MIAMI BEACH — As the global art world descends on South Florida for next week’s Art Basel fair, which is celebrating its 17th anniversary, it’s worth remembering how truly small the art world once was. As late as the 1980s, you could fit contemporary art’s A-list players all in one room. “We knew every collector in the world then,” Don Rubell recalled with a chuckle. “It was the first time I’d ever seen anything of mine hung on someone else’s wall,” an awed Mr. They later became instrumental in wooing the Swiss-based Art Basel fair to begin a Miami edition.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2019 06:56 UTC