Miami Culture Guide
Get to know Miami through the places where its culture takes shape: galleries, music venues, waterfront festivals and neighborhood gathering spaces. This guide brings together our local coverage and upcoming events so you can move from reading about the city to planning time in it.
Find upcoming South Florida events ↗Start with the neighborhood
Wynwood’s murals and creative spaces offer one way into the city’s art scene. Downtown and the Biscayne Bay waterfront bring museums, performances and major festivals into the picture. Brickell adds another perspective through architecture, public spaces and places to gather. Use the stories below to explore a neighborhood before building your day around it.
Build a day around culture
Choose an exhibition, performance or event as your starting point, then look at what else is nearby. An art opening and a festival can call for very different plans. Our calendar lists dates, locations and official organizer links so you can check the details that matter before heading out.
Read the archive, plan with current listings
Our archive follows Miami’s cultural life over time. Older stories provide background on the people, institutions and events that shaped it; they are not current opening-hours or ticket guides. For an upcoming visit, pair that context with the event calendar and the organizer’s latest information.
Explore Miami through our stories.
New coverage and stories from the archive. Publication dates are shown on each story.
Ultra Miami 2027: Plan the Trip Around Bayfront Park
Ultra returns March 26–28. Before building a weekend around the music, work out where you will stay and how you will get home.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2026: How to Build a Day Around the Art
Art Basel’s public days run December 4–6. A focused itinerary leaves more room for discovery than a calendar packed with competing invitations.
GTA VI Is Bringing Vice City Back
Ahead of GTA VI’s November 19 release, the most interesting local question is how Rockstar’s fictional Florida will capture the feeling of Miami.
Ultra releases its 2026 Miami recap
Ultra has released a recap of its 2026 Miami festival, returning attention to the performances and audience at Bayfront Park. The video includes appearances by artists such as Marshmello, Miss Monique and Swedish House Mafia, gathering the weekend into a shorter visual account.
Michelle Bernstein receives SOBEWFF’s anniversary tribute
Michelle Bernstein and Sacha Lichine were honored at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s February 21 tribute dinner. Bobby Flay served as master of ceremonies at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel during the festival’s twenty-fifth-anniversary year.
Art Deco Weekend returns to Ocean Drive
Art Deco Weekend has completed its forty-ninth edition, held January 9–11 along Ocean Drive and Lummus Park. Produced by the Miami Design Preservation League, the festival combined architectural tours, talks, films, music and other public activities around the Beach’s built heritage.
Design Miami marks twenty years with Make. Believe.
Design Miami has completed its twentieth-anniversary edition under the theme Make. Believe. Curatorial director Glenn Adamson used the anniversary to frame a conversation about the continuing evolution of collectible design.
Art Basel’s 2025 edition broadens the conversation
Art Basel Miami Beach has completed its December 5–7 public edition, following two preview days at the convention center. Alongside the core gallery sectors, the program included initiatives such as Zero 10 and a renewed Conversations series.
Miami Book Fair opens with an Afrobeat block party
Miami Book Fair’s forty-second edition began with a November 16 block party at Wolfson Campus. The opening program brought Jump ’N Funk founder Rich Medina together with Kenny Dope and visuals by Mark Hines, connecting the literary week with an evening of music.
The Club World Cup opens with Inter Miami at Hard Rock Stadium
The expanded FIFA Club World Cup has begun with Inter Miami facing Al Ahly at Hard Rock Stadium on June 14. The opening fixture placed South Florida at the start of a tournament bringing clubs from different regions into a single competition.
Bridget Finn’s first Art Basel Miami Beach edition closes
Art Basel Miami Beach has completed its first edition under director Bridget Finn. The leadership change gives this year’s fair an additional point of interest alongside the gallery presentations and the wider activity of Miami’s art week.
Amy Tan brings The Backyard Bird Chronicles to Miami Book Fair
Amy Tan appeared in Miami Book Fair’s evening program with The Backyard Bird Chronicles, bringing a different subject to readers familiar with her fiction. The book directs attention toward observation close to home, giving the fair a point of contact between literary practice and the natural world.
José Parlá’s Homecoming opens at PAMM
José Parlá: Homecoming opened at Pérez Art Museum Miami on November 14, bringing the Miami-born artist’s work into a setting closely connected to his origins. The opening program paired an artist conversation with music, including Clave y Cuba and a DJ set by Arthur Baker.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 once again underscored its standing as one of the premier global events in the art world, drawing collectors, curators, and enthusiasts from around the globe. The fair, which took place over several…
Inter Miami wins its first Supporters’ Shield
Inter Miami has won its first Supporters’ Shield, clinching the honor with a 3–2 victory over the Columbus Crew on October 2. Lionel Messi scored twice and Luis Suárez added another goal, while Drake Callender saved a late penalty.
Argentina wins the Copa América final in Miami Gardens
Argentina defeated Colombia 1–0 in the Copa América final at Hard Rock Stadium on July 14. The result brought the tournament’s deciding match to Miami Gardens and gave South Florida another major international football occasion.
Severe weather interrupts Ultra’s opening night
Ultra Music Festival shut down its Friday-night program on March 22 because of severe weather. The interruption came only hours after gates opened, changing the first evening’s plans for fans at Bayfront Park.
Three chefs share the kitchen at Preston’s during SOBEWFF
Alex Guarnaschelli, Scott Conant and Christopher Aguirre hosted a South Beach Wine & Food Festival dinner at Preston’s on February 23. The Loews Miami Beach event brought visiting culinary personalities together with the hotel’s executive chef in one collaborative setting.