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Black History Night 2024

North Shore Park 501 72 Street, Miami Beach, FL, United States

FEBRUARY 9 @ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Celebrate Black History Month by recognizing the heritage, accomplishments, and culture of Black Americans. Enjoy cultural performances by children in the Miami Beach Parks & Recreation after-school program, food, carnival rides, and more. North Shore Park 501 72 Street Miami Beach, FL 33141

Radio Waves: Miami Beach and the Golden Age of Radio

Art Deco Museum 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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 […]

Event Series Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids

Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids

HistoryMiami Museum 101 W Flagler Street, Miami, FL, United States

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 […]

Event Series Raymond Elman: The Portraits |

Raymond Elman: The Portraits

Jewish Museum-FIU 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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 […]

Event Series Zena Posever: Peering into a Pioneer’s Studio

Zena Posever: Peering into a Pioneer’s Studio

Jewish Museum-FIU 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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: Alternative Landscapes in the Modern Era

Wolfsonian-FIU 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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 […]

Silhouettes: Image and Word in the Harlem Renaissance

Wolfsonian-FIU 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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 […]

The Wolfsonian FIU Presents Grass, To Wheat, To Sand: The Dust Bowl Disaster

Wolfsonian-FIU 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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 […]

Event Series Nam June Paik: The Miami Years

Nam June Paik: The Miami Years

The Bass 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, United States

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 […]

Miami New Drama Presents: Two Sisters and a Piano

Colony Theatre 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL, United States

"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 […]