Every party, Art Basel has taught us, needs a live tiger and an alligator-head champagne fountain for décor. A good party is all about the theme, we say, and the weekend wrapping up Miami's most indulgent art week to date gave us plenty to take in.

This is Miami. We never miss an opportunity to embrace our motto: More, Bigger, Brighter, Sexier and Splashier. We take an event like Art Basel and crank up the celebration element higher each year. We're a city of enthusiasts, bon vivants and opportunists.

Saturday's the day all you working drones get to come out and play at Art Basel Miami Beach. And there's a selection of free events worth your week...

If our husky Brenda Vacarro voice is any indication, Art Basel is winning in the endurance category. Just three days of art fairs and parties, and we're ready to check in somewhere with an IV drip. But we can sleep in 2013, we figure.

Who's the big winner at this year Art Basel Miami Beach? Instagram. Among the most notable shots from last night's pic feeds was a live tiger, sleepin...

Who knew that Calder did eye patches? This was one of the quirky gems we discovered at Vernissage, the holy grail of art parties, which opened the Miami Beach Convention Center's consortium of gallery offerings Wednesday night.

Favorite moment from the first (unofficial) day of Basel? Will Ferrell in a Howler trucker hat wandering around the vernissage. Fingers crossed he's r...

Every year we have a love-hate relationship with Art Basel. Love it because it's fabulous; hate it because it gives us too many really good art events and parties (OK, mostly parties) all happening at the same time. Meaning, we invariably miss something amazing.

It's back! And this year's Art Basel Miami Beach -- the 11th annual offshoot of the venerable Swiss fair -- is underway. Doors opened Tuesday afternoo...

Ready! Set! Basel! Wednesday is a manageable introduction to a frenzied few days of art walking and talking for Art Week Miami AKA Art Basel Miami ...

"I love showing off my city! I feel extremely proud and excited," The Webster CEO and co-founder Laure Heriard Dubreuil told The Huffington Post on th...

By Jonathan Borge Is Art Basel to Miami what Fashion Week is to New York? Saying so would perhaps be an overstatement, but there's no denying that ...