| Next Year at Art Basel Miami Beach |
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| Bing Presented Art of Night at the Shelborne |
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I predict next year at Art Basel Miami Beach:
The search engine Bing, if it comes back, will decide not to show someone with a skateboard in the SAND.
Everyone will be back at Le Baron underneath the Shelborne Hotel again, where the pop up club Le Baron started out all those years ago. And Paris Paris will be but a memory.
Because the stars who have come to Art Basel Miami Beach now include Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones (again), Val Kilmer (always), Tilda Swinton (for a second time), Diddy, Macy Gray, and Brad Pitt (not this year), next year Obama will have to make an appearance for anyone to notice or care.
You know how things get so popular, no one can get in? Prediction for next year, the rooftop restaurant at 1111 known as Juvia. Unbelievable views of the city. Sunny Ho is the chef, and the menu will be unpretentious French-Chinese goodness. It opens in January. You might as well call then and book it for next December. Or you'll be sorry!
With Smart Car, BMW, Audi, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Mini Cooper, etc., here in 2011, in 2012, we've got to see Lamborghini, or at least the return of Maybach, right?
The Gary Nader auction house, which sold $17 million worth of art this week, including a Picasso, a Frank Stella and a Wilfredo Lam (and of course a Botero), will either be hugely successful, or gone.
Dior, which sold two $20,000 handbags to one woman this week, will try next year to sell three $30,000 handbags to one woman.
Art Basel Miami Beach will indeed be back through 2014, because it has signed another three year contract for the convention center.
It's possible Florida will still be fighting over casino gambling. If not, expect at least one casino to already be in place.
And this website either will or will not be back again. Linda Lee
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| Vanessa Beecroft performance for the Wolfsonian at the Opa-Locka Airport |
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| Le Baron, Once and Future King of the Night |
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| Aymeric Bergada du Cadet at Le Baron |
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| Powhida at the Postmasters Gallery, Group Show Seven in Wynwood |
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| Saturday Report: After Last Night |
Gridlock in the Design District and anywhere near the Convention Center, a wild party for David Adjaye in the Moore Building, with music by the Scissor Sisters (and Champagne from Veuve Cliquot ... why doesn't MA2Dweek get Champagne from Veuve Cliquot?), a party for BMW in the parking garage known as 1111, and Frank Gehry at the New World Center, for a concert of dissonant Italian music conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. In other words, quite a night, even though a couple of early rain showers threatened to put a damper on things.
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| Paris Is Burning ... Hot ... Makes Karaoke Cool Again |
It all comes around again: Many years ago, the first year Le Baron was at Art Basel, we're guessing 2004, it was in one of the artworld's favorite Basel dive spots, the karaoke bar under the delapidated Shelborne Hotel. (It was a Sam Keller favorite as well.) Le Baron, a pop up nightclub, then went wandering, to places near and far, and ended up for the last few years at the Florida Room, Lenny Kravitz's club under the Delano. And now, all these years later, Le Baron is back, in a sense. A pop up offshoot of the pop-up Le Baron, Paris Paris, has dug itself in under the Shelborne, And, being the newest newest newest thing, Paris Paris has now been deemed cooler and more fun than Le Baron. (Count on next year, when Le Baron will be back under the Shelborne, and the Florida Room at the Delano will be under renovation..) Here is just a sample of the people found at Paris Paris: the artists Marco Bramilla, Marina Abramovic, Katia Hakko of the Istanbul Hakkos, the everpresent Waris Ahluwalia, the gym-meister David Barton, China Chow, Christopher Bollen, Kalup Linzy, and the ubiquitous man in beard and glasses, Johan Lindeberg -- pretty much everyone except for Melissa Katz wearing black.
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| Preview of Art Basel Miami Beach -- Invitation Only |
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| Willem de Kooning, Richard Gray Gallery, Booth C03 |
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Other fairs are open. Other fairs are opening. The public can go see Design Miami. But unless someone is a VIP, a professional in the art world, a serious collector or a member of the press, that person is not going to get into the Convention Center today. Things are not quite as crazy as they were four years ago, but the buying and selling is still serious. If you are inside, for instance, do not get between a dealer and a prospective buyer. There is a Vernissage tonight, and a raft of parties. But the most exclusive parties of all will be in luxury hotel suites, where the final details will be hammered out, and where Champagne will be poured.
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| Wednesday: After Last Night |
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| 1111 Lincoln Road at night |
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| The 1111 Parking Garage as seen in ads for Burn Notice |
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Tuesday was a huge blow-out opening night at Art Basel: fashion parties, art parties, design parties. So here is a quick wrap up of who was where, when.
Biggest part of the night on Miami Beach: at the parking garage known as 1111. Fooled me. I though the $60 million private residence was the new one on Indian Creek Island. Not so, it is apparently a penthouse on Lincoln Road. So the Interview/Ferrari party hosted by Peter Brant and Tobias Meyer to celebrate a new Ferrari Spider, was not on a private island but on the seventh floor of the parking garage, a spectacular setting for any event. (And in case you are a fan of USA, and "Burn Notice," above right, it is also a great place to shoot an ad.)
Attending the Ferrari party: the actor Val Kilmer, looking like he was ready to star in a musical western), the model Stephanie Seymour (and on-off-on again wife of Peter Brant), the director Brett Ratner and the movie producer Bob Shaye; the artist Damien Hirst, the entertainers Macy Gray, Janelle Monae, Solange Knowles and Hype Crew; the Warhol figure and art collector (Baby) Jane Holzer, the art collector Yvonne Force Villareal, the performance artist who recently set the art world's hair on fire with her event for MOCA in Los Angeles, Marina Abramovic, the memorably named contributor to the Huffington Post Cator Sparks, the artist Marco Brambilla (whose 3-D art movie was shown on the walls), the local guy and former New York bold-face name Fabian Basabe, the T magazine blogger Ricky Clifton, and the gallerist Tony Shafrazi, Plus there were a lot of Ferraris, and they seemed to be ready to fall off the ramps. See the photos below from the wonderful Billy Farrell, who covered the event.
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| The gallerist Tony Shafrazi |
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| Stephanie Seymour, arriving at the Ferrari party |
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| Val Kilmer and Brett Ratner, at the Ferrari party |
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| More Party News about Tuesday Night |
The opening of the Pulse art fair brought out the artist Frances Trombly; the party for the Scope art fair brought out: Mayor Thomas P Regalado, Ellen Marchman, Ultra Violet (the French artist Isabelle Collin Dufresne, and former Warhol fixture), the Miamian Alan Randolph, and William John Kennedy (whose photographs "Before They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy" is at Scope. A film based on his works will be shown on Thursday at O Cinema, at 8 pm.
The Swarovski dinner was hosted by Nadja Swarovski, and had the following notable guests: the fashion designer Carlos Souza, Sue Hostetler, the editor of Art Basel Miami Beach magazine, Delfina Fendi, of the Fendi Fendis, the architect and fashion designer and entrepreneur Rafael de Cardenas, the art advisor Kim Heirston Evans, and the wonderfully mad designer Ron Arad,
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The biggest party in Miami on Tuesday night was the Dior bash at the Moore Building, where the all-star guests included the record producer Pharrell Williams, the mega-gallerist Larry Gagosian, the socialite China Chow, the brand consultant Trey Laird, the editor of W magazine Stefano Tonchi, Delphine Arnault (wife of), the Designer of the Year David Adjaye, the art advisor Kim Heirston Evans (again), the art director Fabien Baron, Wendi Murdoch (wife of), Dasha Zhukova (gallerist, and girlfriend of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich), Michael Chow (that's Mr. Chow to you), Craig Robins, the art collector and patriarch behind the Design District, Sam and Judith Keller (the former head of Art Basel and his wife), the gallerist Simon de Pury, the fashion blogger Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, the director of PS1 in New York Klaus Biesenbach, the design gallerist Patrick Seguin, the producer Michael Lynne, and Diana Picasso (granddaughter of Pablo).
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| Craig Robins, all suited up, and Pharell Williams, record producer and fashion designer |
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| Wednesday Schedule, Official and Not So Official |
The Convention Center opens for journalists and invited guests, breakfast events at CIFO and the Rubell Family Collection, private parties at the Betsy, the Raleigh, etc.; Wendy Murdoch throws a barbecue for invited guests on the beach, Art Miami, other satellite fairs, open to the public, post-vernissage parties, clubs, etc. The Wednesday full schedule is here. Meanwhile, important to note, there is no Art Loves Music concert on the beach this year.
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| Jennifer Rubell offers a breakfast happening at the Rubell Family Collection for invited guests |
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| Macy Gray, Nov 30, at Bardot |
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| Reminder: Monday Night Ornare Kickoff Party by Invitation |
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| Ornare Tastemakers Night, Celebrating Architecture and Design |
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| The year's best Miami Basel parties |
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| Someone for the fashion crowd: John Lin |
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| Craig Robins, being honored on Wednesday |
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Needless to say, the year's best parties are by invitation only, and the best one depends on who you are, what you're interested in, and who you know. Among the most powerful Miami people during Art Basel are the real estate developers who are also art lovers, like Tony Goldman (Wynwood Walls, Wynwood Kitchen & Bar, Goldman Warehouse), Marty Margulies (the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse) and Craig Robins (Design Miami, the Dacra art collection, Art Basel). But there are other force fields during Basel as well, including fashion (John Lin, above, is the marketing person for the Webster, which will be the scene of several events this week). Then there are the hotel owners, Aby Rosen of the W South Beach, Cricket and Marty Taplin of the Sagamore, and, although they are much more than hotel owners, Donald and Mera Rubell of the Albion. Be on a first name basis with any of these people, and you will probably already be invited.
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| W South Beach |
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| During Art Basel there is an invasion of outside forces, especially magazines (T from the Times, Visionaire, Stefano Tonchi from W, Vanity Fair International, Wallpaper, Vogue, Architectural Digest, As If, Interview, Paper magazine, Intramuros and VMan), fashion houses (Dior, Martin Margiela, Dsquared2, Pringle of Scotland), and luxury crystal like Baccarat joining the Art Basel regular Swarovski. Art loving high rollers (and those with jet shares) will certainly go to the NetJets party on Tuesday night, or to the MOCA dinner after the opening party, sponsored by Vanity Fair, that same night. Art collectors, established artists and curators attend Jeffrey Deitch's salon on Wednesday night at the Raleigh and Aby Rosen's dinner on Thursday at the Dutch, at his W South Beach, left. Party animals go to the Wall on Thursday night, also at the W, and to the Visionaire party at the Delano (or the W, accounts differ) on Friday night. English artists and designers like Barber Osgerby will no doubt hang out at Soho Beach House every night, but especially Tuesday, after Design Miami opens. Eames and George Nelson aficionados will go to three parties on Thursday -- the Luminaire party, the Alessi party and the Poltrona Frau party. On Friday they will be at the Wolfsonian party or the home of Al Eiber, to see his collection of 20th century furniture. The architecture crowd heads to Alex Gorlin's condo on Allison Island, also Friday night.Meanwhile, 75 fashionistas will go to the Martin Margiela cocktail in the Design District on Thursday, and sit down to the hottest fashion ticket on Friday night, the dinner at the Webster boutique with Tilda Swinton. Performance art lovers will be at Jennifer Rubell's breakfast happening at the Rubell Family Collection in Wynwood on Wednesday morning and at the pig performance at the Primary Flight group show on Thursday night in the Design District. Locals will be at the MAM ball on Saturday night, or the Ocean Drive party at the Shelborne, and New Yorkers will be at the Mondrian, for the PS1 party. Locals, art world patrons, design patrons, architects and just about everyone else (with an invitation) will be at the Moore Building on Wednesday night for the Montblanc event celebrating Craig Robins. Le Baron will be open every night if you can attitude your way past the velvet rope at the Florida Room in the Delano.
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| Nektar De Stagni, Miami artist, and Ann Owen, publisher of Miami magazine |
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| Ellen Marchman and Lisa Petrilllo at Soho Beach House |
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| Tony Goldman, Wynwood Walls |
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Familiar faces on the party scene will include Ann Owen, the vivacious editor of Miami magazine, Jason Binn, who will be host of the Ocean Drive event Saturday night, the jewelry designer Nektar De Stagni, one of the earliest Miamians to join Soho Beach House, and Tony Goldman, left, who will be firmly anchored in his Wynwood base, the Wynwood Walls, Joeys, and Wynwood Kitchen & Bar, sure to be hopping all week. De Stagni kicks the week off with a 6 pm reception on Sunday, Nov. 27, at her showplace in the Design District, 155 Ne 38th Street, for "Balance BBQ Sculpture" by Bhakti Baxter and Jason Hedges, "Soft Poems on Toast" by Matthew Abess, and a preview of functional objects by designers and artists.
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| Miru Kim -- The Pig That Therefore I Am |
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Miru Kim usually poses naked against industrial wastelands -- giant pieces of machinery, dark train tunnels, see below. But of late she has begun posing her all-too-human flesh with pig flesh. It sounds gross, like a gimmick, but "The Pig That Therefore I Am" images are undeniably beautiful. And shocking. This being Basel, she will pose naked with some actual, live pigs, at Primary Flight, a gallery at 4141 NE Second Avenue (right next to Fratelli Lyon, which serves a delicious speck). Opening Thursday, Dec. 1, from 6 to 10 pm.
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| A previous portrait by Miru Kim, without pigs |
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| The Fly's Eye Dome in the Design District |
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| Buckminster Full's Fly's Eye Dome, in the Palm Lot |
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In 1967 Buckminster Fuller created two "Fly's Eye" geodesic domes, one 24 feet in circumference, the other 50 feet. Craig Robins and Dacra, the primary developer of the Design District, have fostered the restoration of the 24 foot model, in Rhode Island, and the dome now stands, above, in the Palm Court, on NE 38th Street, near Second Avenue. The exhibition is called "Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller and Norman Foster." The Norman Foster part comes from his restoration of Fuller's Dymaxion car of the future, below. Both were visionary midcentury works and, good timing, there's a renewed interest in Fuller. A tour of the installation, led by John Warren, Fuller's collaborator on the dome, is on Saturday, Dec. 3 from 10 to 11 am. By the way, Craig Robins will receive the 20th Montblanc arts patronage award on Dec. 1, presented by no less than Pharrell Williams. Montblanc and Pharrell Williams? We don't get it either.
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| Dymaxion Under Wraps |
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| The Year of the Brazilians |
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| Paulo Nazareth C Print |
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Many Brazilian artists are familiar in Miami, including Vik Muniz, Os Gemeos and Ernesto Neto. But this year visitors to ABMB will meet Brazilian artists en masse. The work at left, "My Image of Exotic Man for Sale, 2011" is by Paulo Nazareth. This year, at Art Positions, he will fill a green 1970s Volkswagen with green bananas, and let them ripen. Nazareth will be on hand to sell the bananas. At right is a work, enamel on wood, by the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, being shown at Booth A04, by the DAN Galeria, San Paolo. More information about Brazilian artists here. But it's not just artists. It's design and architecture. Ornare will host 30 Brazilian architects at a lecture on Friday moderated by Fred Bernstein of The New York Times.
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| Clark, Lygia: Planos Em Superfície Modulada Série B nº 1 |
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| Another Try, the Art Basel Show House |
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| Design for a covered terrace, Paramount Bay James J Wall of Thirlwall |
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It seems like everyone had the same idea in 2006: interior design should get in bed with art. And so we had Casa Decor, in 2006 and 2007, running the same time as Art Basel Miami. Design Miami came along in 2006 as well, and has grown to include both Art Basel Miami show in December and Design Miami Basel in June. Also in 2006, Stephen Drucker and "House Beautiful" had a show house at Aqua on Allison Island. This year "Elle Decor," under the leadership of Michael Boodro, is doing its own show house in a building, Paramount Bay, that has already drawn design attention because Lenny Kravitz is doing interiors. But not these, at least not yet. Among the designers: James J. Wall for a covered terrace (above); Wall also consulted on designing the Webster; Juan Carlos Arcila-Duque, for a guest bedroom; the divine Lars Bolander for the living room; Deborah Wecselman for the dining room and the much lauded Mario Nievera for the garden terrace. The Elle Decor show house is on the 43rd floor of Paramount Bay, 2066 Bayshore Drive, seen below. (For out of towners, that's south of the Miami River.) It opens on Dec. 3 and runs through the 18th. Tickets are $25, and benefit the Design and Architecture Senior High. The blowout opening night party is Thursday, evening Dec. 1 invitation only.
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| Ronald Duarte Nimbo Oxala |
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| Sanford Biggers |
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| Every year there is another Wednesday night free concert on the beach, and most years I am in the dark on who is performing. Iggy Pop in 2009, him I'd heard of. And Peaches in 2006. But 2008, Matt & Kim? In 2007, Metric? So I am relieved to report that there is no Art Loves Music on the beach this year on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, just about every musician you can think of -- Moby, Macy Gray, Santigold, etc. -- will be performing somewhere this week. That's for you young'uns. I'll be sitting down to dinner somewhere, or at Jeffrey Deitch's annual Raleigh do on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, there will be plenty of happenings in Collins Park, in a collabo between Art Basel and the Bass Museum. There will be special performances by the artist Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi (he's a Chicago potter, they chant, together it's a"sound piece." Sanford Biggers will do “Moon Medicine,” a solo performance piece. And the Alalâo collective will present Ronald Duarte’s work, Nimbo Oxala, above, which involves 20 fire extinguishers. (Just be glad he's not doing his other piece, in which he sets a beach on fire.)
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| It's called "Marie Coquine" |
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Here is the schedule for all Art Basel/Design Miami related events, except for those
listed at the official Art Basel Miami Beach web site, which has Apps for iPhone, iPad,
Blackberry and Android. Above,
Marie Coquine, by Philippe Starck, who is being honored at the
Wolfsonian, as part of their exhibit on French design. This lamp, shown in Milan this spring, will be on display at Poltrona Frau's new showroom, NE 38th Street and Miami Court.
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| Luis Pons, Inventory, Opening Nov. 26 |
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| Miami and Miami Beach Restaurants, the Good, the Bad, the Closed, the New |
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| Makoto, Bal Harbour |
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| Eats range from Makoto, left, expensive, very far from the Convention Center, worth the trip, to Crumb on Parkment, right, in the Design District, for breakfast and lunch. My highly opinionate guide to dining during Art Basel.
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| Crumb on Parchment, Design District |
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| Still Time to Book a Room -- and Some Tips for Great Deals |
Listen up: The Shelborne is under construction, and even at the bargain rate of $440 a night you don't want to stay there.If you have to be in a well-known hotel in South Beach, in those few choice blocks on Collins, you're going to pay bigtime or be out of luck. The Setai, the Anglers, the Raleigh, the Gansevoort, the Betsy, the Pelican, and the W South Beach are booked. Further up the beach, Soho Beach House is sold out too, But you already knew that, didn't you. And the Deauville, great price, right on the ocean, is completely booked because of the NADA fair. The Fontainebleau ... if you are that kind of person ... has rooms for an average of $400 a night during Art Basel week and it's next door to Soho Beach House. You can sneak onto their beach and no one will know. And don't think the downtown Miami hotels are going to offer choice pickin's. Icon Brickell and the Viceroy are sold out.
Here is my guide to the still available, the bargains, and the totally under-the-radar hotels.
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| So close, and so unknown, with rooms available for $252 a night during Basel |
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| Tours of the Frank Gehry Concert Hall for the New World Symphony, Miami Beach |
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| Interior New World Symphony, courtesy Gehry Partners |
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If you don't have a hook-up, and if you didn't get an advance tour last year, you owe it to yourself to see Frank Gehry's new Miami Beach concert hall. It is boring on the outside, except when there is a live "wallcast," but it is pure poetry inside. The building is just south of the Miami Beach Convention Center. There are no concerts during Art Basel -- at least not yet. But you can still get inside. Tours of about 40 minutes, $5 a head, are held on Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm, Friday and Saturday at noon, and on Sunday at 11 am. But a reservation must be made in advance through the box office, 305 673-3331. Group tours of 10 to 50 can also be arranged two weeks in advance for a nominal cost. also through the box office.
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| Art Fair News from All Over |
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| UAE Pavilion, Abu Dhabi |
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| The Hong Kong Art Fair ArtHK 12 |
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Other news: in May it was announced that MCH Swiss Exhibitions (Basel), which produces Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, bought a majority share in Asian Art Fairs Ltd., which produces the ArtHK (Hong Kong) art fair, above right. ArtHK will move its dates to Feb 2 - 5, 2012 (instead of the May dates it has previously used), to better fit into the art show schedule. What does that mean for Miami? Expect to see more Asians at this year's fair, both exhibiting art and buying it. And the Abu Dhabi Art Fair, now in its third year, runs November 16 through 19. Among the guests: Jeff Koons, Larry Gagosian, Tony Shafrazi and David Zwirner. We know that at least one major Miami collector is attending, and we're guessing that more than a few Abu Dhabians, having enjoyed their own fair, will turn up for Art Basel Miami Beach as well.
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MA2Dweek stands for Miami Art Architecture & Design Week, which surrounds Art Basel Miami Beach. Linda Lee, the author of this site, has attended every Art Basel since 2002, edited the official Art Basel Miami Beach magazine for three years, and lives and works in Miami. She is a former writer and editor at The New York Times, and writes about art, fashion, real estate, architecture, food, design, hotels, etc. She is the author of the new Wallpaper Guidebook to Miami 2012.
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