Last year saw the art world reach a new peak in art fair saturation with the introduction of two major fairs in Asia, ART SG in Singapore and Tokyo Gendai in Yokohama. 2024 promises to be just as packed, with Frieze increasingly integrating its new acquisitions—the Armory Show and EXPO Chicago—into its overall strategy.
Below, a look at the most important fairs taking place this year.
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ART SG, Singapore
Image Credit: Courtesy Marina Bay Sands Returning for its second edition in early January, ART SG was 2024’s first art fair. Staged at the iconic Marina Bay Sands, ART SG, now part of the Art Assembly portfolio, brought together more than 114 exhibitors. While certain blue-chip enterprises like Pace, Perrotin, David Zwirner, and Almine Rech did not return, Lehmann Maupin, White Cube, and Thaddaeus Ropac all did report solid sales and dealers generally seemed enthusiastic about Singapore and the Asia-Pacific art market.
Location: Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Vernissage: Thursday, January 18
General Admission Days: Friday, January 19–Sunday, January 21
Single-Day Ticket Price: SGD 38.00 (around $28)
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FOG Design+Art, San Francisco
Image Credit: Courtesy FOG Design+Art Fair For its tenth edition, FOG brought together 45 leading galleries, including David Zwirner, Lehmann Maupin, Marianne Boesky, Jenkins Johnson, Jessica Silverman, and Anthony Meier, which relocated last year to nearby Mill Valley. In addition to the main fair, FOG brought together an entrance installation, a special FOG FOCUS section, and FOG Talks, all under the theme “A Love Letter to San Francisco.”
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture
Preview Gala: Wednesday, January 17, 4 p.m.–10 p.m.
General Admission Days: Thursday, January 18–Sunday, January 21
Single-Day Ticket Price: $30 (in advance) or $35 (after January 18)
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India Art Fair, New Delhi
Image Credit: Courtesy India Art Fair Another enterprise in the Art Assembly portfolio, the India Art Fair is the subcontinent’s largest art fair, though it is no longer its only major one, after the introduction of Art Mumbai last fall. This year’s edition was its biggest yet, with 100 exhibitors and a new emphasis on design, craft, and traditional arts. International exhibitors included Galleria Continua, Berlin gallery Neugerriemschneider, and Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
Location: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi
VIP Preview: Thursday, February 1, 3 p.m.–7 p.m.
Second Preview Day: Friday, February 2
General Admission Days: Saturday, February 3–Sunday, February 4
Single-Day Ticket Price: Rs 1,000.00 (around $12)
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Zona Maco and Material, Mexico City
Image Credit: Courtesy Zona Maco One of the most important fairs in Latin America, Zona Maco once again took over Centro Citibanbamex, combining its traditional contemporary art fair with ones for design, antiques, and photography. In the contemporary sector, exhibitors include Pace, Kasmin, and Sean Kelly, as well as local galleries Kurimanzutto, Proyectos Monclova, Labor, and OMR, among others. Material, a satellite fair to Zona Maco, returned for its tenth edition, with exhibitors like Chris Sharp Gallery, Embajada, Lodos, and Proxyco.
Zona Maco
Location: Centro Citibanbamex
Preview Day: Wednesday, February 7, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
General Admission Days: Thursday, February 8-Friday, February 9, 1 p.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday, February 10, 12 p.m.–8 p.m., Sunday, February 11, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Single-Day Ticket Price: MXN$450 ($24) online and MXN$500 ($26.75) at the box office.
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Location: Expo Reforma
Preview Day: Thursday, February 8
General Admission Days: Friday, February 9–Sunday, February 11
Single-Day Ticket Price: MXN$250 (around $13)
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1-54 Marrakech
Image Credit: ©Nicholas Brasseur, Say Who An sharp look at contemporary art scenes across Africa and its diaspora, 1-54 Marrakech returned for its first edition since last fall’s devastating earthquake. Among the smallest of the world’s art fairs, 1-54 Marrakech brought together a total of 27 exhibitors, including 14 from the African continent, eight of which are based in Morocco, twice as many as in 2023.
Location: La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakech and DADA
Preview Days: Thursday, February 8–Friday, February 9
General Admission Days: Saturday, February 10–Sunday, February 11
Single-Day Ticket Price: Free admission
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Frieze Los Angeles and Felix LA
Image Credit: Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy Casey Kelbaugh/Frieze For its fifth edition, Frieze LA will return for the second time to the Santa Monica Airport. The first of Frieze’s international fairs to take place each year, this iteration will bring together 95 galleries, including megas Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, and Pace Gallery. The fair’s Focus section, for galleries in operation for 12 years or less, will be organized by Essence Harden, visual arts curator at the California African American Museum. For this edition, Frieze LA will reconfigure its floor plan and now include a central outdoor space that will be designed by WHY Architects. The fair will additionally not make use of the Barker Hanger, where a portion of exhibitors had been located last year. This edition of Frieze will also activate the athletic field and community park with performances and sculptures, respectively.
Satellite fair Felix LA will maintain its residence at the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel and open a day earlier than Frieze to account for the distance between the two fairs. It’ll feature some 66 galleries, including local outfits Charlie James Gallery, Nicodim, Morán Morán, One Trick Pony, and Sebastian Gladstone.
Felix LA
Location: The Hollywood Roosevelt
Preview day: Wednesday, February 28
General Admission Days: Thursday, February 29–Sunday, March 3
Single-Day Ticket Price: $75 and up
Website.Frieze Los Angeles
Location: Santa Monica Airport
Preview Days: Thursday, February 29
General Admission Days: Friday March 1–Sunday, March 3
Single-Day Ticket Price: $56 and up
Single-Day Student Ticket Price: $26
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ARCOmadrid
Image Credit: Courtesy ARCO Madrid For its 43rd edition, ARCO will bring together more than 200 galleries across a general galleries section and three curated sections, including “The Shore, The Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean,” Opening, and “Never the Same. Latin American Art,” curated by Manuela Moscoso and José Esparza Chong Cuy.
Location: IFEMA MADRID, Halls 7 & 9
Preview Days: Thursday March 7
General Admission Friday March 8 – Sunday March 10
Single-Day Ticket Price: 40 Euro (around $$43) and up
Single-Day Student Ticket Price: 20 Euro (around $22) and up
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Art Dubai
Image Credit: Courtesy Electra, Official Contractor of Art Dubai The largest art fair in the Middle East will stage its 17th edition this year, hosting more than 100 galleries from over 40 countries. First time exhibitors include Peres Projects, Gajah, and Voloshyn. Under the leadership of artistic director Pablo del Val, the fair has four sections: Contemporary, Art Dubai Modern, Bawwaba (meaning Gateway in Arabic) and the third edition of Art Dubai Digital. This year’s edition centers on expanding the idea of the Global South beyond “traditional geographic and economic boundaries” to explore shared histories and diasporic and migrant communities worldwide.
Location: Madinat Jumeirah
Preview Days: Wednesday, February 28–Thursday February 29
General Admission Days: Friday, March 1–Sunday, March 3
Single-Day Ticket Price: 100 AED (around $27)
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Outsider Art Fair, New York
Image Credit: Photo Olya Vysotskaya For its 32nd edition, the Outsider Art Fair will bring together 63 exhibitors, with 9 participating for the first time. As with past editions, next year’s Outsider Art Fair will include two curated sections. Titled “Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze,” the first is to be organized by legendary American poet Anne Waldman and will include visual art by poets like William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Joanne Kyger. The second curated section will celebrate the 50th anniversary of long-time exhibitor Creative Growth Art Center, the Oakland-based nonprofit that is the longest running organization of its kind, dedicated to supporting the work of artists with disabilities.
Location: Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street)
Preview Day and Vernissage: Thursday, February 29
General Admission Days: Friday, March 1–Sunday, March 3
Single-Day Ticket Price: $35
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TEFAF Maastricht
Image Credit: Courtesy TEFAF The fair with the longest run of any listed here, TEFAF Maastricht will bring together more than 270 exhibitors, including 10 first-timers. Additionally, the fair will debut its Focus section, for galleries showcasing the work of a single artist or concept, and continue its Showcase section, for young and emerging dealers. The Art Business Conference will hold its 2024 edition in Maastricht on March 8 to coincide with the fair.
Location: Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre
Preview Days: Thursday, March 7–Friday, March 8
General Admission Days: Saturday, March 9–Thursday, March 14
Single-Day Ticket Price: 45 euros (around $48)
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Art Basel Hong Kong
Image Credit: Courtesy Art Basel For its 2024 edition, Art Basel Hong Kong will return to its pre-pandemic size, bringing 242 exhibitors to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The 2023 edition, which saw the return of numerous international galleries and visitors, boasted 171 exhibitors; the 242 on deck for 2024 represents a 37 increase from the 2023 total figure. As with past editions, the fair is divided into three main sections: Galleries, the main portion of the fair representing some 200 exhibitors; Discoveries, for solo presentations of emerging artists; and Insights, for historical presentations on artists from the Asia-Pacific region.
Location: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Preview Days: Tuesday, March 26–Wednesday, March 27
General Admission Days: Thursday, March 28–Saturday, March 30
Single-Day Ticket Price: HKD 340 and up (around $43)
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SP-Arte, São Paulo
Image Credit: Courtesy SP-Arte The 20th edition of Brazil’s largest art fair will feature a mix of the country’s leading galleries as well as ones from around Latin America and beyond. The fair has yet to release its full exhibitor list.
Location: Bienal Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park
Preview Days: Wednesdsay, April 3
General Admission Days: Thursday, April 4–Friday April 5 (after 1 p.m.); Saturday, April 6–Sunday, April 7
Single-Day Ticket Price: BRL 80 (around $16)
Single-Day Student and 60+ Ticket: BRL 40 (around $8)
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Expo Chicago
Image Credit: Courtesy Choose Chicago For its 11th edition—its first held under the leadership of Frieze, which acquired the event alongside the Armory Show last year—Expo Chicago will host 170 galleries. Taking part in the fair are a number of Chicago galleries, including Document, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, and Corbett vs. Dempsey, as well as a good deal of blue-chip enterprises from beyond the city, among them Galeria Nara Roesler and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Perrotin, one of the biggest enterprises participating this time, has made its return to the fair after a hiatus, as have galleries like Mariane Ibrahim, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, and Harper’s.
Location: Navy Pier’s Festival Hall
Preview Day: Thursday, April 11
General Admission Days: Friday, April 12–Sunday, April 14
Single-Day Ticket Price: $30
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Art Brussels
Image Credit: JJ DE NEYER For its 40th edition, Art Brussels will return to two halls within the iconic Brussels Expo, an Art Deco structure built in 1935. The fair will welcome 170 galleries spread across five sections, including “Discovery,” “Rediscovery,” “Invited,” “Prime,” and “Solo.”
Location: Brussels Expo
Preview Day: Thursday, April 25
General Admission Days: Friday, April 26–Sunday, April 28
Single-Day Ticket Price: 20€ (around $22)
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Dallas Art Fair
Image Credit: DANIEL DRIENSKY The Dallas Art Fair has named the 91 exhibitors that will take part in its 16th edition, scheduled to run at the Fashion Industry Gallery. The exhibitor list includes several galleries with locations in Texas, including Erin Cluley Gallery + Projects (of Dallas), Martha’s (Austin), 12.26 (Dallas), McClain Gallery (Houston), Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino (Houston), and Pencil on Paper (Dallas), which is participating in the fair for the first time. Other first-time exhibitors include Sow & Tailor, Amanita, and Hostler Burrows.
Location: Fashion Industry Gallery (1807 Ross Avenue)
Preview Day: Thursday, April 4, 4 p.m.–8 p.m.
General Admission Days: Friday, April 5–Sunday, April 7
Single-Day Ticket Price: $34 + tax
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Taipei Dangdai
Image Credit: Courtesy Taipei Dangdai Another one of Art Assembly’s fairs, Taipei Dangdai will host its fourth edition this year. While it has yet to release its exhibitor list, last year’s edition grew to 90 exhibitors from 60 in 2022 and featured some blue-chip enterprises.
Location: Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center
Preview Day: Thursday, May 9
General Admission Days: Friday, May 10–Sunday, May 12
Single-Day Ticket Price: NT$750 (around $24.75)
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Independent New York and TEFAF New York
Image Credit: Courtesy Spring Studios The Independent art fair has named the 77 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming New York edition at Spring Studios in Tribeca. As was the case last year, Independent will not align with Frieze New York, which is to be staged the week prior. The 2024 iteration of Independent marks its 15th anniversary, with its first edition held at the former Dia building in Chelsea in 2010 during Armory Week. The fair’s history will be honored in a special section, titled “15 x15: Independent 2010-2024” and organized by fair founder and CEO Elizabeth Dee and White Columns chief curator Matthew Higgs, who serves as founding curatorial adviser to Independent.
TEFAF New York, meanwhile, will host its tenth edition at the Park Avenue Armory, featuring close to 90 international galleries from 15 countries and four continents.
Independent New York
Location: Spring Studios
Preview Day: Thursday, May 9
General Admission Days: Friday, May 10–Sunday, May 12
Website.TEFAF New York
Location: Park Avenue Armory
Preview Day: Thursday, May 9
General Admission Days: Friday, May 10– Tuesday, May 14
Website.Read ARTnews’s 2023 coverage of Independent New York and TEFAF New York.
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Frieze New York and NADA New York
Image Credit: Casey Kelbaugh Frieze New York has named the 68 exhibitors that will participate in its 2024 edition, scheduled to take place for the fourth time at the Shed. Spread across multiple levels of the multidisciplinary arts center in Hudson Yards, this year’s fair features one gallery fewer than last year’s, meaning that the fair remains boutique-sized following its move to its current location. This edition also represents the first since Frieze purchased the other main New York fair, the Armory Show, last summer. Accompanying the fair this year is NADA New York, which is organized by the New Art Dealers Association and will take place in nearby Chelsea.
Frieze New York
Location: The Shed
Preview Days: Wednesday May 1- Thursday May 2
General Admission Days: Friday, May 3–Sunday, May 5
Single-Day Ticket Price: $55 and up
Website.NADA New York
Location: 548 West 22nd Street
Preview Day: Thursday May 1
General Admission Days: Friday, May 3–Sunday, May 5
Single-Day Ticket Price: $40 and up
Website.Read ARTnews’s coverage of 2023 Frieze New York and NADA New York.
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Art Basel, Switzerland
Image Credit: ©Art Basel The art world’s top fair, the Swiss edition of Art Basel, has announced a packed, city-wide program for its upcoming 2024 edition, with 287 galleries from 40 countries. Twenty-two of those galleries will be mounting booths at the fair for the first time. This year also marks the first time Art Basel will be fully under the direction of Maike Cruse, one of the first hires Noah Horowitz made after taking his place as the fair’s chief executive in 2022. Of the 287 galleries, 245 will make up the main section of the fair. Seven of these galleries previously contributed to the Feature or Statements sections, including Commonwealth and Council, Galerie Crèvecœur, Gaga, and Tina Kim Gallery.
Location: Messe Basel
Preview Days: Tuesday, June 11–Wednesday, June 12
General Admission Days: Thursday, June 13–Sunday, June 16
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Tokyo Gendai, Yokohama
Image Credit: Courtesy Tokyo Gendai Though much of the crowd that regularly attends art events takes the summer off after Art Basel ends, Art Assembly’s Japan fair takes place again in early July, Tokyo Gendai. Taking place at a convention center in nearby Yokohama, the fair, headed up by Eri Takane, will gather between 80 and 90 exhibitors. The fair’s second edition will be a major test for the Japanese art market’s continued longevity, especially as it compares to that of Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Hong Kong, the latter of which has long held eminence in Asia.
Location: Pacifico Yokohama
Preview Day: Thursday, July 4
General Admission Days: Friday, July 5–Sunday, July 7
Single-Day Ticket Price: 4,000 Yen (around $30)
Website.Check out ARTnews coverage of the 2023 Tokyo Gendai fair here.
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Frieze Seoul and KIAF
Image Credit: Photo JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images For its third edition, Frieze Seoul will once again align with local fair KIAF, with both opening on the same day, on different levels of the massive COEX convention center in the Korean capital. The fair, with ART SG in Singapore and Tokyo Gendai in their second outings, heads up a suddenly robust calendar for the Asian art market.
Location: COEX
Preview Day: Wednesday, September 4
General Admission Days: Thursday, September 5–Saturday, September 7
Single-Day Ticket Price: 60,000 KRW (about $46) for early bird.
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Armory Show and Independent 20th Century
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews The Armory Show will return for its fourth edition in the post–Labor Day slot at the Javits Center. While the exhibitor list is still forming, the 2023 edition featured 225 galleries, though it lacked any of the megas. Its Focus and Platform sections were a major hit last year, curated by Candice Hopkins and Eva Respini respectively, so all eyes will be on how they follow that up.
Running concurrently with the Armory Show is the third edition of Independent 20th Century, which focuses on art from that era with the aim of revising the canon.
Armory Show
Location: Javits Center
Preview Days: Thursday, September 5
General Admission Days: Friday, September 6–Sunday, September 8
Single-Day Ticket Price: $48 (early bird) and up.
Website.Independent 20th Century
Location: Battery Maritime Building at Cipriani South Street
Preview Day: Thursday, September 5
General Admission Days: Friday, September 6–Sunday, September 8
Single-Day Ticket Price: $55 (early bird) and up.
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Sydney Contemporary
Image Credit: James Horan Photography Pty LTD 2022 For its 11th edition, Australia’s largest art fair will bring together galleries from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, with the fair typically hosting more than 90 exhibitors.
Location: Carriageworks
Preview Days: Wednesday, September 4
General Admission Days: Thursday, September 5–Sunday, September 8
Single-Day Ticket Price: A$25 (around $17)
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Frieze London and Frieze Masters
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews Frieze’s hallmark contemporary fair in London will return this October, running simultaneously with Frieze Masters, which is dedicated to work made before 2000. As with past iterations, this Frieze will likely host around 160 galleries. A satellite fair to Frieze is 1-54, which will stage a London iteration the same week.
Location: Regent’s Park
Preview Days: Wednesday, October 9–Thursday, October 10
General Admission Days: Friday, October 11–Sunday, October 13
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Paris+, par Art Basel
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews After its highly successful second edition of Paris+ this past October, the fair will open at the Grand Palais as the undisputed main art fair in Paris. This time, however, the fair will come after the Palais’ reopening for the Summer Olympics, which will run from the end of July through August 11. Stay tuned for the fair’s exhibitor list, which should release this spring.
Location: Grand Palais
Preview Day: Wednesday, October 16 and Thursday, October 17
General Admission Days: Friday October 18–Sunday, October 20
Single-Day Ticket Price: €40 (around $44 as of June 2023).
Website.Read ARTnews‘ 2023 coverage of Paris+, par Art Basel here.
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The Art Show, New York
Produced yearly by the Art Dealers Association of America, the Art Show stages its 36th edition this November. A tightly curated fair, it typically gathers around 75 exhibitors from the industry group’s membership, with its evening VIP preview once again benefiting Henry Street Settlement.
Location: Park Avenue Armory
Benefit Preview Day: Tuesday, October 29
General Admission Days: Wednesday, October 30–Saturday, November 2
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Artissima, Turin
Image Credit: Courtesy Artissima This year marks the 31st edition of Artissima, one of Italy’s most important art fairs. Each edition features around 170 exhibitors; this one will be the third under the direction of Luigi Fassi.
Location: OVAL Lingotto Fiere
Preview Day: Thursday, October 31
General Admission Days: Friday, November 1–Sunday, November 3
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Art Cologne
Image Credit: ©Koelnmesse GmbH, Thomas Klerx The world’s oldest art fair celebrates its 57th edition this year. The fair typically features around 190 exhibitors, including a mix of some of Germany’s most important galleries, and blue-chip international enterprises.
Location: Cologne Fair grounds, Koelnmesse, Hall 11
Preview Day: Thursday, November 7
General Admission Days: Friday, November 8–Sunday, November 10
Single-Day Ticket Price: 27 Euro
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Untitled Art, and NADA Miami
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews To close out each year, the art world—and industries like fashion and entertainment—descend on Miami Beach in early December for a bevy of art fairs. The most important of these is Art Basel Miami Beach. This iteration will be the first under the direction of Bridget Finn, who joined as director of the Miami Beach fair in September 2023. The other two notable satellite fairs aligned with ABMB are Untitled Art, which sets up tents on the sand facing the Atlantic, and NADA Miami, which takes place in Miami proper.
Art Basel Miami Beach
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center
Preview Days: Tuesday, December 3–Wednesday, December 4
General Admission Days: Thursday, December 5–Saturday, December 8
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.Untitled Art
Location: Miami Beach, at 12th Street and Ocean Drive
Preview Days: Tuesday December 3
General Admission Days: Wednesday, December 4–Sunday, December 8
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.NADA Miami
Location: Ice Palace Studios
Preview and General Admission Days: To be confirmed.
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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