Art Basel Miami Beach 2015: The Fair That Remade a City
December 3–6, 2015. Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 14th edition — 267 galleries, 4,000 artists, and a week of satellite fairs and events. Thirteen years in, the fair has fundamentally transformed Miami.
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From the Vault · 2015
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Art Basel Miami Beach opens Thursday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and the 14th edition arrives in a city that is unrecognizable from the one that hosted the first fair in 2002. The Design District has its full complement of luxury retail. The Wynwood Walls are in their seventh year. The Pérez Art Museum Miami is two years old. The transformation is complete.
The 2015 edition brings 267 galleries from 36 countries to the convention center. The satellite fairs — NADA, Scope, Pulse, Aqua, Art Miami, UNTITLED, and a dozen others — extend the footprint across the city. The Wynwood Walls commission new artists every year, and this year's roster includes some of the most significant names in contemporary street art.
Art Basel Miami Beach has done something that no amount of marketing could have accomplished: it has given Miami a reason for the world's most sophisticated travelers to come here in December. Fourteen years in, the fair is the most important cultural event in the Western Hemisphere.
The PGM Edit
December 3–6, 2015. Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 14th edition — 267 galleries, 4,000 artists, and a week of satellite fairs and events. Thirteen years in, the fair has fundamentally transformed Miami.
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