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The Trippin Miami Art Week Map: Your Alternative and Affordable Guide

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Art Week

Miami Art Week

Jared McGriff

Miami

The New World School of the Arts booth will showcase a variety of artworks, including individual pieces, collaborative projects, and limited editions like prints and artist books, all created by NWSA students, faculty, and alumni. These works will be available for purchase, with a revenue-sharing model that allocates half of the proceeds to the artists and the other half to support NWSA’s visual arts program. This initiative supported by Miami art education and collecting program, Commissioner, is aimed at enriching the experience of fair goers while promoting community involvement.

The exhibition Changes: Reflections on Time & Space draws from founder Anthony Spinello’s personal art collection. The exhibition stages a dialogue between seminal works collected over the past two decades and new or recent works by the same artists—many of whom share deep ties to Miami. This constellation of artworks maps not only Spinello’s own trajectory, but also a chapter in the city’s evolving cultural landscape, reflecting the intertwined histories of place, practice, and community. Here, time is both a subject and a medium. The works span years, even decades, and carry with them the histories of their making—the social, political, and personal contexts that shaped them. Changes: Reflections on Time & Space is more than an exhibition—it is a time capsule, a love letter, and a testament to two decades of belief, growth, and transformation.

MOCA is showing Field of Dreams by Diana Eusebio, a Peruvian-Dominican textile artist based in Miami, which takes the viewer on a historical journey. Eusebio creates a variation of vibrant colours found in the natural world throughout the Americas and the Caribbean, with a palette that incorporates seven dyes: avocados and cochineal (cochinilla) for red and pinks; annatto (bija), Spanish moss (itla-okla), and marigolds for yellows and oranges; Palo de Campeche (logwood) for purple; and indigo for blue. These seven core dyes are central to her practice, connecting her work to centuries-old dyeing traditions, from harvesting to boiling the plants and immersing the fabric within the dyes.

This exhibition transforms the gallery into an ethnobotanical garden of art, filled with suspended Spanish moss and soft muhly grass, family portraits communicatively representing layered memories. Visitors are invited to move through this living environment that celebrates heritage, community, and the enduring bond between people and the natural world. 

Field of Dreams is curated by Kimari Jackson.


Suns and Shadows is curated by Miami artist Roscoè B Thické III which features Miami artists Mark Delmont , Reginald O’Neal, Lance Minto Strouse, T. Eliott Mansa, and Mark Fleuridor. This exhibition explores Miami’s contradictions, capturing the tension between its vibrant allure and the complexities beneath—displacement, resilience, and preservation.

Through various mediums, this group of artists illuminate the layered histories of Miami, highlighting the distinct edges of its potential as a city continually shaped by forces of change.

NSU is showing 'The Riddle of the Sphinx and Other Mysteries' - The Greek Sphinx was a creature who posed riddles, most famously in Sophocles’ 5th century BCE tragedy Oedipus Rex, where solving a puzzle became a matter of life and death. In this way, the Sphinx became a symbol of games, mystery, and interpretation.

Like the Sphinx, this exhibition invites viewers to engage with art as a series of puzzles to be decoded, and to apply their experiences to form their own interpretations. Works are drawn primarily from the museum’s collection and grouped by themes including Myth and Ritual, Hybrid Creatures, Abstraction, Figuration, and the Americas.

It includes works by Ed Clark, Frida Kahlo, Jeff Koons, Lee Miller, Diego Rivera, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and recent acquisitions including vanessa german, Lonnie Holley, Emilio Martinez, and Cici McMonigle.

Prizm is one of my favorite art fairs to visit during Miami Art Week. For their 12th Edition, Prizm will present The Architecture of Liberation examining the profound role of visual art, architecture, and spatial aesthetics in the context of political resistance and social justice. From the 1970s onward, Africa and its diaspora have engaged in a series of liberation movements that redefine the relationship between built environments and the quest for freedom, autonomy, and equality. This exhibition delves into how spaces—both physical and symbolic—have been constructed, reclaimed, and reimagined to serve as catalysts for liberation, resistance, and solidarity.

Curated by DVCAI Founder, Curator Rosie Gordon-Wallace, based in Miami, and independent curator Breeana Thorne, the trans-coastal, transcontinental, and Caribbean diasporic project poses the question, “What’s in Your Container?” The shipping container - a vessel of movement, transportation, and memory -serves as a lens through which we explore the personal and collective histories of containment.

The works on view serve as sites of refuge - both physical and emotional. In response, artists, turn inward, using their creative practice as containers for memory, grief, harmony, and regeneration. Students and visitors are invited to consider their own vessels of memory.

Jared McGriff On What To See During Miami Art Week 

This is Trevor's favourite pizza in the world. The menu is simple and leans heavily on pizza, but the Japanese sweet potato with buckwheat is another fantastic dish. Wonderful owners, and a beautiful, cosy space.

This is the breakfast place we take all of our guests to when they're in town. It's got your familiar American breakfast classics done very well, but also has pan con tomate and cachito de jamon that you'll love.

This is our Midtown local spot. The food is fantastic, nothing fancy – just the greatest Italian hits done well. The Branzino and the Milanese paired with a pasta are the usuals when we sneak away from the studio for dinner.

An institution with fantastic Cuban food and community that you can feel whenever you're in the place. Some of the employees have been there 30 plus years and put their heart and soul into the food. Come by for lunch and take a picture next to the Dwayne Wade mural inside.

This is a seafood market on the river that has some seating and a restaurant upstairs. This is where we head to during stone crab season, and it's a great excuse to go for a walk near the river and have some excellent seafood.

Like the name says: fantastic coffee and baked goods. This is the best coffee in the neighbourhood, and the owners are super sweet. Get a cappuccino and an amaretti.

SoFTT on Where to Eat in Miami

I can say so much about Dante’s HiFi and it still would suffice the understated glamour of this bar. From Afro-Caribbean nights with the vinyl crew, Rum and Coke, to ladies' night hosted by Carozilla. Dante’s HiFi bar is constantly creating space where both you and your lover would for sure be able to connect and create a playlist based on the music being played that night, to carry the good times all throughout the night.

A personal favourite! Very romantic due to its location placement on the Espanola Way. Minutes away from the beach, and desserts that would secure a follow-up date with its array of sizeably portioned meals. Be sure to ask for the chocolate souffle.

This an enjoyable date spot because it instantly transports you out of Miami, and into your new favourite sushi spot. If you can reserve a slot and beat the waiting list, you'll be sure to not only be captivated by each dish floating its way via mini gandela but also be enthralled in conversation in a true Miami gem.

It's hip, it's young and it's a cool take on a Vietnamese cuisine dinner that sits in the centre of downtown but is not overly populated with tourists looking to get a quick fix. It built an impressive name with Miami's local dining scene producing quality dishes that won't break you or the guy you just matched with on Hinge.

DJ Pressure Point on Romantic Date Spots in Miami

I love to go to museums, especially by myself. Perez is one of my favourite museums to go to as they centre a lot of modern and contemporary art of the 20th/21st century. They have one of the best exhibitions and events in my opinion. I get a lot of inspiration here. The location is just perfect to go and then have a walk or picnic around it after with an ocean view.

If you know me you know I love my fritanga. Located in Little Havana, it’s one of my favourite places to get carne asada, queso frito, and gallo pinto con maduro. Overall best food and it’s open 24 hours. If anyone’s got you for a midnight meal after a party it’s Pinolandia.

Another amazing spot to go eat at for some good soul food with an amazing ambience. One of the best Haitian/Caribbean spots in Miami located in Little Haiti has all your favourites, from vegan to meats and seafood. Come here for the best curry goat and jerk chicken to feed the heart with juicy love.

The best queer underground party dedicated to the Black Caribbean diaspora, created by a brother of mine Akia aka Pressure Point. They now have a radio station y’all should go check out if you wanna be at the forefront of what the freshest sounds of the Miami underground is listening to! NB: This collective does not have a specific location.

The legendary Domicile is known for its techno parties that a lot of my friends go to since there really aren’t that many spaces that play GOOD techno. If you need a good night out and want to listen to some good techno, Domicile is the place for you.

This is such a cute spot if you love wine and a good ambience. They serve all your favourite spirits which you can order with a charcuterie board and hear some nice live jazz. They have a big outside area in the back filled with flora you feel like you're in a little forest.

Now you KNOW I love a good perreo, and no one is doing it like this party here. Perreo del futuro is a Latino party done where we all get down and sweaty throwing ass to reggaeton. Mi gente Latino will love this party if you ever get the chance to come down to Miami while this is happening. NB: This collective does not have a specific location.

One of my favourite places to walk around even if it's just to window shop. Mainly because it’s not a typical mall because it’s an outdoor mall, beautifully designed by Architectonica. It’s one of the largest construction projects in the US during its creation. It’s actually the most beautiful mall I’ve ever been to. It’s a must.

This is a very very well known bar here in Miami. It is the perfect gastropub to meet up with friends and have some nice signature cocktails or just a couple of beers. It has such a unique vibe with nice live music and it’s open till very late so you can always trust on it.

A treasure and historic landmark built on 1916, Vizcaya museum and Gardens by James Deering is a must see. Formerly his home, it has one of the best botanical gardens you’ll ever witness down here. This a great day time walking activity since it is also located near the water. 

Another incredible Queer underground rave party you’ll ever set foot in Miami. It’s the first party I ever had gone to when I first moved to Miami and made me fall in love with raving haha. Thrown by my sista Gami @ultrathem, it’s just THE party to go to when you’re in Miami. If you didn’t know about them, well now you do! NB: This collective does not have a specific location.

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