Your Handy Guide to Miami Art Week

Daily Your Handy Guide to Miami Art Week

Also: The Louvre is hiking up its entry fee, but only for non-Europeans.

Hyperallergic December 2, 2025 — 4 min read Your Handy Guide to Miami Art Week

Linda Lopez, "Golden Hour Mop" (2025) at Design Miami (image courtesy the artist and Mindy Solomon Gallery)

Miami Art Week is here! Our Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia, a Miami native, is visiting home to cover the city's sprawling art festival (and escape the New York cold). She begins with a roundup of the major art fairs, exhibitions, and public programming taking place this week, including an artist's peculiar revolving library on the beach.

Also, read Valentina's report about an exhibition of 25 Seminole artists (the Indigenous people of Florida) at the HistoryMiami Museum.

Rare Basquiat Photos and More Art to See in Miami This WeekHere’s your handy guide to art fairs, exhibitions, and more taking place in the city over the next five days. | Valentina Di Liscia

Florida’s Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at Miami Art WeekAn exhibition organized by the HistoryMiami Museum and the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is an ode to Seminole creativity and resilience. | Valentina Di Liscia

IN THE NEWS

Louvre: What do you do when your museum gets robbed in broad daylight, exposing truly embarrassing security lapses? You hike up admission prices for non-Europeans? | Rhea Nayyar
Pussy Riot: The Russian government threatens to label the feminist art group an "extremist" organization. The collective’s co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova called it an attempt to “erase Pussy Riot from the minds of Russian citizens.” | Isa Farfan

FROM OUR CRITICS

Installation view of Tongji Philip Qian's Perfect Days series (2023–ongoing) at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago (all images courtesy Logan Center for the Arts)

John Yau on Tongji Philip Qian

"By following their self-imposed rules, conceptual artists (with the exception of Sol LeWitt) could not make a failed piece. Qian does something different — even when he follows the rules, he undermines himself through erasure and negating marks. His process recalls lines from Samuel Beckett’s 1983 novella Worstword Ho: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” By working this way, Qian opens conceptual art to new possibilities."

Read the full review.

GUIDES

Alan Luna, Huipiles Colorados (2025) (photo by and courtesy Alan Luna)

What to See in Los Angeles This DecemberThis month: Alan Luna’s erotic metates, Nancy Lupo’s otherworldly benches, 200 artists against normative sexuality, Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack’s odes to LA detritus, and more. | Matt Stromberg

MEMBER COMMENT:

Sandy Sanders on Damien Davis's "Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World"

"Thank you for echoing the precariousness of being a visual artist in the 21st C. Broad social support mechanics existed post WW2 to late 1970's, that allowed maintaining an art practice on a shoestring budget. That fertile environment that previously existed is completely gone. Those who have made it through to this capitalist spectacle in the 2020's are being shaken out, as those before, but now the artificial intelligence of capitalism is curator of what art is, not the artists. A "healthier art world" will only exist when the curators are human beings operating outside the capitalist machine. I have no idea how we get there. But, imho, we better find a way."

ICYMI

10 Contemporary Roma Artists You Should KnowMałgorzata Mirga-Tas’s dignified storytelling, Ceijia Stojka’s triumphant paintings, Gabi Jiménez’s expressive portraits, and so much more. | Cristiana Grigore

Małgorzata Mirga–Tas, "Daj he ćhaworo (Mother with child)" (2022) (photo by and courtesy Marcin Tas)

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Artist Malcolm Lauredo Is Miami's Unconventional HistorianMiami’s Greater Bureau of Time Tourism is an experimental history department meant to combat Florida’s erasure of Black and Brown stories. | Alexandra Martinez

Artist Malcolm Lauredo in his studio at the Bakehouse Art Complex (all images courtesy the artist)

OPPORTUNITIESResidencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Ucross, Athens Photo Research Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. View the full list