Miami Art Week 2026's first public fair hours begin on Tuesday, Dec. 1, on the Miami side of the bay. NADA opens to the public at Ice Palace Studios on North Miami Avenue at 4 p.m. that day. Art Miami and CONTEXT open to the public in their pavilions at One Herald Plaza at the same hour. The beach fairs' public days start on Wednesday. Art Basel's public days at the Miami Beach Convention Center don't begin until Friday, Dec. 4.
The City of Miami Beach has also put its free Art Week transportation on the mainland. The water taxi leaves from a marina on North Bayshore Drive, and a dedicated shuttle runs from a garage cluster at NE 38th Street. If you live in Edgewater, the Omni area, Wynwood or Downtown, you can see most of Art Week without driving a causeway. The best order is to start close to home and cross once you're ready.
The mainland gets a head start
The mainland fairs open to the public a day before the beach fairs do. By the time Art Basel's public days open on Friday, NADA and Art Miami will have been open for three days.
| Fair | Side of the bay | Public dates | Public hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| NADA Miami, Ice Palace Studios, 1400 N. Miami Ave. | Mainland | Dec. 1–5 | Dec. 1, 4–7 p.m.; Dec. 2–4, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Dec. 5, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. |
| Art Miami and CONTEXT, One Herald Plaza | Mainland | Dec. 1–6 | Dec. 1, 4–8 p.m. for Art Miami and 4–9:30 p.m. for CONTEXT; Dec. 2–5, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Dec. 6, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. |
| Miami Art Week Gallery, 2300 N. Miami Ave. | Mainland, Wynwood | Dec. 1–6 | Varies by day |
| Design Miami, Convention Center Drive and 19th Street | Beach | Dec. 2–6 | Dec. 2, 1–7 p.m.; Dec. 3–5, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Dec. 6, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. |
| Untitled Art, Ocean Drive and 12th Street | Beach | Dec. 2–6 | Dec. 2–5, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Dec. 6, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. |
| InScope Art Festival, 801 Ocean Drive | Beach | Dec. 2–6 | 11 a.m.–7 p.m. |
| Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center | Beach | Dec. 4–6 | 11 a.m.–6 p.m. |
NADA Miami is the easiest fair to reach from the mainland. Its official announcement lists more than 130 galleries, including 45 first-time exhibitors. Tickets are $55 for a single day, $75 for multiple days and $35 for seniors and students. Children 12 and under get in free. NADA closes on Saturday, Dec. 5, a day before Art Basel does. A mainland resident who leaves NADA for the weekend will miss it.
Art Miami and CONTEXT share the pavilions at One Herald Plaza, where NE 14th Street meets Biscayne Bay. The fairs run the full six days, so they can wait until the weekend if NADA comes first. In Wynwood, the Miami Art Week Gallery at 2300 N. Miami Ave. hosts public exhibitions, including arteNXT and photoMIAMI. Hours are mostly noon to 6 p.m. or 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with later hours on some dates.
In the Design District, ICA Miami's calendar lists a Dec. 1 conversation with Friedrich Kunath at the ICA Miami Expansion, 23 NE 41st Street. That evening, 61 NE 41st Street hosts a VIP reception for five winter exhibitions, with presentations by Carroll Dunham, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Diego Singh, Naudline Pierre and Ernie Barnes.
The museums run longer than the fairs
The Pérez Art Museum Miami starts its part of Art Week before the fairs open, and its shows stay up long after the fairs pack out. PAMM's calendar lists Art Talk: Techno Firma on Monday, Nov. 30, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., as an Art Week kickoff.
PAMM's 2026 exhibition announcement lists six shows that are on view during Art Week. Each one stays open well after Dec. 6:
- Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen, through Feb. 28, 2027
- Zoë Buckman: Show Me Your Bruises, Then, through May 2027
- This Is America: Selections from PAMM's Collection, through June 6, 2027
- Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols, through June 26, 2027
- John Baldessari: The End of the Line, through July 23, 2027
- Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove, through Aug. 1, 2027
The Picasso–Klee–Matisse loan closes first, at the end of February. For a resident, that makes it an easy show to visit on a quiet January weekday.
In Allapattah, the Rubell Museum at 1100 NW 23 St. lists regular hours from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and until 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Admission is $18 for adults and $14 for seniors, students and youth ages 7 to 18.
Crossing from the Omni side
Once you've seen the mainland fairs, the next step is getting to the beach. Miami Beach is running a free Art Week water taxi between Venetian Marina & Yacht Club, 1635 North Bayshore Drive in Miami, and Maurice Gibb Memorial Park, 1790 Purdy Avenue in Miami Beach's Sunset Harbour. Boats leave every 7 to 9 minutes. Service runs from 10 a.m. to midnight Monday, Nov. 30, through Saturday, Dec. 5, and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6.
Here is how the route works from the mainland:
- Park at the Omni Garage, 453 NE 15 St., which the city designates as the water taxi parking for the Miami side, or walk to the marina if you live nearby.
- Take the boat across Biscayne Bay to Maurice Gibb Memorial Park, which is served by the Sunset Harbour Garage, 1900 Bay Road.
- Board the dedicated water taxi shuttle to the Miami Beach Convention Center at Convention Center Drive and 18th Street. Shuttles run every 10 to 15 minutes on the same schedule as the boats. The city puts the walk at about 20 to 25 minutes.
- From the Convention Center, take the South Beach Art Shuttle to Collins Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets, a short walk from Untitled and InScope on Ocean Drive.
The water taxi starts on Monday, Nov. 30, a day before any fair opens to the public, and it runs until midnight on every night but Sunday. You can stay through an evening event on the beach and still take the boat home.
Crossing from the Design District
For residents north of the Omni area, the city's second route starts at NE 38th Street. The Miami Beach–Design District shuttle runs between the Convention Center and NE 38th Street and NE 1st Court in Miami. The city says it can use the dedicated inside shoulders of the Julia Tuttle Causeway to cut travel time. The nearby parking options are the City View Garage at 25 NE 38 St., the Palm Court Garage at 155 NE 38 St. and a public lot at 3630 NE 1 Court.
ICA Miami's openings and the Design District's own Art Week calendar of Dec. 1 gallery events and Dec. 1–6 installations are a few blocks from the shuttle stop. On the beach side, the Mid Beach Art Shuttles connect the Convention Center with stops on Collins Avenue at 22nd, 32nd and 46th Streets and on Royal Palm Avenue between 41st and 42nd Streets. During Dec. 2–5, the year-round free Miami Beach Trolley runs more often, from 8 a.m. to midnight.
Timing the Art Basel day
The free crossings get you to the Convention Center. Your ticket decides when you can go in. Art Basel's public hours run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 4, 5 and 6. A $92 standard day ticket allows entry from noon at the earliest, depending on the time slot you buy. Among the general tickets, the $105 First Access ticket is the one that lets you in at 11 a.m. Both are single-entry tickets, so once you leave, you can't go back in. If you want to go back and forth, the $170 Art Basel Weekend Ticket allows re-entry, and Art Basel lists it as valid on Dec. 5 or 6.
The $68 Reduced Ticket covers students, visitors ages 13 to 18, seniors, veterans and residents of Miami Beach with proof. A Brickell or Edgewater address doesn't qualify, so mainland residents outside those groups pay the standard price. Art Basel's ticket page has the full list.
If you drive, the city's traffic plan says the heaviest traffic usually comes on weekday afternoons and builds toward the weekend. FDOT road work and lane reductions near the Biscayne Boulevard off-ramp are expected to slow westbound traffic leaving Miami Beach on the MacArthur Causeway. To keep the Venetian Causeway moving, the East Venetian Causeway drawbridge won't open for vessels from 3 to 9 p.m. Nov. 30 through Dec. 6, except for emergency vessels and vessels in distress. The city also suspends non-city construction in its right of way all week. You can text MBAlert to 888777 for traffic alerts.
What stays up after Dec. 6
Art Basel closes on Sunday, but Miami Beach keeps its own program open for another two weeks. No Vacancy, the city's juried hotel-art competition, is in its seventh edition. It runs from Nov. 12 to Dec. 19, 2026, with 12 site-specific installations in 12 Miami Beach hotels. The prize money totals $35,000: a $25,000 juried prize and a $10,000 GMCVB Public Prize.
These are the participating artists and hotels:
- Kevin Arrow at Casa Faena
- Luján Candria at Balfour Hotel Miami Beach
- Yanira Collado at The Shelborne by Proper
- Morel Doucet at Avalon Hotel
- Diana Eusebio at The Royal Palm South Beach Miami
- Gonzalo Hernández at Sherry Frontenac OceanFront Resort
- Justin H. Long at Hotel Croydon Miami Beach
- Emmett Moore at Eden Roc Miami Beach
- Alex Nuñez at Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel
- Marlon Portales at Marriott Stanton South Beach
- Lulu Sanchez at International Inn
- Ricardo E. Zulueta at The Betsy Hotel
The city publishes a map of participating hotels. The installations stay up for 13 days after the fairs close, until Dec. 19.
If you're planning Art Week around a home search, we can help. A Saturday at NADA and an afternoon at PAMM give a clear sense of how the Omni, Edgewater and Design District areas connect. Team Gabriel can line up showings around the fair hours and the free water taxi schedule, in English or Portuguese. Let's connect and start your Florida search.
