Upcoming Events
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October 16, 2019
Official Self-Guided AUDIO Art Deco Architectural Tour @ Art Deco Welcome Center, Wed 10/16 9:00am
Location: Art Deco Welcome Center
Price/Tickets: $20-$25
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October 16, 2019
Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
What: Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
When:On Going
Where: The Wolfsonian–FIU
How much: $12
Art and Design in the Modern Age provides an overview of the museum’s holdings of American and European artifacts from 1850 to 1950. Culled from the Wolfsonian collection are approximately 300 works in a variety of formats, ranging from books, posters, and postcards to decorative arts, architectural models, paintings, and sculptures. Focal points include design-reform movements, urbanism, industrial design, transportation, world’s fairs, advertising, and political propaganda.
This evergreen exhibition, inaugurated in November 1995 and periodically updated, examines the ways in which art and design have both influenced and adapted to the modern world. During the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the fine arts were characterized by unprecedented experimentation and innovation, while design became a critical issue for producers and consumers as machine-made objects replaced those crafted by hand. The works on display demonstrate designers’ responses to the profound social and technological changes stimulated by the Industrial Revolution and reveal how people living in this tumultuous period viewed the world and their place in it.
October 16, 2019
Vinyasa and Guided Meditation @ Miami Beach Botanical Garden
What:Vinyasa and Guided Meditation
When:Wednesdays at 9:30 am
Where:Miami Beach Botanical Garden
How much: $12.00
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October 16, 2019
ETERNITY NOW, 2015 by Sylvie Fleury
What:ETERNITY NOW, 2015 by Sylvie Fleury
When: Long-Term View
Where:The Bass Museum of Art
How much:General Admission $10
Sylvie Fleury is known for her seductive works that re-contextualize status symbols, luxury goods and brand slogans. Eternity Now, 2015 is her latest site-specific neon, and is installed on the historic, Art Deco façade of The Bass, facing Collins Park.
“Sylvie Fleury uses contemporary iconography to suggest a deeper irony,” says curator Jose Carlos Diaz. “While the museum undergoes its transformation, her glowing text ‘Eternity Now’, amplifies the museum’s present and infinite future all at once, while also speaking to the visitors of Miami Beach.”
October 16, 2019
Ugo Rondinone’s Miami Mountain
What: Ugo Rondinone’s Miami Mountain
When:Permanent Collection
Where: The Bass Museum of Art
How much: Free, item located at Collins Park
Ugo Rondinone’s Miami Mountain follows his iconic mountain series, recognizable for their brightly colored, fluorescent contrasting palates.
Miami Mountain is the latest in the series and has been acquired by The Bass. The work, towering 42 feet tall, is permanently installed in Collins Park, on the corner of 21st Street and Collins Avenue. It is the first of its kind to be acquired by a museum and signifies the launch of The Bass’ new acquisitions initiative, a ten year program to acquire contemporary works into the permanent collection.
October 16, 2019
Jim Drain Chess Tables
What: Jim Drain Chess Tables
When: Ongoing exhibit
Where: The Bass Museum of Art
How much: Free
CHESS TABLES
ON LONG-TERM VIEW
Jim Drain is best known for his work using textiles, specifically yarn, as part of the highly-influential Fort Thunder community in Rhode Island. He was also a member of Forcefield, a collective whose practice combined music, performance, film and installation, and exhibited in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.
For The Bass Projects, Drain produced two chess tables and four chairs, designed to provide a social gathering point for chess enthusiasts in Collins Park. The project is inspired by public chess tables in other urban parks, such as Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass.; Tompkins Square Park in New York City; and the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.
Drain’s chess tables and chairs explore the use of pattern through a complex geometric design that uses steel tubing and terrazzo tiles. Visitors are encouraged to activate the public artwork by borrowing chess (or checker) pieces from the museum’s front desk during museum opening hours (temporarily located at the Miami Beach Regional Library space).
Jim Drain (b. 1975, Cleveland) lives and works in Miami, Fla. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, with solo exhibitions at the University of Florida; Locust Projects, Miami; and the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Drain was one of two recipients of the 2005 Baloise Prize, and was recently recognized alongside Bhakti Baxter for creating some of the “best public art projects in the nation” by Americans for the Arts. Drain and the artist Naomi Fisher run The Bas Fisher Invitational space in Miami.
October 16, 2019
Lunch with Live Ultimate Founder and CEO Marc Wachter @ Estiatorio Milos by Costas Spiliadis, Wed 10/16 12:30pm
Location: Estiatorio Milos by Costas Spiliadis
Price/Tickets: $29
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October 16, 2019
Fruit Infused Fare - Cooking Class by Cozymeal™ @ Private Location to be Disclosed to Pariticpants, Wed 10/16 6:00pm
Location: Private Location to be Disclosed to Pariticpants
Price/Tickets: $85
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October 16, 2019
Mexican Street Food Inspiration - Cooking Class by Cozymeal™ @ Private Location to be Disclosed to Pariticpants, Wed 10/16 6:00pm
Location: Private Location to be Disclosed to Pariticpants
Price/Tickets: $85
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