Museums

In celebration of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, HistoryMiami Museum will feature Sinatra: An American Icon, a multi-media exhibition exploring the life of the multiple GRAMMY Award winner. The exhibition, curated by the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, traces 100 years of Sinatra’s career and impact on American culture. The exhibition includes never-before-seen photos, family mementos, rare correspondence, personal items, artwork, and music. … +

MDC Museum of Art + Design exhibits 75 Years of EFE Images: Wars, Triumphs, Disasters, People and Politics. This exhibition of photographs donated to MDC’s Permanent Art Collection and Wolfson Archives features EFE’s compilation of the most arresting and impactful images for each year in existence. The exhibition includes photographs from EFE’s award-winning photojournalists, capturing pivotal moments in history including coronations of … +

Frost School of Music presents “Winds in Concert” featuring a blend of wind, brass and percussion instruments in grand style through works by top composers of today and yesterday. The ensemble plays led by music director, Robert Carnochan as well as guest conductors Chee Weng Yim and Christian Noon. UM Gusman Concert Hall Free admission University of Miami Frost School of Music … +

Jérémy Gobé who lives and works in Paris, draws his inspiration from chance encounters with objects from nature, building materials or abandoned pieces of fabric. In the room-sized installation, Freedom Leading Wool, Gobé uses fabric and mesh to create a dramatic enveloping space. The red jacquard wool, claimed from a shuttered factory in rural France, recalls a dying industry and its craftsmen. … +

The artists Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña will present a series of stop-motion animation films: Mother.Father; The Temple; The Arc and The Andes. These mysterious films have been described as foundational chapters of a new creed, presenting images that mix the sacred with the profane, the beautiful with the horrific and so on. The entire film is made using simple materials—found objects, … +

Tenor David Portillo has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation. Fresh off of his Metropolitan Opera debut, David will present an afternoon of Spanish song accompanied by the celebrated pianist Gregory Ritchey. The concert program is inspired by Steven and William Ladd’ exhibition currently on view. Venue MDC Museum of Art and Design Freedom Tower MDC Museum … +

The exhibition features a series of Photostats produced by Bearden in the 1960s. Bearden created approximately two dozen small collages, which he subsequently converted into large works on paper using a Photostat machine—the precursor of the Xerox copier. The imagery comprises some of the first experimental, artistic representations of black popular culture from an African-American perspective. Recognized as one of the most … +

Presented by The Basement Project, Boom is a comedy that tells the story of two college students, Jo and Jules, who meet online then get together for an evening of “casual sex”, but are thwarted by the apocalypse. Playwright by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and directed by Oleg Kheyfets. Music composed by Miami Band Afrobeta. The world premiere for Boom was originally staged … +

Bass Museum of Art presents Metaforms as a part of its ongoing Project “Temporary Contemporary”. Curated by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of the Public Art Fund, 14 large scale sculptures and installations featured in Art Basel Miami’s Public sector were selected, now on view at Collins Park. Sculpture, murals, sound installations, video and other interactive works of art, interrupt people’s … +

The exhibition features a series of Photostats produced by Bearden in the 1960s. Bearden created approximately two dozen small collages, which he subsequently converted into large works on paper using a Photostat machine—the precursor of the Xerox copier. The imagery comprises some of the first experimental, artistic representations of black popular culture from an African-American perspective. Recognized as one of the most … +

Nari Ward: Sun Splashed, will be the largest survey of the artist’s work to date and will offer a close consideration of his diverse production. Sun Splashed will examine Ward’s career through interrelated frameworks that reveal the ongoing investigations, both material and intellectual, that have guided his practice across more than 20 years. This exhibition will be organized around vital points of … +

Mary Queen of the Universe is a solo exhibition of works by Steven and William Ladd. The exhibition features crafted sculpture, drawings, and prints by the fraternal collaborative team. For more than ten years, Steven and William have explored the blurred boundaries between design and fashion, fine art and craft. In a decade of working together, with fascination for materials and process, … +

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. The exhibition traces the narrative of technological ambition from myth and triumph to peril and accident prevention through over two hundred works from the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including decorative … +

The Portrait Transformed explores the evolution of portraiture from final quarter of the 1700s until the present, featuring 151 rare portrait drawings and oil sketches. Among the highlights are a late eighteenth-century work by Jacques-Louis David, four works by Lucian Freud, and Aubrey Beardsley’s decadent India ink portrait of Oscar Wilde. The Portrait Transformed also boasts a fine range of self-portraits, many … +

Sheela Gowda artistic practice engages a diverse range of media and materials. Her vocabulary of materials are drawn from both the rural and urban contexts in which she works and are characterized by their interest in texture, color, and socio-political references related to India. Gowda began as a figurative painter and studied in London, where she received a master’s degree in painting … +

Carlos Alfonzo’s prolific works in clay and painted ceramics are inextricably connected to the formal evolution of his large paintings and sculptures. This exhibition presents his works with clay and ceramics in the context of contemporaneous paintings, drawings and other small-scale works.The exhibition showcased the artist’s short but acclaimed career until his death at the age of 40 in 1991. Organized by … +

Sylvie Fleury is known for her seductive works that re-contextualize status symbols, luxury goods and brand slogans. Eternity Now, 2015, her newest site-specific neon, will be installed on the façade of the Bass Museum of Art’s Art Deco building as part of bassX, the museum’s series of artist projects presented during its year-long renovation. Sylvie Fleury who lives and works in Geneva, … +

This exhibition details the dramatic recovery of historic materials relating to the Jewish community in Iraq from a flooded basement in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, and the National Archives’ recovery work in support of U.S. Government efforts to preserve and make these materials available. The materials include more than 2,700 Jewish books and tens of thousands of documents in Hebrew, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic … +

This new project gallery presentation consists of three photographs by Canadian photographer and art historian Jeff Wall, one of which will be presented to the public for the first time. The pictures show individuals living on the streets, under highways, and in urban back alleys. Since the 1970s, Wall has been producing enigmatic, large-scale works that connect photography with a variety of … +

Speechless is a new work by the Rotterdam-based artistic duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol), is a multilayered exploration of how we speak about the precarious state of the natural world. The work consists of a custom-built aviary, which houses five parrots taught to mimic phrases from T.S. Elliot’s seminal 1922 poem, “The Waste Land.” The … +

Celebrating the centennial of Miami Beach, Miami Beach: From Mangrove to Tourist Mecca documents the city’s fledgling years. Sculpted by pioneering developers such as Carl Fisher, Miami Beach blossomed during the 1920s into a winter tourist hotspot catering to the wealthy elite. Photographic albums of “lost” hotels—the Nautilus, Flamingo, King Cole, and others—show how these self-contained luxury resorts lured the rich and … +