Your guide to Art Basel and Miami Art Week 2024
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José Parlá's "Working on Pathways" will be shown at Art Basel 2024. Photo: Rey Parlá. Courtesy of the artist and Ben Brown Fine Art.
It's the most wonderful time of the year! At least in Miami.
Driving the news: Art Basel is back Dec. 6-8, with a weekend full of art and events.
- Art Week runs simultaneously, with some events starting as early as Dec. 1.
To help you make a plan, we waded through a zillion announcements to highlight some of the best.
👀 Between the lines: This list isn't exhaustive. We'll be hyping more events as we get closer to Day 1.
🍌 Art Basel: Miami's world-renowned art fair returns for its 18th year at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
- Basel (pronounced like the Swiss city not the herb) will take over 500,000+ square feet of exhibition space with 286 galleries from 38 countries and territories.
- The most viral art moments happen here. (Remember the banana taped to a wall in 2019 or the ATM machine that posted celebrity net worths last year?)
- This year's fair, under new leadership, will see a few layout changes and an emphasis on highlighting small and mid-sized galleries alongside bigger names.
- There will be 34 new galleries represented, the most since 2008.
- Day tickets 85+.
🏝️ Faena Miami Beach: Visitors flock to the Miami Beach hotel to see its installations on the beach, including last year's sand maze and 2022's "Patria y Vida," a cluster of barricades bound together to represent the global protest movement.
- This year's installation features a Spanish galleon emerging from under the sand by artist Nicholas Galanin.
- Events kick off Dec. 3. Free entry.
🤐 Untitled Art Fair: The annual contemporary art fair sets up on the sands of Miami Beach.
- Programming – panels, performances and galleries – begins Dec. 4. Single-day tickets $55+ for non-Miami Beach residents.
🖼️ PRIZM Art Fair: PRIZM showcases dozens of artists from Africa and the diaspora.
- This year's exhibit, "The Architecture of Liberation," examines the role of art in political and social justice movements.
- Ice Palace West Studio, 71 NW 14th St.
- Early-bird single-day tickets $15+.
🎨 Art Miami: In its 34th year, Art Miami bills itself the city's "original and longest-running contemporary and modern art fair."
- The downtown fair will showcase 160 galleries from more than 21 countries, including seven new galleries.
- Dec. 3-8 at The Art Miami Pavilion, One Herald Plaza at NE 14th Street.
- One-day tickets $65+.
- Art Miami tickets get you into CONTEXT Art Miami, its sister fair focused on emerging and mid-career artists.
🖌️ Pinta Miami: The Ibero-Latin American fair, now in its 18th year, returns to The Hangar in Coconut Grove.
- There'll be over 45 international galleries, representing cities from Miami to Madrid.
- Dec. 5-8 at 3385 Pan American Dr.
- General admission tickets $39+.
🔮 Miami Design District: A jumbo-sized painting of the late astrologist Walter Mercado will be installed on the side of a building in the luxury fashion district.
- The hyper-realistic piece by Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ayala is made to look like a bumper sticker: "Stop honking, I'm trying to figure out what Walter Mercado are saying," reads the massive piece on NE Second Ave. and 40th Street.
- Other free exhibitions include The Craig Robins Collection at DACRA Headquarters, Slawn presented by Saatchi Yates and new murals around the district.
🧑🎨 The Rubell Museum: The Rubell is unveiling three new exhibitions during Art Week, including work from its 2024 artist-in-residence Vanessa Raw.
- A new selection of works from Jean-Michel Basquiat and others will also be shown.
- Tickets $15+.
✨ ICA Miami: The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami is debuting new exhibitions for Art Week, including the first U.S. solo museum showings for Lucy Bull and Keiichi Tanaami.
- Free entry.