Art Basel Miami Beach - Miami thinks big

269 galleries including 203 in the main sector: that’s a lot of eye candy! For its 18th edition, Art Basel Miami Beach continues to present a broad overview of art from around the world, with a particular focus on America, of course, where half of the exhibitors have a permanent base. Europe does however make its presence felt, although one might say by “contamination”, in this year’s major innovation, Meridians. This new sector, in addition to the usual Kabinett, Nova, Positions and Survey, is curated by Magali Arriola, director of Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo and is clearly inspired by Unlimited, which has proved its worth at the original fair in Basel. It is presenting some thirty large-scale installations (some very recent) in the newly refurbished Convention Center’s Grand Ballroom. These installations confirm a direct line of descent from the Roman artists of Antiquity, down through the Renaissance to the present day as, in all this time, artists have never fallen out of love with monumental works!