The forthcoming edition of Art Basel Paris (24-26 October) will allow participating galleries to invite a select number of guests to tour the fair the day before its First Choice VIP opening on Wednesday 22 October. It aligns the schedule of the Paris fair closer to that of Art Basel's flagship event in Switzerland, which opens to First Choice VIPs on the Tuesday of the fair week. Last year’s Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting included a study sampling 1,400 Art Basel VIPs, which found that this group attended an average of five fairs a year, down from eight in 2019. Respondents to the VIP survey cited “overcrowding” as a reason for reducing their fair attendance. Art Basel did not disclose how many Avant Première invitations a gallery is able to give out.