Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

New tech and old names drive sales at Art Basel Miami Beach

A new section for digital art at the fair this year, Zero 10, coincides with a flight to secondary material, suggesting that an adapting market may also be a bifurcating one

José Carlos Diaz on Reefline, an underwater sculpture park off Miami’s shoreline

The Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new chief curator sees Reefline as a model for a type of environmentally restorative public art that can be replicated globally

In pictures: a sculptural celebration at Art Basel Miami Beach

Nora Lawrence, the executive director of Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley, shares her favorite sculptures from the fair

Artists protest Alligator Alcatraz at Scope Art Show

The project “invites fairgoers to reflect, respond and enact change through signing a petition that demands the closure of Alligator Alcatraz”, Amnesty says

Revolt Art Fair in Miami champions thriving Black art market

The fair is committed to centring both Black artists and Black audiences

Miami's Women Photographers International Archive finds a new home

The non-profit photography centre recently moved into the Green Space Miami

Pinta fair in Miami spotlights Latin American art in politically charged moment in time

The fair’s current Miami edition cements the city’s place as “the capital of Latin America”, as one participant put it

An art collection for Miami’s new courthouse

The Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center unveils a dozen site-specific commissions by Florida artists

Museum acquires massive Martin Wong triptych from Art Basel Miami Beach

The painting, only publicly displayed once before, will soon be featured in a Wong exhibition in Chicago

Persian miniatures and mermaids: Hiba Schahbaz’s garden of delights at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

The Pakistani American artist’s retrospective, gathering works created over the span of 15 years, chronicles her evolution from smaller pieces to compositions sprawling across multiple sheets

A tale of three historic Miami theatres in disrepair

Recent restoration projects at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Ace Theatre and Olympia Theater have ranged from preservation to near demolition

Michi Jigarjian on the art she collects and why

The New York-based multihyphenate most recently acquired a sculpture by Camille Henrot in Paris

‘I think of immersion as a state of perception’: Lawrence Lek on his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach

The artist, who says his practice is “like a continuously expanding universe”, spotlights nonhuman intelligence in his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art

Miami Advice: Nina Surel on the historic Villa Paula and its future

The Argentine artist Nina Surel is enamoured with Villa Paula—an architectural transplant of sorts that was built for the Cuban consul in the late 19th century

A haunting portrait of the Everglades appears in Miami

Isabelle Brourman, an artist known for her courtoom sketches from high-profile trials, is showing in a pop-up exhibition at the Rice Hotel

Miniature self-portrait by Frida Kahlo turns heads at Art Basel Miami Beach

A Frida Kahlo self-portrait measuring 5cm tall is on sale for $15m at the stand of Weinstein gallery

Political statements at Art Basel Miami Beach are sparse but strident

The heated cultural climate is felt at the fair, from a caustic Maurizio Cattelan sculpture to Cristin Tierney’s stand marking—and interrogating the meaning of—the upcoming semiquincentennial of US independence

Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary wins French art prize at Art Basel Miami Beach

The prize is awarded annually to a French artist exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach

Steely gaze: a look back at Richard Hunt’s early work at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

A survey of the late sculptor’s work tracks the evolution of his singular approach to volume

In pictures: a season for newcomers at Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians

“For a lot of the galleries and artists, this is their first time at Art Basel. It’s a good entryway into the fair,” says Meridians curator Yasmil Raymond

Warhol’s Muhammad Ali canvas sells for a punchy price

The canvas sold for $18m at Art Basel Miami Beach, in the same building where Ali won his first heavyweight championship in 1964

Cristina Chacón & Diego Uribe on the art they collect and why

The couple, who serve on the chairman’s council of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, have acquired a collection that spans across Miami, Bogota and Madrid

‘Materials are so easily imported, but the people are not welcome’: Diana Eusebio’s show at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami tackles the realities of immigration

The Peruvian Dominican artist and Miami native investigates the American dream, as well as the act of re-creating home, through photographic textiles that she creates using the traditional hand-dyeing methods of her ancestors

‘People didn’t believe it was real’: Indigenous artists push to shut the Everglades migrant-detention facility Alligator Alcatraz

Miccosukee and Seminole people have lead organised opposition to the detention centre, merging cultural practices with strategies of resistance

Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach

The installation in the fair's new Zero 10 digital art section features robotic creatures with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech moguls

‘Christmas came early’: Art Basel Miami Beach opens with avalanche of blue-chip sales

The most valuable sale reported was an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter for $5.5m, from David Zwirner

Omar Lopez-Chahoud’s fresh curatorial project debuts at Miami Produce

The show features some of FF Projects’ artists, and brings community-minded art to the Allapattah neighborhood market

Untitled Art fair displays new dimensions on Miami's South Beach

The fair’s 14th edition, housed in its distinctive pink-accented tent directly on South Beach, shows a range of creative sculptural wall-hangings in bold hues