Vanity Fair’s satire of the Art Basel Miami Beach’s events: “The Greatest Art Basel Party in the History of Mankind” on behalf “HSBC Bank, Fiji Water, the Government of Finland, and the Edible Arrangements Corporation of North America” [AO Newslink]
All photos on site for Art Observed by Caroline Claisse.
Art Observed was on site for night three of André Saraiva’s Le Baron party in the Florida room below the Delano.
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All photos on site for Art Observed by Caroline Claisse.
An extensive collection of Ferraris, spanning decades of makes, models, and colors, filled the seven floors of 11 11 Lincoln Road on the first preview night of Art Basel Miami Beach. Officially a party in honor of Ferrari chairmen Luca di Montezemolo, hosted by Interview magazine, Peter Brant, and Tobias Meyer of Sotheby’s, the latest Ferrari 458 Spider was unveiled in shades of both red and yellow. The Herzog & de Meuron designed open-air parking garage could be seen glowing from blocks around. RPM, a Ferrari-inspired 3D film by Marco Brambilla came to life with Wayfarer-esque glasses on hand. While no doubt many enthusiasts would consider Ferraris to be works of art the event certainly leaned to the commerce side of the art and commerce equation and could be seen as a harbinger of some of the big ticket selling within the walls of the art fairs to occur over this week.