These are the best things to do in Miami this weekend

Now in its 35th year, the Asian Culture Festival takes over the Tropical Park Event Complex for a two-day celebration of Asian heritage spread across seven distinct pillars. The food alone is worth the trip: Eat Street brings together 50-plus vendors covering Thai, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and more. Inside the 50,000-square-foot air-conditioned venue, the Heart of Asia stage hosts traditional dance and music performances. Plus, there's plenty of pop culture to fan out about, from anime to K-pop and manga to toys. There's an exhibit that explores the Evolution of Gaming, as well as an exploration of Asian beauty and wellness that includes color analysis sessions and glass skin masterclasses. A JDM motorsports showcase rounds out the floor with tuners, show cars, and drifters. 

Miami Swim Week ends Sunday night with a sauna rave. Alcohol-free dance and wellness pop–up party Daybreaker takes over The Standard Spa on Sunday night for HEATWAVE, a three-hour sauna rave that moves guests between steam rooms, cold plunges, hydrotherapy circuits, and a poolside dance floor. Swimwear brand Natasha Tonic is presenting a sauna capsule collection on-site, designed specifically for high-heat environments using natural fabrics rather than the usual synthetics. Come in a swimsuit, leave your drink order at home — the event is alcohol-free and open to all ages from 8:30 to 11:30pm. Tickets start at $95. 

Jaeger-LeCoultre has taken the Miami Design District for a free pop-up celebrating nine decades of the Reverso, one of watchmaking's most recognized designs. The exhibition moves through four chapters covering the watch's history, design evolution, technical innovation, and craftsmanship, with archival timepieces, high jewellery creations, and a live perlage demonstration, a decorative watchmaking technique rarely seen outside the atelier.

The Miami edition debuts five new Reverso 'Or Deco' pieces set with 46 colored gemstones, alongside the Reverso Hybris Artistica Pegasus, hand-engraved over 180 hours, and a platinum Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual limited to 20 pieces worldwide. A 3D video sculpture by Dr. Yiyun Kang, a webcomic by Olivecoat, and a café experience by 2024 World's Best Pastry Chef Nina Métayer round out the experience. Open through May 31 at the outdoor space on NE 40th and 1st Avenue (where the food trucks are parked). Free with RSVP, walk-ins welcome, guided tours approximately 30 minutes.

Leave it to Miami to turn fashion shows into a four-day lifestyle event. Paraiso Miami Swim Week, now in its 22nd edition, is the swimwear industry's most influential annual gathering, and South Beach is its natural home. The runway shows themselves are largely invite-only, but the energy spills out across the whole stretch of Miami Beach through parties, wellness activations, pop-ups, and the kind of street-level fashion watching that only happens during Swim Week. Past participants read like a who's who of the category: Agua Bendita, Oséree, Sinesia Karol, plus local labels like Sigal and Luli Fama.

For civilians, the most accessible way in is PARAISO RISE, a ticketed VIP runway experience set over the Surfcomber pool on Friday and Saturday nights, with VIP seating, cocktails, and a waterfront view of the looks coming down the runway. Tickets are $375. A main tent pass is also available for broader access to the week's programming.

The week will also see a host of satellite events and pop-ups, so keep an eye out for those. 

AI shopping app Minty is taking over Wynwood Marketplace for two evenings with a free pop-up featuring live DJs and exclusive cashback deals from brands including Hello Molly, Rebag, No Bull, BarkBox, and Dr. Squatch. Download the app before you go, as it unlocks a complimentary drink at the door and in-app offers only available at the event.

There are few better places than sun-soaked South Beach to show off what’s hot in bikinis, coverups and beyond. Running parallel to Paraiso is the trademarked Miami Swim Week, headquartered at the Mondrian South Beach. It runs May 27–31 and features more than 150 national and international designers, 50-plus events across 20-plus venues, and runway presentations set overlooking the Mondrian's iconic pool deck on Biscayne Bay. Tickets range from $90 for general admission to $362 for front row VIP, with day and weekend passes also available.

Miami has an estimated 150 Argentine-owned restaurants and food businesses, and for three nights at the end of May, all of them come alive at once. La Noche Argentina runs May 29 through 31, turning the city's Argentine dining scene into a citywide crawl, with participating restaurants, bars and cultural spaces offering special menus, discounts, live shows and activations across the city. Be sure to grab yourself the offical coupon book for the event; the more restaurants you visit, the more stamps you can collect towards a reward.

Miami Vintage Market brings its monthly flea to El Jardin Inn's courtyard in Little Havana on Friday, May 29, with local vendors selling vintage clothing, accessories, and one-off finds in one of the neighborhood's most charming new settings. El Jardin is a boutique hotel on SW 7th Street that's been quietly building a reputation as a neighborhood cultural hub, with murals, an artist residency, and a matcha bar tucked into a lush tropical courtyard. The market runs afternoon into evening — a good excuse to spend time in Little Havana before dinner on Calle Ocho.

Little Havana's street party and gallery walk, Viernes Culturales, happens every last Friday of the month along Calle Ocho from 8th to 27th Avenue. Running strong since 2000, it celebrates Latin culture with an old-school pachanga, featuring art exhibits from over 30 local artists, an artisan market at Domino Plaza, live music, and dancing in one of Miami's most famous cultural hubs. Dr. Paul George's free Little Havana Walking Tour begins at 7pm from the Historic Tower Theater for anyone who wants the deeper history alongside the party.

Going strong for over two decades, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami hosts another edition of its Jazz at MOCA live music series on the plaza. Every last Friday of the month, the free outdoor concert merges art, music and community while platforming Miami's thriving live jazz scene. This month, Lisanne Lyons headlines. Having performed with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau and Arturo Sandoval, among others, she is currently the director and founder of the jazz vocal program at Florida International University. Seating for the show is first-come, first-served and begins at 7pm. Free registration also includes access to the MOCA galleries until 10pm.

Magic City Flea has a new home. The popular downtown market, which built its following outside Julia & Henry's on Flagler Street, has moved to Miami Ironside in the Upper Eastside — a design-focused enclave with landscaped courtyards amid industrial surroundings. Local vendors bring vintage clothing, handmade goods, art, and accessories. Free to attend, Saturdays from noon to 6pm.

If your Netflix algorithm includes Wild Wild Country and Wayward, the Museum of Sex Miami's new exhibition was made for you. Utopia: Three Centuries of Sexuality in American Cults and Communes, curated by filmmaker and publisher Jodi Wille, traces how over 20 American intentional communities — from the Shakers to the Rajneesh movement to the Source Family — used sexuality, spirituality, and art to build alternative visions of society across 300 years. More than 300 artworks, photographs, films, garments, and rare artifacts make up the two-story show, nationally recognized by Artforum and the Brooklyn Rail. On view through November.

The Balloon Museum's globe-trotting "Pop Air" exhibition has landed at Mana Wynwood, turning one of the neighborhood's most cavernous spaces into an entire immersive environment dedicated to inflatable art. The show has already toured Rome, Paris, New York, and LA, and the Wynwood footprint gives these installations more room than they've had anywhere. You're meant to wander, touch, and interact—through a geometric inflatable labyrinth, a suspended sphere installation that responds to movement, a room where balloons swirl in controlled tornadoes, and a massive LED-lit butterfly you can power yourself by pedaling. The standout is Hyperstudio's luminous projection-filled ecosystem of swings and shooting stars. Budget more time than you think you'll need; you'll want to stop and appreciate the scale of everything after filling your camera roll with selfies. 

Two simultaneous exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum on the University of Miami campus make up the most comprehensive presentation of Afro-Cuban art ever mounted. El Pasado Mio/My Own Past, organized by Harvard's Afro-Latin American Research Institute and expanded for its Miami run, brings together more than 81 works by 44 Cuban artists of African descent spanning two centuries, including nine paintings by Wifredo Lam and works by eleven female artists being exhibited together for the first time. The show restores artists who were deliberately erased from the Cuban art historical record, placing obscured figures like Pastor Argudin, Maria Ariza, and Tony Ximenez alongside better-known names like Agustin Cardenas and Maria Magdalena Campos Pons.

The companion exhibition, Afrocubanismo: Highlights from the Ramón and Nercys Cernuda Collection, traces the cultural movement that emerged in the 1930s, when a generation of Cuban artists began centering the country's African roots at a moment when most of Cuban society had actively suppressed them. The tension in that moment is part of what makes the show complex: some of these artists are seen as co-opting a history that wasn't theirs; others as genuinely trying to re-imagine Cuba through its African roots and Afro-religious forms. On view through September 12. General admission is free.

If you grew up in a Cuban household in Miami, Álvarez Guedes was probably playing in the background. The comedian who became the Godfather of Latin Comedy through 30-plus albums of distinctly Cuban storytelling is getting the immersive treatment this spring. Debuting April 30 inside a custom-built venue at Tropical Park, Muerto de Risa is a three-hour cabaret-style production that moves guests through themed spaces — El Bar, El Cabaret, El Patio — as stand-up, live music and theatrical storytelling unfold around them. Less traditional theater, more like stepping into a night out at a classic Havana club. Learn more here. 

Frost Science opens its summer exhibition just in time for a city that's about to become the center of the sports world. Extreme Sports: Beyond Human Limits is an interactive deep dive into the science behind wingsuit flying, freediving, parkour, ice climbing, and other disciplines that push the body to its edges — with hands-on stations where visitors can test their own reaction time, grip strength, balance, and decision-making. The exhibition also includes a Science of Soccer experience, built around the FIFA World Cup, with an interactive sports wall and gameplay experiences that translate the physics of the sport into something you can actually feel. On view through September 7.

Bayskate is back, taking over the Historic Pan Am Hangar at Regatta Harbour in Coconut Grove for six weeks of roller skating, live DJs, cocktails, and outdoor lounges. You'll be gliding and grapevining around a 20,000-square-foot rink, with a gargantuan disco ball lighting up a place where some of America's first international flights began. This is, of course, a Miami-fied skating experience, with a cocktail program by Bayshore Club, with a rotating nighly soundtrack taht includes Latin tropibass, disco and, of course, Miami bass. The rink is open Thursdays through Sundays through June 14th, with daytime family sessions on weekends at lower admission prices. Groups can book rinkside table reservations, and season passes are available for unlimited access through the run. Skate rentals are available onsite, though you can bring your own Moxis or Impalas for extra style.

PAMM's biggest exhibition of the spring and summer brings together more than 100 works exploring what sports mean beyond the scoreboard: how competition, athleticism and the culture around games shape identity, memory and shared experience. On view through August 23, the show features Ernie Barnes's neighborhood basketball scenes, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's real-time portrait of Zinedine Zidane, and Tara Mateik's take on the 1973 Battle of the Sexes, alongside work from Virgil Abloh, Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Yinka Shonibare and Hank Willis Thomas, among others. Historic sports memorabilia like vintage Nike sneakers, and original McLaren Racing steering wheels sit alongside contemporary art throughout. Timed to Miami's run of major sporting events this spring, from the Miami Open to Formula 1 to the FIFA World Cup, it's a fitting moment for a museum to ask what the arena actually means. Included with museum admission at PAMM.

In the winter of 1984, Jack Pierson left New York for Miami Beach and spent six months in cheap apartments, thrift stores and the city's queer nightlife scene, capturing a barrier island on the brink of transformation. The Bass is currently showing the first exhibition devoted to that chapter, tracing Miami's impact on Pierson's photography, sculpture, installation and works on paper through a body of work steeped in desire, wanderlust, loneliness and the particular kind of escapism South Beach offered before Art Basel made it expensive. The anchor is ARRAY (MIAMI), a new ten-by-fourteen-foot commission combining Pierson's own photographs with posters, poems and postcards in a dense, layered collage. 

After sell-out runs in Paris, Rome, and Milan, From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana arrives in Miami, opening February 6 at ICA Miami and running through June 14, 2026. The exhibition offers a rare look inside the creative universe of designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, tracing how their ideas move from inspiration to execution—all by hand. Curated by Florence Müller and produced by IMG, the show brings together more than 300 Alta Moda pieces, set within immersive installations and shown alongside works by contemporary artists, celebrating the artisanry, excess, and exuberance of Italian aesthetics. 

The ICA Miami is devoting its third floor to the first U.S. museum survey of Harmony Korine, the filmmaker behind Spring Breakers and Kids who has spent three decades confounding and captivating audiences in equal measure. Perfect Nonsense brings together over 50 works spanning film, painting, photography, collage and drawing, tracing a career that has always resisted easy categorization, from his early Southern gothic explorations to recent films shot through gaming engines and iPhone footage. Korine has lived in Miami since 2015, and the city is woven into his recent work in ways the exhibition makes tangible. Beyond the films most people know, the paintings are the revelation here — particularly the "Twitchy" series, which combines iPhone-captured images with painterly techniques into something genuinely strange and new. The exhibition will be on view through October 4.

Gilded and crimson-draped Faena Theater is the ideal venue to experience OBSESSION, a new original production presented by Faena Live in collaboration with the Quixotic performance art collective. Nestled in Mid-Beach, the cabaret-style show blends live vocals, choreography and cinematic storytelling to take guests on a seductive 1.5-hour journey complete with lasers, projected visuals and plenty of theatrical haze. Helmed by emcee Sophia Bollman—whose credits include a stint on NBC's The Voice as part of Team Miley Cyrus and backup singing in Beyoncé's iconic Coachella performances—Faena Theater's 2026 headlining production also features the energetic stylings of Principal Violin and Musical Lead Kostia Lucky. Tickets start at $100 per person and include show admission only (food and beverages sold separately). Guests must be 18 or older, with a valid ID required upon arrival.

Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency presents Sepia Vernacular, an exhibition that places Overtown’s past back into public view. Drawn from the City of Miami Planning Department archives, the show features more than 80 rare photographs from the 1920s–1950s, including selections from Max Waldman’s 1947 Color Town series, documenting daily life across the streets, businesses, families, and social spaces that seldom make it into Miami’s official histories. The exhibition will be taking place at the newly restored Lawson E. Thomas Building, which once served as the office of Miami-Dade County’s first Black judge and a central figure in the city’s civil rights movement. A newly commissioned mural by Anthony Mojo Reed II adds contemporary context which, together with the archival photo exhibition, frames Overtown as essential to understanding Miami, not peripheral to it.

Miami's biggest night for improv comedy happens every Saturday at Villain Theater in the heart of Little Haiti. Enjoy original, spontaneous live performances from some of the fiercest improvisers across South Florida. Shout out a suggestion and become a part of the action as the theater's talented cast of actors spins hysterical yarns over the course of two Second City-style improv shows. Mingle and sip beers in the lobby lounge in between sets: A ticket grants you access to both the 8:30 and 10pm showtimes.

Fairchild doesn't normally allow dogs on its grounds, which makes Dog Dates all the more worth knowing about. On Sunday mornings, leashed dogs and their humans get two hours to roam all 83 acres—past the waterfalls, through the rainforest, around the lakes, in view of iguanas—before stopping at the Glasshouse Café for snacks and drinks for both species. Sessions have occassionally been themed, with past editions including doga, pet portraits and glow nights, however plainclothed pets and their parents are welcome just the same.

The Coconut Grove Farmers Market is probably Miami’s most well-known. Every Saturday, Homestead's Glaser Organic Farms transforms an unoccupied corner of Coconut Grove into a full-fledged produce market with dozens of fruit and vegetable stands, a raw bar featuring prepared foods and salads and coolers filled with cold-pressed juices and nut mylks. There’s even velvety vegan ice cream for sale and several rows of picnic tables where you can sit and enjoy your bounty. Along its periphery, you’ll find other local vendors selling honey, homemade soaps, handmade jewelry and other artisanal items. And the setup and breakdown are so fascinating to watch! Much like the circus leaving town, everyone quickly dismantles their tents and packs up just after sunset, leaving no trace of the bustling day on the empty gravel lot.

This long-running, weekly farmers’ market is well stocked and well attended, featuring a bounty of produce from nearby farms in the Redlands and Homestead, live music and a free yoga class at 8:30am. Vendors set up in the beautiful tree-lined parking lot of Pinecrest Gardens, which makes a weekly shopping trip pretty idyllic. Don’t miss the selection of local honey, tropical blooms and other specialty items, including cheese from independent dairy farmers and homemade guacamole. While the market takes place year-round, some growers opt to only participate during the fall and winter seasons, so consider this the best time to go. 11000 South Red Rd, Pinecrest