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Welcome to your multimedia blog for Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 and beyond. ArtBaselDaily brings new installments of photos, text, illustration and audio slide shows updated several times a day. ArtBaselDaily is a unique and inventive report on Art Basel Miami Beach... ArtBaselDaily´s team: Tomáš . Jill . Connie . Sabrina . Angeline Marie ... Enjoy ABMB 2006 (and browse thru previous years) with Joy / Alegria / Radost / Freude / Simcha.
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Produced & curated by Hope of Hope International~ Once again this soiree got the buzz for being the best private party of Art Basel Week. Labels: 2007, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Miami Beach, Photography Tomas Loewy, Tomas Loewy Art

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piece adapted for two dozen pianos, xylophones, an airplane propeller,
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Art exhaustion.
Party exhaustion.
Event exhaustion.
Wonderment exhaustion.
In a week we´ll be looking back to this Art Basel as great, and looking forward to next year with big impatient eyes.
Right now, we are glad it´s over.
Nobody can take so much joy without falling apart. And already missing the excitement at the same time.
Go back in time day by day, blog entry by blog entry, post by post.
We loved every minute of Art Basel Miami Beach 2005. We hope you do too. EnJoy!
Cheers.
tomáš & jill
Click on any of the photos to see the full gallery of this event. Or click HERE to see a slide show. Lean Back and enjoy.
For the whole photo gallery line up look to the long list on the right side. Smile and be good.
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only to find Adam and colleagues locking it up. I literally fell down on my knees in despair. 
Adam asked me how sad I was and I drew a giant globe--the radius of which was the length of my arms
. "Very sad," I yelled as he headed to his car.
I didn't want to lay the guilt on too heavy, so I let him go. 
He promised to put up a video of the house in action on his website
Jill
More photos of Jill´s despair here
Or... A slide show, so you don´t have to click thru.
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Using shipping containers as their four walls, 20 galleries from around the world set up shop just behind Collins Avenue and just in front of the boardwalk around 21st Street in Miami Beach. The area is quickly becoming a hub of luxurious prominence, with the magnificent new Setai (see LaChapelle´s extravaganza) on one side of the gigantic parking lot and W residences & hotel ("from 700,000 to 15 million") on the other.
One gallery took this opportunity to crush their container and present it as their very customized, site specific installation.
Another container screened a video of a camera falling 17,000 feet out of a plane. The gallery had an addendum to their installation in the form of a giant Bourek in the park as an isolated sculpture. I love boureks--filo pastries common in central europe--so I ran over to go see it.
This bourek is an airplane flattened and rolled, held together with a canvas strap and standing on its side!
Like everything at Art Basel, it was very sleek, very hip, very now. In case walking in and out of each of these shipping containers might wear you out a lovely cafe was set up in the center of the exhibit.
And if you wanted to lounge about,
in an even more recumbent position, there was an audio installation replete with reclining beach chairs and iPODs.
Only in Miami, I say.
Even if the iPODs were attached with a security wire....
jill
More photos here.
Or slide show here.
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Some putting forward radical medical or personal advice 
Some very personal cries of protest when you only get minimum wage to hang around all day.
Or maybe his brother with the shirt "I´m only in it for the money" was on lunch break.
The fair was succesful. Many of the 80 gallery owners represented at NADA sold out their collection during the preview viewing. That left them with 5 days to schmooze with new/old artists, friends, curators, dealers with perhaps a little less pressure than usual. Still, they looked worn out by the end and I think will be happy to keep conversations to essentials only for a couple of weeks.
Apparently, NADA people were envied by Art Basel Convention Center people for having access to daylight during the grueling days chained to their booth. No one said the Art World was a bowl of cherries.
tomáš and jill
More photos to give you an impression here.
Or the lazy persons version... a slide show.
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in Wynwood.


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. Abramovic´s tryst with a skeleton lying on top of her
also has its moments.
are just, well, their shadows shadows.Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy

Cool idea, man!
The whole photo gallery is here.
And the slide show is here.
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But at least we got Kiehl's generous goodie bags, smartly taking them upon arrival, instead of assuming that they would be there when we left. This was some serious loot amidst the cut-throat Art Basel goodie bag hierarchy. 
Jill and Tomáš
Photo gallery of this event is here. As always look to the long list of photo galleries to the right for more visual goodies.
Or lean back and let the slide show entertain you.
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Was there something missing from our lives? Yes. Art. The main reason why all these masses are here. After seeing Pulse, the Design District shows, CIFO, the Wynwood collections, the MAC, the Video lounge and more tidbits here and there it was time to hit the
exhibition floor, literally.
With 270 galleries present, representing 2000 artists from around the world, the convention center can easily overwhelm the weaker among us.
Jill and Tomas
The photo gallery is here.
Same photos in a slide show by clicking here.
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(The New Yorkers invited to this party were certainly not average, however).
Whatever, who am I to say.Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy

with muffins and strawberries on the rear lawn looking out onto the bay. Well heeled folks chatted and dined alongside Bozidar Brazda's Bogus Fellow Journey Man
--an installation consisting of a fallen parachutist, his reading material and his parachute caught in a tree. Somewhat gruesome but no challenge for the seduction of the modern white palace, the bright florida sun, and the mimosas.
Inside, we were handed 2 packets of a self-guided tour--one for each floor. The house's exhibit changes every year just in time for Art Basel. This year, there are almost 35 international visual artists and a variety of video artists represented within 30 rooms of the house (and the garden). All but 10 of the pieces were created in the 21st Century! The others are from the 1990's. Rosa curates and collects all the pieces herself and is clearly dedicated to supporting contemporary international artisits!On one of her tours, she explained that the theme running through this year's exhibit is cultural debris.
Building on the idea that we cannot escape pop culture and the images therein, artists are again appropriating those which may have already been appropriated by our culture and repackaging within a new context, adding or teasing out additional significance.
On another tour, Rosa admitted that she has told her kids to "bulldoze the house when I'm gone. Who's going to want to buy a 16,000 square foot house with one bedroom?" Originally, this was the house she lived in. She kept buying more art that rendered her furniture invasive, so she kept removing the furniture and eventually had to buy the house across the street so that she could keep her bed. She told us this, she says, "just so we don't worry about her [welfare]." One of the attendees said, "we were concerned."By leading the tours herself with an infectious enthusiasm for life and art, she hopes to create a situation such that when people find themselves in a museum looking at contemporary works, they won't find it a hostile experience.I found her collection and the way she shared it to be tranformative.
Although this is quite certainly a private collection, Rosa says the house is open to the public all year round. Just get in touch with her and make a reservation!
Jill
More photos of Rosa's House 2005 here. Or the same pictures in a slide show. For validation of the claim that almost everything changes in Rosa's house between Art Basels check Rosa's house in 2004, see Rosa's party in 2004 (it ain't going to happen again she says, 500 invitees, 1500 showed up) and Rosa's house in 2003. And many more photo galleries listed on the right.
Jill also did a wonderful house tour of Rosa´s house on the informative & entertaining Apartment Therapy site. Read the comments, some of them are hilarious ("Hey, toward the end of the slideshow was that a dead maid lying face down in the yard?"), but most deal with the fact that we all wish we´d live like Rosa, combing art & daily life in such a beautiful setting.
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, and that the ex-movie theater was lit up
like a supermarket, this was actually a wonderful party. The crowd was happy.
Free vodka and arriving at the end of the evening are both helpful in reaching this end, but still.
Finally, people started approaching me to ask if I were a relative of Frida. Would a relative of Frida carry on the tradition of a hairdo? Doubtful, but you never know and I guess it doesn't hurt to ask. Gallery with lots of light and Swarovski crystal hanging in the palace here.
And the slide show to enjoy in style with or without a cigar.
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but that didn't stop what seemed to be about 1500 people at the Art Nexus event in Downtown Miami just beyond the gigantic Christmas Tree
near Bayside. These invites were not easy to come by, but with persistence, there is nothing that can stop ArtBaselDaily from getting into an event
especially if there is food involved after the long period of my near starvation at the Surface Magazine event.
I keep forgetting that Miami must have more good dancers as a percent of the general population than any other city in this US of A.Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy
on one of the Sunset Islands. It was the best lighted event of the Art Basel parties we went to. 
as there was plenty of that.
Where?
There!
Really?Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy

when you ride it...Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy

, but inside the collection is just great.

a small (by Margulies´ standards) but excellent photo collection.Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy
The opening of the Perrotin Gallery in Miami's hot Wynwood area was reason enough for a great crowd to gather in the semi-underground on loan Le Baron nightclub (usually it's in Paris). The club found comfort in the basement of the Shelborne Hotel in what is normally a 70's karaoke bar. The bar has supposedly the largest amount of karaoke songs available (14,000? 40,000?) and a stage with an instrument collection from which to choose, in order to enhance your Karaoke performance. Tonight was all dance
and no karaoke. The bar owner held court from on stage, next to the 80's DJ and looked to be enjoying himself.
who gave us all the sought-after entry buttons we could handle. Be nice to each other, people.
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... and more woows.


. What happened to "my" table and chairs? No worry. I´m sure they´ll bring them back after this madness subsides.
Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy
All this and more can be used to describe the first of what will surely be a long tradition of annual Miami design fairs. The Moore Building--one of the wonderful original structures in Miami's Design District--hosted the presentations by 14 furniture and design galleries from around the world. They could not have had a better setting or a better audience.
For more coverage, check out ApartmentTherapy
what class.
P.S. Click here to see the photo gallery. Or choose one of the many themed photo galleries corresponding to the events from sidebar. Here is the same event as a slide show, so you don´t have to have your fingers do the clicking.
Labels: 2005, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Beach, Photography, Photography Art Basel, Photography Tomas Loewy