If the art world is a bubble, it’s a not a bad bubble to inhabit. On Tuesday, the night before the annual art fair Art Basel Miami Beach opened for V.I.P.s, a checklist of lavish parties were in full FOMO swing as revelers zoomed the causeways, hopping from one fabulous gathering to the next. W magazine hosted a dinner for the opening of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami at the waterfront manse of Petra and Stephen Levin (the same art-filled property that once belonged to A-Rod). gig in a parking lot in downtown Miami with his pal Virgil Abloh, the designer of the fashion brand Off-White. By 11 p.m., models, European art collectors, art advisers and socialites seemed bored of the raw bar overflowing with stone crabs and oysters, and thronged the stage where the band Francis and the Lights was performing.

Source: New York Times December 06, 2017 20:26 UTC