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Firelei Báez: Bloodlines at PAMM
Oct 15, 2015 – Mar 6, 2016

Bloodlines is an exhibition by that traces the history of social movements in the Unites States and the Caribbean, inspired by lineages of black resistance. Best known for her large-scale works on paper, Báez makes connections of diasporic experiences by interweaving the lives of 18th century black women in Louisiana and the Cuban roots of the Latin American azabache, with symbols used … +

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Miami Street Photography Festival 2015 at HistoryMiami
Nov 20, 2015 - Jan 17, 2016

For the first time, HistoryMiami Museum will host the Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF) during Art Basel Week (Dec 3-6, 2015). In conjunction with the festival, the Museum will exhibit the finalists of MSPF’s international street photography competition through January 2016. The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary street photography, and featuring the work of professional and … +

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The Wolfsonian exhibits Margin of Error
Nov 13, 2015 - May 08, 2016

Margin of Error explores cultural responses to mechanical mastery and engineered catastrophes of the modern age—the shipwrecks, crashes, explosions, collapses, and novel types of workplace injury that interrupt the path of progress. Revealing the consequences of mankind’s endeavor to defy and exceed limits, the exhibition traces the narrative of technological ambition from myth and triumph to peril and accident prevention through over … +

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Carlos Salas: Global Imagination opening at MOCA
Dec 2, 2015, 7 PM

Carlos Salas has been engaged in a range of activities and initiatives in art-making and discoursing: painting, sculpting and writing to tackle head-on the sorry state of the human condition. His work is a site for exploration of the boundaries in which human subjectivity is located. Admission $30 Free for Members, North Miami Residents & Art Basel VIP Museum of Contemporary Art … +

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Miami Street Photography Festival 2015 at HistoryMiami
Dec 3 - 6, 2015

The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary Street Photography viewed through the eyes of emerging photographers in this genre capting the world around us. The featured artists of the present edition are Bruce Davidson, David Alan Harvey, Peter Turnley, Maggie Steber and Larry Towell. The 2015 MSPF Street Photography Festival holds its usual contest open to participants … +

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Festival Miami presents Gonzalo Rubalcaba with Frost Concert Jazz Band
October 22, 2015, 8:00 pm

Cuban-born pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Bulgarian-born percussionist Svet Stoyanov and American-born trumpeter John Daversa met at UM Frost as new faculty. In this energizing program with the Frost Concert Jazz Band they celebrate the multicultural vibrancy of their new musical home inspired in part by “Afro Blue” by Mongo Santamaría and “Manteca” by Dizzy Gillespie. Rubalcaba also performs highlights from his illustrious career … +

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Carlos Estevez: Celestial Traveler at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Sep 12, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016

Encompassing over 2,000 square feet, the exhibition spans nearly 20 years of the artist’s trajectory with more than 35 works of art (many on view for the first time), including mixed media sculptures, assemblages, installations and works on paper. Estevez’s work arches across many historical periods and a wide spectrum of human knowledge from different eras, his study of the principles of … +

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Project Gallery: Nicolas Lobo with The Leisure Pit at PAMM
Through Dec 13, 2015

Commissioned for one of PAMM’s project galleries, The Leisure Pit is a site-based installation encompassing a group of mixed-media sculptures, which the artist cast inside a swimming pool using an experimental process. The ensemble relates to Lobo’s interest in the intersections among cultural, technological, and corporeal systems of consumption. Lobo’s point of departure is a set of concrete forms derived from massive … +

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PAMM presents project The School of the Forest | Miami Campus
Through Oct 9, 2015

This interdisciplinary work by Marjetica Potrč is an endeavor that centers on the kind of elevated, open-air structures commonly used as communal gathering spaces among Amazonian forest communities. Marjetica Potrč encompasses community-based, participatory projects, as well as gallery installations referencing architectural conditions. These installations represent local organic responses to universal material and social needs, including shelter, energy, water, and communication. Over the … +

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Iman Issa: Heritage Studies at PAMM
Through Sept 27, 2015

Issa will present a new body of works drawn from a larger series entitled Heritage Studies. Issa’s multimedia works explore the relationship between history, memory, language, and objects. Issa’s modest but beautifully crafted objects, short videos, snapshot-like photographs, and accompanying texts use language and juxtaposition to create ambiguous, but resonant tableaus. These sculptures represent a shift in scale for the artist and … +

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No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting at PAMM
Sep 17, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016

This exhibition brings together the work of nine Aboriginal Australian artists: Paddy Bedford, Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Tommy Mitchell, Ngarra, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tjumpo Tjapanangvka, Billy Joongoorra Thomas, and Prince of Wales (Midpul). Each of these men is a leader within their community, their works explore complex and innovative modes of abstraction. Relating to cultural systems, religious beliefs, and social structures, … +

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Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU Celebrates its 20th Anniversary.
Through Oct 25, 2015

The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU is proud to present a very special exhibition in honor of its 20th Anniversary, “Vision 20/20: Looking Back/Looking Forward.” This exhibition provides a glimpse into JMOF-FIU’s collection of more than 100,000 items documenting multi-generations of Jewish families throughout Florida. Floridian Jewish Families have played an integral part in every area of the development of the Sunshine State, … +

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The Wolfsonian exhibits Paradise Found: Cuban Allure, American Seduction.
Through Aug 21, 2016

Paradise Found looks at what President William McKinley described as the close “ties of singular intimacy” that once existed between the United States and Cuba from the 1898 Spanish American War through the pre-revolutionary 1950s. Drawing on a newly acquired photographic archive, the exhibition revisits this now-distant relationship that left lasting traces in each country, from baseball and American-made cars to rumba … +

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Lowe Art Museum exhibits A Collector's Legacy: The Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections.
Apr 16 - Sep 27, 2015

The Lowe Art Museum is thrilled to present the first public exhibition of works from the Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections as a tribute to the wonderful woman who catalyzed their very existence. The Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections comprise a rich, intergenerational assortment of art in all media, including works by Olafur Eliasson, Walker Evans, … +

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Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980)
Mar 19 - Aug 23, 2015

Eugenio Espinoza’s current show features over 50 exceptional works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, postcards and documentation of performances and interventions by the Venezuelan artist. The exhibition focuses on his practice during the decade of the 1970s, highlighting his significance within the Latin American avant-garde of that period. Currently living in Florida, Espinoza is known for his nonfigurative, humorous and irreverent manipulations of … +

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Project Gallery: Shana Lutker Again Against, A Foot, A Back, A Wall
May 7 - Sep 13, 2015

Since 2012, the artist Shana Lutker has been researching the Surrealist movement. Among the most important European avant-garde groups of the 20th century, the Surrealists explored the unconscious mind and creative expressions that were tied to the irrational. Growing out of the artist’s previous work focused on psychoanalysis, this ongoing project, The History of the Fistfights of the Surrealists (2012–), presents a … +

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PAMM's Project Gallery: Diego Bianchi
Feb 19 - July 26, 2015

Argentinian artist Diego Bianchi has produced a new large-scale installation for PAMM’s project gallery adjacent to the museum’s main entrance. With an underlying sense of loss and an unusual beauty, his dynamic assemblages involve binding, burning, or cementing together these worn objects, creating textured surfaces that dialogue with the work of Antoni Tàpies, concurrently on view at PAMM. Bianchi is known for … +

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Jewish Museum Of Florida Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Mar 31 - Oct 25, 2015

The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU presents a very special exhibition in honor of its 20th Anniversary, Vision 20/20: Looking Back/Looking Forward. This exhibition provides a glimpse into JMOF-FIU’s collection of more than 100,000 items documenting multi-generations of Jewish families throughout Florida. Floridian Jewish Families have played an integral part in every area of the development of the Sunshine State, from the pioneer … +

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Tàpies: From Within at Pérez Art Museum Miami
Feb 6 - May 3, 2015

A major historical survey that features a selection of more than 50 large-scale paintings and sculptures, representing diverse moments from throughout Antoni Tàpies’ career. These include early examples from 1945 through to recent works created in 2011—the year prior to his death. The exhibition explores the Spanish artist’s use of unusual materials and forms and the development of his unique visual language, … +

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Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perception at Lowe Art Museum
Feb 7, – Apr 19, 2015

The Brazilian-born Muniz is known for the startling materials he uses in the production of his stunning images. By employing diverse materials such as toys, diamonds, garbage and magazine clippings, the artist creates tableaux, which are then photographed. Poetics of Perception includes elements of several of his renowned bodies of work, including Diamond Divas, Pictures of Chocolate, Pictures of Junk, Pictures of … +