As we slopped through the slush and dirty snow in New York this morning, we longed for the days we spent just weeks ago at the art fairs and parties in Miami and Miami Beach. Looking back at our Miami Basel snapshots of art world players and celebs schmoozing on rooftops, at pool’s edge, and under palm trees, we shuffled through the selection to pull together a colorful mix. From Pharrell Williams and Craig Robins previewing Design Miami, Tilda Swinton sporting a Ryan McGinley-designed sweater at the Pringle of Scotland party and Isabella Rossellini receiving the “Key to the City” of Miami Beach to Nate Lowman and Jeffrey Deitch hanging out at the LCD Soundsystem concert and Paper’s Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits hosting Shepard Fairey at their Friends With You/Pharrell Williams party, the two cities pulsated with fun and culture.
Click through below for a gallery of images.
Pharrell Williams and Design Miami co-founder Craig Robins at Design Miami
Sam Borkson of Friends With You
Tilda Swinton in Ryan McGinley-designed sweater at Pringle of Scotland/Serpentine Gallery party at the Webster
Shepard Fairey and Paper Magazine’s Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits at Paper Mag party
Kembra Phafler and Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black band mate at The Nude as Muse event at The Standard
Andrew Andrew at the Paper Mag party
Assume Vivid Astro Focus with his Wynwood Walls maze
ArtNews editor Robin Cembalist and Paper Mag’s Carlo McCormick at Sanrio’s Small Gift Miami exhibition
KAWS signing his new Rizzoli monograph at the Standard
Nate Lowman and MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch at the LCD Soundsystem concert at the Raleigh
Flavorpill Miami managing editor Omar Sommereyns and Celine Lee at the Swarovski Crystal Palace dinner at the Soho Beach House
MOCA North Miami director Bonnie Clearwater flanked by Cartier execs in the Cartier booth in the Art Basel Miami Beach VIP Lounge
Andre Balazs, Marco Brambilla, and Jefferson Hack at the Brambilla outdoor screening at the Standard
Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain at the LCD Soundsystem concert at the Raleigh
Art Basel Miami Beach directors Annette Schonholzer and Marc Speigler at the Wolfsonian
New Museum director Lisa Phillips and Richard Woods at Woods’ pop-up show, Nice Life 4, in Miami Beach
Isabella Rossellini receiving the “Key to the City” of Miami Beach at the Wolfsonian from Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora
Ryan McGinness with an exotic dancer at Club Madonna for his Women: The Blacklight Paintings event
Soho House curators Francesca Gavin and Johnny Yeo at Soho Beach House artists brunch
ARTINFO contributor Emma Allen and editor Andrew Goldstein in the ABMB VIP Lounge
Hank Willis Thomas with his art project in The Nude as Muse at the Standard
Hannes Koch, Natalie Kovacs, and Alexander Gorlin with rAndom’s Swarm Light at Carpenter Workshop Gallery’s booth at Design Miami
Atsuko Ninagawa with Soju Tao painting at Take Ninagawa booth at Nada
Tracey Ryans and Sanford Biggers at Kehinde Wiley’s Fish Fry at the Shore Club
Jhim Lamoree and Annet Gelink at the Raleigh
Judd Foundation’s Bernard Leibov and Barbara Hunt McLanahan at Design Miami
Artlog’s Manish Vora at the Raleigh
Dutch designers Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk at the Swarovski Crystal Palace dinner at the Soho Beach House
W Magazine editor Stefano Tonchi at Design Miami
Bronx Museum of Art director Holly Block and Public Art Fund director Nicholas Baume with a Takashi Murakami painting at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Aaron Young, Christopher Bollen and friend, and Klaus Biesenbach at the Pringle of Scotland/Serpentine Gallery party at the Webster
Martin Graf von Schaesberg in Galerie Gmurzynska’s booth at ABMB