After the pandemic disrupted the art world’s fair calendar, last year saw the steady resumption of these events, with some permanently switching their dates; it also saw the launch of two new fairs. This year will see the inauguration of two major fairs in Asia: ART SG, which opened the art fair calendar last week in Singapore, and Tokyo Gendai, set to launch in nearby Yokohama in July.
Below, a look at the most important fairs taking place this year.
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ART SG, Singapore
Image Credit: Courtesy Marina Bay Sands With its launch during the second week of January, the long-awaited (and much delayed) ART SG was the year’s first art fair. Staged at the iconic Marina Bay Sands, the inaugural edition of ART SG, now part of the Art Assembly portfolio, brought together more than 160 exhibitors, including blue-chip enterprises like Gagosian, Pace, White Cube, Gladstone Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, Thaddaeus Ropac, Gallery Hyundai, Ota Fine Arts, Pearl Lam Galleries, and Taka Ishii. There’s long been interest in Singapore’s rising art market, and despite few reported sales at the fair, dealers said they remained optimistic about the Asia-Pacific art market.
Location: Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Vernissage: Wednesday, January 11, 5 p.m–9 p.m.
General Admission Days: Thursday, January 12–Sunday, January 15
Single-Day Ticket Price: SGD 30.00 (around $23)
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FOG Design+Art, San Francisco
Image Credit: Courtesy FOG Design+Art Fair For its ninth edition, FOG brought together 48 leading galleries, including David Zwirner, Lehmann Maupin, Kurimanzutto, Jenkins Johnson, Jessica Silverman, and Anthony Meier, which recently relocated to nearby Mill Valley. In addition to the booths, there was an immersive installation by Bay Area–based artist Jenny Sharaf and an hour of storytelling by artist Joan Brown, tied to her current retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which was the beneficiary of the fair’s preview gala.
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture
Preview Gala: Wednesday, January 18, 4 p.m.–10 p.m.
General Admission Days: Thursday, January 19–Sunday, January 22
Single-Day Ticket Price: $30 (in advance) or $35 (after January 18)
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Zona Maco and Material, Mexico City
Image Credit: Courtesy Zona Maco One of the most important fairs in Latin America, Zona Maco will again bring together more than 200 exhibitors from 26 countries, combining its traditional contemporary art fair with ones for design, antiques, and photography. In the contemporary sector, exhibitors include Hauser & Wirth, Kasmin, Sean Kelly, and David Lewis, as well as local galleries Kurimanzutto, Proyectos Monclova, Labor, and OMR, among others. Material, a satellite fair to Zona Maco, will return for its ninth edition, with exhibitors like Chris Sharp Gallery, Embajada, Lodos, and Proxyco.
Zona Maco
Location: Centro Citibanbamex
Preview Day: Wednesday, February 8, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
General Admission Days: Wednesday, February 8, 5 p.m.–8 p.m.; Thursday, February 9–Sunday, February 12
Single-Day Ticket Price: MXN$450 ($24) online and MXN$500 ($26.75) at the box office.
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Location: Expo Reforma
Preview Day: Thursday, February 9
General Admission Days: Friday, February 10–Sunday, February 12
Single-Day Ticket Price: MXN$250 (around $13)
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1-54 Marrakech
Image Credit: ©Nicholas Brasseur, Say Who An incisive look at the contemporary art scenes across Africa and its diaspora, 1-54 Marrakech returns for its first edition since the onset of the pandemic. One of the smallest of the world’s art fairs, 1-54 Marrakech will bring together a total of 20 exhibitors, including eight from the African continent (four of which are based in the Moroccan city), as well as 12 first-time exhibitors, including HOA Galeria of São Paulo and Templon of Paris and New York.
Location: La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakech
Preview Days: Thursday, February 9–Friday, February 10
General Admission Days: Saturday, February 11–Sunday, February 12
Single-Day Ticket Price: Free admission
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India Art Fair, New Delhi
Image Credit: Courtesy India Art Fair Another enterprise in the Art Assembly portfolio, the India Art Fair is the subcontinent’s largest art fair, with 85 exhibitors from across India and the world, including Jhaveri Contemporary, Nature Morte, and Galleria Continua. Additionally, the fair will present new commissions by its artists in residence (Debashish Paul, Lakshmi Madhavan, and the Vayeda brothers), as well as outdoor projects by Parag Tandel, Shivani Aggarwal, Prashant Pandey, and Sonia Khurana.
Location: NSIC Exhibition Grounds
VIP Preview: Thursday, February 9, 3 p.m.–7 p.m.
Second Preview Day: Friday, February 10
General Admission Days: Saturday, February 11–Sunday, February 12
Single-Day Ticket Price: Rs 1,000.00 (around $12)
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Frieze Los Angeles and Felix LA
Image Credit: Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy Casey Kelbaugh/Frieze For its fourth edition, Frieze L.A. will move to a new location, the Santa Monica Airport, after stints on the Paramount Pictures backlot and Beverly Hills. The first of Frieze’s international fairs to take place each year, this iteration will bring together more than 120 galleries, including megas Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, and Pace Gallery. The fair’s Focus section, for galleries in operation for 12 years or less, will be organized by Amanda Hunt and Sonya Tamaddon, while Frieze Projects, for large-scale sculptures, will be organized by Jay Ezra Nayssan. Satellite fair Felix LA will maintain its residence at the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel and open a day earlier than Frieze to account for the distance between the two fairs. It’ll feature some 60 galleries, including 14 first-time exhibitors.
Felix LA
Location: The Hollywood Roosevelt
Preview day: Wednesday, February 15
General Admission Days: Thursday, February 16–Sunday, February 19
Single-Day Ticket Price: $40 and up
Website.Frieze Los Angeles
Location: Santa Monica Airport
Preview Days: Thursday, February 16–Friday, February 17
General Admission Days: Saturday, February 18–Sunday, February 19
Single-Day Ticket Price: $56 and up
Single-Day Student Ticket Price: $26
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ARCOmadrid
Image Credit: Courtesy ARCO Madrid For its 42nd edition, ARCO will bring together more than 200 galleries across a general galleries section and three curated sections, including “Mediterranean: A Round Sea,” organized by Marina Fokidis (with curatorial consultation from Bouchra Khalili, Hila Peleg, and Pedro G. Romero) and “Never the Same. Latin American Art,” organized by Mariano Mayer and Manuela Moscoso.
Location: IFEMA MADRID, Halls 7 & 9
Preview Days: Wednesday, February 22–Thursday, February 23
General Admission Friday, February 24–Sunday, February 26
Single-Day Ticket Price: 30 Euro (around $32) and up
Single-Day Student Ticket Price: 20 Euro (around $22) and up
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Art Dubai
Image Credit: Courtesy Electra, Official Contractor of Art Dubai The largest art fair in the Middle East will expand for its 16th edition, hosting more than 130 galleries from 43 countries, including more than 30 first-time exhibitors. Under the leadership of artistic director Pablo del Val, the fair has invited four guest curators to organize its special sections: Clara Che Wei Peh (Art Dubai Digital), Vipash Purichanont (Bawwaba, for new work), and Mouna Mekouar and Lorenzo Giusti (Art Dubai Modern).
Location: Madinat Jumeirah
Preview Days: Wednesday, March 1–Thursday March 2
General Admission Days: Friday, March 3–Sunday, March 5
Single-Day Ticket Price: 90 AED (around $25)
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Outsider Art Fair, New York
Image Credit: Photo Olya Vysotskaya For its 31st edition, the Outsider Art Fair will bring together 64 exhibitors, with 12 participating for the first time. Additionally, it will feature two special presentations: a booth dedicated to Paul Laffoley’s “The Life and Death of Elvis Presley: A Suite” (1995); and “We Are Birds,” a collection of works featuring bird imagery to benefit the National Audubon Society, organized by Grammy Award–winning music producer and supervisor Randall Poster.
Location: Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street)
Preview Day and Vernissage: Thursday, March 2
General Admission Days: Friday, March 3–Sunday, March 5
Single-Day Ticket Price: $44
Single-Day Student Ticket Price: $22
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TEFAF Maastricht
Image Credit: Courtesy TEFAF The fair with the longest run of any listed here, TEFAF Maastricht will bring together more than 250 exhibitors, including 13 first-timers. Additionally, the fair will expand its TEFAF Showcase, for younger galleries, from 6 exhibitors to 10 for this edition. The Art Business Conference will hold its 2023 edition in Maastricht on March 10 to coincide with the fair.
Location: Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre
Preview Days: Thursday, March 9–Friday, March 10
General Admission Days: Saturday, March 11–Sunday, March 19
Single-Day Ticket Price: 45 euros (around $48)
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Art Basel Hong Kong
Image Credit: Courtesy Art Basel There has been much talk about the decline of Hong Kong as the center of Asia’s art market over the past two years, as the profiles of other major cities, like Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Tokyo, continue to rise. That hasn’t stopped Art Basel from this year mounting the largest iteration of ABHK since the pandemic, with 177 exhibitors lined up to participate. Few international visitors were able to travel to the fair in 2021 and 2022, due to Hong Kong’s strict Covid policies. With those restrictions having been lifted late last year, this ABHK could very much be an inflection point for the fair.
Location: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Preview Days: Tuesday, March 21–Wednesday, March 22
General Admission Days: Thursday, March 23–Saturday, March 25
Single-Day Ticket Price: HKD 280 and up (around $35)
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SP-Arte, São Paulo
Image Credit: Courtesy SP-Arte The 19th edition of Brazil’s largest art fair will feature more than 150 exhibitors, including a mix of the country’s leading galleries as well as ones from around Latin America and beyond. Additionally, this iteration will feature a Cabinet Sector, curated by Carollina Lauriano.
Location: Bienal Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park
Preview Days: Wednesday, March 29–Thursday, March 30
General Admission Days: Wednesday, March 29–Thursday, March 30 (after 2 p.m.); Friday, March 31–Sunday, April 2
Single-Day Ticket Price: BRL 70 (around $13.50)
Single-Day Student and 60+ Ticket: BRL 35 (around $6.75)
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Expo Chicago
Image Credit: Courtesy Choose Chicago For its 10th anniversary, Expo Chicago will host more than 170 galleries, including a strong showing of local dealers alongside those from across the country and around the world. Its two special sections will be organized by curators Aimé Iglesias Lukin (Exposure) and Claudia Segura (IN/SITU), while Victoria Noorthoorn, director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, will deliver the keynote address at the fair’s closed-door 2023 Curatorial Forum. Additionally, its Northern Trust Purchase Prize will benefit permanent collection acquisitions by the following three museums: the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, in Florida, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Location: Navy Pier’s Festival Hall
Preview Day: Thursday, April 13
General Admission Days: Friday, April 14–Sunday, April 16
Single-Day Ticket Price: $30
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Art Brussels
Image Credit: JJ DE NEYER For its 39th edition, Art Brussels will return to two halls within the iconic Brussels Expo, an Art Deco structure built in 1935. The fair will welcome 152 galleries spread across four sections, including one dedicated to “Rediscovery,” which will feature 12 exhibitors presenting work by artists from the 20th century. Anne Vierstraete has stepped down from her role as the fair’s managing director and now serves as a senior adviser; Nele Verhaeren has replaced her in the top role.
Location: Brussels Expo
Preview Day: Thursday, April 20
General Admission Days: Friday, April 21–Sunday, April 23
Single-Day Ticket Price: 25€ (around $27)
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Dallas Art Fair
Image Credit: DANIEL DRIENSKY The 15th edition of the Dallas Art Fair brings together nearly 100 exhibitors. Since 2016, the fair has partnered with the Dallas Museum of Art to acquire works on view at the fair for the museum’s permanent collection. Over the years, the amount allotted for these purchases has grown from $50,000 to $150,000.
Location: Fashion Industry Gallery (1807 Ross Avenue)
Preview Day: Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.–8 p.m.
General Admission Days: Friday, April 21–Sunday, April 23
Single-Day Ticket Price: $25 + tax
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Taipei Dangdai
Image Credit: Courtesy Taipei Dangdai Another one of Art Assembly’s fairs, Taipei Dangdai will host its third edition this year, which will feature 90 exhibitors including Gagosian, David Zwirner, Lehmann Maupin, Ota Fine Arts, Gana Art, and Galleria Continua. That’s an increase from its 2022 edition, which hosted around 60 exhibitors and welcomed some 20,000 visitors.
Location: Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center
Preview Day: Thursday, May 11
General Admission Days: Friday, May 12–Sunday, May 14
Single-Day Ticket Price: NT$750 (around $24.75)
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Independent New York and TEFAF New York
Image Credit: Courtesy Spring Studios Previously scheduled to run concurrently with Frieze New York, Independent and TEFAF will for the second year have their runs one week prior to that event. Now down to one New York fair instead of two as a result of the pandemic, TEFAF will bring more than 90 exhibitors together at the Upper East Side’s Park Avenue Armory, while Independent New York will convene more than 65 exhibitors and nonprofits at Tribeca’s Spring Studios. The latter fair will also debut new partnerships with Phaidon and NYU’s Steinhardt School.
Independent New York
Location: Spring Studios
Preview Day: Thursday, May 11
General Admission Days: Friday, May 12–Sunday, May 14
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.TEFAF New York
Location: Park Avenue Armory
Preview Day: Thursday, May 11
General Admission Days: Friday, May 12–Tuesday, 16,
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed in March.
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Frieze New York and NADA New York
Image Credit: Casey Kelbaugh Frieze New York will return for its third iteration at the Shed. Spread across multiple levels of the multidisciplinary arts center in Hudson Yards, the fair’s 12th New York edition will bring together around 65 exhibitors. Accompanying the fair this year is NADA New York, which is organized by the New Art Dealers Association and will take place in nearby Chelsea.
Frieze New York
Location: The Shed
Preview Days: Wednesday, May 17–Thursday, May 18
General Admission Days: Friday, May 19–Sunday, May 21
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.NADA New York
Location: 548 West 22nd Street
Preview Day: Thursday, May 18
General Admission Days: Friday, May 19–Sunday, May 21
Single-Day Ticket Price: $40 and up
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Art Basel, Switzerland
Image Credit: ©Art Basel Considered the world’s marquee fair, for which top blue-chip dealers save some of their most expensive offerings, Art Basel will once again take over Switzerland’s third-largest city, where countless deals of all kinds are sure to be forged. The fair’s exhibitor list is filled with what may be all the world’s most important galleries, and usually hovers just below 300 participants. This edition will also be the first Swiss one helmed by Noah Horowitz, who was hired as CEO, effectively replacing his former boss, Marc Spiegler.
Location: Messe Basel
Preview Days: Tuesday, June 13–Wednesday, June 14
General Admission Days: Thursday, June 15–Sunday, June 18
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Tokyo Gendai, Yokohama
Image Credit: Courtesy Tokyo Gendai Though much of the crowd that regularly attends art events takes the summer off after Art Basel ends, Art Assembly is taking a gamble by starting a new fair in early July, Tokyo Gendai. Taking place at a convention center in nearby Yokohama, the fair, headed up by Eri Takane, will gather between 80 and 100 exhibitors. The fair will be a major test for the strength of Japan’s market and how it compares to those in Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Hong Kong, the latter of which has long held eminence in Asia.
Location: Pacifico Yokohama
Preview Day: Thursday, July 6
General Admission Days: Friday, July 7–Sunday, July 9
Single-Day Ticket Price: 4,000 Yen (around $30)
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Frieze Seoul and KIAF
Image Credit: Photo JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images For its second edition, Frieze Seoul will once again align with local fair KIAF, with both opening on the same day, on different levels of the massive COEX convention center in the Korean capital. All the art world’s eyes were on Seoul last September for Frieze’s inaugural edition there, as South Korea’s art market heated up. With two new competitors in the region, ART SG in Singapore and Tokyo Gendai, the fair’s sophomore outing will test whether the fair can maintain the same energy it did in 2022.
Location: COEX
Preview Day: Wednesday, September 6
General Admission Days: Thursday, September 7–Saturday, September 9
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Armory Show and Independent 20th Century
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews The Armory Show will return for its third edition in a new, post–Labor Day slot at the Javits Center. While the exhibitor list is still forming, the 2022 edition showed significant growth in the fair’s size, up from around 160 exhibitors in 2021 to more than 240 last year. It seems likely that the event will remain that large. For its 2023 edition, the fair has tapped three of the world’s most closely watched curators—Eva Respini, Candice Hopkins, and Adrienne Edwards—to organize its special programming, which has a working rubric of historical narratives. Running concurrently with the Armory Show is the second edition of Independent 20th Century, which focuses on art from that era with the aim of revising the canon. It will feature more than 30 exhibitors.
Armory Show
Location: Javits Center
Preview Days: Thursday, September 7
General Admission Days: Friday, September 8–Sunday, September 10
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.Independent 20th Century
Location: Battery Maritime Building at Cipriani South Street
Preview Day: Thursday, September 7
General Admission Days: Friday, September 8–Sunday, September 10
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Sydney Contemporary
Image Credit: James Horan Photography Pty LTD 2022 Australia’s largest art fair celebrates its 10th anniversary with this edition. Bringing together galleries from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, the fair typically hosts more than 90 exhibitors.
Location: Carriageworks
Preview Days: Wednesday, September 6
General Admission Days: Thursday, September 7–Sunday, September 10
Single-Day Ticket Price: A$25 (around $17)
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Frieze London and Frieze Masters
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews Frieze’s hallmark contemporary fair in London will return this October, running simultaneously with Frieze Masters, which is dedicated to work made before 2000. As with past iterations, this Frieze will likely host around 160 galleries. A satellite fair to Frieze is 1-54, which will stage a London iteration the same week.
Location: Regent’s Park
Preview Days: Wednesday, October 11–Thursday, October 12
General Admission Days: Friday, October 13–Sunday, October 15
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Paris+, par Art Basel
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews After its surprise coup against Paris’s FIAC in 2022 for the dates of the Grand Palais, Art Basel launched a successful and largely praised first edition of Paris+ this past October. Now, with FIAC all but gone, the event will likely serve as Paris’s main art fair, an important status because the French capital has seen a rise in art commerce post-Brexit. Whether the momentum will be sustained in 2023 remains an open question. But during a press conference for its launch, Paris+ director Clément Delépine promised that the fair will only get better in the editions to come.
Location: Grand Palais Éphémère
Preview Day: Wednesday, October 18
General Admission Days: Thursday, October 19–Sunday, October 22
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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The Art Show, New York
Image Credit: Photo Andy Ryan Produced yearly by the Art Dealers Association of America, the Art Show stages its 35th edition this November. A tightly curated fair, it typically gathers around 75 exhibitors from the industry group’s membership, with its evening VIP preview once again benefiting Henry Street Settlement.
Location: Park Avenue Armory
Benefit Preview Day: Wednesday, November 1
General Admission Days: Thursday, November 2–Sunday, November 5
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Artissima, Turin
Image Credit: Courtesy Artissima This year marks the 30th anniversary of Artissima, one of Italy’s most important art fairs. Each edition features around 170 exhibitors; this one will be the second under the direction of Luigi Fassi.
Location: OVAL Lingotto Fiere
Preview Day: Thursday, November 2
General Admission Days: Friday, November 3–Sunday, November 5
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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Art Cologne
Image Credit: ©Koelnmesse GmbH, Thomas Klerx The world’s oldest art fair celebrates its 56th edition this year. The fair typically features around 190 exhibitors, including a mix of some of Germany’s most important galleries, and blue-chip international enterprises.
Location: Cologne Fair grounds, Koelnmesse, Hall 11
Preview Day: Thursday, November 16
General Admission Days: Friday, November 17–Sunday, November 19
Single-Day Ticket Price: 27 Euro
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Untitled Art, and NADA Miami
Image Credit: Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews To close out each year, the art world—and industries like fashion and entertainment—descend on Miami Beach in early December for a bevy of art fairs. The most important of these is Art Basel Miami Beach. (Art Basel is typically held the week following the US Thanksgiving holiday, but the 2023 calendar makes it fall a week later than usual.) This iteration will be the first since Noah Horowitz’s return to Art Basel as company CEO; he used to be Art Basel Americas director, running the Miami Beach event. The other two notable satellite fairs aligned with ABMB are Untitled Art, which sets up tents on the sand facing the Atlantic, and NADA Miami, which takes place in Miami proper.
Art Basel Miami Beach
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center
Preview Days: Tuesday, December 5–Wednesday, December 6
General Admission Days: Thursday, December 7–Saturday, December 9
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.Untitled Art
Location: Miami Beach, at 12th Street and Ocean Drive
Preview Days: Monday, December 4
General Admission Days: Tuesday, December 5–Saturday, December 9
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
Website.NADA Miami
Location: Ice Palace Studios
Preview and General Admission Days: To be confirmed.
Single-Day Ticket Price: To be confirmed.
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