"Fortunately, serious art lovers can still find moments of transcendence while hopping from fair to fair, or even from fair to private collection to cocktails by the pool."
The New York Times
ART
"At Fairs by the Beach, the Sands of Creativity"
By KAREN ROSENBERG
Published: December 8, 2007
MIAMI BEACH, Dec. 7 — "Last week the art world descended on the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s new building on the Lower East Side, where the art was fragmentary, improvisational and defiantly down-to-earth. This week the same crowd has massed here in Miami Beach for the sixth installment of Art Basel Miami Beach, a fair that celebrates everything the New Museum has made an effort to avoid.
The art is heavily scripted, raucously colorful and monstrously proportioned. Parties and people-watching crowd the field of vision. Fortunately, serious art lovers can still find moments of transcendence while hopping from fair to fair, or even from fair to private collection to cocktails by the pool.
With more than 20 fairs (at least 7 more than last year) now piggybacking on the main event, Art Basel Miami Beach has made a point of finding new ways to showcase smaller galleries and individual artists."
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