FKA twigs Cuts through the Noise; Kim Kardashian West Causes a Scene—Another Evening at Art Basel Miami Beach — vogue.com

Yesterday afternoon, in one of the newly minted Edition hotel’s copious and cavernous public spaces, über-curator Hans Ulrich Obrist hosted a conversation with Los Angeles–based artist Alex Israel and musician-of-the-moment FKA twigs, who was in Miami Beach to celebrate the end of the American part of her tour. The talk, organized by art world spark plug Bettina Korek and attended by China Chow and twigs’s boyfriend Robert Pattinson, among others, spanned topics from Instagram (twigs hailed the app as a tool to “immediately understand someone’s aesthetic”) to pop music (Israel described how the constant churning out of radio hits “makes [him] very hopeful for the future of creativity”). The live discussion itself was a framework fitting for both parties, twigs having caused a small sensation with her recent Jimmy Fallon performance and Israel being the MC of art project/talk show As It Lays, which he incidentally revealed yesterday was inspired by The Oprah Winfrey Show. In the midst of constantly viewing art at a steady three miles per hour and keeping up with chockablock party schedules, the high/low exchange cut through the noise, becoming a welcome hour of listening—call it Miami Meditation.

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