Art Review: Art Basel Miami Beach – Review:
“This year’s Art Basel Miami Beach focused more on deal making than on big questions.
Barbara Fernandez for The New York TimesArt Basel Miami Beach: The fair includes the mixed-media “Vespa” by Mark Handforth. More Photos »
Would this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach be a private spectacle or a public one? I wondered that as I headed off to the art world’s ritualistic week of gawking, power schmoozing and peacocking, which is now a decade strong.
Certainly top collectors dominate the calendar, stir up the selling floor and preside over what are sometimes ludicrous displays of privilege. But some also open their houses, or at least their warehouses, to the masses.”
(Via NYT > Art & Design.)