Miami Art Week is perennially the first week of December and perhaps the best-known art week in the US. Unlike other cities which have an organized entity that manages the 'art week', the term 'Miami Art Week' is a media construct that refers to a series of fairs, exhibitions, parties and branding opportunities during Art Basel Miami Beach. This 'art week' features over 20 satellite fairs and numerous private and public museums. The important thing is to not let the mediocre art-inspired pop-ups and hotel parties that is 'Miami Art Week' overshadow the notable satellite fairs include NADA (New Art Dealers Association) Fair and Untitled and the excellent prominent private collections like the Rubell Museum and the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, along with public institutions such as The Bass Museum, Pérez Art Museum, and ICA Miami, solidify Miami's significance on the art world calendar.
Rubell Museum
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The Rubell Museum opened in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood in December 2019. Its new home was previously six interconnected industrial buildings that were then transformed by Selldorf Architects. Originally launched in 1993 as the Rubell Family Collection, the institution was renamed the Rubell Museum to emphasize its public mission and expand access for audiences. The Museum experience unfolds on a single level, with 36 galleries, a flexible performance space, an extensive research library,a bookstore, and a courtyard garden filled with plants native to South Florida.
The Rubell Museum’s collection is distinguished by its unprecedented range and depth that has enabled the Museum to organize over 50 exhibitions during the last three decades drawn entirely from its holdings in painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. These have included such groundbreaking and diverse exhibitions as Richard Prince (2004), Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists (2006), 30 Americans (2008), Against All Odds: Keith Haring (2008), Beg Borrow and Steal (2009), 28 Chinese (2013), NO MAN’S LAND (2015), Still Human (2017), Purvis Young (2018), and Yayoi Kusama (2020). Many of these exhibitions have toured to museums internationally and have been accompanied by catalogues.
ICA Miami- Institute of Contemporary Art
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On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, ICA Miami presents “Toward the Celestial,” a selection of works from its permanent collection highlighting the museum’s programmatic development, as well as recent commissions and previously unshown works. The exhibition is organized thematically, and journeys from microscopic to macroscopic images in order to explore the dimension of time and orders of scale. The exhibition’s title alludes to Betye Saar’s Celestial Universe (1988) banner, which was featured in the artist’s 2021 survey and has been part of installations of the artist over multiple decades suggesting both imminent presence and the recording of time through alternative ideological structures.