MUSEUMS

Second Saturdays are Free for Families: "Hood-winked"

Presented by Miami Art Museum at Miami Art Museum

March 10, 2012

Find an artwork in the museum depicting a scene from the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. In the workshop, make your own drawing of a different part of the story...or even an illustration from another favorite fairy tale or book. Also enjoy a live performance of Red Riding Hood with the Young Patronesses of the Opera. Presented by MetLife Foundation. Additional support provided by Miami Salon Group, Inc.
 

Opening reception for "The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl"

Presented by Miami Art miami art museum, enrique martinez celaya, schneebett at Miami Art Museum

March 17, 2012

Join artist William Cordova, MAM Associate Curator René Morales and Nasher Museum of Art Curator Trevor Schoonmaker as they kick off an exhibition dedicated to exploring the culture of vinyl records within the context of contemporary art. Reception following talk with DJ LeSpam. Donation bar and light fare. MAM members free, non-members $10. RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704.

"The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl" was organized by the Nasher Museum of...

NATURA MORTA: Photographs by Patrizia Zelano

Presented by Boca Raton Museum of Art at Boca Raton Museum of Art

January 18-March 18, 2012

Natura Morta (Still Life) presents eighteen color photographs by one of Italy’s most interesting and controversial photographers working today. Featured are works from three portfolios: Attesa silente (Quiet Wait), Cenci (Rags), and In Carne ed Ossa (In Flesh and Bone).

Zelano’s mysterious and compelling images address the symbolic power and emotional force of their subject matter, both real and imagined. In different ways, each of Patrizia Zelano’s photographs...

Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee

Presented by Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum

January 21-April 30, 2012

The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum’s exhibit Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee explores Native American, Seminole, Florida Maritime, Lighthouse, Pioneer and WWII Secret “Station J” history. Showcasing the amazing past of the Loxahatchee River region, the heritage site also features the Tindall Pioneer Homestead, Pennock Plantation Bell and Lighthouse Keepers Workshop. The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum is open Jan-Apr: 7 days a week, May-Dec: Tues.-Sun.,...

WITVA - Women in the Visual Arts Exhibition

Presented by Armory Art Center at Armory Art Center

March 30-May 2, 2012

The Armory and WITVA partner together to exhibit works by WITVA members. WITVA was founded in 1989 to promote public interest in the visual arts through its programs and activities. The organization serves as a forum whose members network, share ideas and support one another to achieve their artistic goals, while giving back to the community.

Austrian Art: The Golden Age of Emperor Franz Joseph

Presented by Bass Museum of Art at Bass Museum of Art

August 22, 2007 - Ongoing

The Austrian works in the Bass collection have been called the most representative group of works from "The Golden Age of Emperor Franz Joseph." John Bass's father had been a counselor to Franz Joseph, whose long reign over the Austro-Hungarian Empire encompassed the end of the Biedermeier period. Re-opening August 14th, the exhibition will be on view in a newly-installed period room in the style of mid-nineteenth century Austria. Throughout the course of amassing his collection, works by...

The Naomi Wilzig Collection

Presented by World Erotic Art Museum at World Erotic Art Museum

August 22, 2007 - Ongoing

Naomi Wilzig, 70, has accumulated 4,000 pieces of erotic art over thirteen years. Her collection includes biblical, mythological, oriental, ethnographic, neo-classical, European 17th to 20th century, alternative lifestyles, contemporary classes and much, much more!

Treasures from the Bass Museum of Art

Presented by Bass Museum of Art at Bass Museum of Art

August 22, 2007 - Ongoing

The Bass Museum has the most encyclopedic art collection in the region that includes some 3,000 works of art that are displayed on a rotating basis. The signature piece of the Bass Museum collection, The Coronation of the Virgin is on permanent display at the top of the museum's Grand Ramp, designed by Arata Isozaki. The fifteenth century large scale altarpiece, attributed to Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio, is one of the two altarpieces originally in the Camaldolese Badia of San...

The Many Faces of CoBrA

Presented by Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

February 24, 2010 - Ongoing

In 1978, Dr. Meyer and Golda Marks donated a collection of nearly 1,500 works from their favorite collecting focus – works in all media from the Northern European mid-twentieth century CoBrA movement – to the Museum of Art ?Fort Lauderdale. A very generous and significant donation for this institution, the collection is considered the largest devoted to CoBrA in the United States. The name CoBrA is an acronym of the first letters of three of the central cities associated with...

The Spectacle of Life: The Art of William Glackens

Presented by Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

February 24, 2010 - Ongoing

When Ira Glackens, son of American impressionist William Glackens, died in 1991, he left his substantial collection of works by his father to the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.

The original donation included more than two hundred works in a variety of media, later supplemented by another 300 works given by the Sansom Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Ira and Nancy Glackens in the 1950s to oversee their art interests.

The Glackens Collection ranges...

The Indigo Room or Is Memory Water Soluble

Presented by Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

February 24, 2010 - Ongoing

This installation from the heart and hands of Duval-Carrié bespeaks his ineradicable connection to the island of his birth. Knowledgeable about Vodou since childhood, the artist incorporates the religion’s theatrical sacred personages as players in his visual dramas of upheaval and transcendence. Migration out of Haiti, with consequences for the country left behind, is a persistent theme.

Constructed Reliefs from the Maurice and Sarah Lipschultz Collection

Presented by Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

February 24, 2010 - Ongoing

Names for this body of work have changed over the decades. Charles Biederman (1906 – 2004), one of the best known artists represented here, used the term constructionism to describe his work, something related to and yet distinct from the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1910s and 1920s known as constructivism. Later, the term structurism was used. By the late 1970s, however, Biederman settled on the simpler term: new art.

Conrad Marca-Relli

Presented by Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

February 24, 2010 - Ongoing

In the late 1940s, following the end of World War II, a group of artists living in downtown New York created an informal gathering place they called the Eighth Street Club. Conrad Marca-Relli was one of the founding members along with Willem and Elaine DeKooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Barnet Newman, all hailed as pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, the first internationally recognized art movement to originate in North America. Drawing on the artists’ unconscious and...