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Review by Lance Esplund
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The scene recalled the heyday of Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski and the melting statue of Michelangelo’s David that adorned his wife’s birthday party.
We were at the W South Beach Hotel’s VIP welcoming reception hosted by Ruinart Champagne, an official sponsor of Art Basel Miami Beach, the 10th incarnation of the U.S.’s largest contemporary-art fair.
Guests dipped giant communion wafers into fountains of white and dark chocolate that streamed from the penises of two gleaming silver putti in Angel Otero’s sculpture “Pissing Contest.” (If you were wondering, it was a draw.)
Later that Tuesday night, the opening party of London’s White Cube Gallery at the Soho Beach House featured bartenders dashing at breakneck speeds as guests elbowed one another over tables heaped with chicken, lamb, crab and paella. A wild boar was roasting outside in a clearing on a spit. Bikini-clad models poured tequila shots at bars floating in the swimming pool.
Source: BusinessWeek