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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 that Art Basel engenders in visitors. ���You get a lot of great ideas just being here, just absorbing what people are saying to you and how they are representing themselves,��� she said. ���It���s just a surprise at every corner.��� Those attending the exhibition for the first time, however, needed more time to gain their bearings than the aforementioned Art Basel veterans. Arielle Clay, who had recently arrived at the convention center, described her initial impression to the News Leader. ���It���s very overwhelming,��� she said. ���It���s so hard to understand it until you���re here, and nobody can really explain it to you.��� Page 91 For the gallery owners exhibiting at Art Basel and the artists with whom they work on a regular basis, the show is more of an opportunity than an experience, and it is often the culmination of an extended period of tireless preparation and effort. Fredric Snitzer, owner of the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, which specializes in contemporary art and happens to be located in Miami, explained to the News Leader just how the pieces that his gallery exhibits at Art Basel are chosen. ���We plan a year in advance,��� he said. ���Our artists usually produce work with the intention of being in the fair, and then we select the works that we think are the strongest.��� Simone Schmid with James Rosenquist���s painting Ladies of the Opera Terrace in the Wetterling Gallery exhibition at Art Miami in Miami on Dec. 8. Schmid told the News Leader that afternoon that she built her gallery���s exhibition around the piece, which was commissioned for a restaurant in Stockholm in 1986. It measures 7.5 feet in height by 21 feet in length.