at the Rubell Family Collection, 95 NW 29th Street, Miami. Invitation.
Wed. Dec. 5, 8 pm – 10 pm
Opening, Bass Museum, “Promises of Paradise” photo exhibit, Mid-Century Miami, in architecture and design. By invitation, VIP card, exhibitor’s pass, press pass, member.
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 pm to ...
Welcome cocktail party at the Delano, 1685 Collins, Miami Beach. VIP, press or invitation only.
Wed. Dec. 5, 9 pm to 12 am Opening, Zaha Hadid's Dune Formation, presented by David Gill galleries, and 21st Century Living, by Vista Art & Design Gallery. At 89 NE 27th Street, Wynwood, Miami. Invitation only.
Wed. Dec. 5, 10 pm to 11 pm
Art Loves Music, a free rock performance at 21st Street and the Beach; last year Peaches finished her performance by tearing off her clothes and jumping into the ocean, followed by dozens of her fans. This year, the rumor is that it's Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
Wed. Dec. 5, late
Jeffrey Deitch party at the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel, with performance by CocoRosie (by invitation; try only if you already know someone cool, like Nadine Johnson, or Jeffrey Deitch; after all, they expect only 800 people)
Openings and previews: Scope brunch, 10 am to noon (VIP or $50 contribution); INK Miami brunch, 10 am to noon (invitation); Scope reception, 3 pm to 5 pm (VIP or $50 contribution); Flow opening 6 pm to 10 (public); Ram Miami, 9 to midnight (public); 10 pm to dawn; Le Baron at Rokbar, 1906 Collins. Tonight, Zing magazine and Nissian Hughes. Talk your way in or look fabulous. Even standing in line will be a better time than you will have elsewhere tonight. Dress warmly; the cold front has arrived.
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