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Yes, Miami is an ideal destination for sun and surf, but if you can pull yourself away from the beach, it's also a thriving arts center. Sparked in large part by the city's diverse, sophisticated population, the number of cultural groups in the Miami south area in the past 20 years has soared from 100 to more than 700.

Since 2002, every December the art world focuses on South Florida as it hosts Art Basel Miami Beach. This annual art event is a sister fair to Art Basel Switzerland and is said to be the most successful art fair in America. Exhibits, parties, lectures, alternative and crossover events, and complementary exhibits draw collectors, dealers, curators, and critics-not to mention celebrities and "just plain folk"-from all over the world.

On the heels of Art Basel Miami Beach is Art Miami which is considered one of the best venues internationally for contemporary South American and Spanish art as well as emerging galleries.

But art in South Miami isn't limited to these annual art fairs. It is throughout Greater Miami, indoors and out, that you can see impressive public art projects by local, national and international acclaimed artists. Thanks to Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, a model program that is being copied throughout the country. In the southern area of Greater Miami, visit Art South, an artists' collective of working and exhibit space in downtown Homestead, while in North Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art hosts diverse visual arts genres.

The recently renovated Bass Museum on Miami Beach has undergone an extensive expansion designed by the world-renowned architect Arata Isozaki. The museum houses a large collection of European painting, sculpture, and textiles from the Renaissance to the present, and also plans to display large-scale outdoors exhibit.