The most high-profile art fair in the U.S., Art Basel Miami Beach, has named the galleries that will take part in its 2023 edition, due to open with a VIP day on December 6 and run through December 10.

With 277 exhibitors, the fair will be just slightly smaller than last year’s edition, which had 283 galleries, making it the biggest Miami Beach fair that Art Basel had ever held.

Many blue-chip exhibitors are returning to the fair once more, including four mega-galleries: David Zwirner, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace Gallery. They will feature in the fair’s main section alongside first-timers such as Paris’s Galerie Minsky, New York’s Ortuzar Projects, and San Francisco’s Weinstein Gallery.

And in the “Nova,” “Positions,” and “Survey” sections, devoted to galleries showing three or fewer artists at the fair, solo presentations, and historical presentations, respectively, galleries making their Art Basel debut will include the Cairo-based Gypsum Gallery and the New York–based galleries Vito Schnabel and Lomex.

In a statement, Noah Horowitz, CEO of Art Basel, said, “Our offering this year demonstrates yet again the strength of our show as an engine of the world of art in the Americas and globally, and as an utterly transformative cross- cultural experience—made possible by our premier exhibitors, our world-renowned cultural partners and collaborators in Miami Beach and South Florida, and our exceptional team.”

The Miami fair is currently being led by Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel’s director of fairs and exhibition platforms. Next year, it will be handed over to Bridget Finn, who will soon become director of the Miami Beach edition.

Art Basel hosts editions in the titular Switzerland city, Hong Kong, and Paris, where its second edition kicks off this October.

This fall, the collection of the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, will come to auction after much anticipation in the market. The grouping of 120 works assembled by Landau, which span paintings by Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon and Mark Tansey, among other names, will be sold at Sotheby’s this fall on November 8 and 9.

Backed with a financial guarantee from the house, the collection is estimated to generate over $400 million.

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Likely the biggest ticket item to be sold from Landau’s estate is Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting Femme à la montre, a portrait of one of his famous subjects, the young Marie-Thérèse Walter. Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist and Modern Art for the Americas called the Picasso painting a “definitive” work in Western art history.

Other major works that will be sold include Ed Ruscha’s Securing the Last Letter (Boss) from 1964 and an untitled Mark Rothko painting from 1958.

Landau died at the age of 102 this March. A former trustees at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, she began collecting in the 1960s.

As his movie “Sound of Freedom” ranks No. 1 at the box office in Latin America, filmmaker and actor Eduardo Verástegui has officially registered to run as an independent candidate in Mexico’s 2024 presidential election.

Believing he can create positive changes in Mexico if elected president, the entertainer and founder of the Viva México Movement, who’s had a significant influence in the entertainment industry, filed his paperwork to run for president last week.

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Verástegui said he intends to run his campaign under the banner of “God, Fatherland and Family,” and, if elected, will use the momentum from his successful film to “put an end to child trafficking.”

In a social media post last Thursday, Verástegui said that he registered with the Instituto Nacional Electoral and made the decision after a “period of discernment.” According to electoral regulations, Verástegui has 120 days to get 1 million signatures, the equivalent of 1% of the list of registered voters throughout the country, distributed over at least 17 states “with an equal percentage in each of them.”

“My fight is for life. My fight is for freedom,” he stated. “It is time to remove the same as always from power. Our country needs a new way of doing politics, to eradicate corruption and impunity. We are on time! Let’s go with everything, for our Mexico!”

In a live video online Tuesday, Verástegui encouraged Mexican Americans who have a Mexican passport or are children of Mexicans to support his candidacy.

Filmed five years ago, “Sound Of Freedom,” which has now topped the box office charts in the United States and Latin America countries, tells the true story of one man’s journey to combat child sex trafficking.

A 25-year-old Nigerian filmmaker, Idorenyen Uko, has achieved academic excellence by graduating with the highest distinction from the New York Film Academy, Los Angeles (NYFA’s).

According to reports, Idorenyen Uko who hails from Akwa Ibom boasted a perfect cumulative grade point average of 4.00.

During her academic journey at the academy, Idorenyen Uko, directed and produced outstanding films like “Sincerely Me” and “Error Connection.”

Each of the films showcased her unique storytelling style and cinematic flair.

In a telephone interview with NAN on Wednesday, Idorenyen Uko said that her ambitions and vision extended beyond the bright lights of Hollywood. She also expressed her passion for returning to Nigeria to revolutionise the country’s film industry.

According to her, she received the prestigious Summa Cum Laude distinction at NYFA’s commencement ceremony, held in August.

Commenting on her achievement, one of her colleagues said, “Uko’s journey through film school is a testament to her unwavering dedication and creative prowess. With her remarkable talent, boundless passion, and a resolute commitment to elevating Nigerian culture while meeting Hollywood’s production standards, she is poised to become a trailblazer in the world of cinema. Her graduation with Summa Cum Laude honors is just the beginning of an exciting chapter in the story of a visionary filmmaker.”