• Also in the Design District are several satellite fairs. In the must-see category is Paperlove at Luminaire, a group of commissioned works -- dresses, furniture and objects d'art in paper -- by artists including Zaha Hadid, Yves Behar and Marcel Wanders; they're being auctioned to benefit Sylvester Cancer Center. At Mallet & Meta, 161 NE 40th St., the exquisite wardrobe by artist Tord Boontje is comprised of 400 pounds of metal ''fig leaves'' -- a play on Eve's original clothing -- enameled and exquisitely crafted into functional sculpture. Children will get a kick out of Takashi Murakami's giant plush flower balls at Kaikai Kiki, 3930 NE Second Ave., though the price tag of $78,000-$256,000 may have parents saying, ``hands off.''

• Hurma, by renownded Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, is a dramatic installation of 250 headless figures scrunched together at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, 591 NW 27th St., 11-4 p.m.

• If you've had enough indoor art time, head outside to the garden. In Wynwood, near the Art Miami-Photo Miami-Scope fairs, is The Yard@CasaLin, a private home purchased by collector Lin Lougheedq. Don't knock on the door; a family lives inside. The art is all in the yard: six works by young Miami artists -- Robert Chambers, Mette Tommerup, Ralph Provisero, Francis Trombly, Leyden Rodriguez Casanova and Julie Davidow. Each has crafted a work from materials designed for another use, time or place and fashioned it into a garden installation. The yard is at 55 NW 30th St., daytime through Sunday.

• Further afield -- and again thanks in part to Lougheed -- is an installation of five monumental works by Mark di Suvero at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. Despite their massive weight and size -- up to 18 tons -- the sculptures seem remarkably delicate and offer an architectural counterpoint to the swaying palms. The exhibition stays in place through May.

• Schlep up the stairs to the third floor of the Station exhibit (3250 NE First Ave.) and find Hello Meth Lab With a View by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe. The artists tricked out an unfurnished apartment as a condemned joint with a meth lab operation in the kitchen. Walk through a beat-up old fridge into another room where there seems to be a stench of decay. Instant wretchedness in a modern, brand-new building.

• Transfer of power in the White House is the subject of New Orleans' artist Stephen G. Rhodes' multimedia installation, Interregnum reptition restoration (upholstered). The work takes a video of the George W. Bush robotic mannequin in Disney's Hall of Presidents attraction and superimposes it with images of two hands pulling slimy matter from a hole in the ground. The film is projected from below an armchair covered with electronic circuit boards, resin and pieces of fabric -- as if the robotic mannequin had been ripped from the chair. ''It's about limbo, and the moment between systems of power,'' said Lisa Overduin, whose gallery Overduin & Kite of Los Angeles is at booth C5 at NADA, 1400 N. Miami Ave.

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