Art Basel Miami Beach 2026: Tickets, Free Public Art and How to Plan Miami Art Week

The Art Basel ticket

Doors are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 1901 Convention Center Drive. The two VIP days come first, Wednesday 2 December from 4 p.m. and Thursday 3 December. Inside it's booth after white-walled booth of galleries from five continents. Give it most of a day.

A day ticket is $92, or $68 for students, 13 to 18s, seniors, veterans and Miami Beach residents with proof. A weekend ticket is $170. If you also want Design Miami, a few hundred metres away, the combined ticket is $132.

If money is the constraint, this is the ticket to drop.

South Beach fairs

Untitled Art, Miami Beach pitches a white tent straight onto the sand at Ocean Drive and 12th Street. It's open to the public from Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 December, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and to 5 p.m. on the Sunday. Book before 21 November and admission is $61, or $46 for seniors and students. The galleries are mostly younger and smaller than the ones at Art Basel. Mornings are much calmer than mid-afternoon.

A short walk down the sand at 801 Ocean Drive, InScope fills four linked tents, with large sculptures standing outside. It's open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 December. This fair used to be SCOPE Art Show. The same team has relaunched it under the new name, so search for InScope: the old ticket links go nowhere. Book before 20 November and one day is $60, the full week $120. Miami Beach residents, students and seniors pay $35.

Prizm Art Fair shows contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora in suites at the Park Central Hotel on Ocean Drive. It's on 2 to 6 December, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and a pass for the whole run is $50. Panel discussions start at noon on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December. The art is spread through rooms over several floors, so skip it if you need step-free, simple circulation.

The Bass in Collins Park

The Bass is a block from the sand at 2100 Collins Avenue, in a 1930s Art Deco building with a white modern extension on the back. It opens noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, and entry is $15, or $8 for seniors, students and 7 to 18s. Miami Beach and Surfside residents get in free. On show in December are Yuko Mohri's 'Unviolated Imperfection' and Amalia Pica's 'Lecturas Posibles'.

Downtown and bayfront fairs

NADA Miami takes over Ice Palace Studios, a warehouse at 1400 North Miami Avenue, from Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 December. It's open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., from 4 p.m. on the Tuesday and to 6 p.m. on the Saturday. Book early and a single day is $45, a multi-day pass $65. Students and seniors over 65 pay $35 with ID, and under-12s go free. Few tickets are sold on the door, so buy online. The floor is galleries and non-profits from dozens of countries.

Art Miami sets up a long tent on the bayfront at One Herald Plaza, by NE 14th Street, from 1 to 6 December. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., from 4 p.m. on the Tuesday and to 6 p.m. on the Sunday. A one-day pass is $71 and gets you into the CONTEXT pavilion next to it. Seniors 62 and over and students aged 12 to 18 pay $48. The work is modern, post-war and pop, with solo shows and big installations. It's across the bay from South Beach, so allow travel time.

Pinta Miami fills a converted seaplane hangar on the Dinner Key waterfront in Coconut Grove, and it's all modern and contemporary Latin American art. It's on 3 to 6 December, noon to 8 p.m., from 3 p.m. on the Thursday and closing at 6 p.m. on the Sunday. Coconut Grove is well south of everything else here, so give it its own trip.

Art Week for free

Faena Art puts its installations at Faena Miami Beach, 3201 Collins Avenue, free with no ticket, noon to 9 p.m. from Tuesday 1 to Sunday 6 December. On the sand is Christopher Joshua Benton's 'A Lore Supreme', a mirrored kinetic sphere taller than a house, with speakers inside playing a soundscape built from Miami's music. Go at dusk, when the facets catch the sunset. Indoors, Marinella Senatore's 'An Expanded Baroque Crown' is a light piece you walk inside, with poetry, music and dance around it. Kevin Arrow's 'The Magic Is You!' is in the Casa Faena atrium from 12 November to 19 December, so you can catch it either side of Art Week. He made it from his archive of 35mm slides of Miami Beach. Some concerts on the same site are ticketed, so check which part you're being sold.

INK Miami Art Fair is free if you register online, the only free fair of the week. Dealers show prints and drawings in ground-floor suites around a palm courtyard at the Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Avenue. It runs 2 to 6 December, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., from noon on the Wednesday, and shuts at 3 p.m. on the final Sunday. Everything is works on paper, twentieth-century material next to new editions.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is free as well, at 61 NE 41st Street in the Design District, open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday. New shows open on 1 December, including Friedrich Kunath's first solo show in the United States. A free tour of the current exhibitions leaves the lobby at noon, and the walled sculpture garden behind the building is part of the visit.

Mainland warehouses and museums

Rubell Museum Miami is a long row of converted 1940s warehouses in Allapattah, at 1100 NW 23rd Street. It rehangs completely for Art Week and the new shows open on Tuesday 1 December. It's open daily 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. that week, and to 7.30 p.m. on the Friday. Entry is $18, or $14 for seniors, students and 7 to 18s. The two Yayoi Kusama Infinity Rooms need a separate 'Kusama Access' ticket. The museum takes cards only.

Next door at 1101 NW 23rd Street, Superblue Miami is a windowless warehouse of dark rooms you walk through. Inside are James Turrell's 'Blue Sea Sky' and a mirrored labyrinth by Es Devlin. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's lights respond to your heartbeat. Adults pay $34 Monday to Thursday and $42 Friday to Sunday, and teamLab's 'Massless Clouds' is a $12 add-on. It opens at 11 a.m. Monday to Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday to Sunday, closing at 7 p.m., or 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. A free guided tour at 1 p.m. comes with general admission.

The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE on NW 27th Street asks $10, $5 for out-of-state students and nothing from Florida students. It's open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during Art Week. This season's hang is light installations using tubes, LEDs and projection, plus representational painting and sculpture from the late 1960s onwards. If the booths have flattened you, come here.

Pérez Art Museum Miami sits on stilts over Biscayne Bay at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard. Entry is $18, or $14 for seniors 62 and over, students and 7 to 18s, and it's free on Thursdays after 5 p.m. It opens 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., until 9 p.m. on Thursday, and closes Tuesday and Wednesday. December shows include 'Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols' and 'Picasso-Klee-Matisse', masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen.

Before you go

The museums each close on different days, so check yours before you set out. The fairs all finish on Sunday 6 December, several by mid-afternoon. Book the Pérez, the ICA and Superblue online in advance. See the Miami guide and the Miami hotel search.