Public Lecture

Join The Bass for a public talk with artist Cara Despain! Join us for a public talk with film and video, sound, sculpture, photography and installation artist Cara Despain as she discusses her new exhibition at The Bass, Specter. Cara Despain’s works in challenge American frontier psychology, addressing the persistent and problematic romanticism of land […]

Please join us for a conversation with Ira Giller and his daughter Sarah Giller Nelson on Thursday, September 15 at 7:00pm. Ira and Sarah will discuss the life and work of Norman M. Giller, one of the founders of Miami Modern (MiMo), a regionalized style of Modernist architecture. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Giller on Giller: An […]

Heat, humidity, and mosquitos—these are the conditions that inspired the design of 20th-century Florida houses. Features of what came to be known as the "tropical home," such as Florida Rooms and screened patios, were outcomes of a fantastic range of local architectural experiments that persisted even after innovations like air conditioning redefined the relationship between […]

Modern artists have shaped our understanding of geography. A prime example is the innovative approach to map design and data visualization in Herbert Bayer's 1953 World Geo-Graphic Atlas, a source of inspiration for generations of designers. Art historian Ben Benus, author of a forthcoming book about the Atlas, will examine how Bayer developed his imaginative design solutions […]

Carlo Mollino was a remarkable protagonist of 20th-century Italian culture. As an architect, designer, educator, photographer, sportsman, and author, he defiantly embraced and embodied modern eclecticism. He is known for his building, interior, and furniture designs—and also for a stash of erotic Polaroids from the 1960s recovered among his personal effects after his death. In […]