According to The Wall Street Journal, collectors are betting the next hot art hub will be in Cuba. As evidence of this phenomenon, the Journal sites Mario Carreño's modernist painting Danza Afro-Cubana, which sold for $2.6 million, breaking Sotheby's auction record for a Cuban work. For those concerned about the fact that it's illegal for Americans to travel to Cuba to buy art, there's this exciting little legal loophole: "Collectors are taking advantage of a little-known exception to the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba: It is legal for Americans to buy Cuban art. Unlike cigars or rum, which are considered commercial products, the U.S. government classifies Cuban artworks as cultural assets, and Americans can bring them into the U.S."

According to Der Spiegel, the desert metropolis Dubai has reinvented itself as the center of the art world. As evidence, the magazine sites Art Dubai, which runs from March 19th to 22nd: Art Dubai "spans over two massive grand halls (over 2000 square meters), across a sprawling outside palm-shaded pavilion, and into an underground garage, which has been dubbed the 'Art Park.' All of this was created in the past several weeks at the perfectly manicured Madinat Jumeirah Resort, located on the Gulf coast across from the Palm Jumeirah, the largest manmade island in the world." See a photo gallery of the show here.

If you're looking for an art experience a little closer to home, think about visiting Pennsylvania's  Laurel Highlands, where it's possible to visit three Frank Lloyd Wright homes within a 30 mile radius. They call it the Wright trifecta. Read one writer's description of the experience in The Washington Post.