Out & About
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With so much to see and do this week in Miami, keeping up requires a plan. Several Art Basel Miami Beach staffers are doing yoga on the beach each morning. The head of the fair, Samuel Keller, has been spotted running a sunrise, just hours after hanging out at the bar at the Raleigh Hotel.
Some make it through the day by anticipating the fun of the evening. “It’s overwhelming,” artist Chuck Close said while touring the main art fair. “I’m looking forward to my first mojito tonight.”
Drinks were available at the fair, too, but the prices were dear. Glasses of Perrier Jouet champagne were being poured for $13 each. Coffee was $5 a cup.
Conscientious revelers have created spreadsheets to keep track of all their evening invites — many have received invites for more than 20 events a night and try to make it to five or six. Hosts have included the former Museum of Modern Art architecture curator Terence Riley, who held a party at his home last night; the watchmaker Audemars Piguet, which held a dinner for art adviser Kim Heirston Wednesday; the public art nonprofit Creative Time; Deitch Projects, and O Property Collection, a luxury development group that brought Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones to Casa Tua last night to launch their latest property, Dellis Cay, a private island in Turks and Caicos.
Los Angeles artist Marina Kappos, 33, a Yale MFA who creates her own stencils with tape and uses paint rollers, is limiting her nighttime outings so she can be in tip-top shape to meet collectors at the booth of I-20, her New York dealer, which is showing her work as part of the Art Nova section of the main fair.
New Yorkers spotted included Clarissa Bronfman, Lyor Cohen, William Fleischer, Thelma Golden, Jerry Speyer, Melville Straus, and Evelyn Tompkins.