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!
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.
Lox with Black Beans and Rice
DATES:
4/27/2010 - 9/26/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Jewish Museum of Florida
301 Washington Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
The Cuban Jewish community in South Florida began with the 1959 communist revolution in Cuba; most Jews fled and started new lives. The 30 large format candid photographs by Randi Sidman-Moore include brief oral histories. They reflect the daily lives and life and holiday cycles rituals of a people and how they are different or similar to the larger society. These "Jewbans" are examples of diversity within one cultural landscape.
Egyptian Gallery at the Bass Museum of Art
DATES:
4/30/2010 - 3/3/2013
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
The new Egyptian Gallery will become a permanent display at the Museum and will showcase their prized Egyptian Painted Sycamore Fig Wood Sarcophagus and mummy within a dedicated gallery space. Over 37 events are expected to take place to include the celebratory opening weekend of private and public screenings, lectures, demonstrations, concerts, dedicated family days, special teen events, and group tours.
Human Rites
DATES:
6/25/2010 - 10/3/2010
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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 terms faith, religion and belief tend to be used interchangeably in modern society, though each has a separate and distinct meaning. This human drive to reconnect, to rebind ourselves to something lost, is expressed through practices, often repetitive (i.e. chanting), that typically take well crafted forms. We call these practices Rituals. This exhibit brings old masters and contemporary artistic practices into conversation with each other, conceptualizing the contemporary by showcasing the art object designed for collective ritualistic worship along side objects developed to express a more personal form of ritual.
Hot Jazz, Cool Nights
DATES:
9/10/2010 - 9/10/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly executed in oil started to appear on graffiti sites across New York City. The paintings were the work of the well-known artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey's diaristic accounts of painting illegally throughout the city. The narrative of her "beautification project" is both provocative and hilarious. It touches on such issues as who is allowed to make art in our society, and what distinguishes art from graffiti, while never losing touch with the frequently comical reality of creating a contemporary art project on the streets of New York.
Hot Jazz, Cool Nights
DATES:
9/24/2010 - 9/24/2010
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Museum/Art Exhibit
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Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139
