A beach city most of the year and the capital of the art market for one week in December, with private collections open in between.
Herzog & de Meuron's museum on Biscayne Bay (2013), under a deep roof hung with Patrick Blanc's gardens, with a strong collection of Latin American and Caribbean art.
Don and Mera Rubell's family collection of contemporary art, in former food warehouses converted by Annabelle Selldorf (2019).
The Institute of Contemporary Art, free, with a sculpture garden, in the middle of the Design District's shops.
Miami Beach's contemporary art museum, in a 1930 Art Deco building in Collins Park, a few blocks from the sea.
Rooms, ruins and curiosities: the city's other museum.
James Deering's winter villa of 1916, a fantasy of a Venetian palazzo on Biscayne Bay, with formal gardens and a stone barge moored in front.
Edward Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant, spent nearly thirty years carving and moving more than a thousand tons of coral rock alone, by night. Nobody knows quite how.
Hilario Candela's 1963 grandstand for powerboat races, with a folded concrete roof cantilevered over the water. Closed since 1992 and covered in graffiti; its future is being decided.
West Palm Beach, with an expansion by Foster + Partners (2019) and a sculpture garden, about 90 minutes north.
Pérez Art Museum at opening → ICA and the Design District → lunch in Little Haiti → the Rubell → Art Deco Miami Beach and the Bass at the end of the day.