Congratulations, Miami, you've survived another Art Basel. Riptide dropped by the main fair  one final time late yesterday afternoon. Galleries had put out some new works since opening day, while some gallerists were literally counting their revenue, reportedly up from last year. That's not surprising, considering much of the work looked like it was meant to sell. Video works, which hit a peak a few years ago, were rare this time. Interactive works and anything burgeoning on "performance" were rarer. Surprisingly, even photo works seemed sparse. Instead, the galleries relied on attention-attracting 2-D works and sculptures.

After part one, here are a few more of our favorites from Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.

Cordon Cheung, Neon Shadows, 2009 at Jack Shainman Gallery

The mediums listed for this painting included The Financial Times as the painting was made over stock listings. It makes us wonder, if newspapers, in their traditional form, died, how would artists react?

Works by Herbert Volkmann at Contemporary Fine Arts

​Seriously, we could have done a post solely dedicated to works incorporating newsprint.

Yan Pei-Ming's Un dollar avec autoportrait en crane F56789604 H (2009) at David Zirner

If currency ever heads the way of the newspaper, we'll have bigger problems than wondering how the art world react, though money remains a popular subject (and in some cases medium). This piece, in particular, stuck out like a bad omen.

Bert Rodriguez In Your Own Image (2009) at Fredric Snitzer

One of the few local artists at one of the few local galleries.

Anne-Karin Furunes Portraits of Pictures IX (2009) at Galerie Anhava

This is actually a canvas covered in black acrylic with holes of punched in it to create the image.

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Who loves Frank Stella? We love Frank Stella. By the way, this piece carried a price tag of $90,000 at one of the few booths that wasn't shy in listing amounts.

Michalangelo Pistoletto Through the fence, him and her 2008 at Luhring Augustine

The subject matter of this painting is so universal it's almost like you can see yourself in it.

Hannah Wilke, Untitled (pink), 1977

Yes, these are supposed to look like vulvas. In fact, this is groundbreaking vulval sculpture right here.

​Laura Lima Sinistro (Biambo), 2009 at Galeria Luisa Strina. One of the few pieces that incorporated performance.

This was the only thing in its booth.

Thiebaud is known for drawing cakes, but most of his work shown at Allan Stone Gallery was of people (many who looked like they have never eaten cake).