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Attending Art Basel Miami Beach

Roy Zipstein Inside Cesar Pelli's long-awaited and controversial Carnival Center for the Performing Arts

Photo: Roy Zipstein

Miami was founded on the fun-above-all principle of nightclubs, and the idea that the august Swiss art fair would pick the city as its sole satellite has a certain loopy logic. Despite the fair’s focus on edgy contemporary art, Basel itself was (and remains) the polite embodiment of old-line Europe, with Miami the tropical frontier--and the ideal blank canvas.

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Inspired by: Art Basel — by Tom Austin, Published Nov. 2006

Hotels (9)

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    The National Hotel South Beach

    The National Hotel is a stylish blend of two eras—and both are camera-ready. The 1939 landmark is festooned in Art Deco details, from the silver cupol... More
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    Gansevoort Miami Beach

    Perched at the buzzier end of Miami Beach’s main entertainment strip, Collins Avenue, this sprawling blue-and-white hotel is like a nautical space shi

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    The Standard, Miami

    Picturesque, serene and located on Miami Beach, the Standard spa offers the perfect wellness getaway. At the spa, you can revel in all types of hydrot

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    Fontainebleau Resort & Spa Miami Beach

    This crescent-shaped landmark hotel has a longstanding reputation for grandeur. Recently, more than $200 million was poured into an elaborate renovati

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    Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach

    A sweeping porte cochere greets visitors at this graceful Modernist hotel from the 1940s, which also functions as a contemporary art gallery. The mini

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    Shore Club South Beach

    Nearly 10 years after its splashy opening, the Shore Club remains one of the top spots in Miami to ogle beautiful people modeling the latest designer

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    Delano Hotel

    When Ian Schrager opened the Delano, a revamped 1940s Art Deco building, in 1995, it was considered a brave, even misguided move, as South Beach was t

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    The Raleigh

    A 1940 Art Deco masterpiece that served as a backdrop for many Esther Williams films, this hotel delivers the grace and pure fantasy of old-line Miami

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    The Setai

    With some 40 floors, the Setai rises over South Beach like an opulent obelisk, serving as a playground for damn-the-expense visitors. Adrian Zecha bri

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Restaurants (4)

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    Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant

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    Karu&Y

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    Evolution

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    Enriqueta's Sandwich Shop

    Located in Wynwood, this no-nonsense Latin American dive is known for fresh, affordable food. Regulars overlook the shabby interior (think plastic cha

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Activities (25)

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    Standard Spa

    Located inside The Standard hotel in Belle Isle Park, this 12,500 square-foot holistic and hydrotherapy spa provides a broad range of relaxation treat

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    Knoll

    Workplace furnishings of modernist design have been this high-end retailer's sole focus for more than 70 years. From its downtown location in an histo

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    FENDI Casa

    Club House Italia meets Fendi design in this custom furniture line favoring luxe fabrics and monochrome color schemes. Sixty countries worldwide now p

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    Pulse Contemporary Art Fair

    New York, Los Angeles, and Miami play host to this annual arts celebration billing itself as “the leading US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary

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    NADA Art Fair

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    Design Miami/

    This international design show held annually in December has been a critical and popular hit since its 2005 inception. Inspiring a sister show in Basi

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    Rubell Family Collection

    It doesn't get more authentically Miami than an avant-garde contemporary art collection housed in a former DEA warehouse. Miami Beach hotel barons, th

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    Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

    Downtown North Miami plays host to this small, but mighty, Charles Gwathmey-designed museum completed in 1996. An earthy, angular structure lined dram

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    MoCa at Goldman's Warehouse

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    Marguiles Collection at the Warehouse

    Don't let its nondescript location fool you. Modestly housed in a converted warehouse, this privately owned collection occupies a massive warehouse in

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    Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

    Second only to the Lincoln Center in its super-sized proportions is Miami's world-class performing arts complex with a half-billion-dollar price tag.

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    Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

    The celebration and nurturing of Latin American art is the guiding passion behind this non-profit foundation established in 2002. The "matriarch" of M

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    Scope Art Fair

    Founded by gallerists Alexis Hubshman and Peter Surace, the Scope Art Fair was first held in the Gershwin Hotel in New York back in 1991. In Miami, Sc

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    Ink Art Fair

    Founded in 2006, Ink Art Fair is sponsored by the International Fine Print Dealers Association, whose members specialize in offering original, contemp

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    Publix on the Bay

    Growing faster than any other supermarket chain in the United States, Publix still maintains the same commitment to individualized customer service th

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    Bass Museum of Art

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    Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium

    The Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium leaves its young patrons (and their parents) wide-eyed with its vast array of hands-on exhibits. Start you

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    Miami Art Museum

    If there were a poster child for the current melding of design and art in Miami, it would have to be Terence Riley, the new director of the Miami Art

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    Art Basel Miami Beach

    The citywide art-apalooza, which began in 2002 as an outgrowth of the renowned Swiss art fair, happens every year on the first weekend in December. Ga

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    Tomas Maier

    The Bottega Veneta designer is given to stocking an eclectic range of items, including high-end Santa Maria Novella shaving cream imported from Italy,

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    Genius Jones, South Beach

    This diminutive operation is the ultimate destination for luxe kids' gear. Just off Lincoln Road, the store carries Bugaboo baby strollers, Marc Jacob

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    Base

    Base is one of the hippest—and most ecumenical—stores in Miami, where each selection is more refined than the next. The young staff models the merch a

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    NiBa Home

    Owned by self-proclaimed design junkie Nisi Barryman, this shop has been helping locals design and furnish their spaces since 2004. Appropriately loca

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    Wolfsonian Museum at FIU

    Internationally acclaimed design museum.

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