Art Basel Miami Beach 2010

3 December 2010

Last week was so hectic, but I think I managed to come out on top...excuse the marathon four-day-blog, but here you go!

"Enjoy"...

I arrived in Miami on Tuesday after a pleasant trip. I dumped my bags in our apartment at the W and headed straight on out to the Rubell Collection with Lizzie and Roy.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Jason Rubell showed his collection of eight years from the age of 13 to 21 and he spotted Roy and signed his new book for him.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The first art work spotted was a pair of shoes worn by Abdullah...Miami is THE place for spotting fashion trends!
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Mathew Day Jackson and a very proud Don Rubell.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
We spotted some new artists...Katherine Andrews reflecting us as well as the Baldessari it was made for!
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The new hot chick in town (well LA) is Kaari Upson.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
I liked Analia Saban
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The most interesting being Marianne Vitale.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Amir Shariat took us to see Kaz Oshiro at Perriton and we bought one of his unbelievably detailed dust paintings. Lizzie and I met Kaz for the first time.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
We continued on to the White Cube party in the new Soho House which had a wonderful buzzy atmosphere we had time to talk and circulate which was very special. <br><br> Alex Logsdail, Roy and Lisa Reuben the faces of the next generation!
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The next day the excitement began... <br><br>Within the first hour we spotted a Stephen Shearer and Barnaby Furnas painting at Stuart Shave’s and then Glen Ligon at Thomas Dane and the most amazing Anj Smith at Hauser and Wirth all in the first hour. <br><br> One of our friends commented why bother visiting the fair at all as the galleries are British! <br><br> Modern Institute had a very nice artist called Michael Wilkinson, another brick in the wall pictured here.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
At Tanya Bonakdar we spotted a Haim Steinbach to die for hope this goes to a happy home.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
We bumped into the very happy and contented Maleki boys, Fatima had given them a break! <br><br> We also bought works by Michael St John at Andrea Rosen and some great Cory Arcangel works at Team. We hope to see them in his Whitney show next year.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
A wonderful photo of Andrea Rosen looking incredibly stormy against a Wolfgang Tillman's inkjet print.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
I was happy to bump into Jonathan Viner and Gilbert Lloyd who I introduced to each other last year they were happily strolling around the fair together. <br><br> Breaking News!!!! Marc Glimcher announced to me that Pace are moving to London!!!!!
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Barry McGee doing book signing for his friends...
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The one that got away was the wonderful Jim Lambie.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Tiffany bought her first work by Garth Weiser at Casey Kaplan and Roy bought a lovely Seth Price to add to his collection. <br><br> The evening was quiet I had a lovely dinner with Zwirner Gallery oblivious of all the circus going on around us, it was very hard to hang out and chat as in previous years as there were so many random people and I had no idea who they all were, it was all a bit like a circus, I did not really enjoy this side of things.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The next day was Nada art fair which was I thought quite wonderful. <br><br> We bumped into Ron Arad who had done a talk at the Design Fair the night before... we were sad to have missed it.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
NADA was excellent, still lots of discoveries to make and a very professional fair.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
We discovered a lovely artist who intricately draws and sculpts collections of books called Ryan Brown with Y Gallery from NYC
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
The Hole had also some interesting artists, including Paper Rads' Ben Jones and his new rave doggy bench.<br><br> I am enjoying learning about Kathy’s and Meghan's program.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Tiffany loved the work of Debo Eilers at On Stellar Rays. I also thought really vibrant and good.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Loved Anya Kieler's new work with Rachel Uffner
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
We were lucky to acquire some more Dan Shaw–Town process drawings from Christopher Crescent for the collection. Dan was happy to be there in Miami...his work went down a storm and the booth sold out!
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Tiffany and Jill take the load of before heading off to Pulse...
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
We were on a roll! <br><br> Pulse was very chaotic and hard to fathom. However Yossi Milo’s stand stood out to me and the Pieter Hugo work was one of the best I thought.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Angel Delgado at Nina Menocal gallery
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Then Michael’s for lunch and straight to the OHWOW show in the Design District, where there were two shows, one by OhWow and their friends, another curated by the Alex Gartenfeld
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Raphael had designed the signage and is seen here hanging with a Josh Tonsfeldt towel which was in Alex's show.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Both shows were really good and vibrant.