Art Basel Miami Beach 2014

AD-Editor-at-Large Doris Chevron visits Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 for us - highlighting the best exhibitions, restaurants and hotels.

When Art Basel made the leap across the pond and into the winter sun in 2002, it was a pretty exciting venture. The director at the time, Sam Keller, had secured a couple of high-profile sponsors, including UBS and BMW. The pool at the Delano Hotel was brand new and an exciting venue. Twelve years later, you've long since needed a GPS to find your way around Art Basel Miami. This year, the world's wealthy art collectors arrived in the days leading up to the opening, not infrequently by private jet. Add to that artists, private dealers, curators, critics, self-promoters, and art groupies with wild outfits. Art as a spectacle - after all, you don't treat yourself to anything else. And yes, it's so much fun that some come just for the parties. Each year, the area's museums stage their most important exhibitions of the year simultaneously, including the Miami Art Museum, the Bass Museum of Art, the Norton Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, the Perez Art Museum, which opened just last year, and the Clearwater Museum in Fort Lauderdale, which this year features Julian Schnabel. Then there are the private collections opening their doors: the Rubell Family Collection, the Cisneros Art Foundation, the De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, the Margulies Collection and ICA. We have therefore put together a very personal guide to the art and design hype.

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