The pandemic hit Spiegler’s Art Basel hard, following an already rocky financial patch for Faber’s parent company MCH. Things now look somewhat rosier, after the successful launch this autumn of Paris+ by Art Basel. The aggressive takeover of longtime French fair FIAC’s traditional Grand Palais venue and date led to the chief of Art Cologne hitting out at Art Basel’s ‘colonialism’. As Spiegler steps down from the company in December, and Noah Horowitz returns from a brief role at Sotheby’s to take on the position of CEO, the expansion and search for profit continues. At the start of the year, MCH reacquired a stake in Singapore’s Art SG fair, though Art Basel Hong Kong, with a volatile political situation and many lockdown measures still in place, saw just under half the 2019 number of galleries take part. Exhibitors at Art Basel in Basel returned to pre-pandemic levels, and the fair is hosting its largest-ever Miami edition, with rumoured plans for a year-round selling platform to come.