Miami Beach, FL – December 5, 2015 – Cricket and Martin Taplin, owners of Sagamore, The Art Hotel, along with the Bass Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Lowe Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Art; Perez Art Museum Miami; and the Wolfsonian-FIU, welcomed over 3000 of the world’s most prominent artists, curators, gallerists and art enthusiasts for the 14 th Annual Art Basel Brunch, declared by the press as the “can’t miss” Art Basel event of the season.

The Sagamore in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) exhibited a hotel wide video installation curated by Lori Zippay, EAI’s Executive Director. The special selection of media artworks selected for the public space of the hotel were drawn from the extensive archive of EAI, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering, the creation, exhibition, distribution, and preservation of moving image art. The media artworks on display in the hotel presented formal, conceptual or perceptual transformations of natural landscapes and environments. The works of artists Takeshi Murata, Seoungho, Cho, Gary Hill, Nam June Paik, Leslie Thornton, C. Spencer Yeh, Steina, Mica-TV, Dike Blair, and Dan Graham span throughout five decades and range from playful to socially resonant with the investigation of diverse notions of landscapes. At the entrance of the hotel was an interactive installation entitled Portals that connected residents of and visitors to Miami to strangers in Portal locations around the world, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico and more. Also on view was a visually arresting environmental site-specific installation created by renowned sculptor, Alan Sonfist.