MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 It\u2019s Art Basel Miami Beach time. The land and water traffic from Miami to Miami Beach and Biscayne Bay hasn\u2019t surprised locals or tourists, but after 23 years of it, the art still has. <\/p>\n
Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n The international contemporary art fair\u2019s new Zero 10 digital art section featured \u201cRegular Animals\u201d by Mike \u201cBeeple\u201d Winkelmann<\/a>, four-legged robots with the realistic heads of tech moguls. The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported \u201cpoop out prints.\u201d <\/p>\n At $100,000 each, the works sold quickly during the fair\u2019s VIP preview on Wednesday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Patricia M. Oleszko<\/a>, an artist born in Michigan, said exploring the fair was exciting. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the joy of discovery, and it\u2019s such a diversity, that\u2019s the beauty of a big and encompassing art fair,\u201d said Oleszko, while standing near her \u201chat\u201d collection and massive inflatable sculptures on display at the fair\u2019s Survey sector. <\/p>\n There was a lot of movement. While a German art dealer sold a 2016 abstract painting by Gerhard Richter for $5.5 million, and a 1967 portrait by Alice Neel for $3.3 million, a few buyers used ETH, and a gallery distributed free NFTs, according<\/a> to Art Basel\u2019s sales report.<\/p>\n Art Basel Miami Beach opens at convention center <\/p>\n The Weinstein Gallery<\/a>, established in California in the 90s, was proud of works by Frida Kahlo\u2019s 1938 \u201cAutorretrato en Miniatura\u201d at the fair\u2019s booth J12. It\u2019s priced at about $15 million. The buyer may just be in town this time. <\/p>\n The massive yachts with little helicopters had docked at Museum Park in Downtown Miami. Vanity Fair reported<\/a> that the tourists on the prowl this weekend included Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, whose net worth, according to Forbes<\/a>, surpasses $243 billion. <\/p>\n Tylar Pelton, a marketer based in Atlanta who visits regularly for her work with Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson\u2019s Teremana Tequila, described the energy in Miami during the fair as electric. <\/p>\n \u201cI feel like inspiration is just what Art Basel is all about and what this week is about,\u201d Pelton said. \u201cYou\u2019ll leave inspired.\u201d<\/p>\n Art Basel Miami Beach attracts galleries from all over the world <\/p>\n There were critics. Annie Armstrong — a New York City-based ARTnews<\/a> columnist who described a floating \u201cused condom\u201d as part of the \u201ctrash-filled ocean\u201d– wrote<\/a> that Art Basel Miami Beach \u201ccould never really be a luxury experience, like its sister fairs.\u201d <\/p>\n The fair, which has attracted a network of satellite fairs and exhibits that are not connected to Art Basel, opens from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 1901 Convention Center Drive. <\/p>\n Children are free. Admission for seniors, veterans, and students was $68. General admission was $88. The Design Miami combination ticket was $130, and the weekend ticket was $160. <\/p>\n