When ArtPalmBeach debuted 16 years ago, it focused on art from the 1960s and 1970s. That’s no longer the case. The fair is moving with the times, said organizer Lee Ann Lester of International Fine Art Expositions.

“The biggest emphasis of ArtPalmBeach is on new media,” she said.

These days you’ll find more booths showing video and light-based work, as well as photography, design, site-specific installations and artist project spaces.

The fair opens with a preview today and runs through Monday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach.

Like the contemporary art world, the fair has become more international, Lester said. Its 80 exhibitors include dealers from Mexico, South Korea, Russia, Argentina, France, Britain, Italy and The Netherlands.

The lecture series features topics such as the changing art world with Bonnie Clearwater, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami; the evolution of studio furniture with Rosanne Somerson, provost of the Rhode Island School of Design; the role of ephemera in contemporary art with critic Anthony Haden-Guest and Palm Beach artist Edwina Sandys; and Jim Kempner’s video web series The Madness of Art, which spoofs his life as a Chelsea art dealer.

In the early 1980s, Leslie Smith Gallery had a branch on Worth Avenue selling 19th century Dutch Art. Now run by his son David, the Amsterdam-based gallery concentrates on impressionist, modern and contemporary art. The shift toward contemporary art came after Smith visited Australia and became enamored of contemporary aboriginal art. The gallery is now the largest outside of Australia selling such art.

Smith also will show works by Shanghai-based Simon Ma. Trained in traditional Chinese contemporary ink painting as a child, he studied architecture and urban planning in London. His work fuses these influences and spans design and fine art.

The gallery’s selection will include his contemporary ink paintings, furniture and painted fiberglass statues of horses and mythical beings, such as the 8-foot gold unicorn Awakening. “His work is so diverse,” Smith said. “He’s not like most artists who just do one thing.”

David De Buck Gallery of New York has taken two booths, one to show various artists and the other to focus on new media by artists such as Hans Kotter and Regine Schumann, who work with light. Schumann uses fluorescent materials that give off intensely glowing colors to make minimalist panels or flowing string works. Some of her pieces can remain illuminated for up to five hours, De Buck said.

Kotter uses LED lights and mirrors to craft dimensional geometric light sculptures that seem to recede into infinity. De Buck describes his work as “a mixed marriage of Dan Flavin and Donald Judd to which he applies today’s technology.”

Schantz Galleries of Stockbridge, Mass., is presenting a solo exhibition of works by groundbreaking studio glass artist Lino Tagliapietra, who will receive the fair’s lifetime achievement award. The artist also will be featured in a Q&A Friday with Scott Indrisek, senior executive editor of Modern Painters magazine.

Trained by Muranese glass masters as a child, Tagliapietra played a major role in introducing Venetian glassworking techniques in the Far East, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Regarded as one of the world’s best glass blowers, he has stretched to create a new series of fused glass panels inspired by color field painting — proving it’s never too late to change. Tagliapietra is 78.