Dear oh dear it's this time of the year where we all come and gather around the mother of all art fairs Art Basel. The beautiful thing is that it is in Miami and I'm able to escape for a few days from the cold to be surrounded by art dealers, artists, art, creativity ... so I thought.

I am at the VIP opening at Art Basel Miami Beach and I must say not only is it empty but there is almost nothing new or amazing. Besides huge amounts of taxidermy - don't get me wrong I like it - but there is so much of it I feel like I stepped into a Cabinet of Curiosities or a new wing at the museum of natural history, Damien Hirst is doing his thing. Andy Warhol everywhere as always and a massive amount of people who aim to be the more affordable versions of both of them.

Well luck has it and there are 70 venues in total showing art including Satellite fairs and countless pop up fairs and galleries. As much as I am usually not a fan of 25 fairs a day in 3 days I am so happy that this year due to the lack of inspiration at Art Basel I had the chance and time to visit a few of them.

One that clearly stood out - Pulse Miami. The fair is not only in a gorgeous location that offers great booth space for all exhibitors but also very well organized with little bottles of Perrier for free for all the visitors and a very delicious Bloody Mary. Such a service compared to the $20 Dollar glass of Champagne at Art Basel which I find utterly ridiculous by the way makes people want to stay and see the art and "hang out" a little longer which I did. I was so happy to find truly great work there. For example the Peacock Sculpture by Laurel Roth cheap beauty store items such as fake finger nails and hair clips and hand carved bird heads created two of the majestic birds engaged in a fight. The sculpture plays with the underlying aspect of vanity in today's society and how ugly beauty can be.

A few hours and a cab ride later I stop NADA the New Art Dealers Association Fair I am captured by only one gallery La Bank from Paris with artists Wen Fang. She photographed objects in the gutters of the streets of Beijing and printed them on traditional Chinese butcher knives. It's less the technique than the combination of the found object mostly cheap plastic garbage but also army memorabilia and reminders of the old traditional china long gone and the violence still haunting the street and the culture symbolized by the knife that makes this work interesting and the way it is beautifully displayed. I am buying 3 blades.

Than after a short break with a huge Cuban Sandwich - one reason why one must come to Miami is the Cuban Food - I go to visit SCOPE where I see many friends but not much new. The one piece that captures my attention is a wooden knight sculpture by Morgan Herrin represented by Mulherrin Pollard Projects from Virginia but apart form that it what I have seen art Scope Basel in Basel Switzerland only a few month ago.

So I decided I have time for one more fair and take a quick walk to Fountain Art Fair. Even with my VIP pass I have to pay an entry fee which I find strange and not a good idea in a town where fairs are fighting for attention and visitors and you try to be a young fair with and for very young artists, but I pay anyway. It feels a little like a rave and reminds me of burning man with a huge mutant car at the entrance but in a weird way it feels good on the eye after a day of sterile white and clean walls and art. The fair and the organizers are hungry and motivated and although I see a lot of work that needs more time and years I think this is a good venue for the next generation gallerists and artist alike. There is one brilliant booth by established street and installation artist Greg Haberny from NYC whose career actually started here. A wild combination of street art oil painting on walls floor and ceiling. 

I leave thinking that this was the perfect end of a day when I see Shepard Fairey (about his art) behind the turn table spinning music while everyone is having a cold beer chatting and relaxing in the evening sun. 

My last stop is a special concert organized by AOL featuring Pharell Williams which is so crowded that after the first 3 songs I am leaving home to get ready to return to NYC. (Yasha Young)

Yasha Young is an international gallerist with her Strychnin Gallery in Berlin, New York and London. She works as an editor and curated the first BLOOOM art fair in Cologne this autumn.