By Adam Lindemann 12/08/09 11:38pm

Artless in Miami

Want to know what the scene was like at Art Basel Miami Beach this year? The answer can be summed up in one word: bloated.

The fair has been running for seven years, and its success has paralleled the contemporary art boom. The fair allows foreign dealers from all over the world to show Read More

By Alex Taylor 12/05/08 10:36pm

A Quick Report From Art Basel; Mood is Subdued

The two words coming out of this year’s Art Basel Miami and its nineteen satellite fairs are ‘sober’ and ‘subdued.’ That’s not mere arts and culture conjecture–one of those subliminal wisps of mood and tremolo that occasionally get the better of journalists and critics. (Think: This year is about less. This year artists are saying Read More

By Alex Taylor 12/04/08 10:29pm

What Ever Happened to the Nude Model?

The jury is still out on Art Basel Miami, which runs until Sunday. Art professional-types are continuing to deliberate  whether ’09 is going to look like 1990, the last time a recession affected the look and discourse of contemporary art, peeling its sympathies for the better part of the decade. Of course, ’09 may prove Read More

By David Foxley 12/13/07 10:41pm

To Choo, or Not to Choo: That is Art Basel

There were so many parties riding on the back of Art Basel Miami Beach, according to the Times, that “anyone without a crib sheet, or the power publicist Nadine Johnson on speed-dial, was lost.” So legion were the corporate-scented art-design-fashion fêtes, in fact, that Manhattan socialite Lee Schifter’s speech pattern was reduced to Read More

By David Foxley 12/12/07 3:59am

At AIDS Bash, André Balazs Descants on Art Basel

Last night, we met up with André Balazs—the hotel magnate behind a cartel of boutique sleeperies, which includes the Mercer in SoHo, L.A.’s Chateau Marmont and the Standards. Looking dapper in a form-fitting gray suit that had a subtle sheen, Mr. Balazs, 50, had just flown back to New York after a weekend at Art Read More

By Lisa Medchill 12/11/07 11:45pm

I Drink, Therefore Miami: The Art Basel Bash Breakdown

On the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 4, two full days before the Art Basel Miami fair officially opened to the public, a large crowd was forming around the velvet rope at the Florida Room, designed by singer Lenny Kravitz, in the space below the Delano hotel that was once occupied by the David Barton Gym. Read More

By David Foxley 12/11/07 9:21pm

Portmandon’t: /n/

The rain / in Spain / falls mainly / on the plain! Master that and you’re good to go for things like horseraces circa 1910. But nowadays it takes a lot more to impress people at fashiony parties. And now that everyone is so covered up for winter, the holiday fashion party is Read More

By Mario Naves 12/11/07 4:35pm

The Art Basel Miami Miasma

Art Basel Miami Beach—the self-proclaimed “most important art show in the United States”—started off not with a bang, but a thrash: Iggy and the Stooges played a free concert called Art Loves Music. There’s a certain pleasure to be had in imagining a mosh pit of well-heeled collectors subjecting themselves to Iggy’s shirtless ministrations. What Read More