Museums

June 2009 Within one week this June, the Jewish Museum of Florida received a $25,000 Arts Recovery Grant from Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA] of 2009 and the National Endowment for the Arts), an IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, which is a core set of conservation books and online resources, and New Times’ selection … +

Wolfsonian Museum. From Jul 10th through Oct 11th, 2009. The Wolfsonian-Florida International University presents Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear, a retrospective look at swimwear design and Sun Stroke Stimulus, an installation which focuses on contemporary bathing culture.

Wolfsonian Museum. From Nov 20th, 2009 through Feb 28th, 2010. The Wolfsonian – Florida International University presents Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, an extraordinary exhibition that focuses on the dynamic synergy of modern man and machine as seen in the artistic movements of early twentieth-century England. The exhibition highlights the impact of Italian Futurism and French Cubism on British modernist … +

Three new exhibitions. From Jun 12th through Aug 23rd, 2009. The Museum of Florida Art, Board of Trustees invites you to the opening of three new exhibitions: Confessions of a Suburban Primitive: Paintings by Carl Knickerbocker, Imagining Flora and Fauna: Oleda Baker, A Naive Painter and Eye of the Needle: Fiber Art by Katherine K. Allen, Eleanor A. McCain and Barbara W. … +

Bass Museum of Art. Ongoing. The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach is known for showcasing and holding important examples of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque art. Currently, the museum is exhibiting The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance and Baroque, a show curated by Ruth Grim and displayed at the Taplin Gallery. Works on view in this exhibition span two centuries and … +

Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection. Ongoing. The Wolfsonian Museum at FIU holds and incredible collection of Design. Think Miami and think Design. However, many of the museum’s holdings precede our era of magnificent condos by the bay and aseptic contemporary interiors. The exhibition holds nearly 300 objects from the museum’s collection, covering a period from 1885 to 1945. The boundaries between art … +

Frost Art Museum. May 13th, 2009.  Miami-Dade Country Commissioner Joe A. Martinez (District 11) and The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum will host the sixth annual Creative Visions 2009 student art exhibition. The exhibition features talented artists from District 11 Miami-Dade County Public Schools, including elementary, middle and high school students. For the past six years, hundreds of school-aged children have … +

From Apr 3rd through May 31st, 2009.  The Museum of Florida Art is currently presenting an exhibition titled Wood, Paper, Paint: Bitner and Bogdanowitsch. This exhibition brings together the paintings of Donne Bitner and the sculpture of Cheryl Bogdanowitsch.  The title refers to the primary mediums used by each artist.  Together they explore a personal fantasy world incorporating portraiture, animal images and … +

From Mar 14th through Jun 14th, 2009.  The Henri and Flore Lesieur Pavilion, Kaiser and Kosh Gallery at the Bass Museum is currently hosting the exhibition The Best of Bert Rodriguez Greatest Hits Vol. I. A conceptual artist based in Miami, Bert Rodriguez explores the relationships between art and the artist, while examining personal value systems of the viewer, and often poking … +

Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. July 1st, 2009. 6:00 p.m.  On Thursday, July 9, at 6:00 p.m., the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University and the 2009 NPC Southern States Fitness, Figure, Bikini and Bodybuilding Championships will unite to present “The Muscular Body as Living Art.” The special event will be held at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale’s … +

From May 21st through Sep 10th, 2009.   Convention, curated by MOCA assistant curator Ruba Katrib, takes as its premise the predominance of large cultural events such as conventions, festivals, fairs, carnivals and other social gatherings in our society.  In a city like Miami, where a convention center is continuously being filled with various social and professional groups, notably Art Basel Miami Beach … +

From Apr 17th through Jun 27th, 2009.  The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first comprehensive solo museum exhibition of Luis Gispert.  The exhibition features large-scale photographs, videos, sculpture and film, dating from 1999 to the present, and will be on view at the museum’s satellite gallery, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse in the Wynwood Art District from April 11th to June 27th, … +

Celebrating the Art of Glass. Ongoing.  The Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami opened a new wing on December 2nd, 2008 dedicated to the art of glass. The Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts is named for two University of Miami alumni and longtime benefactors, who donated their collection to their alma mater, along with … +

Lowe Art Museum. From Apr 18th through Jun 14th, 2009.   Spring has returned and nature beckons discovery and exploration – even in art form. The annual two-part UM Student/Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions will be on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from April 18th to June 14th, 2009, inclusively. Also on view, UM Faculty Exhibition, featuring Carsten Meier’s … +

From Apr 17th through Sep 6th, 2009.  The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University is currently presenting an exhibition by Venezuelan artist Nela Ochoa titled Genetic Portraits. The exhibit features key pieces from Ochoa's oeuvre, including Materia Gris Incompleta/Gray Matter Incomplete. Ochoa, a prolific and internationally recognized multi-media artist, works simultaneously and seamlessly in the areas of video art, sculpture, and … +

Because I Say So. From Apr 17th through Aug 16th, 2009.The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University presents Because I Say So, an exhibition featuring selections from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl opening on April 17th, 2009. Because I Say So is an exhibition that will provoke that answer to the question “Is that Art?” The Frost Art Museum … +

From Mar 13th through Oct 11th, 2009. Miami Art Museum opens the exhibition Recent Acquisitions this month featuring the “recent acquired” works by Alexandre Arrechea, Gene Davis, Michael Loveland, Anna Maria Maiolino, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Susan Rothenberg, Marc Swanson, Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others.

Lowe Art Museum. Jan 31st through Apr 5th, 2009.  The Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami presents Las Artes de Mexico, (The Arts from Mexico) from the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum. Celebrating the rich and diverse artistic traditions of Mexico, Las Artes de Mexico examines over 3,500 years of art and culture, from the ancient worlds of the Mayans … +

Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Mar 5th, 2009 through Jan 24th, 2010.  Casting a dramatic new light on the impact African-Americans, Africans, black Caribbeans and black Hispanics have had in shaping the City of Miami, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida presents an 11-month long exhibition, Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora on March 5th, 2009. “This is a long overdue focus on one … +

Apr 18th, 2009 through Mar 22nd, 2010. A great love of collecting the art of our time is shown in the private holdings of Gordon Locksley and Francie Bishop Good + David Horvitz. All three individuals are tireless collectors passionately engaged in the contemporary art scene. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale has brought together over one hundred selected works from these two collections … +

Miami Art Museum. Feb 22nd through May 24th, 2009.  Although for centuries spirituality was an essential, even guiding, component of art, in the modern era artists have often distanced themselves from otherworldly concerns. NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. … +