Bridget Finn’s first Art Basel Miami Beach edition closes

Art Basel Miami Beach has completed its first edition under director Bridget Finn. The leadership change gives this year’s fair an additional point of interest alongside the gallery presentations and the wider activity of Miami’s art week.

A new director inherits an established event rather than a blank page. The challenge is to work with its recognizable strengths while making decisions that affect how participants and visitors experience it. Those changes are best judged through the actual program rather than expectations attached to an appointment.

The fair’s continuing role remains to bring a concentrated international art audience to Miami Beach. This edition begins Finn’s record in that role, while the city’s museums and galleries provide the surrounding context in which the gathering acquires a larger local meaning.