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!
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
DATES:
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.
Mika Tajima
DATES:
3/13/2010 - 6/27/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Connecting Modernist geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, artist Mika Tajima explores activities and performative roles defined by divisive spaces. Tajima’s The Double constructs a phantom performance space and workplace, referencing sources ranging from Herman Miller’s conflicted office furniture system from the late 1960s to the 1970 cult film Performance.
Tour of Miami Beach Residential Gardens
DATES:
3/13/2010 - 3/13/2010
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Tours
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Annual tour of Miami Beach's private residential gardens - from waterfront estates to urban terraces - showcases the creativity and diversity of gardening and outdoor living in South Florida. Tickets are $20 in advance and for Garden members, $25 day of the tour. Details at www.mbgarden.org. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Miami Beach Author Series
DATES:
3/18/2010 - 3/18/2010
CATEGORY:
General Entertainment
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr. Miami Beach, FL 33139
The Garden presents the Miami Beach Author Series, a monthly series of book readings, discussion and author signing of recently published and classic books focusing on Miami Beach history and lifestyle. Tonight: Gerald Posner, author of 'Miami Babylon" which details the footloose, 1980s cocaine culture immortalized in "Scarface" and other scandals that have rocked the city. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Cool Nights, Hot Jazz
DATES:
3/19/2010 - 3/19/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Friday night live jazz concert at the Bass Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members. Tonight's featured artist is: Rudolfo Zuñiga Quintet. 7 to 9 p.m.
Sand in Our Boots: Miami Beach During World War II
DATES:
3/21/2010 - 3/21/2010
CATEGORY:
General Entertainment
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Jewish Museum of Florida
301 Washington Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Speaker: Judith Berson-Levinson. Between 1942 and 1945, more than 500,000 Army Air Corps service men and women were trained on Miami Beach. To house them, the U.S. Government took over 300 hotels and apartment buildings. These troops claimed they had been sent to "the most beautiful boot camp in America." Many of them "got sand in their boots," and vowed to return if they survived the war. And return they did! 2 p.m. lecture.
Miami Beach Women's Conference
DATES:
3/26/2010 - 3/27/2010
CATEGORY:
General Entertainment
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, the Miami Beach Commission for Women and Women's Exhibit will hold the second annual Miami Beach Women's Conference on March 26 and 27, 2010. Visit the web site for a complete schedule of events.
Ground Covers or Lawn?
DATES:
3/27/2010 - 3/27/2010
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General Entertainment
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Dr. Miami Beach, FL 33139
If grooming, watering, mowing, and fertilizing swaths of manicured lawn is getting you down, explore the range of ground covers and plantings that are an alternative with guest lecturer Steve Woodmansee, biologist and owner of Pro Native Consulting.
Free and open to the public. 10 a.m. to noon.
Cool Nights, Hot Jazz
DATES:
4/2/2010 - 4/2/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Friday night live jazz concert at the Bass Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members. Tonight's featured artist is: Shelly Berg, with special guest Ed Calle. 7 to 9 p.m.
Framing the Altarpiece: The Birth of the Modern Painting out of the Spirit of the Gothic Cathedral
DATES:
4/9/2010 - 7/19/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
This exhibition celebrates the re-installation of one of the Bass’s masterpieces, The Coronation of the Virgin, attributed to Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio, and re-introduces several significant Renaissance altarpieces from Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. Altarpieces that once functioned as religious objects within churches were also works of art, recognized as such today in the secular space of the museum or private collection, an ambiguity mediated, then and now, by their frames.
