Over the next 5 days, DailyServing.com will be reporting from Miami Beach, covering the myriad of art events surrounding the 2008 Art Basel Miami Beach. Opening today at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel is often called the most important art event in the United States. Art Basel Miami Beach pulls the US art world into southern Florida for four days every year over the first weekend of December. The event will bring together over 250 leading art galleries from around the world, exhibiting works by over 2,000 of the most exciting 20th and 21st century artists. In addition to the Art Basel, countless other fairs have emerged offering both quality and quantity of works to be viewed. Some of the most noteworthy of these fairs are Pulse Miami, Scope Miami, Aqua Art Miami and the NADA art fair. If you are not in the US, or will simply miss this year’s art frenzy in Miami, be sure to catch Art 40 Basel which takes place this June in Basel, Switzerland.