MIami Art Guide RRS Feed http://www.miamiartguide.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.miamiartguide.com/visual-arts/art-galleries/carol-jazzar-contemporary-art.html GisMo. From Nov 14th, 2008 through Jan 10th, 2009. Carol Jazzar is presenting Limpiezas (cleansings), an exhibition of new contemporary photography by Miami based art collective, GisMo. With steamy and immersive contemporary portraiture in Limpiezas (cleansings), GisMo draws attention to the contrast between Nature and the modern world. Envisaging the response to an abrupt absence of technology as positive and rejuvenating, the images offer seductive visions of feral humanity and transformation. Visual Arts - Art Galleries Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/art-news/film-and-video/miami-international-film-festival.html New Director. November 2008. The Miami International Film Festival, at Miami Dade College (MDC), has announced the appointment of Tiziana Finzi, a seasoned film professional with more than twenty years of experience in film festival programming and coordination, as its director. She will officially begin her new charge on December 1st, 2008. Art News - Film and Video Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/performing-arts/theaters/um-s-jerry-herman-ring-theatre.html Winter's Tale. From Nov 12th through Nov 22nd, 2008. Jealousy, rage, intrigue, love, revenge and comic mishaps abound in one of Shakespeare’s most intriguingly plotted plays, now showing at the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre located at 1312 Miller Drive on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. Performing Arts - Theaters Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/visual-arts/art-galleries/artspace-virginia-miller-galleries.html From Nov 2008 - Feb 2009. Located in downtown Coral Gables, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries continues its 35-year tradition of introducing important artists and art movements to this area with the exhibition SAVE AS: Contemporary Chinese Art Born of Ancient Traditions, the first major exhibition of paintings in the US by Cao Xiaodong. Visual Arts - Art Galleries Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/opportunities/call-for-works/florida-focus-short-film-competition.html Miami International Film Festival. Deadline: Dec 19th, 2008. The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) recently announced its first Florida-based film competition. Festival organizers are accepting submissions for the Florida Focus Short Film Competition from Nov 1st until Dec 19th, 2008. Winners will be announced during the 26th Annual Miami International Film Festival being held March 6th through 15th, 2009. The competition is open to amateurs as well as professionals and includes two specific categories - Miami Minis Shorts and Student Social Shorts. Opportunities - Call for works Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/visual-arts/art-galleries/butter-gallery.html Gustavo Oviedo. From Nov 7th through Dec 7th, 2008. Bright colors and visual patterns collide at 21st century speeds in Gustavo Oviedo's latest exhibition titled Ultraviolet Palm Trees, which opens on November 7th at the Butter Gallery in Coconut Grove Visual Arts - Art Galleries Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/performing-arts/presentations/waterfront-playhouse.html The Red Head Dilemma. Nov 15th, 22nd and 28th, 2008. The Waterfront Playhouse presents The Red Head Dilemma, an interactive children’s musical for ages 6 to 12 that has been created by the Key West Children’s Theatre Company. The Red Head Dilemma plays Saturday mornings at 11:00 a.m., on November 15th, 22nd and 29th, 2008. Performing Arts - Presentations Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/museums/more-museums/museum-of-contemporary-art-north-miami-moca.html Anri Sala. From Dec 3rd through Mar 1st, 2009. Purchase Not by Moonlight is the first major museum exhibition of Anri Sala’s videos and photographs in the United States, featuring works from the late 1990s to the present. The exhibition is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center in the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (Cincinnati) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and is curated by Raphaela Platow, CAC Director and Chief Curator. Museums - More Museums Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/museums/more-museums/yinka-shonibare-at-mam-museum.html From Oct 31st, 2008 through Jan 18th, 2009. As part of its ongoing New Work series, Miami Art Museum will present Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child, a new installation created specifically for MAM. The site-specific work will explore Miami’s role as a destination for both tourists and immigrants and as a symbol of freedom and promise. Museums - More Museums Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/museums/more-museums/lowe-art-museum.html Charles Lieberman. From Nov 22nd, 2008 through Jan 18th, 2009. Charles Biederman: An American Idealist is a touring exhibition organized by the Frederick Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, on view at the Lowe Art Museum through January 18th, 2009. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the life and work of Charles Biederman, an acclaimed American modernist, who pioneered new directions in geometric abstract art and in the Constructivist movement. The exhibition features a broad array of paintings and sculptures created during a prolific and influential artistic career. It includes early American-scene inspired oils, biomorphic abstractions, early wood and string constructions from the 1930s, and finally Biederman’s late metal reliefs. Fifty-three works in all complete the show. A new catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Museums - More Museums Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/museums/more-museums/necr-polis-crist-bal-col-n-photographs-by-ra-l-l-rodr-guez.html Historical Museum of Southern Florida. From Sep 25th, 2008 through Jan 25th, 2009 Plotted on a pattern of five crosses, with two avenues creating the main cross, the Cristóbal Colón Cemetery in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba is considered one of the finest examples of funerary architecture in the world. Miami architect Raúl L. Rodríguez, AIA has been documenting its quiet grandeur since 1990. Through January 25th, 2009, visitors to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will have the opportunity to see images of the historic cemetery in the exhibition, Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón: Photographs by Raul L. Rodriguez, AIA. Museums - More Museums Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/museums/more-museums/moca-at-goldman-warehouse.html The Possibility of an Island . From Dec 4th, 2008 through Mar 21st, 2009.The Museum of Contemporary Art’s annex space, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, will feature the exhibition The Possibility of an Island from December 4th, 2008 through March 21st, 2009. The exhibition, which takes French author Michel Houellebecq’s 2005 novel of the same name as its starting point, poses existential questions in the face of an elusive future. Both the exhibition and novel address fundamental anxieties about issues such as aging, death, irrelevancy, culture, destruction and sexuality in the present and the future. Museums - More Museums Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/art-basel-miami-beach.html From Dec 4th through 7th, 2008. Art Basel Miami Beach is the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 39 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Exhibition sites are located in the city's beautiful Art Deco District, within walking distance of the beach and many hotels. Events - Art Fairs Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/art-now-fair.html From Dec 4th from Dec 7th, 2008. Art Now Fair announces its return to Miami Beach on December 4th through 7th, 2008. After the Miami Beach premier last year and a successful New York City fair in March, the fair is looking forward to continuing to support established and emerging galleries committed to thinking outside the box and experimenting with the artwork and artists they represent. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/art-asia.html From Dec 4th through Dec 7th, 2008. Art Asia, Miami’s first international Asian contemporary art fair will make its debut this December from 4th-7th in Wynwood Art District, conveniently located on the corner of NE 31st Street and Midtown Boulevard. Art Asia will be steps away from veteran art fairs such as Scope, Pulse, Art Miami, Photo Miami, and Design Miami. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/aqua-art-miami.html From Dec 3rd through 7th, 2008. Aqua Art Miami takes place in two locations simultaneously, one at the Aqua Hotel in South Beach, near Art Basel Miami Beach and an additional new venue, Aqua Wynwood, hosted in a warehouse in the art district, near important venues like the Rubell Collection and many others. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/bridge-wynwood.html From Dec 2nd through 7th, 2008. Bridge Art Fair presents its inaugural edition of Bridge Miami Wynwood, offering collectors, art professionals and visitors a boutique-style booth fair easily accessible in the heart of Midtown Miami. Taking place concurrently with Bridge Miami Beach, Bridge Miami Wynwood marks a significant expansion of Bridge’s presence at the global art fair market that converges in Miami every December. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/bridge-miami-beach.html From Dec 4th through Dec 7th, 2008. Following its success in the last two years, Bridge is pleased announces its third installment in Miami Beach. Held at both the Catalina and Maxine Hotels, Bridge Miami leads the South Beach satellite art market, located a mere two blocks from Art Basel. Visitors can browse nearly 80 rooms of the freshest and most innovative works in international emerging and contemporary art. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/fountain-miami.html From Dec 3rd through Dec 7th, 2008. Fountain Miami, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries, sets up shop in an industrial warehouse located at 25th Street and North Miami Avenue for its latest installment this December. Fountain is a guerrilla-style art event, dubbed by many as the Anti Art Fair for its brash, off-the-wall offerings of non-traditional art exhibitions in the art fair environment. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.miamiartguide.com/events/art-fairs/photo-miami.html From Dec 2nd through Dec 7th, 2008. Photo Miami, the leading international contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video and new media returns to the Wynwood Art District in Miami, Florida. The fair will showcase works by over 200 contemporary artists at the 40,000 sq. ft. marquee structure located at NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, steps away from the Rubell Family Collection and the developing Midtown Miami district. Over 60 new and established galleries will present highly anticipated works- many that will be seen in the US for the first time. Photo Miami will open with a media preview reception on December 2nd, 2008 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Events - Art Fairs Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0100