I'm not going this year. But Art Basel Miami Beach—along with the 7,000 satellite fairs that orbit it throughout South Beach and Wynwood (including the Seattle-run Aqua, back at the sparkling hotel, baby!)—is bound to be madness, as always. I'll try to keep you updated with any extraordinary excitement. Several Seattle galleries and artists will be there, including SOIL, Lawrimore Project, Greg Kucera Gallery, SEASON, and Prole Drift.

NADA's hosting a talk by Hennessy Youngman. If I were you, I'd be like Michael Jackson and be there. He describes it:

What is Art? Where does Art come from? Why do humans need it? Maybe we don’t. I mean, we probably don’t, yet still mankind has produced objects of contemplation for aeons. Ever since the first caveman bested his first saber tooth on the plains of Eurasia and needed some token to show off his interspecies dominance, he unknowingly initiated the creation of Art, which ever since, has been tethered to human existence. But how did Art go from tokens of survival to an unending line at the MoMA so we can be stared down by a 60-year-old woman in Jedi robes?

For the here and now, enjoy his Art Thoughtz on beauty, because "good things happen to good people."