Museums

PAMM has been chosen as the Florida Collection site for Ai Weiwei’s new international art project, Lego Collection Point. This project is part of Ai Weiwei’s ongoing efforts to challenge censorship and discrimination from LEGO who refused Ai Weiwei’s order to make a piece. Ai decided to make a new work to defend freedom of speech and political art with LEGOs from … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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, … +

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, … +

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 … +

On Jamaican Independence Day, be among the first guests to view this unique exhibit featuring more than 50 prints of Jamaica photographed in 1891 by Valentine & Sons of Dundee, Scotland. Archival items related to the studio and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, where the prints were first displayed, will also be on view. Light hors d’oeuvres and music will round out … +

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, … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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, … +

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 … +

Saturday, June 7, 2014 from 11:30am to 4:30pm Join up at the The Wolfsonian for the next Discovering Design Free Family Day.

Sunday, June 29, 2014 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm Every last Sunday of the month is Family Day at The Bass Museum. On Sunday, June 29, parents and kids will get a chance to design and make their own kites and airplanes.