Highlights
The Miami Art Museum was founded in 1996 and succeeded the Center for the Fine Arts as the city's contemporary art museum. Located in Downtown Miami, the museum emphasizes art from the 20th century to the present. Its permanent holdings have been referred to as "the quintessential Miami collection" by Art in America magazine. That is to say that the MAM's internationally-flavored collection reflects the multi-cultured makeup of the city where it resides. Some of the artists found in the MAM's permanent collection include Jose Bedia, Fernando Botero, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Teresita Fernandez, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Ana Mendieta, Robert...
The Miami Art Museum was founded in 1996 and succeeded the Center for the Fine Arts as the city's contemporary art museum. Located in Downtown Miami, the museum emphasizes art from the 20th century to the present. Its permanent holdings have been referred to as "the quintessential Miami collection" by Art in America magazine. That is to say that the MAM's internationally-flavored collection reflects the multi-cultured makeup of the city where it resides. Some of the artists found in the MAM's permanent collection include Jose Bedia, Fernando Botero, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Teresita Fernandez, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Ana Mendieta, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ruben Torres-Llorca, George Segal, Lorna Simpson, and Frank Stella. The Art Museum of Miami's art season alternates between originally curated exhibitions to traveling shows. Some recent presentations include "Wangechi Mutu," "Ana Mendieta: Earth, Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-85," "Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures," and "Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine and Other Stories 1995-2007." In November 2004, Miami Dade County voters approved a bond that includes $100 million for a new site for the Miami Art Museum. Award-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron will design the facility, and it will border a 29-acre property, now called Museum Park, overlooking Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami. The new museum is estimated at 129,000 square feet. It will house 32,000 square feet of galleries, an educational complex with a library, an auditorium, classrooms and a workshop space, as well as a cafe and store. Also slated for construction is an outdoor sculpture garden. MAM will remain open at its original site on Flagler Street until Museum Park is constructed. Miami Art Museum (MAM) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit educational institution with a civic Board of Trustees. MAM was accredited by the American Association of Museums and reaccredited in 2001. The Museum of Art is located at 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130.
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Iconoclast in art, film worlds
New York Times News ServiceBruce Conner, an artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, died Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74. His death followed a long illness, said Susan Inglett, his New York...Tags: Bruce Conner, Robert Rauschenberg, Ken Johnson, Andy Warhol, Cinema Industry
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Travel advisories: holiday forecast, city respite
The Associated PressIt's the quintessential South Beach scene: Beautiful people lounging alongside shimmering water. Art imitates social life here next month with a fashion photography exhibit installed around a swanky hotel pool. It's one of the many ways Miami...Tags: Botany, Art Basel, Robert Chambers, Miami Beach, Photography
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Art venues
South Florida Sun-SentinelHere are is a list of South Florida art venues by abbreviation AIFL: Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, 1799 SE 17th St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3000, aifl.edu. Armory: Armory Art Center, 1700 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach, 561-...Tags: Pembroke Pines, Libraries and Museums, Coconut Creek, Broward Community College, Norton Museum of Art
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Visual art calendar
South Florida Sun-SentinelOCTOBER To Oct. 12 -- Jack King. Mixed media sculptures. Portraits of the Golden Age of Jazz. Photographs by William P. Gottlieb. Eissey. To Oct. 14 -- Alterego. Artwork by the most recent crop of Artists-in-Residence: Trisha Brookbank, Monica Hernandez,...Tags: Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Painting, Alexander Calder, Raoul Dufy, Yoko Ono
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Sun, surf, sand, ... hike!
When 75,000 fans pack into Dolphin Stadium for the Super Bowl, when the coin is finally tossed and that ball is fir kicked, this city will become, temporarily at least, the football capital of the world.
But no matter how many tens of millions of homes...Tags: Florida Grand Opera, National Football League, Willie Nelson, Popular Music, Art Basel
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Basel begins
With so many nightclub parties, gallery openings and celebrity-hosted happenings scheduled to coincide with this weekend's Art Basel Miami Beach, a person could easily get overwhelmed by the sheer size and scope of it all. Not to worry, though, as we've...Tags: Libraries and Museums, Television Industry, Miami Beach, Photography, Wildlife
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Celebrate the art of storytelling
MIAMI -- Once upon a time, there was a storytelling workshop and festival hosted by Miami-Dade County Libraries. All of the adults and children of the land could attend and learn the art of weaving words and the importance of tales in culture. This year,...Tags: Culture, Festive Event
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Best Art Museum for Families
South Florida ParentingArt for the whole family, and it doesn't get any better than this. -------------------- MIAMI-DADE COUNTY -------------------- GOLD Miami Art Museum 101 W. Flagler St., Miami Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m.;...Tags: Libraries and Museums, People, Adults, Boca Raton, Davie
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Pop culture in fine art's home
Special CorrespondentVisitors to a major museum exhibition these days are more likely to see motorcycles, tiaras or remnants of the Titanic than antiquities or canvases by Old Masters. Blockbusters -- the crowd-pleasing, traveling shows of the art world -- have shifted...Tags: Libraries and Museums, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Charles, Prince of Wales, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Imperial and Royal Matters
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