First-Time Exhibitors Shine at Art Basel Miami Beach as Selection Committee Pushes to Diversify

At Art Basel Miami Beach’s opening on Tuesday, the show went on largely as normal, with blue-chip galleries selling their wares for top prices. Among the David Zwirners and Hauser & Wirths of the world, however, were a host of newcomers whose presence was made possible because the selection committee had altered some of its more exclusionary criteria for showing at at the fair.
This year, galleries are no longer required to have a physical space to participate. A rule about a gallery&r