cris cab

Cris Cab's mellow sounds mixed with heavier dubstep and reggae influences have attracted the likes of Wyclef Jean and Pharrell Williams.

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holy ship!

Holy Ship! is a three-day mother load of all things electronic music, and when it sailed its maiden voyage from Fort Lauderdale, onto the waters of the Caribbean, we were there.

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The sun has set on the tenth Art Basel Miami Beach. Tents have disappeared overnight, and the Euros left a cigarette butt trail behind them. Although it still remains a mystery how a city with no noteworthy museums, and reputation for fleeting interest in just about anything other than basketball and beaches, can host an event of such proportions. But Miami has managed to put on quite the show. Here are our top five picks of what made this show worth the blisters on our feet.

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mr. brainwash

The thing about interviewing someone like Mr. Brainwash (MBW), is that you can’t help but think you're getting royally mind-fucked. The star of Exit Through the Gift Shop and the subject of never-ending speculation about his authenticity, is known to have walked a fine line between what is perceived to be art, and his version of it. Some dismiss his work as a minimally altered mass reproduction of images that are deeply rooted in our collective subconscious. His version lacks originality and substance, they say. But that has not stopped the Frenchborn aretist from carving out a niche as the one who makes art out of not making it.

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pharrell basel

Art Basel or not, the attention span of an average Miamian can easily be tied to the frequency of fake breast spotting (That's an actual sport down here). In other words, it ain’t that long. So last night, when Pharrell Williams presented the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award to Design Miami co-founder Craig Robbins, the boisterous audience was anything but focused on paying homage to the man credited with the renaissance of Design District.

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It is no surprise that Christian Dior tapped Fabiola Beracasa to host the opening of its pop-up shop at Art Basel, marking an unofficial launch of artist Anselm Reyle’s limited collection for the power brand. Beracasa worked for Dior’s special events department moons ago, and treating fashion as art is a part of her M.O, as the creative director of New York’s trendy gallery, The Hole.

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Bill Powers

You may know him as the smile-cracking judge on Bravo's Work of Art, but Bill Powers doesn’t merely do the show for shits and gigs. “My mission has always been to bring more people into the art world. I want to make everyone an elitist,” he explained, while touring the NADA show, one of Art Basel’s satellite fairs. Powers has set up shop at this visual carnival, which boasts an alternative assembly of galleries dealing with emerging contemporary art to showcase Exhibition A, his members-only website that sells exclusive editions of artwork by top contemporary artists.

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Is it really football if you play in your underwear?

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Katrina Campins and Ariel Stein make a night of it

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imageSure, you could pay to stay and play, but why limit yourself to just one aquatic experience?

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