David Gryn of London's Artprojx returned to curate the Film sector for the fourth year running – creating a program of over 80 film and video works by and about artists drawn from the show's participating galleries. The program featured work by Charles Atlas, Martin Creed, Susan Hiller, Parker Ito, Mark Leckey, Babette Mangolte, Takeshi Murata, Laure Prouvost, Alex Prager, Mark Wallinger and a tribute to Harun Farocki, who passed away this July. An estimated 1,000 visitors attended four nights of free screenings in SoundScape Park on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the Frank Gehry designed New World Center. Selected by Zurich film connoisseur This Brunner, a special screening of 'Big Eyes’ by director Tim Burton took place at the Colony Theatre, introduced by featured actress Krysten Ritter and followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Larry Karaszewski. For more information, please visit: artbasel.com/miamibeach/film.

The show’s daily talks program brought together leading artists, museum directors, collectors and curators from around the world. The morning Conversations program opened with the Premiere Artist Talk with Lynda Benglis, whose innovative and vivid sculptures have been challenging the art establishment for half a century. Further sessions included a panel on funding models for the visual arts with Dennis Scholl, Collector and Vice President, Knight Foundation, Kickstarter’s Stephanie Pereira and Jérôme Poggi, founder of the Paris not-for-profit 'Objet de Production'; a panel looking at art initiatives in an ever-expanding artworld, with Ella Fontanals-Cisneros of CIFO, Miami, Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, and Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; and the latest edition of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ongoing series looking at artistic practice, entitled 'The Artist as Curator', with Joseph Kosuth, Liu Ding, Martha Rosler, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Martha Wilson. Conversations was presented in partnership with Absolut.

The afternoon Salon program featured curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist in a lively conversation about Instagram as an artistic medium with Kevin Systrom, CEO and co-founder of Instagram, as well as a panel on Art Basel’s Crowdfunding Initiative featuring several of the international non-profit organizations that had successfully funded projects. Featured artists and artworld figures in the panels included Marina Abramović, Josh Baer, Claire Bishop, Dora Budor, Ian Cheng, Bonnie Clearwater, Ryan Gander, Massimiliano Gioni, Liz Glynn, Nicolás Goldberg, Chrissie Iles, Theo Jansen, Sam Keller, Chiang Mai, Ryan McNamara, Pedro Reyes, Tabor Robak, Rachel Rose, Martha Rosler, Julian Schnabel, Sarah Thornton, Mario García Torres, Amalia Ulman and Shen Wei. High-quality videos of all Conversations and Salon talks are available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/talks.

Art Basel also partnered with Performa to present 'MEƎM 4 Miami: A Story Ballet About the Internet', an immersive dance performance by celebrated contemporary artist Ryan McNamara. The work, which received critical acclaim from diverse audiences and the media, explored the online world, making physical the virtual experience of link-clicking, simultaneously incorporating many styles of dance. Beyond Art Basel's programming, South Florida’s cultural institutions again enriched the week. This year was marked by the announcement that the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami will move into a permanent home designed by Spanish architects Aranguren & Gallegos located in Miami's Design District.

Once again Miami Beach’s leading museums and private collections timed their strongest shows of the year to coincide with Art Basel in Miami Beach. The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) presented 'Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict/Abstract Art in the Ella Fontanals-Cisernos Collection' while the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space showed 'Beneath The Surface'. It was a year of anniversaries as The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse marked its 15th anniversary, and the The Rubell Family Collection presenting '50 Years of Marriage', celebrating Mera and Don Rubell's half a century of marriage and collecting. Design Miami, the leading global forum for collectible design, also celebrated its 10th anniversary.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami presented Mario Garcia Torres, Beatriz Milhazes and Geoffrey Farmer. The Norton Museum of Art presented 'RAW: Klara Kristalova', while the Bass Museum of Art showed 'One Way: Peter Marino'. The NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale showed 'Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen'.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami presented Mario Garcia Torres, Beatriz Milhazes and Geoffrey Farmer. The Norton Museum of Art presented 'RAW: Klara Kristalova', while the Bass Museum of Art showed 'One Way: Peter Marino'. The NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale showed 'Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen'. The show also marked the successful launch of Art Basel's Next tours program for emerging collectors. A total of 80 collectors drawn from 12 young patrons groups of international museums attended bespoke tours of the fair and had intimate sessions with exhibiting galleries. Art Basel's next show in Miami Beach will take place from December 3 to December 6, 2015. Starting after the 2015 edition, the Miami Beach Convention Center will undergo major renovation, phased around the 2016 show, with the aim to finish the renovation before Art Basel returns to Miami Beach in December 2017.