Dubuffet, Braque, Rauschenberg…
Regulars to Miami Art Week might assume that works by these icons of the art world would be spotted only at Art Basel Miami, North America’s largest art fair event. However, this year especially, it jumped out that you also could have found works by these, and similar big names in contemporary art, at Art Miami. More, you too might agree that perhaps these iconic works were more noticeable because the overall quality of the art at this year’s Art Miami show was outstanding.
One imagines that from a gallerist’s point of view, this translates into a rising tides lifts all boats situation. From the art consumer point of view, it means that striding down the Art Miami 2019 aisles energized more this year, than others in memory. No doubt the very serious collectors in the crowd were purposely hitting every Miami Art Week show they could—and were well-served if Art Miami was on their short list when time demanded a triage. From the artists’ point of view, getting work shown at Art Miami and Art Basel simultaneously might have felt like winning the daily double.
