Art Basel Miami Beach is the most imporatant art fair in the United States. A cultural and social highlight, as the sister event of Swiss Art Basel. Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties, and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.
Location : Miami Beach Convention Center.
Art Miami is the city’s original and longest running contemporary art fair.
Location: The Art Miami Pavillion on Midtown Blvd (NE 1st Ave) between NE 32nd and NE 31st.
www.art-miami.com
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair moves to Miami’s Ice Palace with an enhanced and expanded presentation of international galleries and programming. PULSE enters its 5th season with a continued commitment to presenting high-caliber contemporary art from an internationally diverse roster of exhibitors.
Location : Ice Palace, 1400 North Miami Ave.
SCOPE Miami Art Show moves to the Wynwood Arts District, and announces independent critic and curator David Hunt as teh appointed Curatorial Director.
Location : Soho Studios 2136 NW 1st Ave.
Set to return for teh 7th edition, NADA is highly recongized as teh preeminent exhibition featuring the world’s most significant emerging art galleries. Featuring 80 galleries from 30 cities worldwide, the fair celebrates new and innovative contemporary art from rising talents around the globe. This fair is run and organized by the New Art Dealers Alliance.
Location : Deauville Beach Resort, 6701 Collins Ave.
www.newartdealers.org/miami2009
Art Viceroy is an independantly curated Specail Exhibition, set within the elegant Viceroy Miami Hotel. Art Viceroy will feature over 40 bold aesthetic statements which reflect cutting edge artistic and curatorial practices. Each room of the 19th floor will feature a solo artist’s installation.
Location : 485 Brickell Ave.
Fountain was launched in March 2006 in New York in an effort to leverage suport for independent galleries overlooked by the larger art fairs. The name is a refrence to Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain.
Location : 2505 North Miami Ave.
Aqua Art Miami is a contemporary art fair started in 2005 as an experimental project at the Aqua Hotel in South Beach and eventually expanded to include a larger booth style fair. Aqua’s mission is to promote innovative galleries in their region, with about half of the exhibitors coming from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland.
Location : 42 NE 25th St.
Verge is an international platform for the most exciting and interesting in new and emerging art.
Location : Catalina Hotel, 1732 Collins Ave.
www.vergeartfair.com/miami.html
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