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The Wolfsonian Visionaries will host 11:11:11, the second annual Visionaries’ fundraiser to benefit The Wolfsonian-FIU on Friday, Nov. 11, from 7-11 p.m., at the landmark 1111 Lincoln Road garage. The evening, which also marks the museum’s 16th anniversary, will feature signature dishes from Miami’s top restaurants and caterers, as well as top-shelf [...]
Beginning Oct. 12 at the Frost Art Museum at Modesto A. Maidique Campus, The Wolfsonian-FIU will present “Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen,” an exhibition that explores how technology and design remade the places where food was produced, sold, cooked and eaten from the turn of the [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU has named Julian Gomez deputy director for Finance, Administration, and Operations at the museum. A business executive with 20 years of experience; top performance ratings; and extensive know-how in business strategy, financial planning and analysis, business re-structuring and operations management, Gomez will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU’s Fellowship Program in 2011-’12 will highlight the great range of potential research opportunities offered by the museum’s collection beginning next winter through next summer. With the help of a panel of distinguished external reviewers, The Wolfsonian-FIU has selected three fellows, each of whom will spend almost a month [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU is offering free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day, Sept. 5. In 2010, the Wolfsonian partnered with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 1,300 museums across America to create Blue Star Museums, a program that [...]
The search for the perfect bookend ends at The Wolfsonian-FIU: the “Wrestler” has muscled its way into the museum’s Dynamo Museum Shop. Wrestler bookends, based on the much-loved 6’6″, 475-lbs. standing-sentinel “Wrestler” statue that commands the museum’s lobby with its impressive muscles and solid bulk, are now available at the [...]
The Wolfsonian–FIU will join museums around the United States in offering free gallery admission on Wednesday, May 18, as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) celebration of Art Museum Day. Coinciding with International Museum Day, Art Museum Day also will focus around the theme of “museum and memory.” [...]
Five unique books created by elementary school students will be on display in the lobby of The Wolfsonian–FIU beginning on Thursday, May 12. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, June 12. Admission is free and open to the public. The show is the final product of “Page at a [...]
![Pamphlet, Modern Reklameschriften [Modern Calligraphy in Advertising] by Gerhard Hantzsch, c. 1935](http://news.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/XC2008.07.17.110.jpg "Modern Reklameschriften [Modern Calligraphy in Advertising]")
It is April, the month of shoures soote – and The Wolfsonian-FIU is channeling Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales because the fourth month of the year also happens to be the month of O, Miami, a brand-new, county-wide poetry festival. The festival’s goal: for every person in the county to encounter a poem during [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU will unveil on Friday, April 15, “ Art for All: British Posters for Transport,” an exhibition that explores the evolution of transport posters in 20th century Britain and features outstanding examples executed for both the London Underground and the British railways. The exhibition, which will be on view at [...]
