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Sarasota News Leader ART MIAMI December 28, 2012 Page 93 ���They won���t come to the other ones,��� she explained. ���Here in Miami, people go to the satellite fairs much more. I mean, it���s crowded in here,��� she continued, gesturing at the commotion in the convention center. ���People have more fun than they have in other cities. [The fair] is just the whole city kind of vibrating and partying and having a good time.��� Art Miami, the largest unaffiliated satellite exhibition of Art Basel, is set up in essentially the same format as the official fair, albeit at a reduced scale. In spite of the smaller scope, Art Miami attracts fine art exhibitors from around the world who display instantly recognizable pieces by iconic artists alongside When asked the difference between Art Miprovocative pieces by lesser-known, contemami and Art Basel in Miami Beach, Schmid porary artists. explained that Art Miami, aside from being This year, Art Miami was extremely popular, smaller, is more accessible for exhibitors and as evidenced by the fact that the space was artists. ���Art Basel Miami is for really high-end bustling with patrons up to the time when em- pieces only, so it���s hard to find upcoming artployees began to cordon off galleries and se- ists there at all,��� she said. ���Here at Art Miami curity guards started directing people to exit you have quite the mixture of very established artists, but you can still find some younger artthe building for the evening. ists that are not as high-end as the pieces that Simone Schmid, director of the Wetterling you find at Art Basel Miami Beach.��� Gallery, located in Stockholm, Sweden, has Caitlin Healy, a Miami local who chose Art Mibeen exhibiting at Art Miami for many years. ami as the first stop in her Art Basel-related She told the News Leader on Dec. 8 that the weekend, was very satisfied with the pieces fair is well worth the long trip to Miami. ���It���s she saw on display at the show. ���There���s such an important place for the contemporary art a diversity,��� she told the News Leader. ���Any scene, internationally,��� she said. ���It���s one of type of art you want to see, you can see it.��� the most important art weeks in the year, so we want to be on the spot when it happens.��� Asked if she had chosen a favorite piece, Healy suggested the most likely candidate was Schmid, who has also exhibited much clos- one of the controversial, transplanted Banksy er to home at one of the unaffiliated satellite pieces on display between galleries as part of fairs surrounding the original Art Basel in Ba- an Art Miami offshoot fair called CONTEXT. sel, Switzerland, explained that she chooses Some critics, however, have deemed the apto come to Miami because the city reacts to propriation of the pieces purportedly by the the art fair in a unique way that provides her anonymous artist ��� one of which was being gallery with a greater range of opportunities watched over by a security guard during the for exposure and sales. Despite the fact that fair ��� as hypocritical at best. Regardless, the in Basel ��� as in Miami ��� there are numerous bittersweet opportunity to see the pieces, satellite fairs, she said people go only to the which were in danger of being tagged or demain fair, which is much larger than its Miami faced in their natural habitats, was cherished counterpart. by many fans.