Art Basel Miami Beach: What to know, which Palm Beach galleries are showing and more

Four galleries with a Palm Beach presence are among the 277 that will exhibit as part of this year's Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the premier events in the art world.

The annual international art fair is Dec. 8-10 at the Miami Beach Convention Center and includes 277 galleries on-site, as well as coinciding shows from museums and private collections in South Florida.

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Art Basel returns this year to the convention center, which just underwent a $640 million renovation and expansion designed to both modernize the property and address potential effects of rising sea levels, the convention center has said.

Also known as Art Basel's Americas fair, this year's Miami Beach edition will highlight Latin American and Caribbean diaspora artists. More than two dozen galleries will be first-timers, from countries including Egypt, Iceland, the Philippines and Poland.

"Visitors to our Miami Beach show this year will be met with surprises, and an expanded platform for discovering a diversity of artistic voice and perspectives, which echo and reverberate across Miami Beach's every-growing cultural offer," said Vincenzo de Bellis, director of fairs and exhibition platforms for Art Basel. De Bellis is leading this year's Art Basel Miami Beach as the fair's new director, Bridget Finn, prepares to take the reins for the 2024 show.

Here's what you need to know about this year's Art Basel Miami Beach.

The basics

Art Basel Miami Beach is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 8-10 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach.

The fair is open by invitation only Dec. 6-7.

Ticket prices start at $58 for students, residents and seniors. Students must be over age 12 and currently attending a college or university, and residents in this case are people who live in Miami Beach. Seniors are age 62 and older. Admission is for one person on one day Dec. 8-10, between noon and 4 p.m.

A single-day ticket valid from noon to 4 p.m. is available for $75.

The First Access ticket is $95 and includes admission for one person on one day with early access to the show starting at 11 a.m.

Premium, VIP and three-day experiences that include access to some South Florida museums are available for $630, $2,200 or $3,500 per person, depending on the level of access and benefits included. The $3,500 Premium+ Discovery ticket includes a private cocktail reception and a visit with a Cuban artist in his studio.

Admission is free for children age 12 and younger with purchase of an adult ticket. Art Basel Miami Beach will offer Art Kids for children ages 4 to 11, a free playroom with programming and staffing from the Miami Children's Museum. Pre-registration is required, and more information is available on the Art Basel website.+22+

The fair is divided into sectors, led by the Galleries sector, which features 222 modern and contemporary art galleries.

The Nova sector includes 22 galleries presenting works that have been created within the past three years by one, two or three artists. Many of the pieces in this sector have not been displayed previously, Art Basel said.

There are 16 galleries in the Positions sector, which spotlights emerging artists. In the Survey sector, there are 17 art-historical projects that include artists' presentations and exhibits.

The Meridians sector is a showcase for 19 artists that don't fit the booth format, including installations, performances and immersive experiences.

While the other sectors are grouped together, the Kabinett sector is found throughout the show floor and includes 30 galleries.

For more information, go to artbasel.com/miami-beach.

Getting there

If traveling by car to the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is valet and self-parking available. Self-parking in the Miami Beach Convention Center parking garage is $20. There are other municipal garages that are near the convention center that can be used if the center's garage is full. Download the ParkMe app, available on Android and iPhone, to see which garages have space and what the cost to park will be.

If traveling via Brightline, visitors can use Uber or Lyft to get to the convention center from the train line's MiamiCentral station. If traveling within Miami Beach or from a nearby hotel, visitors may be able to use Miami Beach's bus service or free trolley system.

Palm Beach galleries

Four Palm Beach-area galleries will show during Art Basel Miami Beach. Two galleries that recently had seasonal pop-ups on the island also will have booths.

The works span many media and styles, with sculptures, photographs and paintings created in myriad methods.

Acquavella Galleries — 340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite 309, Palm Beach — will be in Booth D12 at the convention center. Modern, post-war and contemporary works from the 20th and 21st centuries will be on display from artists including Nicole Wittenberg, Carl Andre, Francis Bacon, Miquel Barceló, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Bourgeois, Keith Haring, Jackson Pollock, James Rosenquist and Wayne Thiebaud.

Acquavella's booth also will feature works from Damian Loeb, whose exhibition at Acquavella's Palm Beach gallery ends Dec. 5, and Jon Joanis, whose Palm Beach exhibition will open Dec. 8.

The fair is a great opportunity for galleries to reach new audiences and engage with the broader art world, said Eleanor Acquavella.

"Additionally, the fair brings together different yet complementary programs of our New York and Palm Beach spaces, combining our strong focus on modern and post-war masters with new works by the mid-career contemporary artists we are showing in Palm Beach like Damian Loeb, Nicole Wittenberg and Jon Joanis," she said.

Ben Brown Fine Arts — 245 Worth Ave., Palm Beach — will be in Booth D8. The gallery will include among its collection contemporary works from Yoan Capote, Awol Erizku, Vik Muniz, Nabil Nahas, José Parlá, Enoc Perez, Ena Swansea and Hank Willis Thomas.

There also will be a selection of artwork from post-war artists Alighiero Boetti, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Roy Lichtenstein and Antoni Tàpies.

Ben Brown plans to showcase "a group of artists whose collective impact enriches and shapes the evolving landscape of contemporary artistic expression" — Miquel Barceló, Amoako Boafo, Günther Förg, Andreas Gursky, KAWS, Richard Prince and Sean Scully. That includes "Ohne Titel," a grid painting from Förg, and Prince's "Glue," a combination of collage and acrylic that stands 10 feet wide and about 6 and a half feet tall.

Gavlak — 340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite M334, Palm Beach — will be in Booth B57.

Gavlak was founded in 2005 by Sarah Gavlak, the creative mind behind Palm Beach County's New Wave Art Wknd, and is known for representing women, Black artists, people of color and LGTBQ artists.

Artist Deborah Brown will be among those included in Gavlak's collection at Art Basel Miami Beach. Brown uses vibrant colors to depict scenes from modern life, with her "Street Smarts" series showing a range of street vendors selling everything from counterfeit designer bags to fruit.

Gavlak also will feature pieces from Andrew Brischler, whose exhibition "Self Portraits" is on display through Dec. 17 at Gavlak in Palm Beach. Additional artists in Gavlak's booth: Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Lisa Anne Auerbach, Jake Clark, Willie Cole, Marc Dennis, Braxton Garneau, Taha Heydari, Nir Hod, Abby Leigh, Nancy Lorenz, Maynard Monrow, Anthony Sonnenberg and Alexis Teplin.

White Cube — 2512 Florida Ave., West Palm Beach — will be in Booth A23.

The gallery will show paintings and sculptures from artists including Lynne Drexler, David Hammons, Richard Hunt, Robert Irwin, Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha, Park Seo-Bo and Danh Vo.

Among the pieces on display will be Hunt's sculpture "Years of Pilgrimage," the final piece in Hunt's "Plow Series," which spanned nearly three decades. The piece honors Hunt's grandfather, who was a sharecropper in Georgia. To create "Years of Pilgrimage," Hunt welded steel tubing.

Two galleries that recently had seasonal locations in Palm Beach also will be at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Lehmann Maupin — which previously had a seasonal gallery in the Royal Poinciana Plaza, and on Worth Avenue before that — will be in Booth B26.

The gallery, in its 22nd year at Art Basel, will bring new works from Loriel Beltrán, Lee Bul, Mandy El-Sayegh, Teresita Fernández, Todd Gray, Chantal Joffe, Tammy Nguyen, Do Ho Suh, Nari Ward and Erwin Wurm.

Fernández will debut a new work from her "Dark Earth" series, where she transforms raw charcoal into relief images. Lehmann Maupin also will present a new installation from Brazilian artists OSGEMEOS in the fair's Kabinett sector, with new paintings and sculptures against an immersive wallpaper.

Pace Gallery — which made an appearance in Palm Beach for the past two seasons — will be in Booth D35.

The gallery will display works from more than two dozen artists, including Gideon Appah, Lynda Benglis, Alexander Calder, Latifa Echakhch, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sam Gilliam, David Hockney, JR, Alicja Kwade, Lee Kun-Yong, Lee Ufan, Li Songsong, Robert Longo, Kylie Manning, Roberto Matta, Beatriz Milhazes, Richard Misrach, Maysha Mohamedi, William Monk, Yoshitomo Nara, Michal Rovner, Joel Shapiro, Arlene Shechet, Marina Perez Simão, Mika Tajima, Hank Willis Thomas, Lawrence Weiner and Fred Wilson.

One of the highlights of Pace's booth will be Benglis' "QT," a sculpture in bronze.

Pace also will feature a blown-glass sculpture from Wilson, and Longo's "Untitled (Ukrainian and Russian Tank Battle)," a charcoal drawing that is part of Longo's larger series examining the COVID-19 pandemic, politics and war.

Local exhibitions

With the who's who of the art world in South Florida for the weekend, local galleries that don't make it to Miami Beach will put out their finest for the many collectors and lovers of art who will hop on the highway — or Brightline — in search of rare or new works. As a result, art lovers who don't want to trek to Miami Beach can find many opportunities to view stellar pieces, while staying local.

A few highlights of exhibitions happening the same weekend as Art Basel Miami Beach:

• "Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder," at the Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach. www.norton.org

• Isabelle de Ganay's "Environs de Paris" exhibition at Findlay Galleries, 165 Worth Ave., Palm Beach. www.findlaygalleries.com

• "Whimsy & Wonder" exhibition in the Main Gallery at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, 601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth Beach. www.palmbeachculture.com

• "Graphic Design Student Show" at Palm Beach State College's Lake Worth Art Gallery, in the HU Building of the campus at 4200 Congress Ave. www.palmbeachstate.edu/art-gallery-pbsc

• "Pictures in the Half-Light" exhibition through Dec. 9 at Holden Luntz Gallery, 332 Worth Ave., Palm Beach. www.holdenluntz.com

• "Deck the Walls" opens Dec. 7 at Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery, 373 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta. www.lighthousearts.org

• "Let There Be Light" exhibition at Palm Beach International Airport's gallery on level two in the atrium near the putting green, 1000 James L. Turnage Blvd., West Palm Beach. www.pbia.org

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Art Basel Miami Beach: Tickets, travel, Palm Beach galleries and more