Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, December 3 - 7, 2012:
ART
— ARTINFO editor-in-chief Benjamin Genocchio gave a video tour of some of his favorite booths at Art Basel Miami Beach, including Paul Kasmin and Sean Kelly.
— While Ben Davis argued that memories of the often-chaotic art fair experience can be fleeting, he listed 15 works at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach worth remembering.
— Julia Halperin and Rachel Corbett reported on the low-key crowds and strong lower-market buys at Art Basel Miami Beach’s VIP preview day, and Judd Tully saw a sustained hunger for both emerging and established artists as the fair continued.
— This is also the week of the Miami satellite fairs, and Julia Halperin visited the collector-driven NADA and collaborative SEVEN, which featured galleries hit hard by Hurricane Sandy; while Rachel Corbett headed to the new indie Untitled and Wynwood’s Art Miami. ARTINFO also gave a video tour of PULSE Miami, stopping to talk with Ángel Marcos and Sam Messenger about the fair with international flair.
— After a day prowling the fairs comes the parties, and Ann Binlot reported from Miami on White Cube’s kick-off bash, Jonathan Horowitz’s “Free Store,” the Dom Pérignon Luminous Rosé exclusive gathering, and celebs who cruised the southeast coast.
— Also in Miami is something more risk-taking in the Bass Museum’s “Endless Renaissance,” and Scott Indrisek explored its six projects by six artists that upend history and expectations.
DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
— Janelle Zara gave her first impressions from the functional art-focused Design Miami/, with mid-century treasures and contemporary concepts.
— This Wednesday, prolific Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer died at the age of 104 in Rio De Janeiro, and Kelly Chan — Muji creative director Kenya Haragave a video interview with ARTINFO on his new project, “Architecture for Dogs,” designs just for canines, as part of Design Miami/.
— The former apartment of brutalist architect and Yale School of Architecture dean Paul Rudolphhit the market at $27.5 million.
— The Southern California Institute of Architecturereleased a massive online archive of lectures and symposia going back to 1974 and featuring architects like Frank Gehry, Louis Kahn, and Reyner Banham.
FASHION & STYLE
— While most of the ensembles at Art Basel Miami Beach failed to inspire, Ann Binlot photographed some attendees who brought a flourish to their fashion.
— Last weekend at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, Lady Gagapurchased 55 of the many Michael Jackson wardrobe and memorabilia items at the sale.
— For something dark and beautiful at Art Basel Miami Beach: jeweler Luis Moraisis selling handcrafted porcelain skulls from his studio.
— Louis Vuitton kicked off its stylish segment of Art Basel Miami Beachwith a capsule of travel-inspired objects.
— Nicholas Remsen thought Karl Lagerfeld’s Métiers d’Art collection for Chanel, shown this week at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland, had its romantic moments in Highland haute couture.
PERFORMING ARTS
— Bryan Hood declared DMX’s rendition of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” not only the best version of the song, but “the single greatest thing you will experience on the internet this month.”
— Jay-Z celebrated his 43rd birthday this week, and Craig Hubert revealed something you might not know about the rapper/Brooklyn Nets stakeholder: he created a shade of blue.
— Hints of the next film from the long-dormant Shane Carruthwere revealed in the trailer for “Upstream Color.”
— Among celebrity attendees of Art Basel Miami Beach this week was Rick Ross, who stopped by the Jack Shainman Gallery booth to purchase a Richard Mosse photograph.
— Director Jay Bulger spoke with Bryan Hood about his new documentary “Beware of Mr. Baker” on the British musician Ginger Baker’s forgotten brilliance.
VIDEO
— Lehmann Maupin sales director Carla Camachotook ARTINFO through her VIP preview Wednesday at Art Basel Miami Beach.