The Art Basel Miami Beach or ABMB week of Miami art fairs is the big dance of the artworld!
And for the last two decades or so I've been doing some of the prime fairs in the area: Pulse, Volta, Scope, Art Miami Context, etc., but in the beginning, it was Aqua, which is held at the trendy Aqua Hotel on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach and which is owned by the same folks who run Art Miami... and Aqua is now Aqua Art Miami!
Aqua Art Miami is the perfect fair for art collectors both at the savvy end of art collecting (buy what you like and buy the original) and newbies exploring the vast diversities of the creative minds of artists
It is small enough that it will not overwhelm your visual art senses with thousands of artworks from hundreds of galleries at once, like the larger fairs do, but also sizeable enough in scale that you'll experience and see art from several dozen galleries from the US and abroad with lots of different artists, styles, media, etc.
Each gallery sets up and hangs work in individual hotel rooms.
What Aqua also brings, is an unique "scene" where you'll also see lots of beautiful people enjoying powerful techno dancing beats at night, giving the fair an unique party scene, and yes: alcohol is served!
Easy parking, with multiple city parking lots nearby! read more