Art Basel Miami
Beach

If you only have one day for the fairs, give it to Art Basel Miami Beach: it is the reason the week exists, and the one place where Modern pictures of museum quality hang a few aisles from artists showing for the first time. Art Basel began in Basel in 1970, founded by the gallerists Trudl Bruckner, Balz Hilt and Ernst Beyeler, and Miami Beach, launched in 2002, was its first fair outside Switzerland. The 24th edition brings 272 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and territories to the Miami Beach Convention Center.

This year the floor has been redrawn, on purpose. The fair takes about 12% less space, the main Galleries sector has about 10% fewer exhibitors, there are four hospitality plazas instead of five, and the blue-chip galleries that used to sit together are spread across the hall; the director, Bridget Finn, calls the smaller footprint "a deliberate choice". Around the 204 booths in Galleries, Kabinett sets 26 smaller presentations inside them, Nova shows new work by up to three artists per stand, Positions gives solo projects to emerging artists, Survey brings back historical work, and Zero 10 has 19 digital projects curated by Karen Archey with Eli Scheinman.

Plan a route. More than 30 galleries are here for the first time, most of them in Nova, Positions and Survey, and those sectors are the quickest way into work you have not seen: Emmanuel Van der Auwera's 30-screen installation built from footage of January 6 at Levey Kwok, Yayoi Kusama's works on paper from the early 1950s at Omer Tiroche, or Pat Lasch, at 82, making her art-fair debut at Storage. Give it most of a day; a First Access ticket gets you in at 11 am, an hour before the day-ticket slots.

Outside, the free art is back: a new outdoor work by James Turrell and Public Art Fund's artist-made ping-pong tables in Collins Park. ArtNexus runs guided tours on the public days for groups of up to 12, from a desk in the North West Lobby on Level 2, and children 12 and under go free with an adult.