Never before

So I knew a lot of people come for Basel, but I am just overwhelmed by
the traffic, craziness, and overcrowded everything. The juxtaposition of
bmw's next to homeless people and $2,000 handbags is just weird.

Here are more awful photos of Dita performing at the Delano, inside
nada, and the drum with mexican jumping beans at emanuel perrotin
gallery. More to come....

-alex via mobile
--Alex

Peaches!

--Alex

The Vernissage! Sorry, the pictures are awful, but no cameras are
allowed inside.
--Alex

This is just a test of blogger's mobile blogging tools. If this is
working properly you should see a phone cam photo (I promise they will
only get better) I took of Bruce Nauman's neon piece Raw-War (1970)
featured in MOCA's show.

Hopefully, tomorrow I will post an interactive map of the events.

Also, check out the Google Labs tool that allows you to highlight text
and send it to your phone (firefox users only) . A link can be found on the left.

-Alex via mobile

MIAMI I ART CENTRAL

It is official--I am more than excited for the opening of Art Basel 2006. Although, I have attended the fair every year, I always anticipate this week as a time to see old friends, an abundance of great art (ok, not always) and experience the nightlife.

Miami Art Central has contacted me about the events they will be hosting during Basel. Video: An Art, a History, 1965-2005 is excellent and features works by Johan Grimonprez, Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham and Thierry Kuntzel. It is a time consuming show (it took me 2 visits and aprx 4 hours to sit through everything), but well worth it. I highly recommend you visit before it ends on December 10. As you can see below and in my previous post, MAC will be hosting breakfast everday, a panel discussion and a talk by Dominic McIver Lopes.

Breakfast @ MAC
Wednesday - Sunday, December 6 – December 10, 2006, from 9 am to Noon
Come visit Miami Art Central’s new exhibition Video: an Art, a History, 1965-2005, and join us for coffee and a light breakfast.

Curating, Collecting and Conserving Video Art
Presented by Miami Art Central
Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 11 am
A panel discussion moderated by Christine Van Assche, New Media Curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Participants will include: Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Christopher Eamon, Curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco and Director of New Art Trust; and video art historian Michael Rush, Director of Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Boston.

Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art by Dominic McIver Lopes
Presented by Miami Art Central and University of Miami, Department of Philosophy
Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 11 am
Dominic McIver Lopes, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at University of British Columbia will be speaking on the nature of video art as an artistic medium in a lecture entitled: “Video Art versus video art: Why Video Art misses the point of video art.” A reception with the guest speaker will follow.

Hours during Art Basel Miami Beach 2006
Wednesday, December 6 – Sunday, December 10, 9 am - 7pm

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH | 2006

I have compiled a list of many art and social events taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach this year. I'm the kind of girl that must see EVERYTHING. Please email me any worthwhile events I may have missed!

Check back daily for more updates on Miami night life and art (when I see it). Pictures will be coming as soon as my plane hits the runway. ENJOY!

NOTE: All events are listed by the day they are having an opening or activity. All the daily fairs and static activities can be found under everyday. I APOLOGIZE, THIS LIST IS BECOMING OUT OF CONTROL.

AS OF 12/3/06, ANYTHING IN RED IS NEW!

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

WHAT?? | Pierogi and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts team up to present Bahamas-born artist Tavares Strachan’s "The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project)" -- a giant block of arctic river ice preserved in a solar-powered cooler -- as well as works by gallery artists, at 2010 North Miami Avenue in Miami’s Wynwood Art District, opening 5-8 pm.

WISH I COULD BE HERE | Swarovski Crystal Palace, an exhibition of "fantastical chandelier creations" by Fabian Baron, Tord Boontje, Hussein Chalayan, Zaha Hadid, Hariri & Hariri and several other designers, opens at the Art Deco Paris Theater at 550 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach, 7-10 pm.

Yvon Lambert Temporary | Exhibition Space, featuring works by gallery artists at the Calderon Building at 75 NW 12th Street in Miami, previews to the public, 7-9 pm.


Wednesdat, December 6, 2006

THE REAL DEAL | Sneak in to the Vernissage or become my best friend before 5:30pm.

VIDEO FOR ALL | 11 a.m. to noon, Opening Art Video Lounge, Hosted by Michael Rush, Rose Art Museum Botanical Gardens Building, across from Entrance D.

PEACHES | Do the everybody thing and go see this sassy superstar play on the beach. A free 10 p.m. concert on the beach between 21st and 22nd streets.

SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR DRINKS | Scope, Freeview: 11am-5pm

DON'T SAY NO TO DEITCH | Raleigh Hotel hosts Deitch Projects' Devendrah Banhart & First Woman Millionaire on Dec. 6 with cocktails starting at 10pm.

SEX+FASHION=ART? | 9:00 PM, Dinner hosted by Narciso Rodriguez and Dita Von Teese at Blue Door at, Delano (Invitation Only)

YOU NEED A BOAT FOR THIS | 9:00 p.m. RECEPTION FOR ARTIST GUILLERMO KUITCA, Aquarelle, a site specific, public art project by Guillermo Kuitca, will be unveiled at AQUA on Allison Island. Followed by cocktails and dancing to the sounds of DJ Tiësto (He is popular, right?) at the Aqua South Pool. 202 Aqua Avenue in Miami Beach, 8-10 pm. RSVP to yuls@dacra.com

SUPERMARKET ART|Grendel Miami, an exhibition of "ambitious works of art that would be impossible to display in the confines of an art fair," opens at the Big Green Supermarket, 2834 North Miami Avenue at NW 29th Street in Miami, with a reception, 6-11 pm.

OPENING FOR DESIGN DISTRICT EXHIBITS | 9:30 p.m., Throughout the neighborhood, there are numerous displays of art and design, ranging from makeshift to museum-quality. Special shows have been organized by New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, and Moss Gallery in New York.

MORE FRUIT | Peaches will take the turntables at Mansion, one of the Miami's most popular clubs.


Thursday, December 7, 2006

A MUST SEE | MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Artificial Light, a group show (I AM EXCITED FOR THIS), 404 NW 26th Street | Wynwood Arts District, Thurs. December 7 – Mon. December 11
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

SAM I AM | The Samming Ceremony, a guerrilla performance project by the Organizers, a team of Brooklyn-based artists, in which volunteers are fitted out to as "imperfect clones" of Art Basel director Sam Keller, kicks off at Fountain Miami at 2825 NW 2nd Avenue (at 29th Street) in Miami, 7-8 pm. For more details, see www.wearethesams.com

STALK TERENCE RILEY | If you miss his stand-out home in the DD, you're blind. He's having is pals over for some cocktails. Maybe they'll get drunk and drop some $ for MAM's new pad.

SOUNDS WEIRD | Zero Hero, a performance by German artist John Bock (featuring rolling raw eggs, a vibrating portable mixer and stuffing pulled from under shirts), inaugurates the new Moore Space loft at 3627 NE 1st Court in the Miami Design District, 9 pm-midnight.

FRIENDS WITH YOU | The Skywalkers Parade will be happening on the actual beach around 17th ST at 2 PM. The parade will be a procession of large hot-air creations (”a giant blimp parade”) by various artists, masterminded by Friends with You. The parade will head toward 5th ST and last at least two hours, so you’ll have a good chance of seeing it at any point along its route.

DESIGN MIAMI OPENING RECEPTION | At the Moore Building (4040 N.E. Second Ave.) for the preview of Design Miami.

CHEAP ART JUNK | Deitch PAPER Art Store with art products from 99 cents to $999,999.00. at the Buick Building 3841 NE 2nd Avenue.

YOKO LOCO | Yoko Ono will be performing at the Sagamore, a night before the anniversary of John Lennon's death. Onochord, as she's calling it, promises to be a screeching, yet poignant, piece of entertainment where everyone in attendance gets a little flashlight which has something to do with the fact that Ono will be spelling out "I Love You" in morse with her own flashlight.

SELL-OUTS | Mansion on Thursday, hipster DJ collective The MisShapes spins. (This tragedy is sponsored by Stoli Elite & Chivas Regal 12.)

INVITE ONLY | The party is Thursday December 7th @ 10pm at the Raleigh Hotel

$150 PARTY | DECEMBER 7, VOGUE + VERSACE PARTY 8PM, VICTOR HOTEL, 1144 Ocean Drive, South Beach Party and fashion show with Vogue Magazine and Versace during Art Basel Miami Beach Week at the glamorous Victor Hotel. This event is hosted by the MOCA Shakers and all Shaker Members and above are invited. You just have to pay the $150 membership fee and you're in.


Friday, December 8, 2006

TALK TO ME | 6 to 8 p.m., Design Talks, Design Miami Blurred Boundaries: Design as Business Libby Sellers Design Museum, London, Louise-Anne Comeau atelier idée, a boutique advisory house Geoffrey Monge atelier idée, a boutique advisory house, Marcel Wanders The Moore Building, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami (public)
Information | Wava Carpenter, Phone +1/305-572 0866

WISH YOU WERE HERE | 8–11 p.m., Reception at Wolfsonian-FIU for the Lawrence Weiner exhibition and "Modernism in American Silver." VIP pass or invite required. 1001 Washington Ave.

MY ALMA MATTER REPRESENTS! | Because high school kids have never looked so talented. December 8 to 9 | 8 to 9 p.m. | New World Student Exhibition | Juried show of New World School of the Arts New World Gallery, 25 NE 2nd Street, Miami Beach

NOT THE REAL DEAL | Alison Chernick’s documentary on the making of Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9. At the Colony Theater at 1040 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach at 9 pm (seating begins at 8:30). Invite only? Someone want to invite me? contact icasmiami@gmail.com

BARNEY'S WILL BE THERE | Dec. 8 in the Raleigh hotel's Oasis, reception and book signing by author Jack Pierson and his latest mongraph Jack Pierson Desire/Despair.

ANDY SHMANDY | A screening of "Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film", will be held at 9 p.m. by the Artists Den with a special appearance by the new band Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah.

NON-ALCOHOLIC BAR | a la Raleigh, Visionaire Coloring Bar directly in front of the hotel's entrance, where guests can "hang out, listen to music and enjoy cotton candy snowcanes." You can also buy the Visionaire 50th issue and a Coloring Toy set in case all the Art Basel art inspires you to create your own.The Coloring Bar opens Tuesday Dec. 5th at 10 a.m. and ends Saturday Dec. 9th.


Saturday, December 9, 2006

A MUST SEE SHOW | 9 a.m. to noon, Breakfast @ MAC, Panel discussions at 11 a.m., on December 9 (Curating, Collecting and Conserving Video Art) and December 10 (Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art: Video Art versus video
art by Dominic McIver Lopes) Miami Art Central, 5960 SW 57 Avenue, Miami

SEE CIFO | December 6 to 10 | 9 a.m. to noon | Visit and Breakfast @ CIFO | Panel discussions and guided tours on December 9 and 10, at 10 a.m.,
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 1018 North Miami Avenue, Miami

PUBLIC/PRIVATE | World Class Boxing is Dennis & Debra Scholl's contribution. Mark Bradford, The Other Side of Perfect, and Tami Ben-Tor, Girls Beware at 170 N.W. 23rd ST.

SUPPORT THE LOCALS | The University of Miami Faculty and Graduate Student show will be located at 2200 NW 2nd AVE in Wynwood (near the David Castillo Gallery). Reception Saturday, December 9, and the gallery will also be open for the Wynwood Thursday morning breakfast walk.

COULD BE INTERESTING | 3 – 3.30 pm, CARLOS AMORALES , Conversation with Douglas Fogle,Curator of 55th Carnegie International at the Art Salon at Art Guest Lounge—in the entrance Hall (D) of the Convention Center

I LOVE DESIGN | 8:30 p.m "ART LOVES DESIGN" TALK Craig Robins moderates discussion between panelists assembled by Art Basel and Design Miami, at the Design & Architecture Senior High courtyard (4001 N.E. Second Ave.).

DESIGN LOVES TO PARTY | 9:30 p.m. BLOCK PARTY all over the district. I suggest you don't drive or get there early for parking.

CRICKETS AT LOCUST | Artist Hug will launch his renowned publication K48 and is constructing a platform on which New York band Mirror Mirror will play at the second opening during “Art Loves Design," 7-11pm. In addition, Hug’s work will be backed up in the project room by sculptures and wall works by Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua. Known for their sprawling site- specific installations, Bercowetz and Bua create a layered and even chaotic sensory experience.

FREE FUN| MOCASONIC presents E-MERCE in FASHION 7PM | Event Starts 8PM | Fashion Runway Show Starts 9PM | Special Music Performance Starts, MOCA at GOLDMAN WAREHOUSE MOCASONIC presents E-MERCE in FASHION, showcasing a runway show featuring local and int'l fashion designers whose works are inspired by legendary modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham. To end the night will be a very special musical performance. This event is free and open to the public.


Sunday, December 10, 2006

#1 PRIORITY, COME VISIT ME | I’ll be working at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Its good trust me. Rubell's don't have anything on 'em.

HORSE LOVERS | Brunch with Deborah Buttterfield at F.I.U.'s Frost Art Museum. 11200 S.W. Eighth St.

BALDE-WHO? | 10:00 a.m. ART BASEL CONVERSATIONS, Meet artist John Baldessari for coffee and listen in on the Art Basel Conversations talk titled "Architecture for Art/Artists Who Build," which is held at the Guest Lounge inside the convention center (400 S.E. Second Ave.).

DESIGN TALK | Talking never looked so good. Blurred Boundaries: Design as Culture Barbara Bloemink, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Zaha Hadid, Michele Oka Doner, Tom Dixon at the Moore Building, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami

NEIGHBORLY LOVE | 8:30 p.m.| --my neighbor/horticulturalist makes this happen-- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden | Dale Chihuly, Sol Lewitt, Mark Dion, Ursula van Rydingsvard, Franz West, Daisy Youngblood | 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables. I think this is VIP.

EASY ART | PABLO CANO: City Beneath the Sea, At 2pm Show Starts at MOCA NORTH MIAMI, visit mocanomi.org for tickets, I suggest you get them in advance!
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING LEFT | 8:00 PM to Late, Art Basel Miami Beach Goodbye Party at The Shore Club hosted by Samuel
Keller, Director of Art Basel, and the Host Committee. (Access with invitation of the Show Management, VIP Cards, and exhibitor passes only)



EVERYDAY

Aqua Art Miami | Some 40 dealers, many from the West Coast, take over the Aqua Hotel. 1530 Collins Ave.; aquaartmiami.com
Art Basel Miami Beach The country’s premier contemporary art fair boasts 200 international dealers at the Miami Beach Convention Center. 400 S.E. Second Ave.; artbasel.com

Design Miami | The first of its kind, this show in the Moore Building has top modern and contemporary design from 18 galleries. 4040 N.E. Second Ave.; designmiami.com

New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair | The next generation of blue-chip dealers (80 or so) lures collectors to the Ice Palace Film Studios for the lively fourth-year fair. 59 N.W. 14th St.; newartdealers.org

Pulse Miami Art Fair | This show impressed in its debut last year, with 60-odd quality dealers under a huge tent in Wynwood. 2700 N.W. Second Ave.; pulse-art.com

Scope Miami | The fair ditched its original hotel format and the 90 exhibitors now set up in a pavilion in Wynwood’s Roberto Clemente Park. 101 N.W. 34th St.; scope-art.com

ART BASEL VERNISSAGE | Noon to 8 p.m. | Miami Beach Convention Center
Art Basel Miami Beach | The International Art Show featuring exhibitions of 200 galleries presenting art of the 20th and 21st century.

Special sections Art Nova (new art works), Art Kabinetts (curated exhibitions), Art Magazines
Halls A + D

Art Salon | New forum featuring hourly program of artist talks, book signings and round table discussions.
Art Guest Lounge, Entrance Lobby D
11 a.m. to 8 p.m. | Botanical Gardens

Art Video Lounge | Program of video art, curated by Michael Rush, Rose Art Museum
Botanical Gardens Building, across from Entrance D
Art Sound Lounge | Listeners are provided wireless headphones as they stroll through the gardens to a program featuring music and sound by, for, and
about flowers, insects, and birds.
Curated by David Weinstein of WPS1
Botanical Gardens Building, across from Entrance D

Art Positions | 2 to 10 p.m. | Collins Park Beach between 21st and 22nd Streets. 22 young galleries present upcoming artists in converted shipping containers
Art Perform | Performance program curated by Jens Hoffmann, Wattis Institute, San Francisco.

Artist DJs | Program curated by Alanna Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach, WPS1.
Open Air Cinema | New Open Air Cinema featuring a program of music videos.
Art Projects | Artworks in public places.


SCOPE IT AT SCOPE | LAMANO--The Crisis of Public Opinion in Regard to the Royal Couple. LAMANO is a burgeoning project of Jessie Laino and Kyle Chapman's collective momentum. As performance artists, they hope to invite the viewer into their constructed realities. Through their performance, LAMANO hopes to create a collective memory which serves as a brick in the structure of the consciousness of all who experience it. The audience connects to the work through the living aesthetic. TIME TBA

LET'S TRADE! | Julie Lara Kahn’s OPEN SEASON: Havana trading cards will be offered at various locations during Basel. The cards feature 88 different people from the Havana arts community, including artists, curators, critics and museum directors. There will be a final trading party on Saturday December 9 at Ingalls & Associates from 7 - 10 PM. THESE ARE NOT FOR SALE--by trade only. So be on the look out and carry something to offer in exchange!

ON PAR | There will be a miniature golf course with miami area artist-designed holes (Back 9) at the Albion Hotel Participating artists include: Daniel Arsham, Hernan Bas, Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt, Natalia Benedetti (<3),Jiae Hwang, Martin Oppel, Ali Prosch, Bert Rodriguez, and Cristina Lei Rodriguez. The “afternoon tee-off reception” will be Friday, December 8 from 3 to 6 PM, with fabulous prizes by Alexia Stamiatiou and Nektar de Stagni for “lucky and skilled” players. The course will be open from December 7 - 10 daily from 11 AM to 10 PM.

BLOOD FOR ART | organized by Michele Pred and Quorum San Francisco in conjunction with the Community Blood Centers of South Florida, solicits the donation of a pint of blood in exchange for a print by one of 15 artists, at the Scope Art Fair at Roberto Clemente Park, 101 NW 34th Street in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami.


MUSEUMS AND LOCAL EXHIBITIONS (MORE TO COME)

Miami Art Museum | 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, "Lorna Simpson," Oct. 5, 2006–Feb. 4, 2007; "Mark Dion: South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit," Oct. 27, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007; and "Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City: Gifts from the Charles Cowles Collection," Nov. 16, 2006-Apr. 15, 2007.

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami | 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami "Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light," Oct. 13, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007, and "Pablo Cano: City beneath the Sea," Oct. 28–Dec. 23, 2006.

Bass Art Museum | 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, "Constructing New Berlin," Nov. 5, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007; "Five Fridas," Nov. 8, 2006–Apr. 30, 2007; "Tom Schmitt: Digital Abstractions," Nov. 8, 2006–Feb. 2007, and "Austrian Art: The Golden Age Of Emperor Franz Joseph," Nov. 8, 2006-February 2007.

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation | 1018 North Miami Avenue, Miami, "The Sites of Latin American Abstraction" and "Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art," Dec. 6, 2006-Feb. 18, 2007.

Miami Art Central | 5960 SW 57 Avenue, Miami "Video: An Art, a History, 1965-2005, New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou," Sept. 10-Dec. 10, 2006.

Wolfsonian – Florida International University | 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, "Modernism in American Silver: 20th-century Design," Nov. 10, 2006-Mar. 25, 2007, Dec. 9, 2006–Mar. 1, 2007.

Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, "Carlos Alfonzo: Extreme Expression, 1980-1991," Dec. 7, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007.

Frost Art Museum, Florida International University | 11200 SW 89th Street, PC 110, Miami, "A Room of One’s Own : Teresita Fernández, María Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez and María Martínez-Cañas," Sept. 15-Dec. 10, 2006.

Rubell Family Collection | 95 Northwest 29th Street in Miami. RED-EYE, Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $2.50 for students, seniors and anyone under 18. call (305) 573-6090


ALL THIS ART IS MAKING YOU HUNGRY

It is unusual for me to ever skip a meal, but during Art Basel you never know what you're missing when you stop to get a bit to eat.

As a vegetarian I have always found Miami to be a bit unfriendly, but here are my recommendations:

DESIGN DISTRICT:

BECAUSE YOU'RE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE | SOYKA, The food is standard but good. You go for the atmosphere drinks and proximity. Sunday-Thursday 11am - 11pm; Friday and Saturday11am - midnight, 582 NE 4TH Court, 305.759.3117

JE SUIS AMERICAN | CANE A SUCRE, A quaint little French bakery, diamond in the rough of cuban bakeries. Cafe au lait anyone? Monday- Friday 7am - 6pm; Saturday 8am - 4pm, 3535 NE Second Avenue, 305.572.0111

HOT DOG! | Literally, I have an elementary school crush on the owner of DOGMA GRILL. They have veggie dogs with gourmet toppings, need I say more. Also check out his new out door chill spot/carwash KARMA across the street. (its open late) 11am - 7pm daily, 7030 Biscayne Boulevard, 305.759.3433

LET'S GO ALREADY | ANDIAMO, Gourmet pizza is a yes. Monday - Thursday 11am - 11pm; Friday - Sunday 11am - Midnight, 5600 Biscayne Boulevard

ARTIST FOOD | ORANGE CAFE, cheap and quick paninis, 2 NE 40th St, Miami, FL 33137, call for hours (305) 571-4070

MEET ME HERE AND BUY ME LUNCH | ELEMENTS (hey, you'll likely spot Richard Tuttle here on Tuesday having lunch with his pal Craig Robbins) http://www.elementsrestaurant.net, its not the cheapest, but it is delicious and veggie friendly.

MORE TO COME!