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The Wolfsonian-FIU will present, beginning on Thursday, April 7, “Rewriting the World: Primers and Poetry in the Age of Confusion,” a new exhibition organized by curatorial research assistant Matthew Abess that will be on view through June 5 in the museum’s Rare Book and Special Collections Library Vestibule. Drawing on the Wolfsonian’s holdings [...]
Jon Mogul, The Wolfsonian-FIU‘s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation academic programs coordinator, has been appointed chairman of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH), an international consortium that comprises 22 member institutions. “We are extremely pleased with Jon’s recent nomination and achievement,” said Cathy Leff, the museum’s director. “The Wolfsonian has been [...]
The Wolfsonian–FIU is developing a Web-based curriculum utilizing game-based learning to initiate conversations with teens about what freedom means today. The project, “Four Freedoms: Teen Thoughts on Democracy Online,” is an extension of the museum’s “Thoughts on Democracy” exhibit, which was shown in 2008 with funding from a Funding Arts Network/Knight [...]
PUBLIC TALK
Friday, January 21, 7pm
The Wolfsonian welcomes Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France, the best known and most prestigious three-week bicycle race in the world. LeMond shares his views on challenging and conquering speed limits through his experiences with the Tour and his years at the top of the cycling world. As the first American to capture the event, LeMond revolutionized the sport in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the first successful professional to use clipless pedals, cycling eyewear, modern high tech helmets, and aero bars. To put LeMond’s accomplishments in context, the evening kicks off with a glimpse the tour before LeMond conquered it, as we screen Vive Le Tour (1962, France, Louis Malle, 19 min, French with English subtitles, color, DVD). For more information or to RSVP: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for Wolfsonian members, $10 all others.
In celebration of next month’s Art Basel Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian-FIU will present “Seduce Me,” a collaboration with Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers and Rick Gilbert. The installation project takes its name from a series of short videos created by Rossellini that explores the unconventional seduction rituals of creatures ranging from bugs [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program in 2010-’11 will highlight the great range of potential research opportunities offered by the museum’s collection. For the first time, the program will have a thematic focus – research on the links between design and health in the modern era. Scholars were called upon to consider the [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a very special Very Wolfsonian Weekend – the museum’s annual fundraising extravaganza – beginning Thursday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov, 13. Festivities will kick off, appropriately enough, on the date in 1995 when the museum first opened its doors on Washington Avenue in Miami [...]
This fall, The Wolfsonian-FIU continues its series of exhibitions at the university’s Modesto Maidique Campus with “La Habana Moderna,” currently on view at the Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. The small exhibition, on view through April 2011, examines how international cultural and commercial links contributed [...]
In 1909, the “Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism” proclaimed that “the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.” A century later, as the tempo of life continues to accelerate, “Speed Limits,” The Wolfsonian-FIU‘s newest exhibit, asks critical questions about the impact of speed on our [...]
For 15 years, The Wolfsonian–FIU has developed an extensive array of academic and public programs, reaching an audience as broad and varied as its collection. The museum has produced exhibitions and activities to give the public opportunities to identify and consider the historical significance of collection themes and their relevance [...]
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