Basel UnlockedArt Week, Planned for the Fam

A Lore Supreme

Christopher Joshua Benton · Faena Beach

12pm-9pm daily · Free · Glows at night

Walk-in 27 ft mirrored disco-ball globe on the sand behind the Faena Hotel, with sunset performances; open until 9pm.

Image: Faena Art

An Expanded Baroque Crown

Marinella Senatore · Faena Cathedral, Faena Hotel

Daily noon PM to 9am PM, Dec 1 to 6 (Faena Art Week program hours) · Free · Glows at night

Walk-in light 'crown' inside the Faena Hotel's Cathedral with poetry, dance and music programs.

Image: Faena Art

Bent Pool

Elmgreen & Dragset · Pride Park

Daily 8 AM to 8 PM (Pride Park hours) · Free · Glows at night

A 1950s-style swimming pool bent up into a 20 ft turquoise arch, ladder and lights included, in the park across from the Convention Center's west side; great photo stop on the way to the fair. City image under 600 px.

Image: Andrea Rosetti, courtesy of the artists and City of Miami Beach

Deco Portals

Moonlighter FabLab Maker Cities cohort · Lapidus folly, Lincoln Road (near Moonlighter FabLab)

Free · Glows at night

Art Deco archways you can walk through on Lincoln Road, lit up at night.

Image: Lincoln Road BID

Obstinate Lighthouse

Tobias Rehberger · South Pointe Park

Daily, sunrise to sunset (South Pointe Park hours) · Free · Glows at night

A 55 ft aluminium and frosted-glass lighthouse with multicoloured moving LED lights at the top, greeting boats coming through Government Cut; best after dark at the south tip of the beach.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

Sonic Dreamscapes

Bill Fontana · SoundScape Park (New World Center wall)

Daily, sunrise to sunset (SoundScape Park hours) · Free · Glows at night

A sound sculpture through the park's 72 speakers: ocean and nature recordings build through the day, and after dark abstract videos play on the giant wall; lie on the lawn and listen.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places (mbartsandculture.org), photo by Robin Hill

A Wild Race Against Time

Gillie & Marc · Lincoln Road, Drexel Plaza and the 500-1100 blocks

Free

Fourteen bronze endangered animals racing on skates, bikes and Vespas, spread from the 500 to the 1100 block of Lincoln Road and Drexel Plaza. Climb on and try to find them all.

Image: Christian Santiago for Lincoln Road

About Sand (Convention Center facade)

Franz Ackermann · Miami Beach Convention Center, southeast exterior walls

Free

Franz Ackermann's swirling colour mural on the Convention Center's southeast walls, facing 17th Street.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

Allegra

Antonyo Marest · Paseo Ponti, Miami Design District

Free

Antonyo Marest's first figurative mural, bright and graphic, on Paseo Ponti where the district's yearly Art Week commission usually goes up.

Image: Miami Design District

Art Week 2026: Brunch, Open Studios, and Exhibition

Oolite Arts 2026 studio residents; exhibition What Water Remembers (curated by Sara Cluggish) · Oolite Arts, Lincoln Road galleries and studios (2nd floor)

10:30am AM to noon PM (gallery otherwise open 12 to 5 PM daily) · Free

Oolite's yearly Art Week open studios: walk the Lincoln Road studios, meet the 2026 residents, and see the water-themed group show What Water Remembers. Free with RSVP.

Image: Oolite Arts, past open studios (Sepideh Kalani studio)

Baker's Brunch: Open Studios + Cafecito

Bakehouse Art Complex resident artists · Bakehouse Art Complex

9am-12pm · Free

Art Week morning at Bakehouse: walk the working studios, meet the artists and see the new shows over breakfast. Free with RSVP.

Image: Bakehouse Art Complex

Baltimore's Finest: Mr. GirlYouCrazy and Dev

Amani Lewis · Miami Design District

Amani Lewis's first mural, a double portrait of a Baltimore musician and stylist couple in an embrace.

Image: Miami Design District

BirdHouse

Michele Oka Doner · Bayshore Park (Fairgreen Hill)

Daily, sunrise to sunset (Bayshore Park hours) · Free

A 22 ft shimmering mica birdhouse on a hill in Bayshore Park, new in 2026.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

Concrete Coral

Leandro Erlich · REEFLINE, offshore between 4th and 5th Street

Open at all times (open water dive site about 820 ft offshore, not lifeguarded; check ocean conditions) · Free

22 concrete cars on the sea floor off 4th to 5th Street, snorkel or dive boat only. About 820 ft out and 20 ft deep, past the swim buoys with no lifeguard: a dive flag is required by law.

Image: REEFLINE

DiMeLo

Las Hermanas Iglesias · Collins Park (Between Tides, Public Art Fund with The Bass)

Anytime; free paddle kiosk 10am-5pm daily · Free

Steel ping-pong tables fitted with instruments, so every rally makes music. Playable: borrow free paddles at the kiosk; free Paddle in the Park Classic Mon 30 Nov 4-6pm. Photo is from the Rockaway Beach edition (summer 2026).

Image: Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Public Art Fund

Duality

Hank Willis Thomas · The Underline, Brickell Backyard, River Room

A permanent bronze by Hank Willis Thomas on The Underline in Brickell: mirrored figures about unity and balance, in the family of his Unity sculpture at the Brooklyn Bridge.

Image: The Underline (Friends of The Underline); Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places collection

Fair Play

Amalia Pica · Collins Park (Between Tides, Public Art Fund with The Bass)

Anytime; free paddle kiosk 10am-5pm daily · Free

Eight staggered tabletops under hanging fabric flags. Playable: borrow free paddles at the kiosk; free Paddle in the Park Classic Mon 30 Nov 4-6pm. Photo is from the Rockaway Beach edition (summer 2026).

Image: Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Public Art Fund

Fish Ping-Pong

SUPERFLEX · Collins Park (Between Tides, Public Art Fund with The Bass)

Anytime; free paddle kiosk 10am-5pm daily · Free

Fish-shaped stone ping-pong table. Playable: borrow free paddles at the kiosk; free Paddle in the Park Classic Mon 30 Nov 4-6pm.

Image: Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Public Art Fund

Fly's Eye Dome

Buckminster Fuller · Palm Court, Miami Design District

Free

Buckminster Fuller's 24 ft futuristic dome of round 'eye' windows, the centrepiece of Palm Court.

Image: Miami Design District

for those of us who live at the shoreline

Ilana Harris-Babou · Collins Park (Between Tides, Public Art Fund with The Bass)

Anytime; free paddle kiosk 10am-5pm daily · Free

Terrazzo and tile seating area and ping-pong table. Playable: borrow free paddles at the kiosk; free Paddle in the Park Classic Mon 30 Nov 4-6pm. Photo is from the Rockaway Beach edition (summer 2026).

Image: Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Public Art Fund

Galena

Jillian Mayer with Foto Comercio · Paradise Plaza, Miami Design District

Open daily

An artist-designed photo booth by Jillian Mayer, the Design District's first. Step inside for a strip.

Image: Miami Design District

Home, Safe

Diana Eusebio · The Royal Palm South Beach Miami (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Textiles, photos and natural dyes about displacement and home.

Image: Courtesy of MOCA North Miami (installation view, Diana Eusebio: Field of Dreams)

Humanoids

Joep van Lieshout · Collins Canal Park (beside the Convention Center)

Daily, sunrise to sunset (Collins Canal Park hours) · Free

Chunky abstract aluminium figures lounging along the canal on the Convention Center's north side.

Image: Robin Hill, courtesy of Atelier Van Lieshout

ICA Miami Sculpture Garden

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Wed-Sun 11am-6pm · Free

Free museum with an outdoor sculpture garden; new shows by Carroll Dunham and Diego Singh open 1 Dec.

Image: Javier Sanchez, courtesy of ICA Miami

KIDS!

Roberto & Rosario · Miami Design District

Free

A playful column topped with kids, flipping the idea of a statue on a pedestal.

Image: Miami Design District

Le Corbusier

Xavier Veilhan · Palm Court, 2nd floor, Miami Design District

Free

A giant faceted fibreglass figure of architect Le Corbusier, pen in hand, on Palm Court's upper level near the Fly's Eye Dome.

Image: Miami Design District

Lecturas Posibles

Amalia Pica · The Rotunda, Collins Park (The Bass)

Wed-Sun 12pm-5pm (closed Mon and Tue)

Chalkboard-painted library you can draw on with coloured chalk, next to the ping-pong tables.

Image: Zaire Aranguren, courtesy of The Bass

Living the Dream

Alteronce Gumby · Miami Design District

Gumby's largest outdoor work: a mural set with jade, turquoise and red jasper plus stained glass and mosaic tile.

Image: Miami Design District

LVMH The Studio Miami (6th edition)

Group show of emerging artists (names not on the official page) · Palm Court Event Space, 3rd floor

Daily 11 AM to 4 PM

LVMH's gallery pop-up for artists from diverse backgrounds, back for a sixth year with talks and workshops. Open to the public.

Image: Miami Design District, LVMH The Studio Miami 2025 (5th edition)

Mermaid

Roy Lichtenstein · The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater

Free

Roy Lichtenstein's pop-art mermaid sculpture with a palm tree, out front of the Fillmore, two blocks from the Convention Center.

Image: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein catalogue raisonne (RLCR 2789)

Minna

Jaume Plensa · Pride Park

Daily 8 AM to 8 PM (Pride Park hours) · Free

A huge serene face by Jaume Plensa in the same park as Bent Pool, a short walk from the Convention Center.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

Morris'

Dan Graham · Lincoln Road, west end

Free

A kidney-pool-shaped glass pavilion you walk into; its two-way mirror glass bends your reflection like a fun house. At the west end of Lincoln Road.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

Mural Masters Miami 2026 (live mural battle)

Street artists and graffiti writers (not named yet) · Ninth Street Pedestrian Mall, Overtown

9am-9pm · Free

Watch muralists paint live walls in a head-to-head battle on Overtown's Ninth Street pedestrian mall, with music; the battle starts Fri 4 Dec, awards Sat 5 Dec, walls stay up through Sun 6 Dec. Organizer page (MUCE) gives Dec 3-6; address, hours and free entry from the Soul of Miami listing (28 Oct 2026).

Image: MUCE (Mural Masters Miami organizer), past edition

Museum Garage facade

Terence Riley (concept) with multiple architects · Museum Garage, Miami Design District

Free

A parking garage wrapped in five wild artist-architect facades (cars, figures, colour blocks), next to ICA Miami.

Image: Miami Design District

Old School

Moko Fukuyama · Collins Park (Between Tides, Public Art Fund with The Bass)

Anytime; free paddle kiosk 10am-5pm daily · Free

Salvaged boat ping-pong table with a sea monster. Playable: borrow free paddles at the kiosk; free Paddle in the Park Classic Mon 30 Nov 4-6pm. Photo is from the Rockaway Beach edition (summer 2026).

Image: Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Public Art Fund

PASTEL (CJ Hendry x Salon 94)

CJ Hendry with Salon 94 Design · Salon 94 Design pop-up

Daily 10 AM to 6 PM

A pool-sized pit filled with thousands of oversized pills and vitamins that visitors wade into and pick from to build their own prescription. Pills to take home are $1 each.

Image: Miami Design District event image

Public Art Reveal: new commissions at Grove Central and Coconut Grove Metrorail Station

Asser St. Val; Octavia Yearwood and Amani Lewis; Juan Andrés Ledesma Bohl; Nicolas Lobo (Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places) · Grove Central at Coconut Grove Metrorail Station, where it meets The Underline

Public reveal Fri Dec 4, 9:30am AM to 11 AM; works stay on view after · Free

Miami-Dade's public art program unveils a set of new and recent commissions at the Coconut Grove Metrorail station and Grove Central, right on The Underline. Free, with a guided reveal on Friday morning of Basel week.

Image: Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, via its Art Basel event listing

Reflection

Prune Nourry · Ocean Terrace Park, North Beach

Daily, sunrise to 10 PM (Ocean Terrace Park hours) · Free

A woman's face sculpted from a WWII Coast Guard veteran, seen whole only in its water reflection, with a mangrove growing inside the head.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places (photo T. Loof)

She Spoke for the Birds

Christina Pettersson · Marjory Stoneman Douglas Park, South Beach

Daily, sunrise to sunset (Marjory Stoneman Douglas Park hours) · Free

A bird-filled mural honouring Everglades champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas, by birdwatcher-artist Christina Pettersson.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

Slide Mantra (Bayfront Park)

Isamu Noguchi · Bayfront Park

Daily 7am AM to 11am PM (Bayfront Park hours) · Free

A 29-ton spiral of white Carrara marble you can actually slide down, in the park Noguchi designed on Biscayne Bay; near the Bayfront Park Metromover stop.

Image: The Noguchi Museum

Starchild

FriendsWithYou · Henry Liebman Square

Free

A giant smiling silver 'Starchild' by Miami's FriendsWithYou at the 41st Street entrance to Mid-Beach.

Image: City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places

The Magic Is You!

Kevin Arrow · Casa Faena (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Immersive room built from 35mm photo archives of Miami, part of the city's No Vacancy hotel program.

Image: Faena Art

The Stories We Carry

Oluwatobi Adewumi · Lincoln Road (block not announced)

Free

Walk-through 60 ft path of steel suitcases and hanging tags on the open-air mall; debuts November 2026, up to May 2027 (no exact dates yet).

Image: Lincoln Road BID

Tides and Passages, Chapter I: MARE MAGNVM

Edison Peñafiel · Locust Projects, Main Gallery

Wed to Sat 11am-5pm (site; the press release says Tue to Sat)

A 360 degree video room of fourteen boats and eighty-one masked figures looping across a monochrome sea, with a score built on a Latin American lullaby. It is Locust Projects' one Art Week show, with a free meet the artist party Saturday Dec 5, 7 to 10 PM.

Image: Edison Peñafiel, MARE MAGNVM, installation view, 2021. Courtesy of Sabrina Amrani Gallery (via Locust Projects)

Tlachco

Carlos H. Matos · Collins Park (Between Tides, Public Art Fund with The Bass)

Anytime; free paddle kiosk 10am-5pm daily · Free

Aluminium and volcanic-stone game table. Playable: borrow free paddles at the kiosk; free Paddle in the Park Classic Mon 30 Nov 4-6pm. Photo is from the Rockaway Beach edition (summer 2026).

Image: Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Public Art Fund

Typoe Sculpture Garden

Typoe with Estudio LAAVA · The Underline, 11th St Plaza (Brickell Backyard)

Free

Walk-through fibreglass shapes like giant children's building blocks, in Typoe's colours, under the Metrorail tracks; about 10 minutes' walk south of Brickell station.

Image: The Underline

Vortex

2x4 (Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, Georgianna Stout) · Miami Design District perimeter wall

A bold graphic mural by New York design studio 2x4, painted on a perimeter wall in 2014.

Image: Miami Design District

Elastika Lumia

Lachlan Turczan · The Moore, four-story atrium (in dialogue with Zaha Hadid's Elastika)

Free · Glows at night

A light, water and sound piece floating in The Moore's atrium, made as a reply to Zaha Hadid's Elastika that hangs in the same building. No exhibition ticket needed.

Palm Court Ship: The Jury is Out at the International Inn

Lulu Sanchez · International Inn (No Vacancy 2026)

Free · Glows at night

Glowing grove of hand-built palms on Normandy Isle.

RISING GLITCH LEVELS

Ricardo E. Zulueta · The Betsy Hotel (No Vacancy 2026)

Free · Glows at night

Video projected onto The Betsy's Orb.

A Sudden Leap

Josh Aronson · MOCA Plaza reflecting pool, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (outdoors, Art on the Plaza series)

Free

Josh Aronson's two sail masts rise from the reflecting pool on the MOCA North Miami plaza, their sails printed with his photographs of Florida's natural environment. Outdoors on the plaza through Jan 17, 2027.

Abyssal Wunderkammer

Justin H. Long · Hotel Croydon Miami Beach (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Made-up deep-sea relics in an Art Deco display cabinet.

AMERICA

Gonzalo Hernández · Sherry Frontenac OceanFront Resort (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Seven woven banners spelling A-M-E-R-I-C-A in South American flag colours.

Aqua Hotel facade mural

Shepard Fairey · Aqua Hotel (Aqua Art Miami's 20th edition)

Free

A new Shepard Fairey mural painted on the street-facing front of the Aqua Hotel on Collins, made for Aqua Art Miami's 20th edition; you see it from the sidewalk without a fair ticket. Free = street view only; the fair inside is ticketed.

Atlantican Opulencescapes: Portals and the Ritual of Waiting in Line for Hot Patty

April Bey · The Underline Plaza, south of Douglas Road Metrorail station at Ruiz Avenue and SW 37th Court

Free

A 2026 Metrorail column mural by April Bey on The Underline Plaza near Douglas Road station, carrying her Afrofuturist Atlantica world into Miami. Free to walk by.

Busco en El Monte Amparo

Marlon Portales · Marriott Stanton South Beach (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Two big paintings of identity and an imagined Cuban landscape.

Chocolate Girl

Ignacio Gana · Miami Worldcenter main entrance, Block F East on the 7th Street Promenade (in front of Lucky Strike)

A 19 foot black and gold sculpture by Chilean artist Ignacio Gana at the main entrance of Miami Worldcenter, in front of Lucky Strike, on view through January 2027.

Converging Timelines/Woven Silhouettes

Yanira Collado · The Shelborne by Proper (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Recycled paper, wood and textile installation on regional histories.

Dinner for Ten

Rachel Lee Hovnanian · The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, Art Deco lobby (visible from Lapidus Bar)

During regular hotel operating hours

Rachel Lee Hovnanian's table set for ten in the Ritz-Carlton South Beach lobby, where screens fill nine chairs, part of her solo show The Perfect Trade-Off (Dec 1 to 8, during hotel hours).

Grand Theft Auto VI mural (Art of Vice City)

Tristan Eaton · Wynwood Walls campus

Daily 10:30am AM to 6:30am PM, doors close 30 minutes before closing

One of ten new murals made with Rockstar Games from art created for Grand Theft Auto VI, and the only one of the ten painted inside the Wynwood Walls campus. Entry is ticketed ($12 adults), free for Miami-Dade residents with ID and kids 12 and under.

Living Archive

Luján Candria · Balfour Hotel Miami Beach (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

See-through photo textiles of native plants hung in the hotel windows.

Miami Art Week: Hank Willis Thomas new works and Resident Open Studios

Hank Willis Thomas; YoungArts residents Ezekiel Binns, David Correa, Diego Gabaldon, Michaela Manzieri · YoungArts Campus and YoungArts Gallery

Daily 10am AM to 6am PM

Hank Willis Thomas shows new work on the YoungArts campus all Art Week, and four resident artists open their studios in the gallery. Listed as a public event.

Miami Beach Ocean Heroes: From Ocean Rescue to Coastal Guardians

Curated by the Office of the Mayor and City Commission with Miami Beach Ocean Rescue; interactive plastic cap installation by Plastic Fisherman · Galeria Ocean Drive, Lummus Park (outdoor gallery between 11 and 12 Streets)

Free

A free outdoor exhibit of weatherproof panels on Ocean Drive marking 100 years of Miami Beach Ocean Rescue, with a giant interactive photo frame Plastic Fisherman built from thousands of recovered plastic caps.

Morris Lapidus (Convention Center facade)

Sarah Morris · Miami Beach Convention Center, northeast exterior walls

Free

Sarah Morris's biggest-ever geometric wall painting wraps the Convention Center's northeast corner, so you pass it walking into Art Basel.

Poor Teddy in Memoriam

Rachel Lee Hovnanian · The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, beachfront

During regular hotel operating hours

A monumental black bronze teddy bear by Rachel Lee Hovnanian, shown in public for the first time on the Ritz-Carlton South Beach beachfront, part of her solo show The Perfect Trade-Off (Dec 1 to 8, during hotel hours).

Riviera

Emmett Moore · Eden Roc Miami Beach (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Knotted stainless-steel exhaust-pipe sculpture.

Steady Sunward

Gio Swaby · The Underline, Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove, Metrorail columns between SW 31st and SW 32nd Avenue

Free

New in 2026: Bahamian artist Gio Swaby painted Metrorail columns on The Underline with bright floral silhouettes of the women in her circle, honoring the Bahamian roots of Coconut Grove. Free to walk by.

To Bloom Under the Midnight Stars

Morel Doucet · Avalon Hotel (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Night-garden piece on South Florida's tropical plants and a changing climate.

You Cannot Step into the Same Ocean Twice

Alex Nuñez · Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel (No Vacancy 2026)

Free

Printed palms around an iridescent portal.