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Art Basel Miami Beach 2007

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Dec. 6, MIAMI—Outside ABMB before the doors opened: Girls in hot pants and stilettos, handing out "Shanghai in Art" fliers that raved about Lorenzo Rudolf and Pierre Huber's brainchild fair, ShContemporary. Never mind that Art Newspaper's front page that day reported Huber may be forced to resign from the Shanghai fair.

Dec. 6, MIAMI— Everything moves quickly at ABMB, leaving visitors with little time for sleep, let alone food. This year, fast fuel for weary fairgoers can be found at AXA Art's booth, where the AXA Art Power Bar is on offer. 

Dec. 5, MIAMI—Interior designer Thom Filicia of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame was spotted at the preview of ABMB.

Dec. 5, MIAMI—Earlier this week we told you about some of the snazziest Art Basel Miami Beach invites. Well—stop the presses on that one because the big winner has, shall we say, hatched. The invitation for a shindig thrown by LACMA (read, Eli Broad) for Jeff Koons is a black box tied with a shiny red ribbon inside of which is a shinier metallic red egg—a miniature parody of the Koons piece Cracked Egg (Blue) that Broad bought from Gagosian's London gallery earlier this year. Crack it open and the invite card is inside. The object rivals collector Peter Norton's annual art world gift—an artist edition he mails out to friends—and is the perfect arrival on Art Basel's first selling day for VIPs—when the early birds get the worms.

Dec. 4, MIAMI—Art Basel Miami Beach magazine, a special custom glossy put together for fair week and placed in limos and hotels, has accomplished the rare feat of resurrecting former president Richard Nixon, placing him at one of last year's chicest soirees, and photographing him with superstar designer Marc Newson for the magazine's party pic page. Wait a minute. That isn't Tricky Dick at all! It's collector Jean Pigozzi! Was the caption due to an editing error or Pigozzi's quirky sense of humor? After all, who better than a quirky collector to know how much ABMB values its dead presidents?