Art Week and the sumptuous events around its star show, Art Basel Miami Beach, was a perfect showcase not just for art, but also guiltless expenditure of vast amounts of cold hard cash.
For much of its two-decade existence, the art at Art Basel Miami Beach has often seemed secondary to the sheer spectacle of wealth on hand. This year served as definitive proof the scales had tipped—not that anyone seemed to mind.
Miami Art Week and Art Basel are bringing a veritable virtual deluge, and with it, its vocabulary of "NFTs," "blockchains," "cryptocurrencies," "drops," and apparent allergy to words with vowels.
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