Art Basel Miami Beach united creatives, art enthusiasts, celebrities, musicians, and more — here's what it was like attending this year's event.

Reflecting on her first edition as director, Bridget Finn shared, "It was an ecstatic feeling to finally open the doors of our show to visitors, after more than a

Housed as always in the Miami Beach Convention Center, the event is also the last major art fair in a year full of them, including previous Art Basel editions in Hong Kong in March; Basel, Switzerland, in June; and Paris in October. Not to mention four far-flung Frieze fairs and a couple put on by the European Fine Art Foundation.

Two Palm Beach galleries and one from West Palm Beach will have booths at the prestigious international art fair coming to Miami Beach Dec. 6-8.

From the main fair to a Gucci snow globe, an itinerary of the best events and exhibitions Miami Art Week has to offer.

Art Basel is not the only attraction; Miami Art Week — with its fairs and galleries — is expected to draw more than 100,000 people throughout the weekend. From the Miami Design District to Wynwood, where sections of Northwest Second Avenue will be closed, traffic may come to a halt.

The long-running fair’s host city is America’s current de facto crypto capital. This week, a month after the reelection of the country’s first meme-coin president, it is also a global destination for that other great speculator’s sport: buying art.

Miami Beach Art Basel wrapped up with a record-breaking economic impact, fueled by high-profile attendees and growing interest in the global art scene.

Business is not brisk at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, and the seller of a $27 million Gerhard Richter may be willing to take a loss.

Art Basel Miami Beach is all about buying and selling, market trends and the like, and so the big question on almost everyone’s mind on the vast floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center, given mixed success at recent New York auctions and depressed sales,