Meanwhile, in the Museums

The fairs last six days. The museum shows that open around them last until spring, and they are the better reason to cross the bay. Miami’s institutions save strong programs for the first week of December, when the trade is in town.

The headline this year is at Pérez Art Museum Miami, where Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen brings about 100 works, on view from October 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027. Around it the museum has hung Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols, ten works from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection, and John Baldessari: The End of the Line, 40 works, co-curated with the Craig Robins Collection’s Karen Grimson. Zoë Buckman and Anina Major have solo shows besides.

ICA Miami answers with painting. A Carroll Dunham survey spanning 50 years is dated from December 1, alongside Diego Singh: Deeper and Deeper, the artist’s first solo museum show, across three ground-floor galleries. Admission is free, as it is every day the museum is open.

On the beach, The Bass is the one institution that had published Art Week arrangements by early October: open daily from 10 am to 5 pm from November 29 to December 6, with free admission on the closing Sunday. Yuko Mohri’s Unviolated Imperfection and Amalia Pica’s Lecturas Posibles lead the season, both opened on September 17. The museum’s site lists Sarah Zapata: Against a State of Malevolence as on view through February 28, 2027. Outside Art Week the museum keeps shorter hours: Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5 pm, closed Monday and Tuesday.

One caution governs the table below. Apart from The Bass, almost no museum had posted Art Week hours by October 4. The hours shown are regular hours, and regular hours mean closed doors early in the week.

Miami’s particular contribution to the museum form is the collector’s warehouse: a private holding, hung at institutional scale and open to the public. Three of them are in Allapattah and Wynwood, and in early October all three were keeping their plans to themselves.

The Rubell Museum is the surest bet, with its Kusama rooms listed as ongoing. The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, at 591 NW 27th Street, has been closed for the summer and reopens with new exhibitions in the first week of November; its own pages give both November 4 and November 5. El Espacio 23, the Jorge M. Pérez collection space at 2270 NW 23rd Street, describes itself as closed for installation. Its last exhibition opened in mid-November 2025.

Marquez Art Projects, at 2395 NW 21st Terrace, lists a show called Symbiosis as opening November 30 and receives visitors by appointment. The Craig Robins Collection in the Design District was open only to fair VIP cardholders in 2025, according to art-collecting.com.

As for the de la Cruz Collection: its former building on NE 41st Street now belongs to ICA Miami’s expansion. The museum’s expansion page still carries wording from 2024, and Art Miami Magazine reported in June that the second site is set to open in 2027. It is not a stop this December.

Two Day Trips North

The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale has Michael Richards: Escape Plan and Wifredo Lam’s Legacy, and is free from 11 am to 7 pm on Thursday, December 3. The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach closes Art & Independence: America at 250 on December 6, the fair’s last day. Brightline trains link downtown Miami with both cities.

Miami’s commercial galleries are, with few exceptions, on the mainland, grouped in a handful of districts. Most keep Tuesday to Saturday hours and close at 5 pm, so they belong to the first half of a day.

A plain disclosure first. None of the galleries checked for this guide had posted a December exhibition by October 4. Gallery programs for Art Week tend to surface in November. What follows is where to go; what will be on the walls is, for now, Not yet announced.

Allapattah

Start on NW 22nd Street, where four galleries share a single block: Mindy Solomon at 848, Voloshyn Gallery at 802, Andrew Reed Gallery at 800, and KDR at 790. Voloshyn is a Kyiv gallery that has kept a Miami space since 2023. Pan American Art Projects has moved from Little Haiti to 1557 NW 28th Street. The Rubell, Superblue, El Espacio 23, and Marquez Art Projects are in the same district, which makes Allapattah the one mainland neighborhood that fills a day unaided.

Little River and Little Haiti

Nina Johnson, at 6315 NW 2nd Avenue, has exhibitions running to November 14, so a new hang should be in place by the fairs. Piero Atchugarry Gallery is at 5520 NE 4th Avenue and Dot Fiftyone at 7275 NE 4th Avenue, with Locust Projects, the nonprofit, at 297 NE 67th Street. One absence: Emerson Dorsch closed its Little River gallery in 2025 after 34 years, as the gallery’s own notice records.

Design District

David Castillo, at 25 NE 39th Street, is two streets south of ICA Miami and open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm. The district has also hosted Art Week pop-ups. In 2025 Jeffrey Deitch organized a show at 119 NE 41st Street; no 2026 pop-up had been announced by early October.

Wynwood and Downtown

The Wynwood addresses verified for this guide are mostly institutional: the Margulies warehouse, the Bakehouse studios, and, for the week, the Red Dot and Spectrum fairs at Mana Wynwood. Montreal’s Galerie de Bellefeuille has announced a space at 136 NW 25th Street; Retail Insider reported a summer 2026 target, and the gallery’s own page still reads “coming soon.” Unconfirmed Toward downtown, Fredric Snitzer Gallery is listed by Time Out at 1540 NE Miami Court.

A fair ticket is the week’s largest art expense and its least necessary. A good share of what is worth seeing costs nothing and stands in the open air.

Collins Park and the Convention Center

Art Basel’s public program moves outdoors this year. According to the fair’s September announcement, Between Tides, organized with Public Art Fund, places six artist-designed ping-pong tables in Collins Park, the park where The Bass stands. A new outdoor work by James Turrell, produced with the Turrell Art Foundation, is free to the public. The Bass adds its long-term Art Outside program and, from December, a Susan Philipsz sound work in the park.

Close by, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden at 2000 Convention Center Drive is free from Tuesday to Sunday, 9 am to 5 pm, and the Holocaust Memorial on Meridian Avenue is free and open to the public. SoundScape Park, beside the New World Center, screens free outdoor films every Wednesday from October to March, which puts one on December 2.

Hotels as Galleries

No Vacancy, Miami Beach returns for a seventh edition from November 12 to December 19: 12 artists in 12 hotels, free to walk into, with a $10,000 public prize and a $25,000 juried prize. The artists and hotels had not been posted in early October.

The ReefLine

The most discussed public artwork in Miami Beach cannot be seen from the sand. The ReefLine, conceived by Ximena Caminos with a master plan by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA, began in October 2025 with Leandro Erlich’s Concrete Coral: 22 full-scale car forms about 20 feet down off South Beach. Seeing it means getting wet. In 2025 the project ran boat trips and events during Art Week, as Miami Living reported; no 2026 program has been published. Not yet announced

Wynwood Walls, With Caveats

Wynwood’s street murals are public, but Wynwood Walls itself is a gated attraction: its 2025 Art Week programming was described as included with admission. The 2026 theme and artists were not announced on the pages read. The 2025 edition, ONLY HUMAN, opened on November 24 with work by Cryptik, Hebru Brantley, and Sandra Chevrier, among others.

Faena and the Design District

Two free fixtures of past years are unconfirmed. Faena’s beach commission was free and public in 2025, when Es Devlin installed Library of Us, a 50-foot revolving library; a 2026 page exists but could not be read. In the Design District, Time Out Miami listed LVMH’s The Studio at Palm Court as free in 2025; nothing comparable had been announced by early October. Unconfirmed

Each route keeps to one side of the bay per day and assumes regular hours where Art Week hours were not posted. Daily hours for Untitled Art and NADA Miami had not been published; check before leaving.

Fair dates, hours, and prices are on the fairs page; the evenings are on the parties page; crossing the bay is covered in Sun and Sand.