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Craig Robins Collection: Walking on Air revolves around Richard Tuttle

Discover how the Craig Robins Collection’s 2025–2026 show Walking on Air turns Dacra’s Miami HQ into a playful study in gravity, chance and light.

Por: Angela Leon Cervera
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Jana Euler Morecorn 4. Craig Robins Collection: Walking on Air

The Craig Robins Collection has turned the Miami Design District into a brainy playground where luxury retail and cultural ambition share the same grid. Its 2025–2026 rehang, Walking on Air, unfolds inside Dacra’s headquarters and uses the building like a full scale sculpture. 

More than 300 works from a collection of over 1,700 pieces wrap around meeting rooms and corridors. You do not step out of daily life to see this art. You walk through it on your way to a desk, a call or a deal.

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Craig Robins Collection: Walking on Air

How Does the Craig Robins Collection Turn an Office into a Cultural Lab?

Dacra’s HQ in the Design District functions as both workplace and exhibition space. The Craig Robins Collection rotates there annually, with Walking on Air as the 2025–2026 chapter.

Richard Tuttle’s works hang beside design pieces and conceptual icons, not in a sealed white cube but across two active floors. The friction between spreadsheets and soft textiles keeps the art alert. Visitors move from elevator lobby to boardroom and meet Duchamp, Baldessari and David Hammons along the way.

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Craig Robins Collection: Walking on Air
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Sasha Gordon. Pinky Promise. Craig Robins Collection: Walking on Air

Why Is Richard Tuttle the Quiet Star of Walking on Air?

Walking on Air revolves around Richard Tuttle, the most extensively represented artist in the Craig Robins Collection.  His early Drift constructions, tin letters and dyed cloth pieces from the mid sixties already test how lightly an artwork can touch a wall and still command a room. 

The 2009 Walking on Air series pushes this even further. Long cotton panels, dyed with Rit and fixed by small grommets, read like hanging horizons. They hover between painting and sculpture, optical field and physical skin.

What Makes Walking on Air Feel So 2025?

The show builds a loose constellation around three historic anchors. Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages, Baldessari’s Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line and Hammons’s Basketball Drawing each turn gravity and chance into drawing tools. 

 

Around them orbit contemporary voices such as Jana Euler, Xinyi Cheng, Mario Ayala, Sasha Gordon, Lauren Halsey and Jill Mulleady, plus design heroes like Zaha Hadid, Jean Prouvé and Marc Newson. The result feels less like a static display and more like a mood board for how to live with art that thinks, jokes and questions in real time.

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John Baldessari Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty- Six Attempts). Craig Robins Collection: Walking on Air

Walking on Air shows how the Craig Robins Collection treats art as a living system, not a trophy wall. By centering Tuttle’s fragile textiles and surrounding them with works that court risk, error and play, the show invites visitors to loosen their grip on certainty.

 

In a week obsessed with spectacle and price tags, this exhibition offers something rarer: a lesson in how to stay light, alert and curious while the world rushes by outside.

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