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It's not a proper party during Art Basel without somebody getting naked. Last night, at the Interview Magazine event celebrating Argentine artist Pablo Reinoso's collaboration with Belvedere Vodka at the elegant Delano hotel, that someone was a perfectly tanned, older gentleman, who shed his clothes as part of Mariah Robertson's epic midnight performance. Robertson's piece began as a beautifully synchronized four person swimming routine unexpectedly commandeered by an a cappella group who treated the bewildered, but mesmerized crowd to a variety of Hanukah classics ("Havah Nagilah" an Interview party?) and a creative version of "Stand By Me." And just when things couldn't get any weirder, a ten person tribal band from the Bahamas emerged, circling the expansive pool with horns, whistles and drums. It's hard to say at what point the naked man appeared, but it was somewhere between a mariachi trio materializing and PS1's Klaus Biesenbach grabbing the mic to urge the crowd, in his charming German accent, to "Get to zee beach!"
Guests -- including Performa's RoseLee Goldberg, artist Brendan Fowler, LAND's Shamim Momin, Bravo's Work of Art contestants Trong and Abdi and Interview's Christopher Bollen -- engaged in the closest thing the art world would see to a conga line, to the ocean where the concert continued. The party was packed, and it was only a lucky few who were able to push through the backed up door outside to make in time to hit the open bar before it was over. Reinoso, who earlier in the day told us that he loves working with liquor clients "because of the parties," must have been pleased, because what a party -- Hanukah songs and all -- it was.
