\n\tAs she welcomed guests into dinner on Thursday evening, Google Shopping\u2019s Stephanie Horton began by addressing the biggest theme of the week.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWelcome, thank you. I know the traffic\u2019s awful,\u201d Horton, the company\u2019s senior director of global consumer marketing, said to the room. Those who had successfully battled Miami\u2019s notoriously bad traffic during Art Basel week<\/a> included Mickalene Thomas,<\/a> Savannah James<\/a>, Ravyn Lenae, Kimberly Drew, Yvonne Force Villareal and George Wells, who had gathered inside the Matador Room at The Edition on Miami Beach for a private dinner celebrating artist Lauren Halsey. Sadly, the artist herself was unable to travel for a medical emergency, and sent word via Gagosian\u2019s Kathy Paciello.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cNothing would\u2019ve made me happier than hanging in Miami with all of you tonight, celebrating and sharing this moment together,\u201d Halsey had written in.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis is our fourth year during this event and I think for me the best part, it\u2019s the ability to honor so many amazing artists and have their work be accessible,\u201d Horton said. The evening featured a special hat Halsey had designed, available on Google Shopping, one of which was placed on each table for guests to wear throughout dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis year Lauren created these amazing hats that are on their tables and we\u2019re so happy that she did it. I think the great news is being able to be here in community every year, and I think now more than ever, it\u2019s so important,\u201d Horton added.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAfter dinner, the party moved into an adjacent space for a special performance by emerging artist Lenae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As she welcomed guests into dinner on Thursday evening, Google Shopping\u2019s Stephanie Horton began by addressing the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26746,123,125,124,1708],"class_list":{"0":"post-74557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-art-basel-miami","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-parties"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}