VISUAL ARTS 

MIAMI MOSAIC: PORTRAITS BY INEZ HOLLANDER
Continues through May 5, 2013
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 www.jewishmuseum.com
Self-described chronicler and storyteller Inez Hollander's portrait series Miami Mosaic documents the Miami of today: a community teeming in diversity. Through Hollander's use of bold and vibrant primary colors and strong, unrelenting brush strokes, she captures the emotions of her subjects, enabling the viewer to see not only the many faces of Miami as a whole, but also the individuals themselves. Her work is influenced in color, style and composition by artists such as Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh, David Hockney and Elizabeth Peyton. Hollander states that she "teaches through the eyes of Matisse."

PAGE AT A TIME FREE
Opens May 9, 2013
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org
Five unique books created by fifth grade students will be on display in the lobby of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University focusing on social and political themes reflected by objects in the collection. This exhibition is the final product of Page at a Time-a long-running interdisciplinary arts-education program created by The Wolfsonian in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The exhibition continues through June 2, 2013

Women in Motion: Fitness, Sport, and the Female Figure
Opens May 10, 2013
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave
305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org
Women in Motion displays images of physically active women produced by governments, fitness advocates, advertisers, and artists in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Both exhibitions examine aspects of everyday culture in the early 20th century that are still of great concern today, from the methods through which our foods are produced, to equal access to athletic opportunities for women.  Exhibition continues through August 18, 2013.

Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen
Opens May 10, 2013
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave
305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org
Modern Meals examines how people in the U.S. began eating foods that were mass-produced in the first half of the 20th century. Images and artifacts from The Wolfsonian's collection illustrate the movement of food from the field, to the factory, supermarket, and kitchen table, in order to explore how modern technology, design, and business practices created new meanings for food and eating in this era. Exhibition continues through August 18, 2013.

Fryd on Fire by Carol Fryd
Opens May 21, 2013
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 www.jewishmuseum.com
The tropical mystique animates the fertile imagination of Carol Fryd, whose captivating artworks of Miami and its cultural intersections meld the human figure with fabulous flora and fruit. Her varied techniques combine digital art, college, drawings, photography, objects and paint to produce ground breaking work, ranging from realism to abstract expressionism to portraiture. But it is the combination of bright, fiery colors that dominate the works in this show. The excitement and hot juicy hues of Fryd's works are matched only by the intensity and heat and of the Florida sun. Exhibition continues through October 20, 2013.

Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler
Continues through July 21, 2013
Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Avenue
305.673.7530 www.bassmuseum.org
The exhibition of some 200 works by 135 artists is an intimate, often whimsical side of some of the greatest artists of recent times, each offering a singular vision of adornment. The exceptional and little-known works of wearable sculpture will reward viewers with new insights into the creative wellsprings of such artistic giants as Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Louise Nevelson, Anthony Caro, Yoko Ono, and Anish Kapoor.

Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation
Continues through August 11, 2013  
Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Avenue
305.673.7530 www.bassmuseum.org
Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation is a presentation of the video artist's recent projects. This exhibition will present two major video installations, including an entirely new exploration of her noted film The Rape of the Sabine Women. A feature-length video-musical, The Rape of the Sabine Women is a contemporary reinterpretation of the eponymous Roman legend in a domestic 1960s setting, which Sussman has transformed into a five-part video installation. Also on view will be her 89 Seconds at Alcázar, a film based on the Diego Velázquez's enigmatic Las Meninas, 1656. In this work, Sussman uses film to elucidate the circumstances of the exact moment that the painting aims to portray, a moment that has become immortalized in one of the most important paintings in art history.

Bat Mitzvah Comes Of Age
Continues through September 15, 2013
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 www.jewishmuseum.com
On Saturday morning, March 18, 1922 - two years after American women received the right to vote - Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, became the first American girl to mark her bat mitzvah during a public worship service. In the decades that followed, many other girls and women became the "first" in their communities, helping to reshape American Judaism. A touring exhibition presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History and Moving Traditions. Cost: Complimentary admission for Museum Members at the $125 level and higher. All other Museum Members, $18 per person.

Untitled ([construction of good)] 
Ongoing
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave
305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org
The Wolfsonian-FIU presents a new site-specific exhibit, Untitled ([construction of good)] by artist Bhakti Baxter in The Wolfsonian Bridge Tender House beginning November 29th. The installation will take place in the steel structure created in the Art Deco style outside of the museum entrance. The focus of the exhibit will be on the construction of good for mankind, focusing on how the meanings of things are perpetually shaped by their human and historical contexts.

Egyptian Gallery
Ongoing
Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Avenue
305.673.7530 www.bassmuseum.org
The Bass Museum of Art invites visitors to experience the ancient world at the only Egyptian Gallery in Florida.  The gallery offers a unique opportunity to learn about one of the world's oldest and most mysterious civilizations from its surviving objects, including an Egyptian sarcophagus and mummy.

MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida
Ongoing
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 www.jewishmuseum.com
More than 500 photos and artifacts that depict the Jewish experience in Florida since 1763. The exhibit includes three films and a timeline wall of Jewish history.

Selections from the Collection
Ongoing
Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Avenue
305.673.7530 www.bassmuseum.org
The permanent collection of the Bass Museum of Art spans more than five hundred years and four continents, including works from Renaissance and Baroque paintings; Rococo court painting and English portraiture; painting and sculpture of North America, 19th and 20th century landscape and history paintings.

Art & Design in the Modern Age: Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection
Ongoing
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave
305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu
$7 Non-Members, $5 Seniors/Students, Members free
The nearly 300 works on display, 1885 to 1945, provide insight into the ways design has influenced and adapted to the modern world including design-reform movements, architecture, urbanism, industrial design, transportation, world's fairs, advertising, political propaganda, and labor iconography.

Artcenter/South Florida Artists-In-Residence FREE
Ongoing
Artcenter/South Florida, 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road
305.674.2728  www.artcentersf.org
ArtCenter/South Florida (ACSF) welcomes visitors to the working studios of the Artists-in-Residence.