Oct 2nd through Nov 7th, 2010. A trained attorney, Ellen Harvey’s career as an artist began to gather attention over a decade ago, when she took on the task of “tagging” known graffiti sites around the city of New York in what she titled The New York Beautification Project.
Jewish Museum of Florida. Through Sept 26th, 2010. The Cuban Jewish community in South Florida began with the 1959 communist revolution in Cuba; most Jews fled and started new lives.
Sept 16th, 2010 through Jan 23rd, 2011. Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition tells the story of one of Florida’s oldest and most important cultural activities. Cattle ranching in North America began when Spanish explorers introduced horses and cattle in the 16th century, and flourished in the hands of the Seminoles, Crackers, and other Floridians.
From Oct 13th, 2010 through Jan 2nd, 2011. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) is hosting four major exhibitions: Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction; Sequentia by Xavier Cortada; Selections from Anomie 1492-2006 by Arnold Mesches and La Habana Moderna in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum.
Sept 16th through Nov 19th, 2010. MOCA North Miami presents Shinique Smith’s first large-scale U.S. museum exhibition. In this exhibition, Smith will use MOCA’s flexible gallery space to explore new ways of working and installing her work. Part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series, Shinique Smith: Menagerie will include installations, works on paper, and video from 2002 to the present.
From Oct 5th, 2010 through Jan 2nd, 2011. The Jewish Museum of Florida opens the world premiere of a temporary exhibit on October 5th about a unique story of the Catskills.
August 2010. Miami Art Museum welcomes its new director, Thomas “Thom” Collins, whose tenure began last month.
From Sept 17th, 2010 through Feb 20th, 2011. The construction of the Eiffel Tower in less than two years. Olympic sprinters. Traffic. Worker productivity. Kitchen efficiency. Urban sprawl.
From Jul 30th through Nov 7th, 2010. Miami Art Museum opens a new exhibition in the Focus Gallery section of its Permanent Collection installation, dedicated to works by the late Purvis Young.
August 2010. The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship program in 2010-2011 will highlight the great range of potential research opportunities offered by The Wolfsonian’s collection. For the first time, the program will have a thematic focus – research on the links between design and health in the modern era.
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010 Miami Art Museum provides a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. The exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami’s artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view. New Work Miami 2010 is organized by Miami … +
June 2010. Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than fifteen years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM).
From Jun 26th through Oct 31st, 2010. The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum’s summer exhibition includes objects from ancient Mexico through Panama that explore the complex relationship between art and the natural world. Jaguar’s Spots: Ancient Mesoamerican Art from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami is on view from June 26th through October 31st, 2010.
2010 Award in the Visual Arts and Brandon Fradd Award in Music Composition. June 2010. The Cintas Foundation announced Leyden Rodriguez Casanova as the winner for the 2010 Cintas Foundation Award in the Visual Arts and Fabian Almazan as the winner for the 2010 Brandon Fradd Award in Music Composition.
Every Wednesday of the Month. Target has teamed up with The Frost Art Museum to sponsor the museum’s popular programming series Target Wednesday After Hours. Designed to complement Frost Art Museum’s exhibitions, these events give visitors the chance to meet contemporary artists and engage with controversial art, live music, talks, films, dance and performance art.
May 26th through the summer The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) is opening four major exhibitions that take the visitor on a tour across the Americas and Caribbean: from Shaman artifacts of the Northwest Coast to works of art by Haitian artists to stunning photography in Mexico to the whimsical art of Volf Roitman. The opening … +
Miami Art Museum. May 20th, 2010. 6:00 p.m. Dr. Michele Greet, assistant professor, department of history and art history at the George Mason University, will present a lecture entitled “Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars” on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at Miami Art Museum.
From Jun 3rd through Aug 22nd, 2010 The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami will present the first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition for the Paris-based collective artist Claire Fontaine.
From Apr 24th through Jun 6th, 2010. The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum will greet spring with a faculty exhibition, featuring the internationally collected glass artist, Endowed Chair, and UM Art Department Professor William Carlson.
From Apr 1st through 30th, 2010. Artwork by participants in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s nationally acclaimed outreach program for at-risk teenage girls, Women on the Rise! will be featured in a special exhibition titled Spontaneous Alternatives at the Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Women’s History Gallery, located in the Women’s Park, 10251 Flagler Street in Miami- Dade County.
From Mar 11th through May 9th, 2010. The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami is currently presenting the first two U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Cory Arcangel and Ceal Floyer.
From Feb 18th through Aug 29th, 2010. The Historical Museum of Southern Florida has opened its newest exhibition, Crime in Miami. Investigate the facts and fictions behind Miami’s more than a hundred year criminal history. Join the curators of this new exciting, interactive exhibition as they share the rich history of rumrunners, gangsters, and drug dealers. Learn how these criminals were punished … +
From Mar 20th through Jun 20th, 2010. Miami Art Museum will be presenting an exhibition of interactive works by Carlos Cruz Diez, one of Latin America’s most important living masters. Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color marks the artist’s first exhibition to focus solely on sensory chromatic environments and interactive projects. The exhibition features four participatory environments created from color … +
From Feb 19th through May 16th, 2010 Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time continues The Frost Art Museum’s foray into the world of Asian Art. “This exhibition showcases true Taiwanese contemporary artists,” said Dr. Carol Damian, director and chief curator of The Frost Art Museum. “It is the first of its kind in the region.”
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