Dial M for Moxie

MIAMI—Packing gallery booths like sardines into a convention center can have its slapstick side effects. Take Art Basel Miami Beach, where Sperone Westwater director David Leiber found himself engaging in a new sporting activity of sorts. A prominent art adviser, occupied elsewhere in Miami, placed several calls to Leiber’s cell phone requesting that he run across the hall to see if anyone was at the booth of Berlin gallery Neugerriemschneider, where she wanted to conduct some business. Leiber, who was dealing with a client on both occasions, was understandably peeved but obliged nonetheless. Where else but at an art fair could a gallery director be turned into a gofer?

"Dial M for Moxie" originally appeared in the February 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's February 2008 Table of Contents.