He now spends four days at a time in Miami several times a year, almost always attending the city's Art Basel fair.
Thousands of art enthusiasts will flock to Miami from 2 to 5 December during the ninth run of Art Basel Miami Beach (the sister event of the 41-year-old Art Basel fair which takes place in Switzerland every June).
All over the city, art auctions are consistently breaking records, a handful of big-name international galleries are opening up outposts and Hong Kong is preparing to host an Art Basel fair in May next year.
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Art Basel Miami Beach fair (ABMB), housed in the Miami Beach Convention Center, is not for the faint of heart.
With all that the Art Basel Miami Beach fair has to offer, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of art on display.
While auctions continue to define the company, Cappellazzo, who began her career as a curator and worked on the tremendously influential Art Basel Miami Beach fair before coming on board at Christie's in 2001, understands their limitations.
Others are also likely saving up for next month's Art Basel, the Swiss contemporary art fair whose owner MCH Group recently bought a majority ownership stake in Art HK. (Next spring, Art HK will be renamed Art Basel Hong Kong.) The fair closes Sunday.
When a tech entrepreneur who favors Patagonia jackets and sneakers told San Francisco dealer Claudia Altman-Siegel he was headed to the Swiss art fair Art Basel, she had some advice: "I was like, 'No one's going to be nice to you if you're not dressed up, '" she said.
The group that plays host to the Art Basel contemporary-art fair at its home in Switzerland each June the world's largest art show for the past four decades and to Art Basel Miami Beach, a sister show started for the Americas in 2002 and held each December, will now have a third leg, in Asia.
It worked: Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta took one look at the towering wooden "thrones" that Gates started building and agreed to take a group to the country's pre-eminent art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2009.
"It's only a matter of time, " observes Yamini Mehta, head of the Indian art department at Christie's auction house, pointing to the inclusion of London-born Bharti Kher, 38, in the Basel, Switzerland art fair this coming spring.
At Switzerland's Art Basel, the leading international contemporary and modern art fair, more than 300 galleries from 36 countries are showing around 2, 500 artists until Sunday.
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The annual pilgrimage to Switzerland is in full force as a hodgepodge of contemporary art collectors, artists and A-list celebrities from around the world gather in Basel for the biggest and most prestigious contemporary art fair in the world.
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Sure, there is plenty of art to see around town in the weeks leading up to Art Basel, a ridiculous amount, actually from the main fair, to the satellite fairs like SCOPE, PULSE, NADA and Design Miami, to every square inch of Miami real estate where an installation of some sort could be staged.
Ms Lee-Chun's show is Spinello Gallery's contribution to PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair, one of the many satellite fairs that take place this week alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, a monster exhibition that draws galleries from all over the world to network, mingle with the jet-set, and, vitally, to sell art.
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