ART BASEL GOES BIG BY SUE HOSTETLER N JUST NINE YEARS, Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) has unquestionably become the most influential fair of its kind in the United States. The exhibition boils over with artwork, performance pieces, video projects, design and architecture, special programming and more, attracting fine-art cognoscenti and fans to the city’s [...]

It was an intimate chat between a man and a woman in a bedroom that turned Rob Orley into an art collector five years ago. ”I felt I could feel the conversation,” says Orley of the Christian Vincent painting that inflamed his passion for American-modern figurative art–a representational genre that seeks to depict humanity with [...]