MIAMI — If anyone should have a polished game plan for how to tackle the opening of an art fair, it’s an art adviser, whose entire professional livelihood is constructed around building collections for private clients. The wife-and-husband duo of Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner have spent more than 30 years working, as Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, on behalf of some of the world’s most intrepid collectors, often establishing markets of new and challenging genres, like living-room-unfriendly video art. They are also big collectors themselves, not only of art but also of books: the library in their SoHo loft has more than 13,000 volumes by and about artists.

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