Amazing Miami Attractions -- In tribute to all veterans, the Museum will mount an exhibit on the story of Floridian Jews who have served in the military. Throughout history, the supreme offering a human being could make for his nation was to put one’s life on the line for the ideals and freedom of that nation. The military offered a direct route to acculturation, especially for new immigrants. Floridian Jews have fought for every conflict from the Seminole Wars when the city of Ft. Myers was named for Col. Abraham C. Myers through the Civil War when Morris Dzialynski of Jacksonville and many others served, to the World Wars, Korean, Viet Nam, Gulf and battles of the 21st Century!
Dzine
DATES:
10/3/2009 - 2/21/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Drawing in large part from Chicano lowrider culture and his own Puerto Rican background, Dzine creates ornate handmade lowrider bikes and plaques to explore the relationship between culture and beauty, the studio and the street and the cross section of high and lowbrow forms of creating art. For his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art, Dzine will present a new custom lowrider tricycle inspired by the concept of "Ghost Bike" memorials. Installed in the entryway of the museum, will be a unique custom sculptural form of light and audio in the shape of a classic chandelier.
48 JEWS: What it Means to be Jewish
DATES:
10/20/2009 - 4/4/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Jewish Museum of Florida
301 Washington Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
This is a series of painted Warhol-esque portraits by Absalom Jac Lahav of famous Jews that celebrates and questions our notions of what it means to be Jewish. The images are gathered from contemporary media sources and selected for their iconic quality. Some included are: Anne Frank, Elie Weisel, Bob Dylan, Gertrude Stein, Alan Greenspan, and Leonard Nimoy.
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
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12/3/2009 - 5/31/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art, Gertrude Silverstone Muss Gallery
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
The Jumex Collection, based in Mexico City, is the largest private collection of international contemporary art in Latin America. The first time this collection is shown in the United States, this exhibition will include a selection of international figures of contemporary art such as Ugo Rondinone, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, On Kawara, Kelly Walker, Rudolf Stingel, Paul McCarthy, Andy Warhol, Gabriel Orozco and Minerva Cuevas, alongside Mexican conceptual artists: Damian Ortega, and Stephan Bruggeman. Co-curated by Silvia Karman Cubiña and Raphaela Platow, in collaboration with Victor Zamudio Taylor, Curator of the Jumex Collection. This exhibition will later travel to the Cincinnati Art Center.
Tracey Moffatt
DATES:
1/23/2010 - 5/2/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Australian artist Tracey Moffatt’s body of works largely focuses on the human condition as a widespread situation. Using video and photography as her chief media, she presents a chronicle that is directly based on images and memories that she has retained from watching TV and movies during her childhood. Moffatt gained international attention with her film "Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy" when it was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. Her works are held in the collections of the Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, and The National Gallery of Australia.
Selections from the Collection
DATES:
2/1/2010 - 2/1/2013
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
The permanent collection of the Bass Museum of Art spans more than five hundred years and four continents, including works from Renaissance and Baroque paintings; Rococo court painting and English portraiture; painting and sculpture of North America, 19th and 20th century landscape and history paintings; painting and sculpture of North America, Latin America and the Caribbean; contemporary photography; Asian art; European decorative arts; as well as a unique collection of works on paper. Works from the collection will be rotated on a regular basis in the Bass Museum's Taplin Gallery, as well as the newly renovated Peter E. and Annemarie H. Houghton Gallery, located on the first level of the museum. Also on view is The Tournament, which has a particularly prestigious provenance in that it was part of Henry VIII's collection at Knole House in England and was later purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in the early twentieth-century before it came into John Bass's collection.
Down in the Dunes
DATES:
2/13/2010 - 2/13/2010
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Tours
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Meet in South Pointe Park at the Washington Ave. entrance for a guided walking tour of this exceptional City park with landscape architect Barry Miller of Savino Miller. Learn about the coastal plantings, seagrasses, dune features and berm created during 2008-09 park renovations. Free and open to the public. 10 a.m. to noon.
DNE Program I: Dance Now! at the BASS Museum
DATES:
2/20/2010 - 2/20/2010
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Dance
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Dance Now! celebrates its 10th anniversary with a multidisciplinary performance migrating through the museum. The afternoon of site specific world premiers will be based on the three current exhibits: The Jumex Collection, based in Mexico City, the largest private collection of international contemporary art in Latin America, Graffitti artist Dzine's site-specific project comprising wallpaper, objects and sound socially energizing the café and other areas of the museum, and selections from the permanent collection of 16th-19th century work. Shows at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Concert: The Stuff Dreams Are Made On
DATES:
2/24/2010 - 2/24/2010
CATEGORY:
Music
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Gil Morgenstern, artistic director and violinist, presents The Stuff Dreams Are Made On: Dreams. Visions. Fantasy. Nightmares. Inspired by psychiatrist Carl Jung’s famous "Red Book" in which he details his theory of the collective unconscious, the performance will explore the integral role dreams play in culture, from music to mythology to literature. Musical works will include Pauline Oliveros’ Edge of Dreams, George Crumb’s Night Music and Franz Schubert’s Fantasy, with readings of Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote. With Donald Berman, piano. Admission: $25. 7:30 p.m.
The Brandenburg Project - Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and More
DATES:
2/28/2010 - 2/28/2010
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Music
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Miami Beach Community Church
1620 Drexel Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Over the next three years, Firebird will present the complete Brandenburg Concertos in concert in South Florida. The project begins with Bach’s incredible quadruple concerto (Number 2) for trumpet, oboe, flute, and violin. Also on this program is the incomparable Cantata 51 for trumpet and soprano, featuring special guest soprano Kathryn Mueller. 4 p.m.
