| Friday, a Day to Catch Up |
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| de la Cruz Collection, open to the public and free |
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By now the word has gotten out: what shows to see, which ones to miss, which private collections to put on the schedule. Here are the things that are open before noon, which is when the Convention Center opens.
de la Cruz Collection, 9 am to closing. Free to the public. 23 NE 41st Street, Design District, Miami.
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The Girls' Club, 10 am to 5 pm, 117 NE Second Street, Fort Lauderdale, free.
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, 9 am to closing, 591 NW 27th Street, Wynwood, Miami. $10 donation to Lotus House.
World Class Boxing, 10 am to closing, 170 NW 25th Street, Wynwood, Miami. Free.
CIFO, 9 am to closing, 1018 N Miami Avenue, Arts District, Miami. Free.
Rubell Family Collection, 9 am to closing, 95 NW 29th Street, Wynwood, Miami. Private view 9 am to noon. After that, open to the public.
9 am to 12 pm Artists' Studio Visits, Get the map at the Info Desk, Convention Center. Free.
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| Carlos Betancourt, El Portal III, 2011, Studio visit |
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Dec 2 Fri
Visits to local artists' studios run from 9 am to noon. Carlos Betancourt is celebrated for his photocollages, his wit and his bonhomie. His studio is at 283 NE 86th Street, in El Portal, a neighborhood whose cheap rents have attracted artists and performers (Iggy Pop lives nearby). It's a quick drive from El Portal down N Miami Avenue to the Design District and Wynwood.
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| The Food Trucks Are Coming |
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A quick stop for refueling between the Design District and Miami Beach: Food Truck Friday at the Adrienne Arsht Center, at 13th and Biscayne in Miami. Expected between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm on Friday, Dec 2: Churro Mania, Daddy's Grill, Jefe's Original Fish Taco and Burgers, the MexZico Gourmet, Ms. Cheezious, Pincho Factory, the Slow Food Truck, Sugar Rush, and Sugar Yummy Mama. (Has anyone done a scientific study to find out if the same people name hair salons -- Upper Cut, Bob's Your Uncle -- and food trucks -- Nacho Business, Ms Cheezious? Value added: a free performance at 1 p.m. on a Steinway Pop Up piano by the jazz-pop-rock-fusion pianist ELEW.
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| Villa Moller, a construction by Lucy Williams, McKee Gallery, Booth C07, Convention Center |
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Design Miami is open from 11:30 to 8:30 in the tent at Meridian Avenue and 19th Street, Miami Beach. It includes the top furniture and design galleries in the world, including Moss and R 20th Century from New York, and Galerie Kreo and Galerie Patrick Seguin from Paris. Admission, $15.
Dec 1 Thu
Art Miami, 11 am to 7 pm, 30th and NE First Avenue, Midtown, Miami. $15 admission.
Dec 1 Thu
Scope Art Fair, 11 am to 7 pm, NE First Avenue and 30th Street, Midtown, Miami. $20 admission.
Dec 1 Thu
Red Dot Art Fair, 11 am to 8 pm, NE First Avenue and 31st Street, Midtown, Miami, admission $15.
Dec 1 Thu
Fountain Art Fair, 2505 N Miami Avenue, 12 am to 7 pm. $10 admission.
Dec 1 Thu
Pulse Art Show, opens 1 to 7 pm, Ice Palace, N Miami Avenue and 14th Street, $15 admission.
Dec 1 Thu
NADA art fair, 11 am to 8 pm, free and open to the public. At the Deauville Hotel, 6701 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.
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| Invitation only, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach |
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The Wolfsonian is a reason for celebration: a center of scholarship, of taste, of lectures, films, and exhibits all under the supervision of the svelt Cathy Leff. Friday night, the Wolfsonian is celebrating pillars of French design, starting in the 1940s, including Roger Tallon, Pierre Paulin, Philippe Starck and the Bouroullec Brothers, in an exhibit designed by, among others, Matali Crasset. The party is Friday night, 8 pm to 11 pm, at the Wolfsonian, 10th and Washington, Miami Beach. By invitation only.
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The Frank Gehry building known as the New World Center, between the Convention Center and Lincoln Road, has made itself a presence this year at Art Basel. There have been cocktail parties on the roof. Video art has played on the front wall, facing the soundscape park. And tonight, Dec. 2, there will be a concert by the New World Symphony, a training orchestra directed by Michael Tilson Thomas. The program is mysteriously titled “Italian Innovators,” tickets are sold out, performance at 7:30 pm.
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| These people are all looking at the video wall at the New World Symphony, photograph by Iwan Baan |
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Dec 2 Fri
The architect Alex Gorlin draws a young crowd to his condo at Aqua, the designer island north of the Fontainebleau. From 7:30 to midnight. Invitation only.
Dec 2 Fri
The multi-talented Nick Cave is being honored at private party at Fendi Casa in the Design District, sponsored by $300 headphones. (And no, Dr. Dre will not be there. Just his headphones.) Invitation only.
Dec 2 Fri
A dinner in honor of Raphael Mazzucco’s new book “Culo by Mazzucco,” a translation of which would be "Ass by Mazzucco," at Mr. Chow, the W South Beach. The art dealer Andy Valmorbida has invited a roster of A-list names including Rem Koolhaas, Diddy, John Chamberlain and Jimmy Iovine. 8 pm. Totally by invitation only. We nominate this crowd as most likely to end up at Le Baron later.
Dec 2 Fri
Diddy is in town to celebrate the 29th birthday of the songwriter and producer Rico Love at Vic & Angelo's. Also expected, Mary J Blige. Not expected: anyone without an invitation and an RSVP. 150 Ocean Drive (opposite the new Ocean House condos) in South Beach. Vic & Angelos is a Palm Beach transplant.
Dec 2 Fri
Bing, you know, Bing, the search engine you love to hate, the one on your Blackberry or your Verizon account, the one you use to get to Google? Bing has a presence this year, and through a thorough search has decided that the Shelborne Hotel (if it is finally finished) is the perfect place for a party. The event starts with cocktails on the mezzanine at 6 pm. And at 8 pm "Art of Night" at the pool with a DJ set by hip hop artist Theophilus London, and a performance by Young the Giant. By invitation only. The Shelborne is at the magic address of 1801 Collins. Just a guess, but we think the entertainers will be headed some place cooler right away.
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| Dueling Pringles, or the Fashionista Shuffle |
Let us start with what is known. Dior bigwigs are in town. Donna Karan, the Fendis, a Pucci, Martin Margiela, Tamara Mellon, Pharrell Williams, a lot of companies that make jewelry, eyewear and cars. So it stands to reason that there has to be a kind of summit meeting. And Friday night is it. But the events are split between the Design District and the Webster (and probably a lot of other places for the hardest working fashionistas). I will try to sort out the times. After that, it's up to the assistants to handle the logistics. I see a lot of limousines zipping back and forth on the MacArthur.
Here goes: On Friday night, there is a cocktail party for Dsquared2, the twins Dean and Dan Caten, sponsored by VMan magazine. What is VMan? It's a quarterly from V publishing, which also puts out V, a monthly, and Visionaire (the fancy, exclusive art-object-as-magazine magazine we talked about above, which comes out whenever they are inspired enough to put it out). And this is at the Webster at 1220 Collins, an address that is its own destination. The Webster was founded two years ago by Milan Vukmirovic, a co-founder of Colette in Paris, with the fashion team of Laure Hériard-Dubreuil and Frederic Dechnik. So all of the bona fides are in place. Let's proceed.
There is a cocktail party for Dsquared2 at the Webster, around 7 pm. It's after that that things get difficult.
Let's go to the Design District: where there is a much-touted opening of a Pringle of Scotland pop-up boutique, somewhere on NE 40th Street down the block from the Moore Building, featuring the Capsule Collection by Liam Gillick. That warrants a cocktail party that runs from 8:30pm to 10pm, and Tilda Swinton is listed as a host. (Tilda Swinton = Scottish = spokeswoman for Pringle, a Scottish brand.)
Herein lies that problem. The peeps from the Caten brothers' cocktail party are now sitting down to dinner at the Webster, which has a few really nice places that seat from 50 to 75 people. There's a floor that's got handmade BDDW tables that is used for conferences, book signings, and the kind of parties where you don't want someone spilling red wine on a Balenciaga. There is also a gorgeous rooftop terrace, and the Caviar Kaspia restaurant at the entrance. And Tilda Swinton is also supposed to be at the Webster, at the same time, presiding over a VVVip dinner.
So, somehow, the Webster is going to juggle a cocktail party and two dinners, one for the Caten twins and one for Pringle of Scotland. I imagine there will be heavy stair-climbing as people swap places from one dinner to another. And a lot of valet parking crises as people rush from one thing to another. Enjoy your night at Art Basel!
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| Moby at Bardot, Wynwood |
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Other night life:
Dec 2 Fri
There is a private party for a book called "Nailed," about nail culture by the Chicago artist Dzine at the Standard South Beach, invitation only.
Dec 2 Fri
There is an after party for the screening of "Dreams Will Not Be Forgotten," hosted by Nigel Barker, the producer of America's Next Top Model. Starts at 11 pm, open to the public. Cover charge #35.
Dec 2 Fri
Moby with live acoustic band and Destroyed Sounds by Gigamesh at Bardot, 3456 N Miami Avenue, Wynwood. Tickets, if you can get them, are $48.
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| Visionaire 61, the world's largest magazine. Ever. |
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Yes, Visionaire, the artiest of magazines (because each magazine is, in fact, a work of art) is back for its super-cool, very exclusive and highly admired party, this year at the Delano, from 10 pm to 2 am. Visionaire's last issue, No. 61, was nearly life size. Needless to say, by invitation only, or be so fabulously cool that you can walk through walls.
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