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While Design Miami has decided to go all out and expand for this year’s Art Basel, there has been a casualty along the way with another fair that runs concurrent to the biggest art fair in the world. PrintBasel, which is dedicated to graphic art, has announced that it has decided to cancel this year’s event due to the economy and from early warning signs from last year’s Art Basel Miami, which found potential buyers much more gun shy to pick up pricey pieces. However, they has said that they do hope to return for 2010. Here’s a bit:

The problem, [executive manager Robert Schiess] wrote, was particularly acute for smaller fairs. “Economic considerations clearly prevent exhibitors to invest in smaller fairs. PrintBasel, with its specific focus on printmaking, suffers subsequently. Not enough exhibitors have applied to participate. This is why we are renouncing holding PrintBasel in 2009.

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