FT SeriesMiami Art Week 2018As Art Basel Miami Beach opens its doors, we look at the fairs, people and trends shaping the art market in the AmericasMiami’s ICA showcases Judy Chicago’s flamboyant feminist visionsAn intriguing show traces a journey from youthful minimalism to vivid celebrations of women’s potentialRaw power meets fierce intelligence in Purvis Young’s Miami retrospectiveThe homeless painter’s penetrating works depict slaves, prisoners and protestersVoluptuous benches, soft-toy chairs and Jean Cocteau plates at Design MiamiThis year’s event finds an increasing acceptance among collectors of new work that falls between furniture and artSarah Morris’s work for Art Basel Miami Beach is sleek, graphic and uncompromisingFascinated by power and capital, the New York-based artist produces work that resists easy interpretationBlue-chip artists retain evergreen appeal at Art Basel Miami BeachBig names are still a safe bet for galleries at fairs, but embracing new markets might prove a canny moveManuel Solano’s inner demons at the ICA MiamiThe Mexican artist presents their most personal exhibition to dateMore from this SeriesWhy Cuba’s artists are protestingAs Cuban art goes on show in Miami, artists back home are being jailed after protesting a draconian new lawThe Haas Brothers at the Bass Museum, Miami — furry beasts, pink tinsel and velveteen cactiKnown for creating seven-foot bronze penises, the artist-designer duo’s recent work is less about sex and more about the natural worldWill Jeff Koons fare better in Miami?Plus: Medieval forgeries for show; Pace steps up in New York; momentum builds at fee-free auction businessTomás Saraceno on capitalism, meditation and spidersThe Argentine artist is undertaking an ambitious commission for Miami BeachArt collector J Tomilson Hill: ‘It’s about what I like’The financier on creating a new public foundation that reflects a very personal passionAbraham Cruzvillegas on making art out of trash‘Autorreconstrucción’, the artist’s installation in Miami, is Art Basel’s first free public exhibitionOutliers and American Vanguard Art at LACMA — cultural inclusivityAn exhibition of ‘outsider art’ raises questions about how museums shape the canonPrison art: ‘I never thought so many people would read my words’A Florida exhibition of letters, poetry and drawings by inmates aims to shed light on the realities of mass incarcerationArt fair eco-system in fluxArt Basel is at the centre of changes to the fair landscape, with concerns over smaller galleries and regional eventsDealer Paula Cooper on 50 years in the New York art worldShe now co-represents the estate of renowned German photographers Bernd and Hilla BecherA fight to remember: the visual arts in PeruAll over the country, artists are making powerful work about the impact of decades of violence and isolationFired with enthusiasm: how contemporary art embraced ceramicsPreviously seen as a lowly ‘craft’, the medium has been embraced by commercial galleries and experimental artists alikeLife lines: textile works by the late Feliciano CenturiónThe Paraguay-born artist’s work will be shown in depth at a major fair for the first timeMiami Art Week’s satellite fairs
