Miami Art WeekThe fair returns to the Convention Center on December 4, with preview days on the 2nd and 3rd. After a year in which every Art Basel edition beat its predecessor, Miami is where the recovery gets its verdict.
The calendar
NADA Miami, Untitled Art, Design Miami, and the wider satellite calendar that surrounds the main fair.
The anchor of the American art calendar, returning to the Miami Beach Convention Center.
The 61st International Art Exhibition, conceived by the late Koyo Kouoh and realized by La Biennale as she defined it.
New York's fall opener at the Javits Center, which gathered more than 230 exhibitors from 35 countries in 2025.
FairsArt Basel closed its 2026 flagship edition on June 21 with 90,000 visitors from 103 countries and a sales pattern that vindicated Basel Exclusive, the initiative that had more than 190 galleries holding work back for the opening.
GalleriesDépendance in Brussels and Tiwani Contemporary in London shut within weeks of each other. In a year when the aggregate market is up 4%, the middle of the gallery sector is being squeezed by costs it cannot pass on.
Fairs87 galleries, 17,000 visitors, and an inaugural Gulf edition built as a curated exhibition under Wael Shawky rather than a grid of stands. The most interesting thing about it was the format, not the guest list.
Fairs240 galleries, 91,500 visitors, twelve seven-figure transactions and nine of them before the public got in. The thirteenth edition also came with a five-year exclusivity deal that locks Art Basel to the city.
FairsThe 39th Maastricht edition drew more than 50,000 visitors across eight days and 276 dealers from 24 countries. Its real currency is institutional: the fair where acquisitions committees, not collectors, set the tone.
MarketThe tenth Art Basel and UBS report puts 2025 global sales at $59.6 billion after two years of decline. Underneath the recovery, the channel that was supposed to be the future had its worst year in six.
CollectingAvant-Première in Paris, Basel Exclusive in Switzerland, and a Hong Kong edition that closed three quarters of its seven-figure business before the public arrived. The most important product the fairs sell is now a date, not a booth.
Miami Art WeekOne main fair, a dozen satellites, and five days engineered so that nobody has to justify the flight. A structural guide to the week that reorganizes the American art calendar every December.
Art Basel Miami Beach, the satellite fairs, and the December week that reorganizes the American art calendar.
Miami Art Week283 galleries, 80,000 visitors and a Muhammad Ali portrait at the top of the sheet. The December fair ended a two-year correction on a note of confidence, and gave the digital-art sector its first real institutional platform.
Miami Art WeekNearly 140 exhibitors at NADA, 157 at Untitled, and a week in which the emerging end of Miami Art Week did the quiet work of proving the recovery was not confined to the blue chip.
Miami Art WeekGlenn Adamson curated the anniversary edition under the theme Make. Believe., with more than 70 exhibitors. Two decades in, collectible design has the collectors it wanted and a harder question about what it is.
Sales, auctions, price formation, and the data behind the art trade.
MarketThe auction houses closed a solid H1 2026. Read the results by category rather than by total and the recovery looks narrower: postwar and modern absorbed the money, and everything edgier stayed where it was.
Art of the digital era, new media, and the platforms selling it.
DigitalThe December Miami edition launched a global initiative for art of the digital era, with sold-out Beeple editions and a roster running through Tyler Hobbs, Kim Asendorf, Joe Pease and XCOPY. The timing is the interesting part.
Digital$9.2 billion, down to a 15% share. The channel that was supposed to make the fair circuit optional had its worst year in six, at exactly the moment attendance across the circuit hit its highs.
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