I had an invite to Art Basel's Vernissage, and Melissa had class (grad studies in ad design), so I tried to team up w/ my friend Ruba Katrib, who is assistant curator at the MOCA in Miami. at first the timing couldn't be more perfect. we ran into each other at the entrance but then i was told i had to check my camera, and that slight chance of running finding each other once inside were near to slim. I ended up looking at all the different characters rather then the artwork while in there. the wide array a plastic surgeries on overly tan Russian woman wearing couture(price wise) cocktail dress in either black or the brightest,tackiest colors and fabrics, was like looking at art. I never saw such diversity of highs and lows in just about everything from the 'making it one day at a time' artist student, to men wearing shoes that cost their college tuition. One thing i did love was how everyone dressed to the 9's (in their own way).
Melis and I met up and went to the Aqua art Hotel VIP preview, which was also crowded, but no where near the caliber that the convention center was. I went there another day and will show pictures from then...i wasn't able to get very good photo's during the preview.
We Hit up the Sagamore hotel where the Olaf Breuning sand sculpture opening and party was, and there i met Melissa's good friend Nicole Doren(below on the left) who oversees Olaf's instillation and exhibit at the hotel, and we all headed down the beach to see Yelle perform! she's that little spec way out in the distance in the second photo....didn't care to get all up close an personal.
farethy well.
