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Art Basel Hotels: Sagamore Courts The Nude Art Lover

Where: 1671 Collins Ave. [map], Miami Beach, fl, United States, 33139

Remember when artist Spencer Tunick put out a call for naked people at the Sagamore Hotel? Well, the fruits of his naked photography labor will be revealed at Art Basel Miami Beach during the the end-of-the-festival blowout Annual Sagamore Brunch on December 8.

This is far from the first site-specific art show at the Sagamore, which prides itself on being a gallery as well as a hotel. Last year, Yoko Ono brought her interactive piece Onochord to the hotel's gardens. Photographer Massimo Vitali practically invented Art Basel Miami Beach's self-obsession with his fine-art snaps of the first Sagamore Brunch in 2002. Of course, this year's show will put a new spin on navel-gazing.

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Nude People Wanted at the Sagamore

Where: 1671 Collins Avenue [map], Miami Beach, fl, United States, 33139

Typically, the first thing that comes to our minds when we think of Miami Beach is the word NAKED. And that's because we often see naked and nearly-naked people prancing up and down the beach and along the restaurants and bars on Ocean Avenue.

Also have you ever gone to a nightclub in Miami when the heat and humidity have combined for an average temperature of 90 degrees?

So it's perfectly fitting that artist Spencer Tunick's next art installation--"elaborately posed still and video images of multiple nude figures in public settings" will be taken at the Sagamore Hotel in South Beach.

On Oct. 8, the artist will use the hotel's architecture and pool as the backdrop for his next nude-formations art installation consisting of Miami locals and tourists. Tunick's photographs and videos taken that day will be exhibited at the Sagamore during Art Basel Miami Beach in December.

The Sagamore is a very artsy hotel (one of the reasons Tunick picked the place) and is more than excited to have the Tunick installation there. The hotel is even managing an online sign-up sheet for potential participants.

Most recently, Tunick got some nude people together on a glacier in Switzerland. However, this will be the artist's first installation filmed in South Florida and the first filmed at a hotel. Thank god, Miami is not full of geezers anymore. Let's just hope it's prettier than Nicky Hilton's nude hotel photo shoot.

[Photo: Lissette/Flickr]

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