Art Basel Miami
I wanted to write a little bit about our weekend visit to Art Basel Miami.
The art fair had grown up so much in the past years that now it sprouted more than 15 satellite art fairs around the city.
On top of this, most museums and galleries around the city run special events on the same weekend.
You can also visit some major private art collections like the Rubell family's collection and Margulies family's collection. Both collections are housed in vast warehouses with a great amount of cutting edge contemporary art.
If you do go to see this major art event in coming years, I strongly advice you to visit some of the satellite shows which carry great work.
With booth fees reaching six figures, most galleries take less chances with bringing experimental work to the main Art Basel affair.
In contrast, the smaller fairs, charge much less (five figures) and the work tends to be more interesting.
The smaller fairs are also easier to walk through.
Here is the list of the fairs going on in Miami during Art Basel:
- Art Basel www.artbaselmiamibeach.com
- Art Asia www.artasiafair.com
- Scope Art Fair www.69.24.73.123/SCOPE/
- Pulse Art www.pulse-art.com/
- Photo Miami www.photomiami-2009.com
- Aqua Art Miami aquaartmiami.com
- Ink Miami www.inkartfair.com/
- NADA (new art dealers asso.) www.newartdealers.org/
- Nobe 67 www.nobe67art.com/
- Pool art fair www.poolartfair.com
- Red dot Fair www.reddotfair.com/
- Verge art fair www.vergeartfair.com/
- Art Miami www.art-miami.com/
- Margulies Collection www.margulieswarehouse.com/
- Rubell Collection www.rfc.museum/index.html
We only had time to visit Art Basel, Art Asia, Scope art fair and Pulse art fair.
They were all great with some exceptional work.
