In order to experience all that the city of Miami has to offer during the week of Art Basel, you must expect to visit at least one fair, one museum, one collection, and attend one party every day. Anything less would nullify the whole purpose of the weeklong spectacle. Of course time should also be set aside for some beachcombing, meals, shopping, traffic (oh, the traffic!), and sleep if you can manage it.

But after keeping this pace for three or four days, all the new, exciting, eye-catching artwork begins to collapse into a kaleidoscope of fragmented color, light, and sound. The mission switches from looking at art to acquiring another espresso or cerveza. You search for a place to sit (good luck with that), when something recognizable catches your eye among the hodgepodge of booths and your vision comes back into focus.

Whether at one of the fairs, museums, private collections, or publicly on view, artists affiliated with Dikeou Collection and zingmagazine maintained a strong presence during the biggest event in the art world. Seeing their work brought a welcomed sense of familiarity to a scene wrought with a woozy mixture of celebrity and obscurity.

Devon Dikeou’s Between the Acts, featuring curtains replicated from Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, sets the stage at NADA art fair. More images and information about this project can be found here .

Rainer Ganahl’s booth at NADA featured work from his El Mundo project, in which he invited opera singers and musicians to perform at a closing discount store in New York. Also on display were selections from his Hermès-Marx scarf series.

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Yes, that’s a projector on a toilet, along with a recording of the El Mundo performance on vinyl. As fate would have it, the booth next to his also had commode-inspired art.

Wade Guyton’s Untitled, inkjet on linen from 2007, at the Rubell Collection for the ‘To Have and to Hold’ exhibition, through May 2015. 

Guyton was also on view at the de la Cruz Collection, both independently (top) and in his collaborative work (bottom) with artist Kelley Walker (Guyton/Walker) for the exhibition ‘Beneath the Surface’, through October 2015.

Eight of Vik Muniz’ extraordinary photographs of reappropriated artworks dominated an entire wall at the Bass Museum. These are from the collection of artist Peter Marino, as are majority of the works currently on display at the museum for the ‘One Way: Peter Marino’ exhibition, on view through May 3, 2015. An edition of Milan, The Last Supper (from Pictures of Chocolate) , located just below Waterlillies, after Monet (from Pictures of Magazines) , is on permanent exhibition at Dikeou Collection.

Meanwhile, Dikeou artists Lizzi Bougatsos, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Misaki Kawai popped up all over Untitled art fair.

Lizzi signed posters and copies of her new book Her Perfume Tears

She signed the floor, too, exhibiting exquisite can control.

Paul Ramirez-Jonas also held the floor with his volcanic Publicar rocks with corkboards, which were peppered throughout the fair for attendees to pin their business cards and party fliers.

Eric Firestone Gallery presented Misaki’s paintings in all their quirky, colorful grandeur. Just a stone’s throw away from Untitled, the Mondrian Hotel showcased a teepee she painted with hieroglyphic style designs and the planet Saturn with “Home” inscribed across its center.

She likely flew this teepee back to outer space when the party ended. 

-Hayley Richardson