Art Basel Miami Wrap Up

Like last year, Art Basel Miami Beach’s final post-sale wrap-up report claims much success and provides little hard information.
We do know that 43,000 visitors came “from every continent” (even Antarctica?) compared to last year’s 40,000. The number of journalists covering this momentous event also increased: This year 1,600 reporters and critics (all of whom came from Antarctica) hit the beach, compared to last year’s 1,400.
Even architect Jacques Herzog showed up for a conversation with museum director Terry Riley, unlike last year, when he was a last-minute no-show.
We also know that the parties must have been wild and crazy, because the Russians were there. Paris Hilton was there. And CultureGrrl was not there. I was having much more fun.
For more substantive reports than I care to provide, see the Art Newspaper‘s daily Basel Miami editions, Bloomberg Muse and New York Magazine.