Alex Katz
Red Coat, 1982
Photo: Courtesy of Art Basel Miami Beach
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Art Basel Miami Beach
UNITED STATES
MIAMI BEACH • Miami Beach Convention Center • Ongoing
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The third edition of Art Basel Miami Beach continues its mission to be the North American winter edition of Art Basel, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for modern and contemporary art held in Switzerland each June. Unlike the Basel fair, however, Art Basel Miami Beach has become a major social rendez-vous whose A-list party invitations are very much sought after by art dealers, culture barons, collectors, high-end media representatives and various and sundry rich and famous.
As with the first edition, the trade fair organizers hope to create a new form of art event which combines an art show with a programme of special exhibitions, visits to private and public art collections and crossover events of music, design, fashion and architecture such as a Puppet Rock Opera live concert directed by Dan Graham and friends. Videos Paul McCarthy and Tony Oursler. In the "Art Basel Conversations", leading private collectors, curators, and architects such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Paris; Terrance Riley, Curator of Architecture, MoMA, NYC,) and Rem Koolhaas, will be discussing the art of collecting art, architecture for art collections, and private art collections in public. In the new sector "Art Nova", emerging galleries will be showing only the latest works by their artists---works produced within the last two years.
Thus, for the third time, art collectors, gallery owners, artists, critics, curators and art lovers from around the world will gather at Art Basel Miami Beach. 190 leading galleries from 24 countries have been chosen by the Selection Committee from over 500 applicants. They are showing about 5,000 works by 1,000 of the most respected and most interesting artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Of the galleries, 44% are from the USA and Canada, 44% from Europe, 7% from Latin America, 4% from Asia and one gallery from Africa. All the media (paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, editions, performances, digital and video art) on show are for sale. Prices start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, with museum-quality masterpieces bearing price tags in the millions.
Art Basel Miami Beach is open daily from noon to 8 p.m. from December 2 to 5, 2003. Closing day from noon to 6 p.m. The Vernissage for invited guests takes place on December 1, 2004. Opening Night features Art Positions & Art Video at Lounge Collins Park between 21st and 22nd Streets and around At Art Positions, located on the beach, 20 cutting-edge galleries will present their programs in shipping containers that have been specially converted into exhibition
spaces. The Art Video Lounge designed by LOT/EK Architecture will show a program of video art, curated by Sandra Antelo-Suárez and Guillermo Santamarina.
Ticket prices for the event have gone up: Day tickets cost US $20 (permanent passes: US $50), students and senior citizens pay US $12. From 5 p.m., an evening ticket can be purchased for US $12. Guided school classes (per student and accompanying adult)
US $5, groups of 10 or more US $12. Admission is free for children under 16 when accompanied by an adult.
Art Basel Miami Beach Web Site
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Tel: (1) 305 358 58 85
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