World Congress Day Passes Now Available
Read Time: 3 mins The 16th World Congress on Art Deco® is coming to Miami and Miami Beach in April, and we have options for locals who want to participate in the biennial festivities! If you cannot join us for the entire 14-day Congress, we are now offering Individual Tickets to our Main Congress programs in South Florida between […]
Agenda Preview: May 14th, 2024 Historic Preservation Board
Read Time: 5 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee will review the following applications on the upcoming Historic Preservation Board agenda. Here is a sneak peek of the projects to be heard and links to learn more. Have a comment about a project you would like to share with our committee? Contact us. To review the Historic Preservation Board Agenda, including public […]
Video: Lea Nickless // Deco Deep Dive // Art Deco Weekend 2024
Read Time: < 1 min On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Lea Nickless presented her lecture “Deco Deep Dive” at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Lecture Description The Wolfsonian–FIU is a treasure trove of materials from the period 1850–1950, gathered from near and far. From the “frozen fountain” that once served as the facade of the Norris Theater in Pennsylvania to a Miami River bridge tender’s house, […]
Video: Rosa Lowinger // Dwell Time // Art Deco Weekend 2024
Read Time: < 1 min On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Rosa Lowinger presented her lecture “Dwell Time” at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Lecture Description Based on her just-published memoir, Dwell Time, conservator Rosa Lowinger discusses preserving modern tropical buildings in Miami and Havana. From mosaics, murals, and decorative cast stone to terracotta and ironwork, Lowinger will show how repairing the key elements of 20th-century tropical architecture […]
Video: Dave Bricker // Miami’s Secret Floating Village // Art Deco Weekend 2024
Read Time: < 1 min On Saturday, January 13, 2024, Dave Bricker presented his lecture “Miami’s Secret Floating Village” at the Art Deco Museum. Lecture Description Inspired by people he met while working on the Christo Surrounded Islands project, David Bricker found himself living aboard chasing stories here in Miami, throughout the Bahamas, and across the Atlantic. Realizing that he was living in a […]
How the Arts Helped Influence the Resurgence of Lincoln Road in the 1980s
Read Time: 5 mins Editors Note: The Barbara Baer Capitman archive’s “Historic Threads” project is partly sponsored by the Department of State, Division of Historical Resources and the State of Florida. Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Mall is one of the most popular shopping destinations in the world – a pedestrian promenade dotted with historic buildings from the 1920s-1960s. It […]
Opa-locka MENA Fest Celebrates 97-Year History on April 13th
Read Time: 2 mins Experience Opa-locka’s vibrant fusion of cultures at the inaugural edition of MENA Fest, the first multicultural festival of its kind in the city’s 97-year history. On Saturday, April 13 from 12 to 5 p.m., visitors and locals alike are invited to celebrate the unique connection between Opa-locka and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. […]
Video: Stuart Reed // Florida’s First Travelogue: A Spanish Shipwreck Survivor’s Memoir of Enslavement with the Calusa Tribe for 17 Years // Art Deco Weekend 2024
Read Time: 2 mins On Sunday, January 14, 2024, Stuart Reed presented his lecture “Florida’s First Travelogue: A Spanish Shipwreck Survivor’s Memoir of Enslavement with the Calusa Tribe for 17 Years” at the Art Deco Museum as part of the 47th annual Art Deco Weekend. Lecture Description Hernando D’Escalante Fontaneda was 13 years old when he survived a shipwreck […]
Miami New Drama Presents: Dangerous Days, April 4-28 at the Colony Theatre
Read Time: 2 mins A World Premiere Play by Nicholas Griffin Directed By Jen Wineman April 4—28, 2024 Miami New Drama presents: Dangerous Days. An exciting play that reminisces on the infamous past of Miami. The play is directed by Jen Wineman and premieres at the Colony Theatre on April 4th. in the 1980s, during “El Mariel”, Fidel Castro […]
The Kay Family and the Clevelander Hotel
Read Time: 4 mins Editors Note: The Barbara Baer Capitman archive’s “Historic Threads” project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Historical Resources and the State of Florida. According to a 1986 Miami Herald article, in the 1980s developer Gerry Sanchez purchased numerous hotels along Ocean Drive. Mr. Sanchez was superstitious – and since he […]
Agenda Preview: April 9, 2024 Historic Preservation Board
Read Time: 2 mins MDPL’s Advocacy Committee will review the following applications on the upcoming Historic Preservation Board agenda. Here is a sneak peek of the projects to be heard and links to learn more. Have a comment about a project you would like to share with our committee? Contact us. To review the Historic Preservation Board Agenda, including public […]
Video: Bob Kealing // The Beatles in 1964 Florida // Art Deco Weekend 2024
Read Time: < 1 min On Friday, January 12th, 2024, Bob Kealing presented his lecture “The Beatles in 1964 Florida” at the Art Deco Museum. Lecture Description This lively presentation examines the two weeks the Beatles spent in the potboiler that was 1964 Florida; longer than anywhere else in North America that watershed year. South Florida is center stage; it’s the subject of […]
Video: Haley Busch, 1,000 Friends of Florida // Saving Special Places and Building Better Communities: Smart Growth in Florida // Art Deco Weekend 2024
Read Time: 2 mins On Friday, January 12, 2024, Haley Busch of 1,000 Friends of Florida presented “Saving Special Places and Building Better Communities: Smart Growth in Florida” at the Art Deco Museum. Lecture Description For more than half a century, Florida has relied on growth and sprawling development to fuel its economy. Sadly, we continue to experience the […]