O'Keeffe chose rural
New Mexico, Warhol took his waters from a
beachside home in Montauk, and, more recently, Peter Doig and Chris Ofili escaped London to settle on the tropical isle of Trinidad.
Festivities like these are essential ingredients in the fair's social mucilage, and throughout the week there were dinners at Pierchic for Abraaj and Marian Goodman (ahead of her London gallery opening next fall); lunches at the
beachside home of collector Dana Farouki for the
New Museum and the Delfina Foundation; and ritual outings to the older, more threadbare districts of Dubai for Pakistani kebabs and dance parties at the Eritrean Social Club, notoriously creepy but loved by all.