The Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new chief curator sees Reefline as a model for a type of environmentally restorative public art that can be replicated globally

Plus: art award winners, women game-changers and more

The heated cultural climate is felt at the fair, from a caustic Maurizio Cattelan sculpture to Cristin Tierney’s stand marking—and interrogating the meaning of—the upcoming semiquincentennial of US independence

The canvas sold for $18m at Art Basel Miami Beach, in the same building where Ali won his first heavyweight championship in 1964

Plus: women’s wrestling crushes it

The couple, who serve on the chairman’s council of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, have acquired a collection that spans across Miami, Bogota and Madrid

Miccosukee and Seminole people have lead organised opposition to the detention centre, merging cultural practices with strategies of resistance

The most valuable sale reported was an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter for $5.5m, from David Zwirner

The show features some of FF Projects’ artists, and brings community-minded art to the Allapattah neighborhood market

Plus: data-driven sculptures delight hotel guests

The artist regards Florida’s unique ecosystem as “emblematic of our larger environmental concerns”

The Miami-based philanthropist describes her first acquisition and the best local art venues to visit

The winner of the city’s annual acquisition prize, determined by public vote, is a work by Ximena Garrido-Lecca

The Superhuman Museum will combine ‘elements of theme parks, of art museums and of experiential museums worldwide’

The collector, designer and patron shares her recent acquisitions and the hypnotic work she still dreams of

With emerging artists given more prominence, a new sector devoted to digital art and more Miami dealers, the fair has plenty to offer new and returning collectors

The artist’s large-scale Faena Art commission is a site for dialogue in increasingly polarised times

The founder of the Prizm fair, which is devoted to artists from the African diaspora, shares her admiration for a unique residency in the Everglades

The artist Prune Nourry has created a monument for the new waterfront Ocean Terrace Park in Miami Beach’s North Beach neighbourhood

The monumental Faena Art commission will anchor a three-part intervention by Devlin, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach

The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme

The artist invites visitors to dive into a playful space on the historic Española Way and become part of her work

"We were long a society of fun and sun, but we’re no longer that—we don’t want that," he said.

Controversial action was previously ruled as an act of “government speech”

Judge previously ruled that taking the artwork down did not violate free speech rights

A dozen hotels around the city will display works, predominantly from Florida artists, during the fair

Here are the shows to visit beyond the Art Basel fair this week

The funds are part of a $159m bond local voters approved in the 8 November US midterm election to benefit local cultural organisations

The artwork, commissioned a citywide arts event in Miami Beach, commemorated Haitian-American Raymond Herisse, who was killed by police in 2011

Exhibition of features contemporary works by more than 30 artists from Africa and the African diaspora from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection