A look into this year's festivities in Miami.
Art Basel Miami, the “Olympics of the Art World,” is the centerpiece of what has become a full-fledged week of art all over Miami, everywhere in town there are treasures to be found in dozens of satellite shows, museum exhibits, displays in hotels, and shops.
Art Basel takes over the 1.4 million-square-foot Convention Center midweek attracting 79,000 visitors to view booths set up by 277 leading international galleries. Already open the day before, Art Miami Context and the satellite shows, Untitled and SCOPE, are open in giant tents on the beach and waterfront.
Farther afield, the Faena complex presents an annual Faena Art exhibit, this year titled Spaces of Influence: Shaping Community in the Modern World. AQUA takes place in the Aqua Hotel with booths set up in each unit. The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) commandeers studios in the Ice Palace a former skating rink with hammocks and picnic spaces scattered in the yard and the Satellite Art Show is an immersive installation set up in a Halloween store. The historic Hampton House Hotel, famous as the setting of the film “One Night in Miami” and for hosting frequent guests Mohammad Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King was the site of Gimme Shelter, an exhibit exploring the meaning of shelter, refuge, and congregation.
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Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz opens the show
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A sculpture in the Helly Nahmad booth greets fair-goers
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Entering Art Basel exhibit floor
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Browsing Art Basel exhibits
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Overhead view of the 277 Art Basel exhibits
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Susan Sheehan booth at Art Basel
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Works displayed in Susan Sheehan booth
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Amex, Delta Sky Miles, Resy Lounge at Untitled
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Virgil Gonzales at Untitled
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Geary Gallery at Untitled
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Sabrina Ratté Video at Geary Gallery
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Kika Nicoletta video at Geary Gallery
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Visitors enter the SCOPE show
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At Scope Feltz, bagels are made-to-order for buyers
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D. Colabella Fine Art Gallery of Ridgefield, CT showing at Scope
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Painter Guy Stanley Philoche with his ‘Give Us Our Flowers’ in D. Colabella Booth
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Ki Smith Gallery artist Sono Kuwayama with her ‘Tumeric Goldenrod’ piece
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Art Miami and Context are in tents on the shore
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Art Miami was mobbed on opening night
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Artist Susan Swartz in the Jason McCoy Booth
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Susan Swartz still life
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Swartz’s still life incorporates natural objects dehydrated dipped dried
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Dealers show art in rooms around the courtyard of the Aqua Hotel
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NADA’s setting is the former hockey rink Ice Palace
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Relaxing on the NADA grounds
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Works shown by NADA new dealers
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Sculptures on view at NADA
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Alan Faena introduces the exhibit ‘Spaces Of Influence Shaping Community in the Modern World’
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At Faena, sculpture showing Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk portrayed in ‘Battle of the Corporate Nations’
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Sebastian ErraZuriz, sculptor of ‘Battle of the Corporate Nations’
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Rotating digital Beeple sculpture at Faena, highlighting the threat of climate change
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Following Alan Fauna into ‘Maze Journey Through the Algorithmic Self,’ set up on the beach
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Ceremony at the central plaza of the maze, a place to congregate and engage in meaningful conversations
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Faena Art reception on the beach
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The Sagamore Hotel features the Digital Canvas Unleashing AI in art displays throughout the hotel
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Poolside exhibits at the Sagamore, Miami’s original art hotel
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Breakfast coffee was served to visitors at the De La Cruz Collection
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Browsing at the De La Cruz Collection
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Gimme Shelter opened in the lobby of the historic Hampton House Hotel
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NYC collector and contributor Beth Rudin DeWoody with Jack Forbes, Dee and Gianna Kerrison
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Dinner was served in the courtyard of the historic Hampton House
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Duo ACUTE entertained at dinner
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Kit Kat Kake topped off the meal
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Photographs of famous guests were displayed on the balcony above
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Mohammed Ali’s favorite room in the hotel is preserved
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A beauty queen was in the crowd
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The Gimme Shelter show was displayed in the Hampton House rooms
