Museums

From Feb 13th through Apr 25th, 2010. Revisit America through the nostalgic paintings of Norman Rockwell and the poignant, photographs of Kevin Rivoli at In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America, a pioneering exhibition that pairs the work of both artists. The exhibition features thirty-five of Rivoli’s black an white photographs alongside original paintings, drawings, and limited artist’s prints by Rockwell.

From Jan 24th through Feb 14th, 2010. Miami Art Museum presents the 2010 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition, featuring artworks by Miami-Dade County middle and high school students, from January 24th through February 14th, 2010. The annual exhibition, featuring artworks in all media including paintings, photographs, video and sculpture, starts with an awards ceremony on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. … +

Jewish Museum. Jan 31st, 2010. 2:00 p.m. Author Linda Corley will review her book, The Kennedy Family Album at the Jewish Museum of Florida this January 31st at 2:00 p.m. Bob Davidoff, whose studio was in Palm Beach, took all the photographs. For decades the public has been fascinated with the Kennedy family. Now, for the first time, Davidoff’s Kennedy photos of … +

From Jan 20th, 2010 through Apr 2010. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents The Fantastic World of José Gurvich, a new exhibition by the renowned Uruguayan artist, on Wednesday, January 20th at 6:00 p.m.

From Jan 23rd through May 2nd, 2010. Australian artist Tracey Moffatt’s body of works largely focuses on the human condition as a widespread situation. Using video and photography as her chief media, she presents a chronicle that is directly based on images and memories that she has retained from watching TV and movies during her childhood. Moffatt gained international attention with her … +

Selections from La Colección Jumex. From Dec 3rd, 2009 through Mar 14th, 2010. La Colección Jumex is one of the most significant private collections of contemporary art in Latin America. Housed in one of Grupo Jumex juice factories located in Mexico City, the collection holds more than 2000 pieces from Mexican and international artists. The Bass Museum on Miami Beach presents Where … +

From Oct 3rd, 2009 through Feb 21st, 2010 Chicago- based artist Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language, which translates into sculpture, painting and large-scale installation. Drawing in large part from Chicano lowrider culture and his own Puerto Rican background, Dzine creates ornate handmade lowrider bikes … +

Miami Art Museum. From Oct 8th, 2009 through May 12th, 2010. Art in Miami is the topic of Miami Art Museum’s annual MAM Morning Lectures, a seven-lecture subscription series in which local critics, historians and curators present a panorama of the arts in Miami from 1896 to the contemporary scene. Subscribers meet monthly over coffee and muffins beginning Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 … +

MOCA North Miami. From Oct 18th, through Nov 8th, 2009. Cavaletti’s Dream, a signature marionette production by Miami artist Pablo Cano, returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for a series of special anniversary performances from October 18th through November 8th, 2009. The production features Cano’s enchanting marionettes and rod puppets created from found objects, and combines elements of Italian chivalry … +

From Nov 20th, 2009 through Feb 28th, 2010. Miami Art Museum presents Space as Medium, a group exhibition focusing on the development of artistic practices that directly address the walls, floors and ceilings of the physical spaces in which they are installed. The exhibition is conceived as an inter-generational dialogue among artists who helped develop these practices in the 1960s and the … +

Jewish Museum of Florida. From Oct 20th, 2009 through Apr 4th, 2010. 48 Jews examines the representation of Jews in the Diaspora. This is a series of Warhol-esque portrait paintings by Abshalom Jac Lahav of famous Jews that celebrates and questions our notions of what it means to be Jewish.

Miami Art Museum. From Oct 9th, 2009 through Jan 17th, 2010. In October of 2009, Miami Art Museum premieres the most comprehensive survey of the work of Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca ever presented in North America. On view at MAM from October 9th, 2009 through January 17th, 2010, Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 traces the evolution of Kuitca’s … +

From Sept 25th through Nov 8th, 2009. Since 1995, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami has been developing a collection of pivotal works by international contemporary artists. MOCA’s focused approach to collecting concentrates on works connected by concepts and methodology, rather than chronology, style or medium.

From Oct 31st, 2009 through Jan 24th, 2010. Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire from the Brooklyn Museum examines the role of twenty-one extraordinary mosaics in the development of synagogue decoration in the late Roman Empire. The exhibition presents the reconstruction of an ancient mosaic floor from a synagogue in Hammam Lif, Tunisia (the ancient Punic town of Naro, … +

Apr 17th through Oct 4th, 2009. The Bass Museum of Art in South Beach brings historical works together with contemporary works in what is called “a dialogue between the past and the present of art”. In one hand, the exhibition includes works by 17th, 18th, and 19th century masters such as Delacroix, Rubens, Goya, Rigaud and Hoppner. On the other hand, it … +

Sept 8th, 2009 through Feb 7th, 2010. Jewish Identity, an exhibition by painter Judy Chicago, is on view at the Jewish Museum of Florida. The exhibition is a retrospective of 50 works from the artist’s extensive career, exploring the impact that her Eastern European Jewish roots and Jewish cultural and politically activist upbringing have had in her life.

Oct 9th, 2009 through Jan 10th, 2010. The Frost Art Museum at FIU is presenting The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, an exhibition exploring art as a medium for pursuing world peace, inspired on the iconic image of the 14th Dalai Lama. Such exhibition endeavor wouldn’t be possible without the collaboration offered by the Committee of 100 for Tibet, and … +

From Jul 15th through Sept 13th, 2009. The exhibition Simon Starling: Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird) is on view in the Henri and Flore Lesieur Pavilion at the Bass Museum. This exhibition is comprised of one large-scale installation, sound, and two photographs. In this installation conceptual artist Simon Starling (b. 1967 Epsom, England) explores the relationships between craft, material, … +

Wolfsonian Museum. From Oct 16th, 2009 through Mar 14th, 2010. The Wolfsonian – Florida International University presents Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design, 1908-1948, an engaging exploration of automobile design in America from the 1900s through the 1940s. The exhibition, on view from October 16th, 2009 through March 14th, 2010, highlights the important role played by designers and visual … +

July 2009. Treasured objects and artifacts held by The Wolfsonian – Florida International University will be preserved for future generations with help from the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a core set of conservation books and online resources donated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). IMLS has now awarded almost 3,000 free sets of the IMLS Bookshelf, in cooperation … +

From Jun 27th through Oct 4th, 2009. From its inception, photography has enticed scientists, artists and amateurs alike. Whether used for capturing historical moments or as an art form, the lens has played a significant role in human life. To fulfill this innate sentiment, Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection will be on view from June 27th through October 4th, … +