Art Week Begins as the Craig Robins Collection Unveils Walking on Air

Miami Design District opened Miami Art Week in consummate style as the Craig Robins Collection revealed its newest chapter, Walking on Air. The evening drew a constellation of art-world protagonists, international aesthetes and cultural insiders, all gathering with Craig Robins at the Buick Building at the centre of the district.

The Craig Robins Collection, now numbering more than 1,700 works of modern and contemporary art, occupies Dacra’s headquarters in the district. Its 2025–2026 installation, Walking on Air, pivots around the work of Richard Tuttle, the collection’s most extensively represented artist. The presentation spans Tuttle’s trajectory from the mid-1960s to today, including early Drift constructions from 1965, tin Letters from 1966 and the delicately dyed cloth works of 1967. These pieces first signalled the artist’s instinct for suspension, material nuance and the quiet poetics that continue to guide his practice. Placed in conversation with David Hammons’ B. Ball (1998), John Baldessari’s Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (1973) and Marcel Duchamp’s 1964 edition of 3 Standard Stoppages, the exhibition reveals a shared fascination with chance, balance and the choreography between gravity and levity.

Borrowing its title from Tuttle’s 2009 series, Walking on Air extends its thematic thread through works by Jana Euler, Sasha Gordon, Xinyi Cheng and Mario Ayala, while also introducing recent acquisitions by Lauren Halsey, Sam McKinnis, Jill Mulleady and others.

As a prelude to Miami’s peak cultural season, the opening offered guests an intimate first encounter with artworks installed across two floors of the historic Buick Building. After the preview, attendees joined Robins for a dinner conceived by WE ARE ONA and supported by BVLGARI, staged within the neighbourhood’s atmospheric setting.

The guest list reflected the evening’s international pull. Among those in attendance were Craig Robins, Adriana Cisneros, Amber Ridinger, Andre Branch, Andres Fanjul, Bippy Siegal, Carlos De La Cruz, Chris and Brooke Stamp, Dasha Zhukova, Daniella Levine Cava, David Adjaye, Ermenegildo Zegna, Herve Perrot, Jackie Soffer, Jeffrey Deitch, Karolína Kurková, Mario Ayala, Michael Burke, Princess Firyal Jordan, Richard and Lisa Bressler and Robbie Williams.