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right: David Salle’s Patrick Swimming Alone, 2012.
Paint the Town F Hobnob with artists, celebrities, and the international jet set at Art Basel Miami Beach. by Leila ni M a r ie La bong
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or a few days each winter, highpowered art dealers (Larry Gagosian), museum honchos (Jeffrey Deitch, director of LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art), celebrity collectors (P. Diddy and Catherine Zeta-Jones), Damien Hirst disciples, emerging-art enthusiasts, fans of cutting-edge design, and art-curious scenesters break from their hibernation and flock to sun-baked south Florida for the world-renowned contemporary art show art basel miami beach (ABMB). The 11th annual to-do paints the town, so to speak, Dec. 6–9 (miamibeach.artbasel.com). In the who’s who of San Francisco art and design circles, “Are you going to Miami this year?” is a rhetorical question, a kind of subliminal gauntlet thrown down during industry chitchat. For ABMB neophytes and N OV E M B E R 2 012