Showing posts with label art news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art news. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

3M™ Window Films are Perfect for Protecting Fine Art and Design in Homes, Galleries and Museums

3M™ Window Films help block harmful UV rays, protecting fine art and design in homes, galleries and museums. 3M Window Film helps extend the life of artwork, paintings and furnishings by reducing 99% of UV rays, the largest cause of fading. Outsmart the sun with superior protection using 3M Window Film. Sunlight can fade paintings, photographs and other valuables when unfiltered sunlight comes through windows exposing both occupants and furnishings to damaging effects of the sun, including harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. While no film can stop fading completely, 3M films dramatically slow the progress of fading to keep your home and valuables looking beautiful longer.
 

Museums and historic registered buildings around the world count on 3M™ Window Films to help protect their valuable collections from the damaging sun. Many historic buildings are equipped with old, single-pane windows that are inefficient at blocking UV rays that can harm the building’s many historical artifacts. The challenge then, is upgrading windows while preserving the look and feel of the building. In the case of museums, galleries, and art collectors where their mission is to protect priceless, irreplaceable artifacts, and expensive works of art, minimizing the sun’s damaging UV rays is essential. In both instances, 3M Window Films offers protection from UV rays, while preserving the building’s original architecture. The film’s virtually invisible appearance helps maintain existing aesthetic looks.3M authorized dealers are proven experts in helping solve problems like issues with fading, temperature imbalances and excessive glare. Visit one today at http://www.3M.com/WindowFilm/

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Free Fridays at The Wolfsonian-FIU!

Free Fridays at The Wolf

August 11 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm


Friday, August 11th from 6-9pm join us at The Wolfsonian-FIU for a staff-led tour of the galleries at 6pm, and indulge in happy-hour specials in the Wolf coffee bar beginning at 4pm. Learn more about The Wolfsonian and related art and design themes during this 45-minute free guided tour of the permanent collections / temporary exhibitions. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

May is Miami Museum Month


Expand your cultural horizons this May by visiting many of Miami’s incredible museums. Throughout the month of May, guests will be offered “Buy One, Get One Free” admission or “Join One Museum, See Them All” at participating museums during Miami Museum Month, museum hopping at its finest. 


Participating museums include:

Ancient Spanish Monastery: Built in Segovia, Spain in 1141, the Monastery Cloister is the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst brought the pieces to America, and in 1952 Miami developers reassembled the monastery on its current site.

Art Center/South Florida: Advancing the knowledge and practice of contemporary visual arts and culture in South Florida as a creative and learning center, and internationally recognized as a world class-cultural center.

Bakehouse Art Complex: The Bakehouse provides juried emerging and mid-career artists with affordable studio spaces, exhibition opportunities, educational and artist advancement programming and common workshop spaces in Miami’s historic art deco bakery building.

The Bass
: This museum in the heart of the historic Art Deco District offers an overview of major European paintings, sculpture and textiles, plus temporary exhibitions of contemporary art from around the world. Its varied permanent collection spans more than 500 years and four continents.

Historic Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum: This museum acquires, preserves, displays, and promotes collections of a historical nature that will be of educational value to the preservation of African American history as it relates to the struggles and accomplishments of Black Police Officers in Overtown, as they served during the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1940′s, 50′s, and 60’s.

Coral Gables Museum: This museum focuses on architecture, urban design, sustainable development and preservation, with events, programs and tours. It also offers meeting and event spaces. Open Tuesday-Sunday.

Gold Coast Railroad Museum: Houses a collection of historic railroad cars and memorabilia. The permanent exhibit, the presidential Pullman car Ferdinand Magellan, was used by former presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Reagan. Other features include the model train exhibit and Thomas the Tank Engine tables for children.

Haitian Heritage Museum: This not-for-profit organization is committed to highlighting and preserving Haiti’s rich culture and heritage. The museum is a mecca for Little Haiti, where the community here and abroad can enjoy a collection of beautiful Haitian art, historical artifacts, music, film and literary works.

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum: The Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum is located in the original Town Hall of the City of Homestead, built in 1917. It is located across the street from Losner Park, just a short distance from the newly-restored Seminole Theater.

History Miami: This premier cultural institution is committed to gathering, organizing, preserving and celebrating Miami’s history as the unique crossroads of the Americas. It accomplishes this through exhibitions, city tours, education, research, collections and publications.

Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach: This inspiring memorial, designed by Kenneth Treister F.A.I.A., is a tribute to the six million Jewish victims of Nazi terrorism before and during World War II. Around the monument, the walls of a tunnel-like passage chronicle the images of the death camps.

Jewish Museum of Florida: This museum is comprised of two adjacent, restored, former historic synagogues, connected with a skylighted bistro. The museum first opened in the 1936 Art Deco synagogue, which features 80 stained glass windows, Deco chandeliers and a Moorish copper dome. In 2007 the museum expanded into Miami Beach’s first synagogue, built in 1928-1929.

Little Haiti Cultural Center: The Little Haiti Cultural Center offers a unique opportunity for residents and visitors to gain exposure to Afro-Caribbean culture, entertain and develop new talent, and expand their knowledge of the arts.

Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami: Temporary exhibitions are drawn from the museum’s vast collection as well as traveling exhibitions. Permanent exhibits include Italian Renaissance and Baroque, Greco-Roman Antiquities, 17th-21st century Art of the Americas and Europe, and Asian, African and Native American art.

MDC Museum of Art + Design (MOAD): Miami Dade College’s flagship institution dedicated to the presentation and exhibition of visual art and design, housed at the National Historic Landmark Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College in Downtown Miami.

Miami Children’s Museum: Play, learn, imagine and create on Watson Island with the museum’s 14 interactive and bilingual exhibit galleries, as well as daily programming for the whole family. The museum also offers seasonal camps and classes, custom birthday party packages and more. Pick up a unique souvenir from Kid Smart Educational Gift Shop, and lunch at Subway.

Miami’s Auto Museum & Event Space: This large and unique automobile museum and event space at the Dezer Collection features the largest eclectic transportation collection in the world. Guests take a once in a lifetime journey down memory lane as they trace the evolution of one of mankind’s greatest inventions. The space features 1,200 vehicles including The James Bond Exhibition, Hollywood Cars of the Stars, and American/European Classics.

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami: MoCA is known for its provocative and innovative exhibitions, and for seeking a fresh approach to examining the art of our times. Offers an active exhibition schedule, presenting several annual exhibitions along with a variety of public educational programs, including “MoCA by Moonlight”, its new series of Wednesday evening lectures, forums, and art classes.

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum: The museum opened its current 46,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building in November 2008. Admission is always free. The AAM accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate is located across from the Blue garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus.

Patricia & Phillip Frost Museum of Science: Frost Science will celebrate its grand opening in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on Monday, May 8, 2017. This museum will help to inspire people of all ages and cultures to enjoy science and technology in order to better understand ourselves and our world.

PĂ©rez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Miami-Dade County’s flagship modern and contemporary art museum presenting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum’s new state-of-the-art facility is now open to the public in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park alongside Biscayne Bay.

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens: This National Historic Landmark was built by agricultural industrialist James Deering, who wintered on the property from 1916-1925. Today, the extraordinary European-inspired estate includes a Main House filled with art and furnishings, 10 acres of gardens on Biscayne Bay, a hardwood hammock (native forest), and a historic village.

Wings over Miami Air Museum: Located at the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport in southwest Miami-Dade County, this museum serves as a tribute to those veterans and aviators who pioneered military and civilian aviation. Military memorabilia from World War II and other conflicts are on display.

The Wolfsonian-FIU: Located in the heart of the Art Deco District, the museum showcases American and European decorative and fine arts produced between 1885 and 1945. From propaganda posters to World’s Fair memorabilia, the array of objects offers visitors a thought-provoking journey through the modern age.

Contact the museums directly for more information or to purchase a membership / tickets.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

ICA Miami: The Everywhere Studio

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami will open its new permanent home on December 1, 2017 with a major group exhibition exploring the significance of the artist’s studio, from the post-war period to the present day. The exhibition will be on view from December 1, 2017 through February 12, 2018.




Encompassing some 100 works in painting, sculpture, video, and installation, 'The Everywhere Studio' brings together over 50 artists from the past five decades to reveal the artist’s studio as a charged site that has both predicted and responded to broader social and economic changes of our time.




'The Everywhere Studio' interprets the works of post-war artists and emerging practitioners through the lens of the social and historical conditions in which they were made. Organized chronologically, the exhibition examines the changing relationships that artists have had to their sites of production. From the studio as a site of labor, to one that blurs production, performance, and spectacle, to a concept that defines the artist’s own identity, the exhibition features artists who, in response to changing socioeconomic influences, represented new modes of working and living that would subsequently spread across society.




'The Everywhere Studio' is organized by ICA Miami and curated by Deputy Director & Chief Curator Alex Gartenfeld, Curator of Programs Gean Moreno, and Assistant Curator Stephanie Seidel. Exhibition design by MOS Architects. This exhibition will inaugurate the museum’s new permanent home in the Miami Design District.