PHOTOS: ARTNEWS
The hallways of the Miami Beach Convention Center were already thrumming with people when the doors opened to Art Basel Miami Beach today at 11 a.m., and they rushed through them quickly, giddily, on the hunt for pleasure. More than 200 exhibitors from all around the world were there to serve them, looking to cut some deals.
Below, a quick look around the aisles with scattered commentary, focusing mostly on highlights but with a few empty spectacles thrown in for good measure.
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Ugo Rondinone at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, the Swiss dealership that now has a branch in New York as well.
A tabletop of sculptures at international heavyweight Pace Gallery, including works by Tony Smith, Alexander Calder, Joel Shapiro, and Jean Dubuffet. In the background, a Robert Mangold painting.
Konrad Fischer, of Düsseldorf and Berlin.
A superb selection of spectral and somewhat macabre works by Dan Herschlein at the booth of JTT gallery from New York's Lower East Side.
New York dealer Mary Boone offering up a row with Ross Bleckner, Barbara Kruger, and Silke Otto-Knapp.
Xu Qu at Shanghai's Antenna Space.
At New York's Andrew Edlin Gallery, an array of works by Beverly Buchanan, whose stunning retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum closed back in March. (Note to those in Miami: she has a permanent public work on view in the city!)
Garth Greenan Gallery, Manhattan maestro of the undersung, showing works by Allan D'Arcangelo and Rosalyn Drexler.
A solo booth with the work of Brian Doherty, who is 90 next year, hosted by New York's Simone Subal and curated by Prem Krishnamurthy.
Works by Sigmar Polke and Raphaela Simon. (New Yorkers, take note: Simon has a nice solo exhibition on view right now at Tramps gallery and Michael Werner Gallery, Vitrine, on the second floor of 75 East Broadway, right under the Manhattan Bridge.)
Harold Mendez at Chicago gallery Patron.
A 1989 Cindy Sherman and a 2001 David Hammons at the Mnuchin Gallery of New York City.
Torey Thornton is throwing solid, strong curveballs at Essex Street, which is located on Hester Street in New York.
A Judith Berstein presentation at Los Angeles outfit the Box.
Yes, please! A remarkable presentation of drawings by the great American artist Bill Traylor. Jerry Saltz is lobbying to get his work on a postage stamp. Hope that Postmaster General Megan Brennan is about to come to Basel and have a look!
Oh yes. At Hammer Galleries, two Matisses in a booth filled with blue chippers. These are dated, left to right, 1942 and 1939.
Measuring the Anish Kapoors at Paragron Press to make sure that they fit.
Petzel, which boasts two galleries in New York and a partnership with Gisela Capitain in Berlin, showing Dana Schutz, Wade Guyton, and Joyce Pensato. The Schutz is titled Self-Exam, 2017.
Wade Guyton's New York Times username on one of his paintings.
New Yorker Andrew Kreps offers up a suite of works by Andrea Bowers. The protestors in the center piece hold signs that spell out VOTE FOR WOMEN.
Mexico City gallery Gaga has a charming two-person affair with paintings by Alex Hubbard and Emily Sundblad.
Yes, indeed. This is a real woman stuck in concrete. It looked rather uncomfortable. The work is by Máiréad Delaney, at the booth of New York gallery Fergus McCaffrey.
Parker Ito at New York's Team Gallery.
Mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth has a floating Bruce Nauman work from 1989. It's titled Untitled (Two Wolves, Two Deer).
Hew Locke at New York's P.P.O.W. Hungry for more? Similar work by the artist is on view prominently at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Mariela Scafati at Buenos Aires–based Isla Flotante.
Mike Kelley banners—one blowing in the wind—at Carolina Nitsch, of New York.
König Galerie of Berlin and London has a choice display of works by the late, great purveyor of neon-hued, effervescent Pop Kiki Kogelnik.
Part of a painting by Julia Rommel by sculptures by Nina Beier at Standard (Oslo).
Gavin Brown's Enterprise.
Basel's Fondation Beyeler, which has a solo show with Ernesto Neto on tap for next summer, is showing a new work by the Brazilian artist called The sky is the anatomy of my body, heliuntree.
New York's Helly Nahmad bringing his usual big-budget heat. The Calder at center is an untitled beauty from 1955.
A 1997 Michel Majerus at Berlin gallery neugerriemschneider with a title ideally suited to Miami Basel: commercial face of contemporary art 1 (of 4).
Tschabalaba Self, who opened a show last night at Thierry Goldberg in Miami, at Pilar Corrias's booth.
That one is staring right at us! Philippe Parreno's My Room is Another Fish Bowl (2016) at the booth of London's Pilar Corrias. The light is a discrete work titled lampe (2017).
Kalup Linzy and Xaviera Simmons at David Castillo, a hometown gallery showing at the fair.
New York dealer Edward Tyler Nahem has an intriguingly angular booth to display his wares, including a humungous 1979–80 Robert Rauschenberg titled Periwinkle Shaft, which has a nice Florida vibe (check out the big fish), and an Albert Oehlen.
A grid of little tiny Josh Smith paintings at Brussels's Xavier Hufkens. They're individual works, and 2007 to 2015.
Max Hooper Schneider aquariums in one of the VIP lounges.
A triptych from 1984 called Rainbow by Judy Chicago at New York gallery Salon 94.
Dawn Kasper sculptures and a very large Lucy Dodd at David Lewis, of New York.
New York's Casey Kaplan offering up Kevin Beasley and Jordan Casteel at his booth.
Paintings by the Guyana-born British artist Frank Bowling at Hales, which has spaces in London and New York.