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Article: Manhattan beach: a cheat sheet for the celebrity-studded, money-drunk, ever more decadent fifth annual Art Basel Miami Beach art fair.
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- December 11, 2006
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BY THE END OF THE week, hundreds of private jets will head to Miami (150 from NetJets alone) as the world's wealthiest people, and the art dealers who serve them, descend for Art Basel Miami Beach and its--as of this year--thirteen satellite art fairs. The Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the New Museum send contingents; over 100 city galleries take booths. In the past, it's a place to see Karl Lagerfeld storming out of the club B.E.D. (were his leather pants too tight to lounge?), burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz stripping in a rolling giant latex bubble, Eric Ripert serving picnic lunches on the beach, and Fischerspooner and Scissor Sisters playing for free. This year, the ...