Photo: Liad Baniel
The Miami Beach art fairs – Art Basel Miami Beach, Scope, Pulse, and Art Asia – closed their 2009 editions on 6 December well attended. Art Basel, with more than 250 participating galleries, saw 42,000 visitors. Scope, with 75 participating galleries presenting promising young artists, increased traffic by 20%, bringing in 35,000 visitors, as did Art Asia, where 95% of galleries reported strong sales.
The Pulse Prize, awarded to an emerging artist of distinction for their presentation in the IMPULSE section of the fair, went to the Austin-based artist collective Okay Mountain, presented by Arthouse (Austin, Texas).
BASEL http://www.artbasel.com/
SCOPE http://69.24.73.123/SCOPE/
PULSE http://www.pulse-art.com/index.htm
ART ASIA http://www.artasiafair.com/