Miami arts in October 2026: Miami City Ballet Oct. 16-18, Teatro Real Oct. 17, PAMM's Picasso-Klee-Matisse show from Oct. 29 and God of Carnage from Nov. 5.

Last checked Oct. 12, 2026. Refreshed every week and retitled each month. Every listing comes from the venue’s or organizer’s own calendar: the Adrienne Arsht Center, Pérez Art Museum Miami, ICA Miami and Miami City Ballet. Prices include fees where the venue says so.

Miami City Ballet opens its season at the Arsht Center Oct. 16-18, and PAMM opens a show of Picasso, Klee and Matisse from the Museum Berggruen on Oct. 29. Here is what Miami’s arts venues have posted from now to late November.

Exhibitions now showing

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Museum Park, downtown Miami:

  • Picasso-Klee-Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen, opens Thursday, Oct. 29. (PAMM)
  • Zoë Buckman: Show Me Your Bruises, Then, opens Thursday, Nov. 5. (PAMM)
  • Techno Firma, opens Saturday, Nov. 21. (PAMM)
  • Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Gut, closes Sunday, Nov. 1. (PAMM)
  • Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols, through June 6, 2027. (PAMM)
  • John Baldessari: The End of the Line, through May 9, 2027. (PAMM)

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), Design District. ICA offers free tickets through its site.

  • Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense, last days, closes Sunday, Oct. 18. (ICA Miami)
  • Igshaan Adams: Lulu, Zanele, Zandile, Savannah, in the stairwell, closes Sunday, Nov. 1. (ICA Miami)
  • Manuel Chavajay: Mother Earth Dances and Manoucher Yektai: The Stranger and the Tree, both close Sunday, Nov. 22. (ICA Miami)

Theater and dance

  • Miami City Ballet: American Rhythms, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, Oct. 17, and 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, Ziff Ballet Opera House, Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd. $37.44 to $312.39 including fees; the Arsht lists the run as sold through subscription packages. Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, the company premiere of Jerome Robbins’ N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz and a world premiere by former principal dancer Patricia Delgado. (Arsht Center)
  • Journey to Día de Muertos, 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, Knight Concert Hall. Pay what you can, from $0. Calpulli Mexican Dance Company tells a love story across the line between the living and the dead in song and dance. Ofrendas, sugar skull decorating and mariachi music on site from 12:30 p.m. (Arsht Center)
  • God of Carnage, Nov. 5-22, Carnival Studio Theater. $66.69 to $72.54 including fees. Zoetic Stage’s production with the Arsht Center: evening shows at 7:30 p.m. and matinees at 2:30 p.m. on the dates the Arsht lists. (Arsht Center)

Concerts and classical

  • Teatro Real: Fire, Guitar, Legend, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, Knight Concert Hall. $29.25 to $133.38 including fees. The Orchestra of Teatro Real, the Royal Theater of Spain, makes its Miami debut under Gustavo Gimeno, with guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares in Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. (Arsht Center)
  • Live on the Plaza: Yissy García Trio, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, Thomson Plaza for the Arts. $29.25 including fees. The Cuban drummer’s trio mixes jazz, funk and Afro-Cuban rhythms. (Arsht Center)
  • Live on the Plaza: Lemon City Trio, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Thomson Plaza for the Arts. (Arsht Center)
  • Ghostbusters in Concert, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Knight Concert Hall. (Arsht Center)
  • Jazz Roots: Jobim and the Music of Brazil, 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, Arsht Center. (Arsht Center)
  • Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, Knight Concert Hall. (Arsht Center)

Books and literary events

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Frequently asked questions

What arts events are on in Miami this month?

Miami City Ballet’s American Rhythms is at the Arsht Center Oct. 16-18, Spain’s Teatro Real orchestra plays the Knight Concert Hall Oct. 17, and PAMM opens Picasso-Klee-Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen on Oct. 29.

What exhibitions are at PAMM right now?

Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols runs through June 6, 2027, and John Baldessari: The End of the Line through May 9, 2027. Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Gut closes Nov. 1.

Are there free arts events in Miami?

Journey to Día de Muertos at the Arsht Center on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 3 p.m. is pay what you can, starting at $0. ICA Miami in the Design District offers free tickets.

When is God of Carnage at the Arsht Center?

Zoetic Stage’s production runs Nov. 5-22 in the Carnival Studio Theater. Tickets are $66.69 to $72.54 including fees.