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When Art Basel Miami Beach
opens this year – at 11am
on December 6 to its First
Choice or VVIP list, that
afternoon to other collectors
and on the 7th to the rest of the
world – it may strike regulars
as rather different. As always,
the most significant art fair
in the Americas will bring
together a lot of galleries –
268 from 32 countries – but
don’t assume they’ll necessarily
be found where they were last
year. Within the Miami Beach
Convention Center, the
exhibition layout is entirely
new, as is much of the interior
architecture. Booths will be
larger, aisles wider, and there’ll
be more alluring facilities for
dining and lounges; 20
galleries will also be showing
here for the first time. Take
time to seek out the following
highlights in the four main
sectors of the fair: Galleries,
Nova, Positions and Survey.galleries / greats
The most prestigious body of the fair is the
Galleries sector, which features 198 dealers this
year. A gallery usually shows in one of the
peripheral sections first, but Paris-based Applicat-
Prazan is included here on its first application.
With premises on the Rive Gauche and on
Avenue Matignon in the 8th arrondissement,
it specializes in Modern European painting of
the post-war period – artists such as Asger Jorn,
Wifredo Lam, André Masson and Serge Poliakoff- and this year presents an intriguing show of
works by Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Otto
Freundlich, Alberto Magnelli, Manolo Millares,
Jean-Paul Riopelle and Nicolas de Staël.
268 GALLERIES
Below: Jean Dubuffet’s
La Vie à la Campagne, 1949Above: Miami Beach Convention
Center’s impressive art deco façadePHOTOGRAPHS: GETTY IMAGES; REX; COURTESY THE ARTIST & DAVID LEWIS, NY; COURTESY DÉPENDANCE, BRUSSELS; COURTESY GALERIE APPLICAT-PRAZAN, PARIS144