Is Palm Beach The Next Maastricht?

Art Basel Miami has become an art sensation in Florida for contemporary collectors. Now Palm Beach wants to the same for Old Masters. First though, to settle on a name: The fair has “changed its name twice in the past two years, the latest version being Palm Beach! America’s International Fine Art & Antique Fair. The exclamation mark caused some hilarity in the art market and there were rumours that an outside consultant had been paid $500,000 to come up with the idea. The fair’s organisers deny the latter suggestion and say that it was dreamed up in-house, but there is no doubt about their strategy.”