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The Art Basel in Miami Beach 2015 exhibitor list has arrived, serving as a reminder that for many in the art world, December is just around the corner. Better start preparing your wallets and your wardrobes now, because the clock is ticking.

If you haven't booked a hotel room yet, well, we wish you luck.

Art Basel announced today that Noah Horowitz has been appointed to the new position of Director Americas for Art Basel, starting in August 2015. Based in the United States, Horowitz will direct Art Basel's Miami Beach show moving forward, further strengthen Art Basel's relationships with galleries, collectors, artists, museums and institutions from the Americas, and promote them throughout Art Basel's activities worldwide. Horowitz joins Art Basel's Executive Committee – led by Marc Spiegler at a global level – alongside Adeline Ooi, Director Asia; Marco Fazzone, Director Resources and Finance; and Patrick Foret, Director Business Initiatives‎.

The hundreds of gallery owners who apply each year to secure a coveted booth at Art Basel, the Swiss art fair, spend weeks on their admission applications. They describe the evolution of their galleries, track the history of their exhibitions and list the biographies of their artists. Then there is the matter of the “mock booths,” intricate sketches, miniature models, even virtual tours, of their planned exhibition spaces, complete with tiny reproductions of the exact works they hope to exhibit.

All to impress the fair’s selection jury, six fellow dealers who have become among the most powerful gatekeepers — and tastemakers — in the art world...

Eli and Edythe Broad have been regular visitors to Art Basel along with the founding director of the Broad, Joanne Heyler. But this year the collectors are giving the fair a miss: opening the Broad on September 20, a $140m, 120,000 sq. ft museum on Los Angeles’s Grand Avenue, has had to take priority.

Heyler is busy overseeing the installation of the inaugural hang in the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed space, which will feature works from the Broad’s own collection and that of the Broad Art Foundation, which they established in 1984.

Design Miami/Basel will kick off in Switzerland on Tuesday, June 16, continuing the tenth anniversary celebration that began in Miami last December.  Launched in 2005, Design Miami/ quickly emerged as the premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, and discussing collectible design thanks to its inimitable exhibitor list, museum-quality offerings, and innovative programming. Design Miami/’s two fairs, which run alongside the monumental Art Basel fairs in Miami each December and in Basel each June, bring together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators, and critics from around the...

Art Basel promises such a notable showing of Modern works this year that, for the first time since 2006, the fair has implemented a floorplan shift — yes, a floorplan shift —  to capitalize on it all. The 57 galleries in question will now be clustered together in the downstairs of Hall 2, the better to accentuate their selection of masterworks from 1900 to 1970.

When the third edition of Art Basel Hong Kong opens to the public on Sunday, the atmosphere at Asia’s hottest contemporary art fair will be noticeably cooler — for reasons that have less to do with the region’s overall economic slowdown than the shift in the fair’s dates from humid May to balmy March.

But the show’s organizers hope the real draw of the date change for collectors and galleries will be more distance in the international art world calendar from the fair madness of May and June.

“Because of the timing, we weren’t reaching the potential we thought we could reach,” said Marc Spiegler, director of Art Basel.

After the flurry of New York art fairs and Art Basel in Hong Kong, we're looking forward to the fair of all fairs, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland this June. There are a total of 283 galleries participating, and the main section of the show, the "Galleries" sector, will showcase 222 galleries from around the world while its "Feature" sector will show curatorial projects from 30 galleries. Solo presentations of emerging or young artists will be in the "Statements" sector, where all 16 galleries are completely new to the Swiss fair.

The Malaysian curator and art advisor Adeline Ooi has been appointed Art Basel's director Asia. Ooi, who has been Art Basel's VIP relations manager for Southeast Asia for the past two years, takes up the post next month, and will help deliver the third edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong next spring (15-17 March).

Ooi co-founded the Kuala Lumpur-based consultancy RogueArt in 2009, which focuses on cultural projects, exhibitions and publications, and advises corporate collections about sourcing works.

After numerous false starts, the City of Miami Beach is now proceeding apace with the renovation of its Convention Center, which has hosted Art Basel for more than a decade despite its dated design and creaking infrastructure. The $500 million renovation, which is being planned to start when Art Basel in Miami Beach 2015 closes and is due to be completed before the 2017 edition of the fair, replaces a previous, much more ambitious redevelopment scheme designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.

Art Basel will continue to take place in the center, the oldest parts of which date from the late 1950s, throughout the revamp. “We are very confident that the refurbishment will be phased in a way that will enable us to continue operating to Art Basel standards,” says a spokeswoman for the fair.