| Exhausted Yet? Here's an Eye Opener |
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| It's an art show, and you are supposed to be shocked: Cunt Painting, Betty Tomkins. Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Convention Center, Booth K09, |
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The Convention Center doesn't open to the public until noon. That leaves Thursday morning for exploring other venues (or staying in bed). Here are the choices:
Collectors Coffee at the 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, despite the name a serious collection, however it's at 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.
10 am to 11:30 am, Artist Talk, Gabriel Orozco, Auditorium, Convention Center. Free and open to the public.
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| Joaquim Tenreiro, Table, R 20th Century, Design Miami |
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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. The top furniture and design galleries in the world, including Moss from New York, and Galerie Kreo and Galerie Patrick Seguin from Paris. Above it a table in the R 20th Century booth by Joaquim Tenreiro, considered the father of Brazilian design. Admission, $15.
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| Luminaire Lab, Design District |
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Dec 1 Thu
Rashaad Newsome's performance piece,"Hair Affair & Five," with local dancers, opera singers and hip-hop artists. VIP preview, 10 am, Miami Art Museum. 101 W Flagler Street, Miami
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 far opens, 10 am to 2 pm, by invitation; 2 to 8 pm, free and open to the public. At the Deauville Hotel, 6701 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.
Dec 1 Thu
Private collectors preview, at Primary Projects, 4141 NE Second Avenue, noon to 5 pm.
Dec 1 Thu
Luminaire Lab, cocktail party, 6 to 9 pm for DesignLove. Also on display, work by Established & Sons, Royal Designers for Industry, John Barnard and Terence Woodgate, and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. 3901 NE Second Avenue, Design District, Miami. By invitation only.
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| Party Time, on the Beach and in the Design District |
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| Thursday night is Aby's night, at least in the art world |
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| In the Design District, the most coveted invitation of the night: the Moore Building for Craig Robins |
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Dec 1 Thu
By now we all know that Thursday night is Aby's night. Aby Rosen is a mega collector, and also part owner of the fabulous W South Beach Hotel. On Thursday, by invitation only, there is a dinner party for friends, colleagues, artists, gallery owners and assorted stars. And this is happening at The Dutch, anoff-shoot of the New York restaurant beloved by food critics. Following the dinner there is a second event, a dance-all-night party, by invitation only, at Wall, the disco in the W. This one has a Vito Schnabel connection, so expect many Schnabels as well as European Jet Setters.
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Dec 1 Thu
The hottest invitation for the design world on Thursday night is the Montblanc dinner for Craig Robins in the Moore Building, 40th Street and NE Second Avenue. Expected to attend, the architect Zaha Hadid (whose Elastica installation, seen above, has inhabited the atrium of the Moore Building for several years), the designer Christian Louboutin, all of the design stars in town, including David Adjaye, the designated Designer of the Year. DJ will be Paul Sevigny. 7:30 p.m. Invitation only.
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Thursday night is, more than any other night, the Design District's turn. If you don't have a car, take a taxi (about $25 from South Beach) and do the Design District this night. But that doesn't mean that Miami Beach slows down. By Thursday the heavy duty art world buying, selling and bargaining is done and people are ready to let down their hair and relax.
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| Opening of the new Poltrona Frau building, with a special show of Baccarat lighting |
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| Nektar Di Stagni's open house, Thursday night |
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Dec 1 Thu
Lucy's Cantina Royale, the Shelborne's beachside taco and tequila bar, will have a screening of Limelight, by Peter Gatien's daughter, Jen, and Alfred Spellman & Billy Corben of Rakontur, a Miami-based media studio. Folllowed by a dinner for Bob and Cortney Novogratz with performance by pianist ELEW on Yamaha piano. Invitation only.
Dec 1 Thu
Alessi opens in the Design District. Cocktail party from 5 pm to 7 pm. Invitation only.
Dec 1 Thurs
FriendsWithYou party, "Inner Space, the Secrets of the Unknown," the Melin Building, 3930 NE 2nd Avenue, Suite 202, Design District. 7 pm.
Dec 1 Thu
A showing of "Caput," with James Franco, directed by Harmony Korine, By invitation. Somehow this also involves the musical guest IMEcho and the DJ Henry Hopper. 9 pm to 2 am, the Sunset Lounge, the Mondrian, Miami Beach.
Dec 1 Thu
W magazine takes over Cecconi's at Soho Beach House for a fashion-plate dinner. Invitation only. Miami Beach.
Dec 1 Thu
Interview magazine settles in at the Solarium at the Delano. Invitation only. Miami Beach.
Dec 1 Thu
At the Webster, a cocktail party for La Mer magazine featuring celebrity photographs of the sea, invitation only. Miami Beach.
Dec 1 Thu
SCOPE Opening Night Party at SET nightclub, with a model, Lisalla Montenegro, as the host. Mick Boogie will DJ. Invitation only, or try to slip in.
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| Alessi opening in the Design District |
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Alessi is joining the other 25 high-end Italian furniture brands in opening a store in the Design District. (Before now, locals could buy Alessi at Luminaire, or at other Miami design stores.) If you have invitations to events in the Design District, here is the plan: start at Alessi. Then go to Luminaire (event from 6 to 9 pm), stop in at the upstart design fair, Inventory, in the Melin Building, jog down to the Nektar De Stagni shop (VIP party begins at 7 pm), for works by Bhakti Baxter, Aranda/Lasch, Jim Drain, and Martin Oppel, among others. (Nektar De Stagni Shop. 155 Ne 38th St.) Then two blocks west is the new Poltrona Frau building, an $8 million commitment to the Design District. Poltrona Frau is the umbrella company that includes Cappellini, Cassina, Gufram and other collectible furniture lines. It claims its address is 3800 NE Miami Court, but no one will ever find that. The entrance is near the corner of 38th Street, and a one-block street that ends with the former Genius Jones, or NIBA home. (And speaking of NIBA, Thursday night is an invitation only show, open from 6 to 9, and celebrating new Design Icons. Niba is at 39 NE 39th Street) The Poltrona Frau party is from 7 pm to 10 pm, and you really must see the Philippe Starck chandelier for Baccarat.
Within walking distance from Poltrona Frau (it's a little treacherous on N Miami Avenue, because of the construction; better to go back the NE First Avenue, and under I-195.) Now you're in Midtown, with lots of restaurants and Spotify’s “Art Loves Music” (sponsored by Perrier) at the new Midtown night spot, the Ricochet Lounge: On Wednesday night, Nas, Theophilus London, TV on the Radio, and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings. No cover charge. Open to the public.
Or, hop in a cab or a car and finish the night at Cafeina where Refinery29 (fashion, beauty, shopping)l whatever that means, will be on from 9 pm to 2 am. There is a $5 admission charge after 10 pm. Cafeina is at 297 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood, Miami.
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| The new Poltrona Frau building, at 3800 N Miami Court, the Design District |
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| NIBA home Thursday night |
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| Announcing Refinery29 at Cafeina |
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