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Article: Experience visual overload during Art Basel Miami Beach
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- November 8, 2007
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It's the quintessential South Beach scene: Beautiful people lounging alongside shimmering water. Art imitates social life here next month with a fashion photography exhibit installed around a swanky hotel pool.
It's one of the many ways that Miami transforms into a contemporary art hub in early December. About 20 art fairs and other independent exhibits and performances lure serious collectors to mingle for a week with the locals in the city's parks, trendy hotels, giant air-conditioned tents and private galleries. Paintings hang from the walls, sculptures and videos enliven tropical gardens, performers entertain bus riders, and shipping containers will be reborn as gallery ...