Fair play: Our guide to Miamis star-studded 2025 Art Week

Headed to Miami for Art Basel and the surrounding Art Week festivities? Here’s our roundup of the top fairs to visit for 2025 — whether you’re hunting for eyebrow-raising art or the ultimate celebrity sighting.More than 280 galleries from 43 countries converge upon the Miami Beach Convention Center in early December, but the spotlight this year will be on American artists of indigenous, Latinx and diasporic origins.

“This edition reflects the vitality of artistic production across the Americas.It is bold, rigorous and attuned to the moment,” says director Bridget Finn.

Of course, powerhouses Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth and Pace Gallery and their blue-chip artists will also be well-represented.The Oscars of the art world are here! The new Art Basel Awards are being touted as “the first global awards celebrating the full spectrum of the art industry.” Also new? Voloshyn Gallery, the first-ever Ukrainian gallery to show at the fair; El Apartamento, the first homegrown gallery from Cuba (one of its pieces was acquired last year by Pérez Art Museum Miami); and N.A.S.A.L., the first Ecuadorian gallery to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach.Watch out for hot mikes if podcasting goddess — and our Alexa cover star — Alix Earle returns.Expect sightings of music industry luminaries like Travis Scott.For the 20th anniversary of the Design Miami brand, the OG side fair founded by Design District developer Craig Robins returns to Pride Park in Miami Beach and will be curated once again by London-based Glenn Adamson.

The theme, “Make.Believe.,” celebrates the avant-garde collectible design of past and present.

Look for the lacquered wooden chest with colored-glass fronts called “Arc en Ciel” by Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti and a bar cabinet with an embedded sound system carved into pink stone by Objects of Common Interest.Hostler Burrows will present a group show of 10 female, mostly Scandinavian designers.Among the more than 70 galleries...