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Norton Highlights British Fashion and Design During WWII with
Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, 1938-1951
West Palm Beach, FL (Sept. 18, 2012) –When the British government produced the poster “Keep Calm and Carry On” in 1939, it was a rallying cry for the public, and a demonstration of a new collaboration between the government and the creative class. The Norton Museum of Art opens its special exhibition season exploring the ways in which artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers in Great Britain bolstered a nation and helped win the war on the home front. Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, 1938-1951, opens Nov. 1, 2012 and runs through Jan. 20, 2013. (Companion programming includes the four-part series, Keep Calm and Carry On: British Films with Scott Eyman. Eyman, literary critic and arts writer for The Palm Beach Post, is a noted film historian and author.)
“Virtually every member of England's creative class, from fashion designer Hardy Amies to arts leader Kenneth Clark and writer Noel Coward, helped fight the war at home, not only by creating innovative designs that saved essential wartime materials, but also by injecting style, beauty, and high culture into the harsh realities of wartime life," said Donald Albrecht, curator of the exhibition, who will provide insight during a discussion at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 29 (Barry Day, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and Trustee of the Noel Coward Foundation will discuss growing up in England during the Blitz at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013.)
Keep Calm and Carry On examines design between 1938 and 1951, the years immediately before, during, and after England’s participation in the war. The exhibition is divided into three sections:
• Design for Fashion and Beauty, which features women’s dresses—some by couturier to the royal family Hardy Amies—and uniforms from the era, a clothing rations book, and copies of British Vogue.
• Design for Shelter and Protection, which highlights air-raid shelter designs and drawings, and domestic objects, including utility furniture.
• Design for Entertainment and Propaganda, which demonstrates the ways graphic designers and filmmakers shaped the nation’s behaviors and attitudes from encouraging women to enter the workforce and plant victory gardens to imploring everyone to “keep calm and carry on.”
For greater context of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of the struggles on the home front, the exhibition will include clips from films and radio programs that were popular during the era. Vintage photographs also will help visitors understand what daily life on the home front looked like.
The exhibition will begin with the preparations for war in 1938 and will end with a coda devoted to the major design events in the years directly following the war that were pivotal in Britain’s conversion from a wartime nation to a peacetime nation. Included are objects and images from the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the 1948 Olympics, the 1948 Earl’s Court Auto Show, and the 1951 Festival of Britain, a government organized exhibition that highlighted Britain’s contributions to industrial design, architecture, science, technology, and the arts.
“The Norton exhibition will continue to explore the ideas and work presented in the MFA Boston’s excellent, focused exhibition Beauty as Duty: Textiles and the Home Front in WWII Britain,” said Norton Executive Director Hope Alswang. “World War II and the austerity measures that came along with it were pivotal in ushering a new era of modernism in Great Britain. The British creative class came together to support the war effort, unify the nation, and maintain morale, and, in the process, created a more egalitarian society. It’s been a fascinating road of discovery and we’re eager to share our new knowledge with our visitors.”
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Paul Leary interviews two actors from the tour first Mark David Kaplan who plays the Easily flustered and somewhat panicky Red-billed Hornbill bird, Zazu and Sharron Williams part of the Ensemble from of Miami, FL and a high school graduate of New World School of the Arts.
From the Jewish Museum of Florida:
May is a time when we gather to share the pride of what American Jews have accomplished and contributed. As all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, this program explores the immeasurable impact of the influx of Jewish immigrants.
Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University will speak on how Jews have changed America, and how America has changed them, including examples of Jews in Hollywood and music.
Jewish Museum of Florida's Founding Executive Director Marcia Jo Zerivitz, who initiated the concept for an annual Jewish American Heritage Month.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who led the efforts for the resolution signed by President George W. Bush in 2006, will also be featured on the program.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Jewish Federation of Broward County are co-sponsoring this event with the Jewish Museum of Florida and were represented by Pepi Dunay, the Jewish Federation of Broward County’s Director of Community Relations and Elaine Bloom, Board Member, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
WHAT IS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH?
Like other groups' months, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is the time to celebrate the contributions of American Jews to the fabric of our nation's lives. America has been both a haven and a home to Jews. Many arrived as immigrants seeking escape from persecution, and in finding freedom, tolerance and opportunities here, have given back in all areas to enrich our national culture.
Each May, the President of the U.S. issues a Proclamation and President Barack Obama has also hosted JAHM receptions in the White House.
2012 OBSERVANCE
The theme is Immigration. Since arriving in St. Augustine, Florida in the 1500s (as conversos) or in New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) in 1654, the Jewish people have achieved great success in America, toiling tirelessly in strengthening the nation and in their commitments to faith and family.
The speaker, Stephen Whitfield, says, "A century ago, over two million Jews came to the United States from eastern and central Europe (from 1881 until 1914). The impact of these newcomers has been immeasurable. They changed America. No other Diaspora community has ever been larger or more powerful or more secure. But America also changed the newcomers. Their magnitude, their influence, their success also led to a rethinking of how the nation defined itself - and Jewish thinkers and writers felt compelled to address the question of how Jewish allegiance might be reconciled with American citizenship, so that any tension would be creative."
Stephen Whitfield, author of eight books, was raised in Jacksonville, FL and teaches in the American Studies Program at Brandeis University. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1972 in the History of American Civilization, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Tulane University. Whitfield has had Visiting Professorships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the Catholic University of Leven/Louvain-la-Neuve, twice at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and at the University of Munich. He was the JAHM speaker in 2007 on the Contributions of American Jews to American Music.
From the Jewish Museum of Florida:
May is a time when we gather to share the pride of what American Jews have accomplished and contributed. As all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, this program explores the immeasurable impact of the influx of Jewish immigrants.
Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University will speak on how Jews have changed America, and how America has changed them, including examples of Jews in Hollywood and music.
Jewish Museum of Florida's Founding Executive Director Marcia Jo Zerivitz, who initiated the concept for an annual Jewish American Heritage Month.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who led the efforts for the resolution signed by President George W. Bush in 2006, will also be featured on the program.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Jewish Federation of Broward County are co-sponsoring this event with the Jewish Museum of Florida and were represented by Pepi Dunay, the Jewish Federation of Broward County’s Director of Community Relations and Elaine Bloom, Board Member, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
WHAT IS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH?
Like other groups' months, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is the time to celebrate the contributions of American Jews to the fabric of our nation's lives. America has been both a haven and a home to Jews. Many arrived as immigrants seeking escape from persecution, and in finding freedom, tolerance and opportunities here, have given back in all areas to enrich our national culture.
Each May, the President of the U.S. issues a Proclamation and President Barack Obama has also hosted JAHM receptions in the White House.
2012 OBSERVANCE
The theme is Immigration. Since arriving in St. Augustine, Florida in the 1500s (as conversos) or in New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) in 1654, the Jewish people have achieved great success in America, toiling tirelessly in strengthening the nation and in their commitments to faith and family.
The speaker, Stephen Whitfield, says, "A century ago, over two million Jews came to the United States from eastern and central Europe (from 1881 until 1914). The impact of these newcomers has been immeasurable. They changed America. No other Diaspora community has ever been larger or more powerful or more secure. But America also changed the newcomers. Their magnitude, their influence, their success also led to a rethinking of how the nation defined itself - and Jewish thinkers and writers felt compelled to address the question of how Jewish allegiance might be reconciled with American citizenship, so that any tension would be creative."
Stephen Whitfield, author of eight books, was raised in Jacksonville, FL and teaches in the American Studies Program at Brandeis University. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1972 in the History of American Civilization, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Tulane University. Whitfield has had Visiting Professorships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the Catholic University of Leven/Louvain-la-Neuve, twice at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and at the University of Munich. He was the JAHM speaker in 2007 on the Contributions of American Jews to American Music.
From the Jewish Museum of Florida:
May is a time when we gather to share the pride of what American Jews have accomplished and contributed. As all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, this program explores the immeasurable impact of the influx of Jewish immigrants.
Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University will speak on how Jews have changed America, and how America has changed them, including examples of Jews in Hollywood and music.
Jewish Museum of Florida's Founding Executive Director Marcia Jo Zerivitz, who initiated the concept for an annual Jewish American Heritage Month.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who led the efforts for the resolution signed by President George W. Bush in 2006, will also be featured on the program.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Jewish Federation of Broward County are co-sponsoring this event with the Jewish Museum of Florida and were represented by Pepi Dunay, the Jewish Federation of Broward County’s Director of Community Relations and Elaine Bloom, Board Member, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
WHAT IS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH?
Like other groups' months, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is the time to celebrate the contributions of American Jews to the fabric of our nation's lives. America has been both a haven and a home to Jews. Many arrived as immigrants seeking escape from persecution, and in finding freedom, tolerance and opportunities here, have given back in all areas to enrich our national culture.
Each May, the President of the U.S. issues a Proclamation and President Barack Obama has also hosted JAHM receptions in the White House.
2012 OBSERVANCE
The theme is Immigration. Since arriving in St. Augustine, Florida in the 1500s (as conversos) or in New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) in 1654, the Jewish people have achieved great success in America, toiling tirelessly in strengthening the nation and in their commitments to faith and family.
The speaker, Stephen Whitfield, says, "A century ago, over two million Jews came to the United States from eastern and central Europe (from 1881 until 1914). The impact of these newcomers has been immeasurable. They changed America. No other Diaspora community has ever been larger or more powerful or more secure. But America also changed the newcomers. Their magnitude, their influence, their success also led to a rethinking of how the nation defined itself - and Jewish thinkers and writers felt compelled to address the question of how Jewish allegiance might be reconciled with American citizenship, so that any tension would be creative."
Stephen Whitfield, author of eight books, was raised in Jacksonville, FL and teaches in the American Studies Program at Brandeis University. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1972 in the History of American Civilization, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Tulane University. Whitfield has had Visiting Professorships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the Catholic University of Leven/Louvain-la-Neuve, twice at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and at the University of Munich. He was the JAHM speaker in 2007 on the Contributions of American Jews to American Music.
From the Jewish Museum of Florida:
May is a time when we gather to share the pride of what American Jews have accomplished and contributed. As all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, this program explores the immeasurable impact of the influx of Jewish immigrants.
Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University will speak on how Jews have changed America, and how America has changed them, including examples of Jews in Hollywood and music.
Jewish Museum of Florida's Founding Executive Director Marcia Jo Zerivitz, who initiated the concept for an annual Jewish American Heritage Month.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who led the efforts for the resolution signed by President George W. Bush in 2006, will also be featured on the program.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Jewish Federation of Broward County are co-sponsoring this event with the Jewish Museum of Florida and were represented by Pepi Dunay, the Jewish Federation of Broward County’s Director of Community Relations and Elaine Bloom, Board Member, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
WHAT IS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH?
Like other groups' months, Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is the time to celebrate the contributions of American Jews to the fabric of our nation's lives. America has been both a haven and a home to Jews. Many arrived as immigrants seeking escape from persecution, and in finding freedom, tolerance and opportunities here, have given back in all areas to enrich our national culture.
Each May, the President of the U.S. issues a Proclamation and President Barack Obama has also hosted JAHM receptions in the White House.
2012 OBSERVANCE
The theme is Immigration. Since arriving in St. Augustine, Florida in the 1500s (as conversos) or in New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) in 1654, the Jewish people have achieved great success in America, toiling tirelessly in strengthening the nation and in their commitments to faith and family.
The speaker, Stephen Whitfield, says, "A century ago, over two million Jews came to the United States from eastern and central Europe (from 1881 until 1914). The impact of these newcomers has been immeasurable. They changed America. No other Diaspora community has ever been larger or more powerful or more secure. But America also changed the newcomers. Their magnitude, their influence, their success also led to a rethinking of how the nation defined itself - and Jewish thinkers and writers felt compelled to address the question of how Jewish allegiance might be reconciled with American citizenship, so that any tension would be creative."
Stephen Whitfield, author of eight books, was raised in Jacksonville, FL and teaches in the American Studies Program at Brandeis University. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1972 in the History of American Civilization, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Tulane University. Whitfield has had Visiting Professorships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the Catholic University of Leven/Louvain-la-Neuve, twice at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and at the University of Munich. He was the JAHM speaker in 2007 on the Contributions of American Jews to American Music.
Interview with George Sanchez-Calderon, February 2012, Miami
Swimming Pool Falla, 2010
As part of its commitment to serving the greater Miami community and in anticipation of its move to a new and expanded facility, Miami Art Museum has redoubled its efforts to build its collection of great works of art for the public to enjoy—and has received a challenge grant of $1 million from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation to support this process.
Beginning Friday, February 17, 2012, the museum will present a selection of these newly acquired works in the exhibition, Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection. Highlights include works by modern and contemporary masters such as Morris Louis and Fred Wilson, and emerging artists such as Nicolas Lobo, George Sánchez-Calderón and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 6, 2012. An exhibition preview and Artist Talk by Dara Friedman will be held Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6-9pm.
“This installation provides another perspective on the museum’s continued growth into a civic asset for future generations of South Florida residents and visitors,” said MAM Director Thom Collins. “At the same time, the generous support from the Helena Rubinstein Foundation underscores the importance of our continued focus on building the museum's collection. With the construction of our new facility at Museum Park well underway, and our capital campaign at 75 percent of our goal, it is an opportune moment to make visible this equally important area of museum activity.”
The gift to Miami Art Museum from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation is designated as a challenge grant toward the purchase of contemporary art and requires a one-to-one match. The funds will be released in $250,000 installments annually or sooner, pending match timing.
“At the heart of an art museum is its collection, an area in which the Miami Art Museum has tremendous opportunity to grow in ways that are commensurate with the extraordinary building now under construction,” said Diane Moss, former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and a member of the board of trustees of Miami Art Museum. “It is my hope that this gift will enable new acquisitions and encourage others in our community to contribute to and nurture the growth of this collection.”
The gift was one of the last made by the Foundation before it ceased operations at the end of 2011. Over its nearly 60 year history, the Foundation distributed more than $130 million, primarily to education and community-based organizations. However, the Foundation has also had an interest in supporting the arts, a reflection of the founder's own interests in art and her connections with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Marie Laurencin.
The point of departure for Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection is the video installation Dancer (2011), by Dara Friedman, which was co-produced by Miami Art Museum. The artist sent out a casting call for dancers of varied styles and genres, and filmed over 60 of them as they performed self-choreographed moves at various public locations throughout Miami, from busy South Beach streets to the rooftops of downtown buildings. As the dancers interrupt the normal flow of the urban milieu that surrounds them, they provide a poetic metaphor for the liberating potential of artistic expression.
The lyrical power of aesthetic experience is equally evident in two major paintings by Morris Louis–Circum II (1959-60) and Delta Eta (1960)–both gifts of the estate of the artist’s widow, the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust. Measuring nearly 12 and 20 feet wide respectively, the works bear a sense of spatial depth and ethereal lightness that belies their monumental scale.
Also on view are several works that the museum recently purchased through the MAM Collectors Council. In Restless 20 and Restless 21 (which lend their titles to this display), Iran do Espirito Santo makes use of the physical space of the gallery to create a startlingly ambiguous perceptual encounter using planes of mirrored and frosted glass. Ernesto Neto’s Cai Cai Marrom (2007) is a large-scale sculptural installation consisting of a wooden armature from which nylon appendages stuffed with aromatic spices are suspended. The work centers on the body, evoking biological forms while providing a burst of sensorial stimulation. Robin Rhode’s stop-action digital animation Requiem for a Pavilion of Silence (2010) features a figure wearing an East German military uniform who paints multiple stenciled images of the Rietveld-designed “Berlin” chair on a wall behind him, sequentially creating the illusion of an imaginary “pavilion” that seems to both shelter and oppress him.
The presentation also features Fred Wilson’s Addiction Display (1991), which uses the visual language of natural history exhibits to draw a parallel between two sites in Colombia—one that has generated archeological artifacts and one associated with illegal drugs; together Wilson’s references create a tacit critique of the selective ways in which the cultural “Other” tends to be represented within Western institutional contexts.
Restless signals the special role played by the local art community in the development of the MAM collection through the inclusion of works by Nicolas Lobo and George Sánchez-Calderón, among several other Miami-based artists. Both artists address local urban space in different ways. Lobo’s Terrazzo Glide Slope, a purchase made with funds provided by MAM’s Young Collectors Council, is a sculptural representation of the invisible, V-shaped air routes that are traveled by airplanes unceasingly overhead as they depart from Miami’s airport. Sánchez-Calderón’s Swimming Pool Falla, donated by Liza and Dr. Arturo Mosquera, is a set of nine gold-foil “drawings” created with the use of fire. The work makes reference to Ed Ruscha’s landmark 1968 photoessay Nine Swimming Pools (which is also in the MAM collection), extending Ruscha’s critique of South Californian urban development patterns to Miami’s own evolving cityscape.
Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 children and adults every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum in Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
Interview with Mira Lehr, February 2012
Mira Lehr
Vegetata Mirabellis, 2010
Mixed media and gunpowder on okara paper
Collection Miami Art Museum, gift of Lin Arison
As part of its commitment to serving the greater Miami community and in anticipation of its move to a new and expanded facility, Miami Art Museum has redoubled its efforts to build its collection of great works of art for the public to enjoy—and has received a challenge grant of $1 million from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation to support this process.
Beginning Friday, February 17, 2012, the museum will present a selection of these newly acquired works in the exhibition, Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection. Highlights include works by modern and contemporary masters such as Morris Louis and Fred Wilson, and emerging artists such as Nicolas Lobo, George Sánchez-Calderón and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 6, 2012. An exhibition preview and Artist Talk by Dara Friedman will be held Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6-9pm.
“This installation provides another perspective on the museum’s continued growth into a civic asset for future generations of South Florida residents and visitors,” said MAM Director Thom Collins. “At the same time, the generous support from the Helena Rubinstein Foundation underscores the importance of our continued focus on building the museum's collection. With the construction of our new facility at Museum Park well underway, and our capital campaign at 75 percent of our goal, it is an opportune moment to make visible this equally important area of museum activity.”
The gift to Miami Art Museum from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation is designated as a challenge grant toward the purchase of contemporary art and requires a one-to-one match. The funds will be released in $250,000 installments annually or sooner, pending match timing.
“At the heart of an art museum is its collection, an area in which the Miami Art Museum has tremendous opportunity to grow in ways that are commensurate with the extraordinary building now under construction,” said Diane Moss, former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and a member of the board of trustees of Miami Art Museum. “It is my hope that this gift will enable new acquisitions and encourage others in our community to contribute to and nurture the growth of this collection.”
The gift was one of the last made by the Foundation before it ceased operations at the end of 2011. Over its nearly 60 year history, the Foundation distributed more than $130 million, primarily to education and community-based organizations. However, the Foundation has also had an interest in supporting the arts, a reflection of the founder's own interests in art and her connections with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Marie Laurencin.
The point of departure for Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection is the video installation Dancer (2011), by Dara Friedman, which was co-produced by Miami Art Museum. The artist sent out a casting call for dancers of varied styles and genres, and filmed over 60 of them as they performed self-choreographed moves at various public locations throughout Miami, from busy South Beach streets to the rooftops of downtown buildings. As the dancers interrupt the normal flow of the urban milieu that surrounds them, they provide a poetic metaphor for the liberating potential of artistic expression.
The lyrical power of aesthetic experience is equally evident in two major paintings by Morris Louis–Circum II (1959-60) and Delta Eta (1960)–both gifts of the estate of the artist’s widow, the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust. Measuring nearly 12 and 20 feet wide respectively, the works bear a sense of spatial depth and ethereal lightness that belies their monumental scale.
Also on view are several works that the museum recently purchased through the MAM Collectors Council. In Restless 20 and Restless 21 (which lend their titles to this display), Iran do Espirito Santo makes use of the physical space of the gallery to create a startlingly ambiguous perceptual encounter using planes of mirrored and frosted glass. Ernesto Neto’s Cai Cai Marrom (2007) is a large-scale sculptural installation consisting of a wooden armature from which nylon appendages stuffed with aromatic spices are suspended. The work centers on the body, evoking biological forms while providing a burst of sensorial stimulation. Robin Rhode’s stop-action digital animation Requiem for a Pavilion of Silence (2010) features a figure wearing an East German military uniform who paints multiple stenciled images of the Rietveld-designed “Berlin” chair on a wall behind him, sequentially creating the illusion of an imaginary “pavilion” that seems to both shelter and oppress him.
The presentation also features Fred Wilson’s Addiction Display (1991), which uses the visual language of natural history exhibits to draw a parallel between two sites in Colombia—one that has generated archeological artifacts and one associated with illegal drugs; together Wilson’s references create a tacit critique of the selective ways in which the cultural “Other” tends to be represented within Western institutional contexts.
Restless signals the special role played by the local art community in the development of the MAM collection through the inclusion of works by Nicolas Lobo and George Sánchez-Calderón, among several other Miami-based artists. Both artists address local urban space in different ways. Lobo’s Terrazzo Glide Slope, a purchase made with funds provided by MAM’s Young Collectors Council, is a sculptural representation of the invisible, V-shaped air routes that are traveled by airplanes unceasingly overhead as they depart from Miami’s airport. Sánchez-Calderón’s Swimming Pool Falla, donated by Liza and Dr. Arturo Mosquera, is a set of nine gold-foil “drawings” created with the use of fire. The work makes reference to Ed Ruscha’s landmark 1968 photoessay Nine Swimming Pools (which is also in the MAM collection), extending Ruscha’s critique of South Californian urban development patterns to Miami’s own evolving cityscape.
Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 children and adults every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum in Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
Interview with Dara Friedman, January 2012
Dara Friedman
Dancer, 2011
High definition digital video
Dimensions variable
Collection of the Miami Art Museum
As part of its commitment to serving the greater Miami community and in anticipation of its move to a new and expanded facility, Miami Art Museum has redoubled its efforts to build its collection of great works of art for the public to enjoy—and has received a challenge grant of $1 million from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation to support this process.
Beginning Friday, February 17, 2012, the museum will present a selection of these newly acquired works in the exhibition, Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection. Highlights include works by modern and contemporary masters such as Morris Louis and Fred Wilson, and emerging artists such as Nicolas Lobo, George Sánchez-Calderón and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 6, 2012. An exhibition preview and Artist Talk by Dara Friedman will be held Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6-9pm.
“This installation provides another perspective on the museum’s continued growth into a civic asset for future generations of South Florida residents and visitors,” said MAM Director Thom Collins. “At the same time, the generous support from the Helena Rubinstein Foundation underscores the importance of our continued focus on building the museum's collection. With the construction of our new facility at Museum Park well underway, and our capital campaign at 75 percent of our goal, it is an opportune moment to make visible this equally important area of museum activity.”
The gift to Miami Art Museum from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation is designated as a challenge grant toward the purchase of contemporary art and requires a one-to-one match. The funds will be released in $250,000 installments annually or sooner, pending match timing.
“At the heart of an art museum is its collection, an area in which the Miami Art Museum has tremendous opportunity to grow in ways that are commensurate with the extraordinary building now under construction,” said Diane Moss, former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and a member of the board of trustees of Miami Art Museum. “It is my hope that this gift will enable new acquisitions and encourage others in our community to contribute to and nurture the growth of this collection.”
The gift was one of the last made by the Foundation before it ceased operations at the end of 2011. Over its nearly 60 year history, the Foundation distributed more than $130 million, primarily to education and community-based organizations. However, the Foundation has also had an interest in supporting the arts, a reflection of the founder's own interests in art and her connections with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Marie Laurencin.
The point of departure for Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection is the video installation Dancer (2011), by Dara Friedman, which was co-produced by Miami Art Museum. The artist sent out a casting call for dancers of varied styles and genres, and filmed over 60 of them as they performed self-choreographed moves at various public locations throughout Miami, from busy South Beach streets to the rooftops of downtown buildings. As the dancers interrupt the normal flow of the urban milieu that surrounds them, they provide a poetic metaphor for the liberating potential of artistic expression.
The lyrical power of aesthetic experience is equally evident in two major paintings by Morris Louis–Circum II (1959-60) and Delta Eta (1960)–both gifts of the estate of the artist’s widow, the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust. Measuring nearly 12 and 20 feet wide respectively, the works bear a sense of spatial depth and ethereal lightness that belies their monumental scale.
Also on view are several works that the museum recently purchased through the MAM Collectors Council. In Restless 20 and Restless 21 (which lend their titles to this display), Iran do Espirito Santo makes use of the physical space of the gallery to create a startlingly ambiguous perceptual encounter using planes of mirrored and frosted glass. Ernesto Neto’s Cai Cai Marrom (2007) is a large-scale sculptural installation consisting of a wooden armature from which nylon appendages stuffed with aromatic spices are suspended. The work centers on the body, evoking biological forms while providing a burst of sensorial stimulation. Robin Rhode’s stop-action digital animation Requiem for a Pavilion of Silence (2010) features a figure wearing an East German military uniform who paints multiple stenciled images of the Rietveld-designed “Berlin” chair on a wall behind him, sequentially creating the illusion of an imaginary “pavilion” that seems to both shelter and oppress him.
The presentation also features Fred Wilson’s Addiction Display (1991), which uses the visual language of natural history exhibits to draw a parallel between two sites in Colombia—one that has generated archeological artifacts and one associated with illegal drugs; together Wilson’s references create a tacit critique of the selective ways in which the cultural “Other” tends to be represented within Western institutional contexts.
Restless signals the special role played by the local art community in the development of the MAM collection through the inclusion of works by Nicolas Lobo and George Sánchez-Calderón, among several other Miami-based artists. Both artists address local urban space in different ways. Lobo’s Terrazzo Glide Slope, a purchase made with funds provided by MAM’s Young Collectors Council, is a sculptural representation of the invisible, V-shaped air routes that are traveled by airplanes unceasingly overhead as they depart from Miami’s airport. Sánchez-Calderón’s Swimming Pool Falla, donated by Liza and Dr. Arturo Mosquera, is a set of nine gold-foil “drawings” created with the use of fire. The work makes reference to Ed Ruscha’s landmark 1968 photoessay Nine Swimming Pools (which is also in the MAM collection), extending Ruscha’s critique of South Californian urban development patterns to Miami’s own evolving cityscape.
Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 children and adults every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum in Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
Interview with Christy Gast, January 2012
Christy Gast
Batty Cave, 2010
Three-channel video installation
Dimensions variable
Collection Miami Art Museum, gift of Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz
As part of its commitment to serving the greater Miami community and in anticipation of its move to a new and expanded facility, Miami Art Museum has redoubled its efforts to build its collection of great works of art for the public to enjoy—and has received a challenge grant of $1 million from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation to support this process.
Beginning Friday, February 17, 2012, the museum will present a selection of these newly acquired works in the exhibition, Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection. Highlights include works by modern and contemporary masters such as Morris Louis and Fred Wilson, and emerging artists such as Nicolas Lobo, George Sánchez-Calderón and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 6, 2012. An exhibition preview and Artist Talk by Dara Friedman will be held Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6-9pm.
“This installation provides another perspective on the museum’s continued growth into a civic asset for future generations of South Florida residents and visitors,” said MAM Director Thom Collins. “At the same time, the generous support from the Helena Rubinstein Foundation underscores the importance of our continued focus on building the museum's collection. With the construction of our new facility at Museum Park well underway, and our capital campaign at 75 percent of our goal, it is an opportune moment to make visible this equally important area of museum activity.”
The gift to Miami Art Museum from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation is designated as a challenge grant toward the purchase of contemporary art and requires a one-to-one match. The funds will be released in $250,000 installments annually or sooner, pending match timing.
“At the heart of an art museum is its collection, an area in which the Miami Art Museum has tremendous opportunity to grow in ways that are commensurate with the extraordinary building now under construction,” said Diane Moss, former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and a member of the board of trustees of Miami Art Museum. “It is my hope that this gift will enable new acquisitions and encourage others in our community to contribute to and nurture the growth of this collection.”
The gift was one of the last made by the Foundation before it ceased operations at the end of 2011. Over its nearly 60 year history, the Foundation distributed more than $130 million, primarily to education and community-based organizations. However, the Foundation has also had an interest in supporting the arts, a reflection of the founder's own interests in art and her connections with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Marie Laurencin.
The point of departure for Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection is the video installation Dancer (2011), by Dara Friedman, which was co-produced by Miami Art Museum. The artist sent out a casting call for dancers of varied styles and genres, and filmed over 60 of them as they performed self-choreographed moves at various public locations throughout Miami, from busy South Beach streets to the rooftops of downtown buildings. As the dancers interrupt the normal flow of the urban milieu that surrounds them, they provide a poetic metaphor for the liberating potential of artistic expression.
The lyrical power of aesthetic experience is equally evident in two major paintings by Morris Louis–Circum II (1959-60) and Delta Eta (1960)–both gifts of the estate of the artist’s widow, the Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust. Measuring nearly 12 and 20 feet wide respectively, the works bear a sense of spatial depth and ethereal lightness that belies their monumental scale.
Also on view are several works that the museum recently purchased through the MAM Collectors Council. In Restless 20 and Restless 21 (which lend their titles to this display), Iran do Espirito Santo makes use of the physical space of the gallery to create a startlingly ambiguous perceptual encounter using planes of mirrored and frosted glass. Ernesto Neto’s Cai Cai Marrom (2007) is a large-scale sculptural installation consisting of a wooden armature from which nylon appendages stuffed with aromatic spices are suspended. The work centers on the body, evoking biological forms while providing a burst of sensorial stimulation. Robin Rhode’s stop-action digital animation Requiem for a Pavilion of Silence (2010) features a figure wearing an East German military uniform who paints multiple stenciled images of the Rietveld-designed “Berlin” chair on a wall behind him, sequentially creating the illusion of an imaginary “pavilion” that seems to both shelter and oppress him.
The presentation also features Fred Wilson’s Addiction Display (1991), which uses the visual language of natural history exhibits to draw a parallel between two sites in Colombia—one that has generated archeological artifacts and one associated with illegal drugs; together Wilson’s references create a tacit critique of the selective ways in which the cultural “Other” tends to be represented within Western institutional contexts.
Restless signals the special role played by the local art community in the development of the MAM collection through the inclusion of works by Nicolas Lobo and George Sánchez-Calderón, among several other Miami-based artists. Both artists address local urban space in different ways. Lobo’s Terrazzo Glide Slope, a purchase made with funds provided by MAM’s Young Collectors Council, is a sculptural representation of the invisible, V-shaped air routes that are traveled by airplanes unceasingly overhead as they depart from Miami’s airport. Sánchez-Calderón’s Swimming Pool Falla, donated by Liza and Dr. Arturo Mosquera, is a set of nine gold-foil “drawings” created with the use of fire. The work makes reference to Ed Ruscha’s landmark 1968 photoessay Nine Swimming Pools (which is also in the MAM collection), extending Ruscha’s critique of South Californian urban development patterns to Miami’s own evolving cityscape.
Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 children and adults every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum in Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
The paintings of the human figure by British artist Jenny Saville (b.1970) have been infrequently exhibited since first premiered in the early 1990s. Included in the 1997 exhibition of the collection of British marketing giant Charles Saatchi entitled Sensation, she did not earn the notoriety of her slightly older peers, “the young British artists” for unusual materials.
Instead, Saville masterfully painted with oil on canvas and concentrated on the human figure but still created provocative work. Her monumental compositions of the female form were unromantic and suggested the reality of weight, flesh and blood. Initially restricted to a feminist critique Saville’s skill and compositions have evolved. She continues to paint luscious canvases that reveal that her subject has always been the medium of painting itself. Taking on the challenge of the history of modern painting through the tradition of classical figure painting her contribution is the subject of this exhibition.
This selective exhibition of 28 canvases and drawings dating from 1992– 2011 will bring Saville’s mature work together for the first time. Included will be such recognizable works as Fulcrum (1999) and Reverse (2002-3) as well as examples showcasing Saville’s exceptional draughtsmanship in key works from the recent series Reproduction drawing (after the Leonardo cartoon),(2009-10) which references the iconic image found in the collection of London’s National Gallery. Works from the artist’s studio which have not been previously exhibited also will be included.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication.
Jenny Saville, is the first exhibition in the Norton’s RAW series --- Recognition of Art by Women, made possible by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative.
Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
2011 Arts Teacher of the Year winner is Julia Perlowski, Drama Teacher, Pompano Beach High School.
During a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Perlowski was honored and students from Pompano Beach HS, along with others performed as part of the festivities.
In this segment, the Cyclones of Sound Drumline under direction of Kristin Clark.
The Arts Teacher of the Year Program showcases the artistic excellence of students and faculty of Broward County Schools. Through a partnership among Broward Cultural Division, The Cultural Foundation of Broward and generous private sector donors, The School Board of Broward County,FL and Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Arts Teacher of the Year Program highlights an exceptional arts teacher and provides an educational and career development opportunity for arts students to gain valuable experience performing in a high quality, professional institution.
2011 Arts Teacher of the Year winner is Julia Perlowski, Drama Teacher, Pompano Beach High School.
During a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Perlowski was honored and students from Pompano Beach HS, along with others performed as part of the festivities.
The Arts Teacher of the Year Program showcases the artistic excellence of students and faculty of Broward County Schools. Through a partnership among Broward Cultural Division, The Cultural Foundation of Broward and generous private sector donors, The School Board of Broward County,FL and Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Arts Teacher of the Year Program highlights an exceptional arts teacher and provides an educational and career development opportunity for arts students to gain valuable experience performing in a high quality, professional institution.
2011 Arts Teacher of the Year winner is Julia Perlowski, Drama Teacher, Pompano Beach High School.
During a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Perlowski was honored and students from Pompano Beach HS, along with others performed as part of the festivities.
In this segment, Nick Giunta, a student from Pompano Beach High School performs Per Dicesti, O Bacca Bella.
The Arts Teacher of the Year Program showcases the artistic excellence of students and faculty of Broward County Schools. Through a partnership among Broward Cultural Division, The Cultural Foundation of Broward and generous private sector donors, The School Board of Broward County,FL and Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Arts Teacher of the Year Program highlights an exceptional arts teacher and provides an educational and career development opportunity for arts students to gain valuable experience performing in a high quality, professional institution.
2011 Arts Teacher of the Year winner is Julia Perlowski, Drama Teacher, Pompano Beach High School.
During a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Perlowski was honored and students from Pompano Beach HS, along with others performed as part of the festivities.
In a prody of the song Beethoven's Day from You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, the Musical Theatre students from Pompano Beach High School perform Perlowski Day, re-arranged by Clark Gesner and under the direction of Vaughn Henderson.
The Arts Teacher of the Year Program showcases the artistic excellence of students and faculty of Broward County Schools. Through a partnership among Broward Cultural Division, The Cultural Foundation of Broward and generous private sector donors, The School Board of Broward County,FL and Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Arts Teacher of the Year Program highlights an exceptional arts teacher and provides an educational and career development opportunity for arts students to gain valuable experience performing in a high quality, professional institution.
2011 Arts Teacher of the Year winner is Julia Perlowski, Drama Teacher, Pompano Beach High School.
During a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Perlowski was honored and students from Pompano Beach HS, along with others performed as part of the festivities.
In this clip, the chorus under direction of Kristin Clark sings You Raise Me up.
The Arts Teacher of the Year Program showcases the artistic excellence of students and faculty of Broward County Schools. Through a partnership among Broward Cultural Division, The Cultural Foundation of Broward and generous private sector donors, The School Board of Broward County,FL and Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Arts Teacher of the Year Program highlights an exceptional arts teacher and provides an educational and career development opportunity for arts students to gain valuable experience performing in a high quality, professional institution.
