Artsy: "The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025"

Art Basel Miami Beach returned for its 23rd edition on December 3rd, when its VIP day got underway at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Featuring some 283 galleries from 43 countries, this year’s fair remains the main event of the U.S. art world’s most chaotic week of the year.

Beyond the convention center walls, Miami’s art scene is in full throttle. Nearly 20 satellite fairs are taking place across the city this week, ranging from the emerging art–focused NADA to the expansive Untitled Art. Local spaces are also fueling the excitement. Tastemaking gallery Spinello Projects packed in crowds for a celebration of its 20-year anniversary, and the ICA Miami opened a slate of new exhibitions, including solo shows for Joyce Pensato and Richard Hunt.

As the largest art fair in the Western Hemisphere, sales at Art Basel Miami Beach are always closely watched, and the fair is widely viewed as something of a bellwether week for the art market. Events leading up to this year’s fair have offered a tentatively positive picture following last month’s New York auctions, where more than $2 billion of art was sold.

The fair’s director, Bridget Finn, shared an upbeat outlook for the fair and the Miami art scene. “It’s so alive [in Miami], and it’s full of energy,” Finn said, pointing out the fair’s ability to connect the art world with adjacent cultural industries. “What’s kind of unique about the Miami Beach show is that the contemporary and modern art conversation leads the way, but it also provides such rich entry points for music, fashion, film, all of these other creatives,” Finn said. “It’s such a unique moment in terms of the American cultural calendar.” And while 14 galleries withdrew from the fair in its lead-up, Finn also noted that 17 galleries are returning to the Miami Beach Convention Center following a hiatus.

Here, we present the 10 best booths from Art Basel Miami Beach 2025.

Eric Firestone Gallery, Booth D1

With works by Elise Asher, Lauren dela Roche, Sari Dienes, Martha Edelheit, Mimi Gross, Colleen Herman, Huê Thi Hoffmaster, Marcia Marcus, Christabel MacGreevy, Sana Musasama, Joe Overstreet, Pat Passlof, Jeanne Reynal, Miriam Schapiro, Paul Waters, Nina Yankowitz

Of the many monumental works at Eric Firestone Gallery’s booth, the most arresting may be Joe Overstreet’s vast painting Indian Sun (1969). This kaleidoscopic geometric spiral—long thought lost and known only from a 1970 Time magazine issue featuring the work—was recently rediscovered in his studio. It stands at the heart of the booth, strategically placed at the end of one of the convention center’s long corridors of galleries.

The New York gallery is presenting several large-scale works, including Lauren dela Roche’s Subterranean Babbling Brook (2025), featuring several lounging nude women in a dreamlike cityscape.

The gallery is also showing new ceramics from 68-year-old ceramist Sana Musasama. These vertically stacked sculptures evoke totems or temples—multicolored forms adorned with intricate patterns and mask-like faces. The works in the booth range from $5,000 to $550,000 for the Overstreet painting.