Article: Basel preview: despite comings and goings at director level, this year's Art Basel will maintain its reputation as the world's best contemporary fair.(THE ART MARKET: NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PREVIEWS FOR COLLECTORS)

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Art Basel is, by general consensus, the world's best, as well as biggest, contemporary art fair. This year--its 39th--promises to be another marathon event, with 300 exhibiting galleries from across the globe showing a diverse selection of work from over 2,000 artists, in addition to public art projects, some 60 innovative large-scale projects in the Art Unlimited hall and a raft of museum shows around the Swiss city, from Chaim Soutine to Andrea Zittel.

Although many fairs have emulated Basel's all-embracing arts-festival concept--not least its own off-shoot in Miami--Basel retains its edge thanks to the rigour of its selection procedure and the ...

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