Museum Exhibition

November 27, 2022 – April 2023   Fragile Beauty explores the powerful allure of nature alongside its delicate state today. Featuring site-specific installations by Beatriz Chachamovits, Mira Lehr, and Lauren Shapiro, the exhibition brings together works by local Miami artists that reflect on climate change and human impact on our oceans, coral reefs, and rapidly shifting environment.  Working across installation and […]

The City of Miami Beach is working alongside some of the world’s best cultural institutions to provide a night of free, unique and unforgettable experiences. Every third Thursday of the month, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Miami Beach will come alive with culture as various institutions and buildings open their doors to give you […]

August 19, 2022 - June 11, 2023 Christo (born Christo Vladmirov Javacheff) and his wife and artistic collaborator Jeanne-Claude made an inestimable impact on the history of art since the mid-20th century. Together, they created large-scale, ephemeral, public art projects, involving dramatic interventions in carefully selected outdoor locations. With a career that spans nearly six […]

This is an artistic venture created by Olga Chemokhud-Doty to promote the artistic approach to life itself. Enjoy the endeavor and let us know if you need art in your life. Artwork by Mark Sabin, Artem Mirolevich, Merril Seidl, and Ekaterina Abramova. Exhibition Open: May 25th- July 20th, 2023 | 9 am – 9 pm  […]

May 10, 2023 - August 6, 2023 Upon Thy Gates, The Elaine K. and Norman Winik Mezuzah Collection arrives at JMOF-FIU from the Oregon Museum of the Jewish People and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland on May 10, 2023. Curated by Kenneth Helphand, the exhibition presents 73 mezuzahs collected by the Winiks that represent […]

Through modern science and interactive and engaging exhibits, Mummies of the World: The Exhibition will completely transform your perception of mummies and mummification. Mummies of the World: The Exhibition features the mummified remains of 40 real humans and animals and 80 rare artifacts from across the globe. The exhibition provides a window into the lives of ancient people […]

July 12 – Sep. 17, 2023 Oolite Arts’ “It Was Always About You… is an intimate celebration of a community of artists who have had a significant relationship with Oolite Arts over the course of its four-decade history on Lincoln Road. Shepherded by a ceramic work from Oolite’s late founder Ellie Schneiderman, this show is […]

May 19, 2023 - October 8, 2023 Arnold Newman: A Retrospective looks at his photographic portraits from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Throughout his career, Newman photographed many Jewish public figures who have made a significant impact in their respective fields including artists, entertainers, scientists, philosophers and politicians. Arnold Newman was one of the world’s most prolific, […]

AUG 17-OCT 21,2023 Kerry Phillips: Between the mundane and the miraculous is an exhibition of newly commissioned work represents a career milestone as the Miami-based artist’s first solo museum exhibition, on view from August 17 – October 21, 2023. Between the mundane and the miraculous explores the precarious intersections of materials—from the natural to the manufactured—that define humanity’s ongoing […]

August 16 – January 7, 2024 Seeing Torah The quilt exhibition by Anita Rabinoff-Goldman is a stunning artistic interpretation of a verse from each of the Torah’s 54 portions done with fabric. The small quilts are a visual commentary illuminating the spiritual, political, and feminist lessons of the 54 portions of the Torah that personally resonated with her […]

December 16, 2023–February 11, 2024 The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue The Great Plains, a region in the United States stretching from Texas up into Canada, was completely transformed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wild grasslands were converted to commercial wheat farms before poor land management and drought led to dust storms […]

Raymond Elman: The Portraits October 22– March 3, 2024 Raymond Elman documented his life in the Outer Cape Cod art colony of Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet, from 1970 to the present, by making large-scale, mixed-media portraits of the many impactful artists and writers that had befriended him when he was still in his twenties (and […]

An innovative and immersive theatrical experience set to revolutionize how audiences interact with visual and performing art. Performances Begin February 22 Featuring new plays by Hannah Benitez, Harley Elias, Rogelio Martinez, Carmen Pelaez, Marco Ramirezand Aurin Squire. Inspired by the art of Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Jenna Gribbon, Glenn Ligon, Kaari Upson and Kehinde Wiley. Conceived, Created and Directed by Michel […]

An innovative and immersive theatrical experience set to revolutionize how audiences interact with visual and performing art. Performances Begin February 22 Featuring new plays by Hannah Benitez, Harley Elias, Rogelio Martinez, Carmen Pelaez, Marco Ramirezand Aurin Squire. Inspired by the art of Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Jenna Gribbon, Glenn Ligon, Kaari Upson and Kehinde Wiley. Conceived, Created and Directed by Michel […]

February 21–May 26, 2024 The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue Beginning in the 1920s, restaurant and nightclub owners used all the tools of modern graphic design—vibrant colors, bold lettering, and striking images—to promote their businesses on printed materials. These establishments often commissioned commercial artists to create alluring menu covers that drew in customers by teasing […]

About the Exhibition Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids traces the natural and cultural roots of some of the world’s most enduring mythological creatures from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and beyond. This alluring exhibition includes imaginative life-size models including a 17 foot-long dragon with a wingspan of over 19 feet, a giant Kraken sea monster with […]

The flourishing of literary, visual, and musical arts between the 1920s and '40s known as the Harlem Renaissance projected a new picture of Black life to the world. Silhouettes: Image and Word in the Harlem Renaissance considers the role of art in this movement, paying special attention to the collaboration between artists and writers on […]

Today Miami Beach is one of the most “broadcasted” locations in the world, but 100 years ago the age of broadcasting was just becoming a reality. This exhibition explores the first consumer mass media device and how it helped promote and shape Miami Beach’s early development. As radio proliferated through the first half of the […]

The Big World, focusing on depictions of the land in The Wolfsonian's collection, challenges expectations of landscape art as it goes beyond bucolic scenes to reveal changing vistas of the modern era rendered in paintings, the decorative arts, and even a grand piano. The exhibition charts a course through the end of the 19th century and […]

April 25–September 29, 2024 The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue As the popularity of cigars boomed on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 19th century, manufacturers began marketing a new device to support this habit: cutters designed to snip off the end of a cigar before lighting. Not just utilitarian tools, many cigar […]

Nam June Paik (b. 1932, Seoul; d. 2006, Miami Beach) was a pioneer in the development of electronic moving images and digitized compositions as a form of creative expression. Credited with originating the term “electronic superhighway” in 1974, Paik’s complex works demonstrated enormous prescience for the influence and proliferation of digital media as an artistic […]

DEC 4,2023-MAY 5,2024 The Bass announces Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists, on-view beginning December 4, 2023 and through May 5, 2024, an exhibition of paintings that explore conceptual art as a permissive realm for creative behavior and an inviting space for queerness. Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists will feature over thirty paintings, many never previously exhibited at museums, including the […]

MARCH 16, 2023 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 On Thursday, March 16, 2023, The Bass unveils Carola Bravo’s Between Absence and Presence, the third cycle winner of the museum’s New Monuments open artist call, a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through the museum’s Knight Art Commissions Program. Installed in Collins Park, Bravo’s temporary, […]

DEC 4,2023-JUN 23,2024 The Bass announces Anne Duk Hee Jordan: I will always weather with you, opening December 4, 2023 and on view through June 23, 2024, a new large-scale multisensory exhibition that uses technology to examine the perseverance of life on Earth against the increasing challenges of climate change. Korean-born and based in Berlin, artist […]

DEC 4, 2023 – JUN 23, 2024 Beginning Monday December 4, 2023, and on view through June 23, 2024, The Bass Museum of Art presents Etel Adnan: Painting into Space, featuring the premiere of a monumental wall mural set alongside additional works by the Lebanese-born artist. This exhibition will focus on the intersections of painting and […]