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photography courtesy of art basel (kukje gallery); sara gernsbacher/courtesy of michael jon gallery (2c); courtesy of the artist and galerie guido W. baudach, berlin (selg) collectors attending the show in Miami Beach since we started the fair in Hong Kong. There are also more new galleries from China, such as Beijing Commune, as well as Japan, including Take Ninagawa and Y++ Wada Fine Arts. Last year's ABMB broke both purchase and attendance records. What is Art Basel doing to keep that momentum going in 2014? MS: 2013 was a hugely successful edition—that's why all the participating galleries want to come back. We do not take this success for granted but work very hard to keep the quality at our shows high. Immediately after each show we look at what we can do to make it even better and to improve the experience of our guests and exhibitors. What's great about Miami Beach as an event is that there is always a lot of cultural energy, so we can collabo- rate with great partners from across the Americas and the rest of the world. With the exponential growth of ABMB, what measures have you taken to vet the galleries that participate to maintain your high standards? MS: Across all our shows, we apply a rigorous selection process that ensures that only galleries with strong programming and a great roster of artists make it into the show. The show actually has not become bigger over the years, but the competition has certainly become harder. What would you consider to be the fastest growing segment of the art market today? MS: What we have noticed over the past editions of our shows in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong is that there are very interesting impulses coming from the "digital native" generation of artists. Collectors and curators are highly interested in the work shaped by new media and in new ways of dealing with aesthetics and audiences. MA clockwise from top left: Kukje Gallery's booth at Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2013; o.T. (concrete) by Markus Selg, from Galerie Guido W. Baudach; 2C by JPW3 of Michael Jon Gallery, a new exhibitor at this year's ABMB. "What's great about miami beaCh is that there is a Lot oF CuLturaL eNergY [here]." —marc spiegler arts district south Highlights from some of Chicago's top galleries with exhibits at this year's Kabinett Sector at ABMB. VALerie CArBerry GALLery features paintings, collages, and gouaches dating from the mid-to-late 1940s by American artist Judith rothschild, representing a period of great innovation at the beginning of her long, productive career as a painter and abstract relief artist. kAVi GuptA GALLery exhibits new bronze works by Mickalene thomas, which take the personal narrative of the artist's mother, Sandra Bush, as inspiration. On display will be painted bronze casts of Bush's belongings alongside actual objects in a domestic setting inspired by her own home. rhonA hoffMAn GALLery showcases Michael rakowitz's The Breakup (2010–2012), a multidimensional installation confating the 1969 breakup of The Beatles with the breakdown of Gamal Nasser's Middle Eastern peace talks. The work includes drawings, collages, and tabletop vitrines, as well as Beatles memorabilia and ephemera from the Middle East. 62 michiganavemag.com culture Art Full