Art Basel Miami Beach 2010: The Ninth Edition of the Most Prestigious Art Show in the Americas From December 2 through 5, Miami Beach, Florida, will host the ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show with an exclusive VIP opening on December 1. More than 250 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showing works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Galleries selected from 29 countries will showcase paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photography, editions, and videos. The show’s list of participating galleries makes Art Basel Miami Beach the most prestigious art show of the Americas, featuring both highly established galleries and dynamic new comers. (The full list of exhibitors can be found at www.artbasel.com/sectors). Art Galleries, the main sector of the show, will feature more than 200 galleries from all continents, among them many galleries from Latin America, such as Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Jorge Mara - La Ruche Gallery, Buenos Aires, Faría Fábregas Galería, Caracas, kurimanzutto, Mexico City and OMR, Mexico City. For Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, the Selection Committee has chosen 21 galleries to present an Art Kabinett - separate areas within the booths of the Art Galleries sector, providing a space to exhibit both single artists' works and thematic group exhibitions spotlighting the curatorial skills of the gallerists, with projects by artists such as Valentin Carron, Sergio Camargo, Richard Diebenkorn, Manuel Neri, Susan Hefuna, Nathan Hylden, Otto Muehl, Markus Schinwald, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, and Franz Erhard Walther and curated shows titled 'Zaha Hadid and Suprematism' and 'Marx & Modernism: The New Europe'. The Art Positions sector focuses on special projects by young artists and galleries with projects by Jorge Méndez Blake (Meessen De Clercq, Brussels), François Bucher (Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City), Dario Escobar (Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York), Fernanda Fragateiro (Arratia, Beer, Berlin), Nikolas Gambaroff Balice Hertling, Paris), Eddie Martinez (ZieherSmith, New York), Gabriel Sierra (Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá), Johanna Unzuetta (Christinger De Mayo, Zurich), and Héctor Zamora (Labor, México D.F). Art Nova will present 50 international galleries displaying new works by 131 artists, among them galleries from Latin America such as A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Marília Razuk Galería de Arte, São Paulo, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Valenzuela Klenner Galería, Bogotá. Art Projects, curated by independent curator Patrick Charpenel of Guadalajara, Mexico, and presented in the public spaces between and around the Oceanfront and the Miami Beach Convention Center, features 9 projects by international artists Andrea Bowers, François Bucher, John Chamberlain, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Minerva Cuevas, Runa Islam, Marco Maggi, Jorge Méndez Blake and Fyodor Pavlov Andreevich. Art Basel Miami Beach also hosts a nightly program at the Oceanfront, curated by Creative Time. Sited in an environment designed by Phu Hoang Office and Rachely Rotem Studio, the pavilion uses two types of rope - reflective and phosphorescent – to create an interactive environment of open-air structures that sway and glow in the night. The 2010 Oceanfront Nights program features four cities at the forefront of today’s artistic experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration: Detroit, Mexico City, Berlin, and Glasgow. Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time invited local organizations to partner on creating the program - the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, 032c in Berlin, and Tramway in Glasgow. From December 1 to December 4, each night will spotlight one city with film, music, video, performance and more. The Mexico City night will take place on Thursday, December 2, and has been programmed in collaboration with Museo Tamayo bringing together presentations by Pedro Reyes, Claudia Fernandez, Raul Cardenas from Torolab, Mariana Munguia from OPA in Guadalajara and Jorge Mendez Blake, as well as concerts by Pellejos, El Resplandor and more. Further information at www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/oceanfront. On December 2 at 10 am the Art Basel Conversations premiere offers an intimate conversation with this leading figure of Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto, moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. On December 3 at 10 am Art Basel Conversations reflects the museum in the digital age and brings together Maxwell L. Anderson, Lauren Cornell, Peter Reed and András Szántó. On December 4 Art Basel Conversations explore the role of Latin America‘s collections as catalysts, featuring the highly acclaimed Latin American collectors Agustín Coppel, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and the Inhotim curator Rodrigo Moura. The panel will be moderated by José Roca, Chief Curator, 8 Mercosul Bienal, Porto Alegre. On December 5 the panel "The Future of Artistic Practice: The School Makers " offers fresh insights on the artistic practice of creating schools in a discussion with artists and experts Eduardo Abaroa, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Domingo Castillo, Piero Golia, Yoshua Okón, moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the latest updates on Art Basel Miami Beach, visit www.artbaselmiamibeach.com image above: Andrea Bowers, Educate, Agitate, Organize, 2010

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