“It’s nice to celebrate before the fair starts…It’s rare in Miami to have this kind of intimate-sized private room.” Salon 94 booth at Art Basel Miami Beach featuring the work of Max Lamb. “So many friends come from all over the world,” she said. Kim hosted a dinner at a dark downstairs room in the Betsy Hotel on Tuesday evening, before the Wednesday morning fair preview. In contrast, New York’s Tina Kim brought a bright red embroidery from Korean artist Kyungah Ham, who listed “ middle man,” “anxiety,” “censorship” and “ideology,” as compositional materials.
Over at Los Angeles-based Regen Projects’ booth, a Jack Pierson metal, fiberglass and plastic sculpture reading “Sex & Money” more or less summed up the week’s atmosphere. The booth assistant told Observer that visitors loved lounging in them a little too much- they had to place cards reading “Please do not sit” on the seats. Exhibited in a circle, they offered the promise of a spiritual respite amid the fair madness. New York’s Salon94 presented chairs by Max Lamb, made of Tonalite granite from an Italian riverbed. In other colorful booth news, São Paulo-based Ricardo Camargo’s vivid mustard space showed work and artifacts (a coffee table, an easel, a desk topped with paints and brushes) from the studio of Wesley Duke Lee, a Brazilian artist who founded the Magical Realist movement in the 1960s. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for American Express Platinum
A commentary on masculinity, indeed.ĭrake performs at the American Express Platinum House at The Miami Beach Edition on December 7, 2017. A collaboration between Sanya Kantarovsky and designer George McCracken, the clothes feature prints of dudes in awkward positions: nude and running through cactus or strangling themselves. In town from Berlin, gallery Tanya Leighton blurred the lines between fashion boutique and art fair booth by selling men’s shirts and jackets within bright orange walls. The main fair, Art Basel Miami Beach at the city’s newly renovated convention center, featured plenty of delights in addition to a wandering, hooded Leonardo DiCaprio bargaining for a Basquiat. Sure, Art Week technically extended until Sunday evening, but anyone hoping for a celeb sighting or a million dollar art purchase was already fatigued by the weekend. Excitement peaked on Thursday night with Drake performing at the Edition Hotel, Cardi B at fashion brand Moschino’s festivities at the Eden Roc and Ellie Goulding during Perrier-Jouët’s Eden Ball at 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage. On Saturday morning, a heavy rain pounded Miami, cooling off the city from the parties, art fairs, installations and influx of art world money that bombarded it last week. Installation view at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017. Sanya Kantarovsky, Infinitely Repeating Pattern, 2017.
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