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Art Basel is an international art fair with three shows staged annually in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach, Florida; and Hong Kong.

Each show is organized into sectors which showcase contemporary artworks by established and newly emerging artists.

In addition to the artworks shown by participating galleries, the shows offer parallel programming produced in collaboration with the host city’s local institutions.

While Art Basel provides a platform for galleries to show and sell their work to collectors, museum directors, and curators, it also attracts a large international audience of art spectators and students.

Hong Kong (pronunciation in Hong Kong Cantonese), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia.

Macau lies across the delta to the west, and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north.

With a total land area of and a population of over 7.3 million of various nationalities, it ranks as the world's fourth most densely populated sovereign state or territory.

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

It was incorporated on March 26, 1915.

The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami.

The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida.

As of the 2010 census, Miami Beach had a total population of 87,779.

It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us.

Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.

Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition.

Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or ‘ism.’ Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era.

The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.

Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art.

A tendency away from the narrative, which was characteristic for the traditional arts, toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art.

More recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or postmodern art.