Art Basel: The Denouement

MIAMI—On Sunday evening in Miami Beach there was a palpable sense of the circus leaving town. Pristine gallery booths in the Convention Center become the domain of the art handlers. Young salespeople, who hours earlier had been dressed in Armani black and, unless you were a millionaire collector (I wasn't), would hardly have given you the time of day, were in dusty jeans and on their hands and knees packing stuff into crates. Even some gallerists got into the action. Was that Jack Tilton wielding a power screwdriver?

Click on the photo gallery at left to see what Basel looks like as the tent comes down.