This week will be a busy, buzzy one for Miami Beach. Art collectors, fashion aficionados, sport and food enthusiasts, music buffs and crypto bros will descend on the sunny Florida city to network, party — and see some art. Bringing everyone to town is the annual Miami Art Week, which hosts over 20 art fairs each December. At the center of the week is Art Basel, closing out the year in its largest market: America.

Though US art sales dropped 9% to $24.8 billion in 2024, the region has remained a market leader for the art fair series, up 1% year-on-year and accounting for 43% of global art sales, according to the 2025 Art Basel & UBS Art Market report . The sales dip sits below the global 12% average. The report’s authors put the US decline down, in part, to political uncertainty “surroun

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