Art Basel Miami Beach 2007

Excerpted from ART ATTACK by Johanna Marmon, November 2007 issue of South Florida CEO.

The December days that mark the arrival of contemporary art fair Art Basel Miami Beach are attorney and collector Alan J. Kluger’s favorite time of year. He recently returned from a multi-city tour of Spain, spends three weeks annually in South America (scoping out Latin American artists, his passion) and was in Switzerland earlier this summer for Art Basel, the sister show of the stateside spectacular. But all of that, says Kluger, a partner at Miami-based Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin PL, has nothing on Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB). “Art Basel Miami Beach is the No.1 art fair in the world,” he says, “It’s a fascinating week.”

Fascinating, yes. But with 200 galleries from 30 nations under one roof at the Miami Beach Convention Center — not to mention 17 unaffiliated fairs running concurrently and an endless parade of VIP events and parties — the word “overwhelming” also springs to mind. Add to that an array of video- and sound-art lounges, an open-air cinema and a beachfront crop of shipping containers filled with cutting-edge art, plus 40,000 visitors from around the world, and suddenly you have something bordering on madness.

To learn more about the Art Basel Miami Beach experience and read the article ART ATTACK, by Johanna Maromon, follow this link to SouthFloridaCEO.com.