Art Basel Miami Beach — When Miami Becomes the World's Art Capital

Art Basel Miami Beach (the annual contemporary art fair held at the Miami Beach Convention Center during the first week of December — the American edition of the world's most important contemporary art fair (founded in Basel, Switzerland in 1970, the Miami edition launched in 2002), attracting approximately 80,000 visitors per year (of which approximately 40,000 are credentialed art world professionals (collectors, museum directors, curators, gallery owners, and critics) — the largest single concentration of the global art world in any city at any time of year)): Art Basel transforms Miami into the world capital of contemporary art for one week each December.