Los Carpinteros  Güiro – Pop up bar on the Beach – All photos in this post by Art Observed
The events surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach have grown noticeably in the past few years, thankfully so has the pixel count in the latest issue cell phone cameras of our Art Observed staff on site (though some photos below seem to belie this capability). Below is a selection of some of the people, art, cars-as-art, parties and events we tweeted and instagrammed live during the week @ArtObserved, in case you missed it.
Azealia Banks at the Standard Hotel for Terrywood on Friday Night
Le Baron Pop Up (Wednesday night) at Jelsomino, Miami Beach
José Parlá and JR at the Standard
A$ap Rocky at the Hole Party at the Delano Hotel Thursday Night
Floating Cinderblocks in the hot tub at the Nada Pool Party Saturday Night
A Bernard Vernet Buggatti Grand Sport at Rubell Collection
Wednesday Night at David Lynch’s Club Silencio (out of London) pop up in the Delano Hotel
Sean Puffy Combs at the main fair
Victoria Golembiovskayan of House of the Nobleman and The Guggenheim Europe’s Nic Iljine at the House of the Nobleman’s 1920’s themed event at a private home in collaboration with the Hole Gallery
A 1976 BMW 3.0 CSL by Frank Stella at  Design Miami
Desi Santiago’s Black Lords at Lord’s South Beach
Art Basel Conversations, Asia Focus
Chanel and art.sy beachside barbeque at Soho House
Mr. Brainwash gave us a private viewing of his work at the Boulan Hotel Thursday night
A Tom Sachs sculpture at W Hotel
The ubiquitous Richard Prince Lemon Fizz Arizona Ice Tea can at Le Baron at The Pearl Saturday Night
Snarkitecture at Sunset, Design Miami
Primary Projects / Crooks & Castles presented “Asif’s Gunsâ€, a pop-up installation in Wynwood, showcasing more than 300 firearms handcrafted from cardboard by Miami artist Asif Farooq
Winner of Art Observed’s Best Vehicular DJ Booth for 2012 at Nada’s Pool Party
A John Chamberlain sculpture at Botanical Gardens Miami
Jeffrey Deitch’s MoCA beach party featuring Peter Bjorn and John in concert at the Raleigh
amFAR’s party at the Soho Beach House Thursday Night
A Will Ryman sculpture at the Botanical Park
A local edition jellyfish lamp at Journal Gallery afterparty at the Hotel Victor, Saturday Night
After party with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth for KURT at the James Hotel Thursday night
“Blah, Blah, Blah ..” by Mel Bochner
Alchemist Party for Kitsune at the 1111 Lincoln Road a Herzog De Muron Designed Parking Garage the band is DWNTWN
Pharrell and Craig Robbins at Design Miami
Le Baron’s Thursday night popup at Orchid Circus in the design district
Sunset at the Standard Hotel Sunday night at Le Baron’s BBQ
-V. Artzimovich
