Still, team members and attendees are optimistic about the upcoming fair, which is rounding out 2025. Art Basel Miami\u2019s status as the \u201cculminating art market event of the year\u201d is down to the gathering of galleries who are on the pulse of what\u2019s currently selling in the US, says Casey Lesser, chief curator at online art marketplace Artsy, positioning them to put their best foot forward. Art Basel Paris, which took place<\/a> in October, also signaled a positive turn, says Art Basel director Bridget Finn. \u201cThe outcome in Paris was quite good for many of our galleries,\u201d Finn says, adding that she\u2019s ready to carry that energy through to Miami.<\/p>\n Photo: Courtesy of Art Basel<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just Basel on the schedule. Art Basel\u2019s sister fair, Design Miami, is also taking place this week \u2014 alongside the 20-plus other fairs that make up Miami Art Week. A jam-packed art schedule is supplemented by a vast offering of adjacent events across fashion, sport and food. Miami Art Week is where the overlap between cultural industries really comes to a head \u2014 and where younger people with an interest, if not a fluency, in art are able to dabble. Once they sort through the week\u2019s goings on, that is.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything you need to know about this year\u2019s Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), running from December 3 to 7 (the first two days are VIP-only), as well as the wider Miami Art Week, which kicked off on December 1.<\/p>\n The Miami mood<\/p>\n Miami\u2019s sunny and warm weather is a draw for collectors as much of the world \u2014 including the majority of the US \u2014 heads into the winter months. \u201cIt\u2019s this incredible postcard of a place, but it\u2019s also got such a rich arts community that has only gained strength and momentum over the last 23 years,\u201d Finn says.<\/p>\n The warmth and ease that comes with the locale aligns well with what many art collectors are gravitating toward, Lesser says. \u201cArtsy\u2019s data shows our buyers are gravitating toward pieces that offer calm, be that through color or subject matter; the great outdoors, we\u2019re seeing that desire to \u2018touch grass\u2019<\/a>; and even lots of food art,\u201d she says. Small works are selling particularly well, Lesser adds \u2014 a sign of the (economic) times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week will be a busy, buzzy one for Miami Beach. Art collectors, fashion aficionados, sport and food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,832],"class_list":{"0":"post-8474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basel","8":"tag-basel","9":"tag-latest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-basel-vogue-business-story-inline%20copy%207.jpg\"\/)
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