In its sixth year, Art Basel Miami Beach explodes with 200 gallery booths and a dynamic program of video, sound, performance, and public art. Beyond hot-selling Basquiats and Rothkos, the main Art Galleries section features Valeska Soares' mixed-media installations and Luiz Zerbini's shimmering canvases from São Paolo's Galeria Fortes Vilaça. Brussels-based Xavier Hufkens showcases Erwin Wurm's bronze sculpture Anger Bumps , full of irrepressible fury and humor. New York's Lehmann Maupin focuses on new work by female artists, including Shirazeh Houshiary's layered paintings, Teresita Fernandez's onyx confections, and Jennifer Steinkamp's smoke-based installation, while Berlin's Galerie Eigen + Art shows recent paintings by Leipzig star Neo Rauch.

As part of Art Nova's focus on new work, New Delhi's Nature Morte and New York's Bose Pacia share a booth that features Bari Kumar's surrealist ochre canvas, Silence I . Lombard-Freid Projects of New York presents Mounir Fatmi, whose photographic series Evolution or Death portrays women with books strapped to their bodies like bombs, while Giò Marconi in Milan shows Nathalie Djurberg's claymation video Camel Drink Water. Phillip Allen's paintings of geometric constellations are on view at Dublin's Kerlin Gallery, and Lithuanian artist Zilvinas Landzbergas draws on his country's post-1989 transition in his sculptures, shown by Amsterdam's Galerie Fons Welters.

In the new Art Supernova section, Paris' Galerie Art Concept promotes Gedi Sibony's haphazard arrangements and Philippe Perrot's grayscale drawings, while London's Herald St showcases Cary Kwok's inked Japanese women, including Plumage — Japanese (Heisei). El Anatsui, at Jack Shainman New York, uses sparkling aluminum bottle caps to construct a massive, undulating tapestry, and Nina Katchadourian puns with maps in Coastal Merger , on view at Sara Meltzer Gallery. Richard Wathen's Aubrey , an ethereal nude portrait of a young boy in muted colors, hangs courtesy of London's Max Wigram Gallery.

Video and sound art find a home in the Botanical Gardens with the Art Video Lounge and Art Sound Lounge. WPS1.org co-hosts the latter and also broadcasts interviews with artists and critics throughout the fair. Art Projects presents art in public places, such as Susan Philipsz' Songs Sung in the First Person on the Theme of Longing, Sympathy, and Release, and Art Positions erects a beachfront village of shipping containers, where 20 emerging galleries show off promising young talents. Aneta Grzeszykowska contributes her video Black , as well as hand-sewn dolls, to Warsaw's Raster Gallery, and Jennifer Nocon adorns New York's Tracy Williams' shipping container with draped, hand-dyed fabric. Art Perform rounds out the fair with a daily performance art program curated by Jens Hoffmann and the Open Air Cinema, showcasing assume vivid astro focus' video montage Butch Queen Realness with a Twist in Pastel Colors Video Show. It all kicks off on December 5 with Art Loves Music, a free, public performance by Iggy Pop and the Stooges.

-ASA