Hotels are expensive and usually booked well in advance for Art Basel Miami Beach.
The inaugural event will be held December 4-9, which coincides with Art Basel Miami Beach.
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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.
Eventually, too, the new owners may well switch its timing from May to February, to sit comfortably between Art Basel Miami Beach in December and Art Basel in June.
In Uncovering treasures at Art Basel Miami Beach, Nicole Berry provides tips on navigating the more than 250 exhibits in this year's Art Basel, one of the biggest art events of the year.
Art Basel Miami Beach also hosts a nightly program at the Oceanfront, which is free and open to the public with a bar and local food trucks, music, video and performances.
The annual carnival of art and money that is Art Basel Miami Beach (playing out across the city Dec. 2-5) is just the high point of a cultural scene that's remaking the peninsula yet again.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Currently it has a partnership with Whitechapel Gallery in London to curate an annual exhibit that coincides with Art Basel in Miami.
Instead, what Art Basel in Miami provides is a perfect stage.
In December, for instance, Fiat made a splash at the prestigious Art Basel in Miami by inviting artists to use hoods and doors of the 500 as their canvas.
When planning for the decks was still in early stages, someone showed Tim Mapes, Delta's senior vice president for marketing, photos of a poolside installation orchestrated by Architectural Digest at the Raleigh Hotel during Art Basel in Miami.
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Four of the iconic BMW Art Cars are making an appearance at Art Basel in Miami Beach this weekend, including the first of the series made by Alexander Calder that debuted in 1975 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
While museums, auctions, galleries, studios and international fairs are more integral to the art world, Miami Art Basel has become an annual touchpoint for talking about art to big audiences and for art collectors to strut their stuff.
The event kicked off a week that is synonymous with art and parties, as most of the art world clusters poolside for Art Basel, the Miami Beach edition, year number ten.
Miami Art Basel was founded ten years ago as an off-shoot of the more subdued and refined Swiss counterpart that is held in June.
Check in to Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Mandarin Oriental, Miami for an Eastern spin on Art Basel.
The Betsy South Beach is a glamorous boutique hotel on legendary Ocean Drive with easy access to the Miami Beach Convention Center and all the Art Basel attractions.
Art Basel, the high-rolling international art festival that possesses Miami every December, kicks off on Thursday.
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The past two years in Miami have been a bit more mellow due to the economic downturn, but with the art market looking up after the recent successes of New York's major auction houses, the scene is primed for a 2010 Miami Basel of great parties and even better art viewing.
He now spends four days at a time in Miami several times a year, almost always attending the city's Art Basel fair.
The scene was Miami where I was attending a social media event that just so happened to coincide with Art Basel, an annual affair that shocks the city senseless with hundreds of exhibitions.
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