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What Carried Us Over: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey at PAMM
Sept. 12, 2019 – April 25, 2020

What Carried Us Over: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey features selections from gifts made by Gordon W. Bailey, a Los Angeles–based collector, scholar, and advocate, who has donated 60 artworks to Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since 2016. Of the 28 artists represented in Bailey’s gift, all but two are new additions to PAMM collection. Few of these artists received formal instruction. … +

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Zhao Gang: History Painting at PAMM
Through Sun Jan 5, 2020

Zhao Gang: History Painting consists of fourteen paintings that bring together the radically multicultural aspects of Gang’s art and identity. Though the artist is fully Chinese and American, he is considered (and considers himself) an insider’s outsider in both cultures. As both native and newcomer, Gang has developed a darkly ironic, often crude approach to depicting Chinese history. His paintings elide centuries-old … +

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Connectivity: Selections from the Frost Art Museum Collection on view Now
Fri Aug 30, 2019 - Tue Dec 31, 2019

Through five thematic sections, Connectivity: Selections from the Frost Art Museum Collection examines how art objects, created across cultures and during different time periods, relate to one another and to myriad publics.  Abstract Languages comprises the first section and offers an opportunity to analyze works that implement color, line, and form in dynamic ways. Whether it is a longing for home or the memory of a … +

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Curator’s Tour for Exhibition South Beach. . . at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Tue Sep 10, 2019

Join Maryanna Ramirez and special guest Susan Gladstone, Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, for a special tour of the exhibition South Beach, 1977-1986. This exhibition presents a series of photographs by Gary Monroe, who embarked on a decade-long project to photograph the aging Jewish community in South Beach. Following the tour, please join us in the Members’ Lounge for snacks and … +

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South Beach, 1977-1986 Photographs by Gary Monroe at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun Dec 8, 2019

In 1977, Gary Monroe embarked on a decade-long project to photograph the aging Jewish community in South Beach. He had grown up around this community and sought to capture the vibrancy and slow decline of this close-knit neighborhood. Influenced by photographers such as Garry Winogrand and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Monroe traversed South Beach capturing candid moments, daily activities, religious services, and community gatherings. … +

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Art after Stonewall (1969-1989) at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Sat Sep 14, 2019 - Sun Jan 5, 2020

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, this groundbreaking survey features more than 200 works of art and related visual materials that explore the profound impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. The exhibition focuses on both the work of openly LGBTQ artists as well as the practices of artists engaged … +

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Encounters: Photographs by Jose Ney at The Southeast Museum of Photography
Tue Aug 27-Sat Oct 26, 2019

A special exhibition of photographs from the permanent collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography. Photographer Jose Ney traveled through many countries, including his native Cuba, investigating his connection to the land, the people, and the culture. A small collection of his work titled “Los Romanticos Angelos de la Tierra” was exhibited and then acquired by the Southeast Museum of Photography in … +

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This Climate Change at Southeast Museum of Photography
August 27 - October 26, 2019

The Southeast Museum of Photography presents a fine-art photography show featuring breathtaking landscape photographs of the Pacific Coast Highway, fresh water springs of Central and Northern Florida, and the rugged natural landscapes of the expansive Texas plains. Kirk Crippens, Sharon Harper, and Benjamin Dimmitt each present a portfolio of photographs that capture these locales of the American landscape. This exhibition explores climate … +

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Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun Aug 25, 2019

Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books presents a range of artists’ books from manipulated texts to new narrative forms and books presented as sculpture. These “spheres” present philosophical inquiries, personal reflections, and ruminations on complex and often related notions such as nurture and nature. Moreover, this exhibition celebrates the rich and varied talent of artists living in Miami or artists who once … +

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Teresita Fernández: Elemental at PAMM
Fri Oct 18, 2019

The retrospective will introduce visitors to the artist’s large-scale sculptures, installations, and mixed media works that merge formal and conceptual aspects of her practice through the use of natural materials and the historic genre of landscape to reinterpret relationships between nature, history, and identity. The exhibition will also showcase the artist’s most recent body of work, in which she contrasts the sublime … +

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Exhibition Opening Night: The Other Side of Now at PAMM
Thu Jul 18, 2019 - Sun Jun 7, 2020

The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art is a thematic group exhibition centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?” With a series of newly commissioned works, The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe that continue to frame the region in terms of then and now.  In this exhibition, the region is conceptualized as both … +

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The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art
Thu Jul 18, 2019 - Sun Jun 7, 2020

The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art is a thematic group exhibition that sets its sights on time to come, exploring radical imaginations that expand a picture of the Caribbean towards a present-future. This exhibition invites artists to grasp and question the future of the region as a tangible time and space. In contemporary art, the Caribbean is often … +

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James Prosek: CONTRA NATURUM exhibited at Lowe Art Museum
Through Sun Sep 8, 2019

Deeply invested in both the environment and environmental concerns, James Prosek is a contemporary artist whose creative output explores timeless aspects of humanity and the natural world while also engaging directly with the zeitgeist. These complementary threads are beautifully woven together in his exhibition, James Prosek: Contra Naturam/Against Nature, providing a critical commentary on South Florida’s rapidly changing ecosystem. Artist, writer, naturalist, and … +

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Observing Life… at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun Aug 4, 2019

Observing Life: Intersections Among Art, Medicine, and Health comprises photography and works on paper, dating from the 19thcentury to the present. These works address diverse ideas relating to the fields of medicine and health.  Featured artists include Bill Brandt, Manuel Carrillo, Marina Font, Quisqueya Henriquez, Eadweard Muybridge, and Ruth Orkin, among others. Many of the works in the exhibition have rarely been … +

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JUSTIN H.LONG: HAPPY ENDING, 2019 on the Walgreens Windows
May 8 - Sep 15, 2019

Happy Ending [1] is a two-part exploration of late-night text messages, fantasy encounters, reaching out for help, searching inwards, searching outwards, ocean crossings, marine detritus and being lost in the sea of life. Pre-dating radio, International Code Signal Flags have traditionally been used to signal from one boat to another without any other means of communication between them. Raised as beacons, they … +

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PAMM presents Beatriz González: A Retrospective
Fri Apr 19, 2019 - Sun Sep 1, 2019

Beatriz González: A Retrospective will be the first large-scale U.S. retrospective of the work of Bogotá-based artist Beatriz González (b. 1938, Bucaramanga, Colombia). At 81, González is not only an internationally celebrated Colombian artist but also one of the few extant representatives of the so-called “radical women” generation from Latin America. Despite the fact that it spans over six decades of intensive … +

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SHEILA HICKS: Campo Abierto (Open Field) at the Bass Museum
Sat Apr 13, 2019 - Sun Sep 29, 2019

Grouping works of art from various periods, Campo Abierto (Open Field) explores the formal, social and environmental aspects of landscape that have been present, yet rarely examined, throughout Sheila Hicks’ expansive career. Prompting contemplations on collaboration, dialogue and discussion, the exhibition is rooted in the reconfiguration of Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands (2016-2017), the artist’s vast installation produced for the Arsenale at the … +

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AARON CURRY Tune Yer Head at the Bass Museum
Through Sun Apr 21, 2019

Tune Yer Head presents new and recent work by Texas born, LA-based artist, Aaron Curry. Though Curry gained early recognition as a sculptor, making a “return” to painting in 2015, his practice is deeply rooted in the painterly. The exhibition at The Bass surveys the diversity of his practice in terms of materiality and form, highlighting the interplay between painting, sculpture and … +

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On view at PAMM: Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . .
Through Sun May 5, 2019

Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . . presents the work of Kingston-born artist Ebony G. Patterson (b. 1981). The most significant presentation of the artist’s work to date, the project includes examples of the artist’s work produced over the last five years, embedded within a new installation environment that references a night garden. … +

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Liliana Porter: El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves
Through Sun Jun 30, 2019

In its scale and complexity, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia 2017 is one of Liliana Porter’s most ambitious projects to date. The piece serves as a form of retrospective, as it contains many of the characters, groupings, or situations that have appeared repeatedly in Porter’s works over the last three decades. The installation takes its name from … +

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Felice Grodin: Invasive Species at PAMM
Through Sun Jun 30, 2019

Felice Grodin: Invasive Species is a virtually interactive, digital exhibition of commissioned works by Miami-based artist Felice Grodin. The series employs the technology of augmented reality, and is accessible to visitors using iOS devices in PAMM’s outdoor areas and in the Padma and Raj Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum’s first floor. By drawing on her training as an architect, Grodin analyzes … +

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Miami International Map Fair 2019 in 25th Anniversary at HistoryMiami
Fri Feb 1, 2019 - Sun Feb 3, 2019

In 2018, the Miami International Map Fair turned 25, making it the largest and longest running map fair in the Americas. HistoryMiami Museum invites you to join us in 2019 for this world renowned event! Explore exceptional antique maps, rare antiquarian books and intriguing atlases at the Miami International Map Fair. HistoryMiami 101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130 Ph: 305.375.1492 www.historymiami.org

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AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People on view at MOCA NoMi
Through Sun Apr 7, 2019

Visual language, an experiential form and a revelation. When art successfully combines all of three of these characteristics, it speaks to and moves those who encounter it. The artist collective AFRICOBRA exemplifies these traits while defining for themselves how they want their art to function in the world. Founded in 1968, by Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Gerald … +

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ODALIS VALDIVIESO shows at Bass Museum’s Walgreens Windows: Performing the self and other selves
Tue Mar 19, 2019 - Sun Mar 10, 2019

Performing the self and other selves is a project by artist Odalis Valdivieso, featuring a new series of works on papers both new and recycled, highlighting the artist’s approach to storefront and public space. Valdivieso’s work is connected to the tradition of printmaking, which she uses in various ways as a trompe-l’œil surprising our understanding of painting, photography, and drawing language. As part … +