ArT BaSEL/Design Miami info & THE WYNWOOD WALLS photos finally!!!

I heard there are now 19 simultaneous art events (photography + *Design Miami)in Miami, orbiting around the main event, Art Basel Miami. The eight year old, spin-off of the original, Swiss art fair, which is now 40 years old, has become an enormous event—a weeklong migration of the art world. Thousands of cultural nomads descend upon Miami and Miami Beach, buying, selling, and ogling art. The main fair is said to generate more than a quarter billion dollars in sales, and there are 250-plus exhibitors.

*Design Miami is where international design galleries present curated exhibitions of museum-quality furniture, lighting and objets d’art, attracting the highest level of private and public collectors of historical and contemporary design. The galleries invited to exhibit in Design Miami deal mainly in exceptional design objects from the advent of Modernism (circa 1900) to the present day, with select galleries specializing in outstanding 18th and 19th century antiques. Design Miami favors objects that contribute to the discourse of design history, vanguard contemporary culture and sophisticated design collecting.