Miami was founded on the fun-above-all principle of nightclubs, and the idea that the august Swiss art fair would pick the city as its sole satellite has a certain loopy logic. Despite the fair’s focus on edgy contemporary art, Basel itself was (and remains) the polite embodiment of old-line Europe, with Miami the tropical frontier--and the ideal blank canvas.
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Themes: Arts + Culture · Hotels + Resorts · Shopping
Inspired by: Art Basel — by Tom Austin, Published Nov. 2006