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Basel Miami: Come for the Arts, Stay for the Leisure

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HIGH ART, HIGHER GUESTS Art Basel's Jr. Picassos get creative on a pommel horse
The party locusts have descended once again upon Miami for this year's Art Basel, the warm-weathered sister of Switzerland's annual showcase. That most attendees couldn't distinguish a John Currin from a Thomas Kinkade is irrelevant; Basel Miami is about kissing ass and taking names. The actual art portion of the extended weekend kicks off tomorrow, but the migratory rampage of underemployed luminaries, self-styled cognoscenti, publicists, and Euro hangers-on has been underway for days. Radar captured the early action in photos.

[Full gallery after the jump.]


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Where there are celebrities—or at least Donna Karan (far right) —there is Ingrid Sischy (far left), power-lesbian.

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Donna D'Cruz. Don't knock her, DJing without an iPod is, like, really hard.
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H.I.H. Princess Thi-Nga of Vietnam. We have no idea what H.I.H stands for, but anything that takes the emphasis off Thi-Nga is probably a good idea.
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Vanity Fair's style nymph Elizabeth Saltzman Walker at the Standard Miami.
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Art Kraut John Bock got a 7.8 from the notoriously stringent Russian judge.
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Bock's best Babyshambles impression.
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Visionaire's Cecelia Dean's dress and hotelier Andre Balazs's tan = synergy.
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No one knows how many hours Genevieve Jones (right) had to spend in front of the mirror to perfect her 27-degree head-cock, but it looks like her diligence paid off.
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Crystal queen Nadja Swarovski and starchitect Zaha Hadid at a private dinner, no doubt discussing last night's Breaking Bonaduce.
   12/06/06 5:50 PM
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