Party Like It’s 99º
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There won’t be a dearth of parties during Art Basel Miami Beach, which starts on Thursday. In this, the festival’s third year, some 30,000 attendees and almost 200 galleries are expected to descend on south Florida.
Art Basel Miami Beach is as much a social happening as a cultural or business one. Besides the private occasions for imbibement, there are semipublic ones. Some companies – including Song Airlines – will be hosting events to promote themselves to what they perceive as an exclusive clientele.
New Yorkers enamored of the location may want to drop by the Miami Beach Public Library on December 1. The Art Video Lounge cocktail reception is being sponsored by a $100 million Miami-based real-estate project, Artecity, that is striving to create business and social ties to the area cultural institutions.
The developer behind Artecity, its CEO and managing partner, Alessandro Ferretti, is constructing a block-long residential community in the South Beach cultural district. It will include upscale condominiums and a restored Art Deco Governor Hotel, built by Henry Hohauser in 1939.
This summer the developers announced the Artecity Card, “an innovative super-membership” for buyers in the development. Institutions associated with Artecity include the Bass Museum, the Miami City Ballet, the Miami Light Project, the New World Symphony, and the Wolfsonian Museum. Artecity will have 180 residential units with prices starting at $200,000.
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NOTES The Kenyon Review has chosen Seamus Heaney to receive its 2004 Award for Literary Achievement. To the utter delight of the editor, David Lynn, Mr. Heaney donated the $5,000 prize back to the magazine. … The 29-year-old French conductor Fabien Gabel has won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and L15,000 ($28,230) by beating out 19 other quarterfinalists from across Europe. … The Rema Hort Mann Foundation has awarded $10,000 grants for 2004 to artists Frank Benson, Liz Bougatsos, Ellen Harvey, Valerie Hegarty, Adam Putman, Mika Rottenberg, and Gedi Sibony. … The University of North Texas Press has awarded J. T. Barbarese the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and $1,000 for “The Black Beach,” which it will publish in April.
