December 22 – March 10, 2024 For 50 years before Miami grew into the renowned art mecca it is today, Zena Posever pioneered as an artist, teacher, and activist residing on Miami Beach. The sculptures and paintings in this exhibit are a sample of her wide-ranging career in the visual arts.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
"Two Sisters and a Piano" Premieres at the Colony Theatre on Thursday, January 25, 2024 Written and directed by Nilo Cruz, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright of Anna in the Tropics. Two Sisters and a Piano is a gripping play set amidst the Pan-American Games and the Russians’ departure from Cuba. Witness the enthralling cat-and-mouse game […]
JANUARY 28 @ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Ocean Drive Promenade Music Series Enjoy an oceanside concert featuring Miami-based string ensemble, Amernet String Quartet, at the Sunday, January 28 installment of Ocean Drive Association’s free weekly music series. Praised by the New York Times for their “intelligence” and “immensely satisfying” performances, the Amernet String Quartet has been […]
The South Beach Sound Healing Orchestra is South Florida's premiere Sound Meditation Experience, led by band leader Jared Bistrong. Interactive & fun, participants enjoy a profound sound healing through movement, live drums & dance, and a powerful synchronized Sound Journey that creates a deep meditative experience that relaxes the mind and body and leaves participants […]
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 […]
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