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Levi's Hosts 'Shape What's To Come' Event at Art Basel

Photo Credit: Diana Levine Levi's hosted their first event at Art Basel this year and we were there to get the inside scoop on the denim retailers foray into the artsy affair. The event, ...

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Art Basel Music Highlights

Photo Credit: Diana Levine AOL Music had the privilege of connecting with many of our favorite acts at Art Basel 2010 -- all of whom performed during the annual global exhibition in Miami. For ...

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AndrewAndrew Hit Up SPIN + MOCA's Art of Ping-Pong Party at the Delano

Though most of the PAPER staff were dragging by Saturday, special correspondents AndrewAndrew were still out moving and shaking on the fourth night of Art Basel Miami. Andrews stopped by MOCA and ...

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Mia Moretti's Art Basel Diary Part IV

As Art Basel Miami wraps up, we sadly bid adieu to DJ Mia Moretti's Basel photo diary, which has been our little ray of voyeuristic sunshine all week long. Thanks to these diaries, we've now know ...

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Documentary About Andy Warhol's Gang Premieres at Art Basel

Ultra Violet, William John Kennedy and Marie Kennedy. Photo by Henry Perez One of the best -- and most surreal evenings -- of Art Basel came on Saturday night with the last gasp of the fair, the ...

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Russell and Danny Simmons Host Party for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and his older bro, artist Danny Simmons, hosted a party for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, a collaboration between the liquor brand and Rush Philanthropic Arts ...

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Kehinde Wiley's "Catch 'em Fry 'em" at the Shore Club

For the seventh year in a row, artist Kehinde Wiley rented a large fishing boat on Saturday to take friends to catch fish in the choppy waters off the Florida coast for his Sunday night fish fry.

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Daniel Arsham Discusses His "Alter" Exhibit

Few Miami artists have had the staying power of Daniel Arsham on the international art scene. Although he's now based in New York, the multi-talented Arsham is enjoying his sixth solo show with ...

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Chloe Spring 2011 Fashion Show at Art Basel 2010

Chloé hosted a private fashion show of their Spring 2011 collection by the pool of the trendy Soho House in Miami as part of the Art Basel festivities. An intimate gathering of fashion ...

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AOL + Paper Host a Brunch for Shepard Fairey

Overlooking a stunning vista of the Biscayne Bay at the Mondrian Hotel, AOL and Paper Magazine co-hosted a brunch yesterday in honor of artist and graffiti renegade Shepard Fairey, who served as the...

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Lacoste Hosts an Art Basel Party to Celebrate Elysee Prize

On Friday night Lacoste hosted a party atop the Delano Hotel during Art Basel Miami to celebrate and announce the winner of the 2010 LACOSTE Élysée Prize. A well-needed break from the ...

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Francisco Costa Would Prefer No Art On His Walls

As part of Assouline's Design Talks series, Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa joined W's editor in chief Stefano Tonchi, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic and architect John Pawson for an ...

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Great Scot! Tilda Swinton Holds Court at the Pringle of Scotland Party

Celebrating the "195 Collaborations" between Pringle of Scotland, the iconic knitwear brand, and the Serpentine Gallery, the London art institution, a stylish mix of artists, gallerists, curators,...

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Isabella Rossellini Seduces at Art Basel

After her success with her series of Sundance videos called Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini created a second series called Seduce Me. The model turned actress held a cocktail affair at The ...

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AndrewAndrew Hit Up Suzanne Geiss and Tony Goldman's Night with Joey Arias

Paper's favorite double-trouble reporters AndrewAndrew are down in Miami for Art Basel and just sent in this video report from Suzanne Geiss and Tony Goldman's party honoring Assume Astro Vivid ...

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Marco Brambilla's Epic Party at the Standard

At the Standard Miami's dockside premiere screening of Marco Brambilla's "EVOLUTION (Megaplex)", the list of invited dignitaries -- Michael Stipe, Todd Eberle, Sean MacPherson -- put on 3D aviators...

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About Last Night, Part Three! What Went Down After-Dark at Miami Art Basel

Michael Stipe and Renzo Rosso at Marco Brambilla's 3D screening of "Evolution" at the Standard Hotel TGIF, indeed. The art crowd went bananas last night at a slew of shindigs and ...

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Ryan McGinness Brings the Art Crowd to a Strip Club

Although the online reviews aren't pretty for Club Madonna, a strip joint in Miami Beach, a crowd of beautiful people overflowed onto the sidewalk trying to gain entry into artist Ryan ...

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No Age Rocked the Opening Night Party for the Fountain Art Fair

Fountain Art Fair held its opening night party last night in Miami. Lo-fi rockers Band in Heaven along with headliners No Age put on quite the rowdy performance you'd expect at a DIY-style art ...

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Charlotte Ronson Talks About Being an Art Basel Virgin and Her Crazy Family Holidays

Charlotte Ronson's kicked off her Art Basel experience by hosting an after-party at the Mondrian Hotel last night for the opening of Gallery I/D's "This Time in America: Part I" exhibition. ...

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Pharrell Backstage with N.E.R.D.

N.E.R.D. have been pummeling through the competition the last few years, thanks in part to the ingenuity of frontman Pharrell Williams. The musician-turned-fashion guru and art aficionado, along ...

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Mia Moretti's Art Basel Photo Diary: Part 2

Photo Credit: Patrick McMullan Mia Moretti's been making the rounds at Art Basel in Miami this week, DJing PAPER +AOL's party at FriendsWithYou's "Rainbow City" last night and hitting up the ...

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Wall Street: The Wynwood Walls Opening

The art world likes to run in groups (certainly, movements and private circles, but also gangs and tribes), and there's been no stronger pack in recent memory than the close-knit group who ...

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Everything's Coming Up Rosen: Scenes From Aby Rosen's Dinner and After-Party

Standing at the bar of Solea last night, Aby Rosen -- of Lever House in New York, the W South Beach and a serious art collection -- took in a curated crowd and observed, "Last year, it was a bit ...

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Behind the Scenes Photos - Day 2! - at Art Basel Miami Beach 2010

As Art Basel Miami continues to take flight, photographer Elizabeth Lippman has been on hand to capture all of the glamorous action. In the second installment of her behind-the-scenes snapshots ...

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Perry Farrell Leads Hanukkah Dance Party at Art Basel Miami

Perry Farrell can do no wrong, it seems. The legendary Jane's Addiction frontman and Lollapalooza founder has long taken a page from the David Bowie playbook, reinventing himself according to ...

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Peaches and Transvestite Porn Star Shock Art Basel Miami Crowd

Bringing her usual brand of electro-shock-rock to Miami Beach, Peaches performed at an invite-only laser show at the Moore Space on Thursday night. The event was so secret that many attendees ...

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The NADA Sculpture Garden Party Brings Out the Ladies

It was ladies night at Canyon Ranch Living, a sprawling North Beach resort where collectors, artists and exhibitors gathered at the NADA party to celebrate the satellite fair's first ever ...

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More Photos from AOL + Paper Event: Pharrell w/ N.E.R.D at Friends With You's Rainbow City

Pharrell Williams / N.E.R.D at Friends With You's Rainbow City in the Miami Design District: Long time collaborators Pharrell Williams and Miami art collective, Friends With You, joined forces ...

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Synchronized Swimmers and a Conga Line at the Interview Magazine Party

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 ...

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Hello Kitty Invades Miami at SANRIO's "Small Gift Miami" Exhibit

Pole dancers and tattoo parlors are not what usually come to mind when you think of Hello Kitty, Chococat, Keroppi, and other Sanrio kid-friendly characters. But that was precisely part of the ...

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Neither Too Hot, Nor Too Cold, Jennifer Rubell Walks Us Through Her "Just Right" Installation

Artist Jennifer Rubell thinks Goldilocks is a "parable for contemporary art-making," so she created an interactive installation at the Rubell Family Collection where guests invited to use milk, ...

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About Last Night Part Deux! The Miami Art Basel 2010 Edition

With Miami Art Basel in full swing, creative-minded folk and the art-dealers who love them were taking it to the streets for a bevvy of smashing events last night. Here is a roundup of the best bits: ...

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N.E.R.D. Alert: Pharrell Performs at PAPER + AOL's FriendsWithYou Party

When Pharrell Williams insists that "all you artsy fartsy people, squat down," you can rest assured that all the artsy fartsy people will indeed squat down. "Now jump up!" and, just like that, even ...

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Checking in with Emily Haines & James Murphy

Photo credit: Diana Levine On Wednesday night, AOL + Paper Magazine caught up with Emily Haines from Metric, and James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem, in Miami during the Art Basel festival. We chatted ...

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LCD Soundsystem, Naomi Campbell and "Drunk Girls" at Jeffrey Deitch's Annual Party on the Beach

One of the more festive rituals of Art Basel Miami Beach is Jeffrey Deitch's annual party and beach concert at the Raleigh, which has changed somewhat with his transition from New York...

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Metric Fight for the Right to Party at Miami Art Festival

They didn't have Auto Tune. There were no circus acts or costume changes. The stage setup wasn't designed with frills or flare. There was just Metric -- and the Canadian indie band gave Miami fans...

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Pharrell Williams' Guide to Miami

N*E*R*D frontman, and PAPER November issue cover boy, Pharrell Williams says his Art Basel Miami highlights have thus far have included checking out Marc Newson's Aquariva speedboat at the Standard...

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Bruce Weber On Haiti, The Kennedys and His Many, Many Pet Dogs

Bruce Weber at the Vanity Fair dinner, photographed by Patrick McMullan It's been a busy week for legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber. On Tuesday night, Vanity Fair threw the sometime ...

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Inside the Art Basel VIP Preview

Lance Armstrong and Anne Hansin On its original Swiss turf, the Art Basel preview is a fabled thing, with swarms of suited collectors and high profile advisors lining up well before the opening ...

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Mia Moretti's Miami Art Basel Diary: Part I

If you're in the NYC nightlife know, you've likely heard a ton about DJ Mia Moretti as of late. Moretti, who often performs with violinist Caitlin Moe, is in high demand right now, DJing regularly at...

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Off the Wall: Meet Eli Sudbrack of Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Brazilian-born and New York-based Eli Sudbrack is one-half of playful artist duo Assume Vivid Astro Focus. Here, he shows us the new graffiti murals they created for the outdoor Wynwood Walls ...

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Nicola Vassell Paces Herself at Art Basel

Since her days working with Jeffrey Deitch as director of the recently shuttered Deitch Projects, Nicola Vassell has been one of our favorite gals on the New York art scene. Now that she's the ...

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Street Sense: The Opening of Graffiti Gone Global's "Fresh Produce" Exhibit

Now in its fourth year, Graffiti Gone Global (GGG) presents 33 international street and graffiti artists in "Fresh Produce," an explosive exhibition in an 11,000-square-foot warehouse space in ...

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All Aboard! Marc Newson's Aquariva Docks at the Standard Hotel

Last night, the fun pageant that is the Standard Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach began in earnest with the hotelier Andre Balazs' celebration for one of Marc Newson's many ...

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Video Artist Marco Brambilla Evolves

Marco Brambilla was thinking big in "Civilization," his Hieronymus Bosch-inspired video collage that's spurred an ongoing conversation among the patrons ascending to the Boom Boom Room in the ...

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Pop Goes Kenny Scharf

Iconic pop artist http://www.kennyscharf.com/http://www.kennyscharf.com/ is heading down to Miami this year, where he'll be painting the town red-or more accurately, a blend of his signature, ...

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Art Basel Miami Takes to the Street

The biggest meme at Art Basel Miami 2010? Street art. While it would likely be hard to find an old-school contemporary mural artist who would admit to attending an "art fair," from the looks of ...

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Must Be 21 to Swim

If you've ever been to a party with an open bar, The Great Vodka River might your cup of... well, tea. The "river" is actually a mixed-media installation and performance by the young Russian artist ...

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Ryan McGinness's Painted Ladies

Starting his career as a graphic designer, Ryan McGinness realized the importance of symbols early on and developed his own vocabulary of visual signs and logos that get repeated throughout ...

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Terence Koh to Turn South Beach into a Bunny Vortex

Terence Koh, the unpredictable and mischievous New York-based installation and performance artist, plans to be predictably unpredictable and mischievous during Art Basel, installing his trademark ...

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Matt and Kim Take Miami

Matt and Kim, the boy-girl pop duo responsible for one of our favorite new records, the fun and jaunty Sidewalks, will be heading down to Miami to DJ a party at Bardot this Friday night. We caught ...

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Nicole Miller's Guide To Miami

New York-based fashion designer Nicole Miller has been coming down to Miami regularly for the past 20 years. In addition to checking in on her Collins Avenue boutique and spending time with her crew ...

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Help Yourself to Jennifer Rubell's Goldilocks-Inspired "Just Right"

Jennifer Rubell has always, to put it simply, thought big. The artist's large-scale food instillations have included everything from interpretations of the bible's Creation story -- in which ...

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Susan Sarandon on the Art of Ping-Pong

Once considered the low-stakes rec room sport of listless adolescents, Ping-Pong's been enjoying a revival as of late, thanks in part to Ping-Pong hideaways like New York City's SPiN. Academy ...

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Italian or Cuban? Designer Narciso Rodriguez Has Just the Spot for You in Miami

Though fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez says he's looking forward to spending Art Basel Miami perusing the galleries of Little Havana, one of his favorite things about visiting the city is its ...

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Sounds Like Art Basel

It's no CMJ, to be sure, but recently quite a few big-name musicians have treated Art Basel as a good excuse to come down to Miami, spend time by the pool, cozy up to art world bigwigs and play ...

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