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Naomi Campbell is the new Sam Keller

And the winner of the Samuel Keller Award for Most Ubiquitous Art Basel Miami Beach Personality goes to....Naomi Campbell, who seems to have cloned herself, making appearances pertty much, well, everywhere, including a Miami Magazine/National Geographic Society photo show at Area 31 last night where she was, says our source, "especially tame," standing "on the sidelines, preferring to go unnoticed." Here she is, extremely noticed, at Nest on Lincoln Road with owner Sara Colombo and her hubby/developer Ugo, checking out an Italian sculpture and photo exhibit. 

Photo: Brett Hufziger / vipevents.biz

Twilight's Kellan Lutz all SET up in Miami

 

Twilight heartthrob Kellan Lutz landed in Miami Sunday night and headed straight to SET for the Sunday Sundance House Music Party. Sipping on Belvedere and cranberry at a VIP table he shared with a buddy, Lutz, who was there for about three hours, kept it low profile in jeans and plaid hat, marveling to his waitress about how beautifully designed SET's decor was. Because that's what all teen heartthrobs do when they go clubbing in South Beach. They marvel at the aesthetics, inanimate or otherwise.

Celebs may be pieces of work but not at Art Basel Miami Beach this year

We've seen art and we've seen spectacles in previous incarnations of Art Basel Miami Beach. The photo here says it all, taken at an ABMB event last year. No comment necessary. But this year, experts say, will be different. According to an article in the Financial Times, in fact, "We'll see much less of the fashionista crowd this year who don't purchase works or contribute in any meaningful way to the art world." Come to think of it, many people, not just arty types, would love to see less of those who don't contribute in any meaningful way to the world in general. Which pretty much means anyone with a reality show, a free plane ticket and hotel room from some watered down brand of vodka, or a rider demanding wrinkle reducing camera flashes. Which kinda sucks for us, because, well, we don't cover the art--we only cover the con and b.s. artists. So we kind of hope that maybe at least the White House party crashers will be down for the fair because, well, they put the 'con' in 'con artists' and that's quite artful, isn't it?

Drew Barrymore doesn't do e-mail but she set her designs on one

  

Barrymore and Avant Gallery founder/director Dmitry Prut

Drew Barrymore has been making the Miami rounds lately, stopping with the Mac Guy everywhere from Mr. Chow and Club 50 to Tobacco Road. But it's not all about food and drink. On Monday, Barrymore was at the Avant Gallery in the Design District to preview their Art Basel/Design Miami exhibit, "Pictures & Furniture" where she reportedly fell in love with Purvis Young's painting Free Cuba and Alejandro Vigilante's Email is My Art series--specifically the one pictured here because, as she said, she doesn't use email, do Facebook or any of that. Apparently her manager does it for her. Her manager, however, does not buy art for her and according to our snitch, Barrymore may have reserved the piece for possible purchase next week.

Art who? Twilight star Kellan Lutz to attend Basel event

There are culture vultures and there are vampires. And then there are blood sucking culture vultures. And all will be present next Monday night for the unveiling of the brand new Audi A8 which has conveniently partnered up with a major art exhibition to bring you the Audi A8: The Art of Progress, curated by British design star Tom Dixon and the Rubell Family Collection and housed in the Audi Pavilion on 46th and Collins. The public can check it all out on December 2 and after the Pavilion is removed, a playground donated by Audi will be built on the site. But enough about art. Hosted by Lucy Liu, the event will start with cocktails on the Fontainebleau lawn followed by a show and reveal, culminating with a six course dinner by David Bouley at the Audi Pavilion. On the guest list: Ben McKenzie,Chris Noth, Christina Ricci and Kellan Lutz, who apparently is a huge Audi fan. Which means that zillions of screaming, hormonally challenged teens will also now be huge Audi fans. Genius.

Which one of these doesn't belong here?

Remember the Sesame Street segment where you had to pick which one didn't belong? We're having a hard time doing that with this picture, taken last night in the Design District, because as far as we're concerned, unless they're Muppets, this picture just doesn't make any sense.

Photo: Manny Hernandez

Left to Right: Ernie, Bert and Janice.

Just kidding: Jason Binn, Marilyn Manson and Ivana Trump.

Visionaire 55 SURPRISE! You're on Patrick McMullan's candid camera!

Visionaire and Krug hosted a party last night at The Raleigh for the new limited-edition publication Visionaire 55 SURPRISE. Not so surprisingly, the colorful crowd gladly mugged for the camera. Not much in the way of gossip except we heard that Pharrell had trouble at the door, which wasn't true, and, well, Marc Jacobs's kilt speaks volumes. Besides that, the pix say it all.

Photos: Patrick McMullan

Left to Right: Visionaire co-founder Cecilia Dean and Rachel Zoe; Andre Balazs, Marilyn Manson, and Isani Griffith; Lorenzo Martone and Marc Jacobs; Pharrell and LVMH's Yves Carcelle; Elaine Lancaster, Andre Balazs and Lady Bunny.

Mary Kate Olsen and Kirsten Dunst don't seem to like each other

On Wednesday night Mary Kate Olsen, Kirsten Dunst and Marilyn Manson all sat at the same table at The Florida Room. According to our spy, "Mary Kate and Kirsten sat right next to each other but it was as if there was a glass wall between them because they didn't say one word to each other all night." Sounds like a rockin' night.

Marilyn Manson brings the freak show to Louis

Marilyn Manson celebrated his Art Basel gallery showing of his watercolor paintings with a private soiree at new French-electro club Louis Bar-Lounge at Gansevoort South, along with his new girlfriend Isani Griffith, an LA model who has been dating Manson since he split with Evan Rachel Wood. The duo kissed and cuddled in Louis’s back room (which appropriately has quotes by the Marquis de Sade written on the wall) while sipping on his own brand of absinthe called Mansinthe as Grammy-nominee Estelle joined Manson in celebrating the occasion.

Lenny Kravitz and Naomi Campbell @ Casa Tua

Challenging each other for the most ubiquitous title of this year's Art Basel Miami Beach:Lenny Kravitz and Naomi Campbell, both who were seen upstairs at Casa Tua last night. Meanwhile, this barefoot thing (MK Olsen at Asia de Cuba) is a disturbing trend, because Kravitz's daughter Zoe was spotted traipsing around the Wynwood area with no shoes. Quick, call in the Hazmat teams. Stat.