Museums

The Vesper Project is the culmination of Titus Kaphar’s intensive engagement with the fictional history of the Vespers, a 19th-century New England family. The resulting project, which features the remains of an abandoned Connecticut home into which the artist has incorporated his own work, interrogates notions of race, identity, memory, and social constructs. The Vesper Project obliterates the distance between viewer and … +

Dixieland is the name given to the style of jazz performed by early New Orleans jazz musicians. The name is a reference to the “Old South,” specifically anything south of the Mason-Dixon line. Dixieland is one of the earliest styles of jazz music. The Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Band is South Florida’s leading band dedicated to this genre of music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Z18hSj680 Museum of … +

PAMM will screen one of four new episodes from the “Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century” series which reveals how specific artists engage with culture around them and how art affects our perspective of the world. “Vancouver” includes artists Liz Magor, Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, and Jeff Wall. ART21 is a nonprofit organization, celebrated as a global leader in presenting thought-provoking and … +

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, artist William Cordova will discuss the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in relation to Haitian Vodou flags, Puerto Rican political posters, and Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s cut-up celluloid cinema. The talk will be followed by a discussion with PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans and PAMM Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz. Auditorium First come, … +

The Museum will transform -on this night only- into a speakeasy style hideaway with live music and entertainment. Artist Ira Reines, protégé of the incomparable Erté, will be at the event to meet and greet guests. The Masterpiece Event will formally welcome the “From Erté to Reines“ A reflection of artistic lineage from master to protégé” exhibit to the Museum. Coral Springs … +

Carlos Motta’s Histories for the Future provides narratives that shed light on the dynamics of contemporary forms of social oppression. At times working as an activist and educator, Motta engages forms of social education in his works. Motta’s works reconsider the conquest of the New World offering a new cartography that takes into account alternative histories. Carlos Motta (b. 1978, Colombia)is graduated … +

MOCA call for participants able to share true personal stories about a time when the intersection of your social identities challenged and changed you. Who we are is an intersection of identities: Age. Gender. Race. Class. Culture. Sexual orientation. Religion. Politics. Ethnicity. Language. Physical ability. Physical challenge. Sometimes, identity is what holds us together; other times it pulls us apart. Twelve readers … +

Curated by Richard Haden and focusing on the works of South Florida artists this exhibition explores concepts and issues of intersectionality, namely the ways in which oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. It also includes key artists whose practice is based outside South Florida. Collectively, all work in the exhibition works in tandem, to activate localized … +

A focused micro-exhibit, this show highlights the work of artist David Hayes, who is remembered for his monumental cut-steel sculptures that have been featured in some 300 exhibitions both domestically and abroad. It includes six pairs of preparatory drawings and maquettes, or models, for Hayes’s full-sized colorful works, and sheds light on the sculptor’s artistic process, both intellectual and aesthetic, revealing the … +

Project Gallery exhibits A Universe of fragile mirrors by filmmaker and video artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. This exhibition presents a selection of works including a new work, Marché Salomon (2015). Capturing the ironies of post-colonial conditions in the Caribbean, Santiago Muñoz’s films blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. She documents specific communities and public sites to generate her own alternative story … +

Including examples of the artist’s works from the 1960s up through the present the exhibition How I Caught a Swallow in Midair presents functional designs, works on paper, and ceramics inspired by natural forms by Oka Doner, the multi-disciplinary artist and designer. A Miami native, Oka Doner is best known for her expansive design of the floors of the Miami international Airport, … +

For forty years, photojournalist Tim Chapman documented the history of South Florida and beyond. His career with the Miami Herald began in 1972, ended in 2012, and included coverage of The Jonestown Massacre, the Mariel Boatlift, the Cocaine Cowboys era, and Hurricane Andrew, among other local and international events. In 2013, Chapman donated his life’s work to HistoryMiami Museum, and Newsman showcases … +

In 1966, the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute engaged noted medical illustrator J. McGuinness Myers to paint a series of eyes with ocular conditions that patients presented to the faculty of the Institute. This exhibition features highlights from this work, which captures with great aesthetic sensitivity what Henry David Thoreau referred to as “the noblest feature, the eye … the jewel of the … +

Artist Matthew Ronay will produce a new installation for Pérez Art Museum’ Project Gallery. Best known for his sculptural work, Ronay creates crafted objects from wood, fabric, and clay, from small sculptures to immersive installations. He draws out the totemic and surreal qualities of objects through form and color, which conjure traditions of non-western art making and American folk art, as well … +

The Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design (MOA+D) exhibits the second installment of Recent Acquisitions + Highlights II, containing selections from the College’s growing art collection. Notable artists and works in the exhibition will include Cundo Bermudez, Ruben Torres Llorca, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell and many others. Freedom Tower MDC Museum of … +

Forever contains more than four thousand second-hand romance novels collected from thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets over a period of years. With yellowed pages, worn covers and bent spines, Forever has the unmistakable patina of human use. John Salvest’s mixed-media objects and installations have been shown throughout the United States, including one-person exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; New … +

PAMM presents a variety of films on view throughout Pérez Art Museum Miami’s galleries including a newly-acquired film installation by Stan Douglas, a selection of works by filmmaker and video artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and a documentary highlighting Doris Salcedo’s work. Pérez Art Museum Miami 1103 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 305.375.3000 www.pamm.org

The Florida Guitar Foundation is proud to present the multi-prize winner Irina Kulikova in concert. The Russian guitar virtuoso will close the 2015-2016 Season with a program featuring her arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, and guitar treasures from Paraguay, Spain, and Russia. This special evening will feature performances by the Select Guitars of BAAM (Bridgeprep Academy of Arts and Minds), … +

MDC Museum of Art + Design is pleased to present A Patch of Blue: Illustrations of Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol curated by students in the MDC Museum Studies Program. The exhibition features works on loan highlighting the Symbolist style of French artist Jean-Georges Cornelius and examining various themes through original paintings and prints produced for a 1927 French publication … +

The Ceramic League of Miami hosts Lisa Orr, who for 25 years has been a professional potter and student of ceramics. She completed an MFA at the NYSCC at Alfred University in 1992. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the permanent collection of WOCEF in Korea. Currently she teaches, lectures … +

Examining US-Cuba relations in the early 20th Century, this installation traces American foreign policy from Roosevelt’s “big stick” diplomacy and push for American involvement in the Cuban War of Independence in 1898 to the more conciliatory approach of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy in 1933. Works selected by FIU undergraduate students will be drawn from The Wolfsonian–FIU Library’s collection—illustrated sheet music … +