Each year the sensational city of Miami Beach transforms into a global hub for modern and contemporary art. With one week of big shows, openings and fringe festivals from the masters and emerging stars of the art world, this extraordinary event is now firmly on my annual calendar.
First off is assembling the mass of passes, guides, openings, museums, private collector’s open houses and invites. Then follows a careful mapping of how to navigate the events without spending the week in traffic and continually crossing the causeways to the mainland.
With a fourth return to the event last month, I came away with some real highlights. Here is a round-up of the shows that I visited and a few of my favourite finds from each…