Art Basel Miami Beach

The most magnificent art fair in the Americas, replete with Picassos, Mirós and astonishing works by up-and-coming artists like Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Art Basel Miami Beach is always a treat to photograph, and this year was one of the best Art Basels ever.

Here's a link to some of my photoreportage of the week-long, city-wide event. I shot partly for Florida Trend magazine and partly for myself and for an art gallery -- and also for The Station, a satellite art exhibition in Midtown Miami that presented one of the greatest hits of the whole festival: a stunning, hallucination realized into a hyper-reality, a horrific yet funny and wonderful installation by Freeman and Lowe called Hello Meth Lab With A View.

Here's one of my images of part of their sprawling installation: