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The next screening in the Frost Art Museum series is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 1 The Frost Art Museum wants you to help pick the next movie we’re watching. Yup, after successful outdoor screenings of the documentary I Am and the Halloween classic Beetlejuice, the powers that be at [...]
Find out everything you need to know to navigate the new semester FIU is resuming the academic year with the first day of Spring 2012 classes on Monday, Jan. 9. Here are some important dates to keep in mind: Sun., Jan. 8: Last day to add courses without incurring a [...]
Congratulations are in order for The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU: After a rigorous process that examined all aspects of its operations, the museum has achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM) once again. This is the highest national recognition for which a museum can [...]
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents the next installment of Crossing the Boundaries: Art & Music with Ted Kahn for his lecture titled, “The Art & Science of Mindseums: From The Magic Theater to the Creation of Globally Connected Museum of the Future.” The lecture series will take [...]
FIU’s Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence (MEUCE) will host a series of events celebrating French culture from Nov. 9 - 23 as part of French Week Miami 2011. What began in 2007 as a one-week, citywide event designed to highlight and promote French culture in Miami, has now become a month-long celebration. [...]
Consider this news rated Art for art-mazing: FIU has launched LivetheArts.com, a new portal that will serve as the hub for everything artistic at the university. No longer will FIU arts aficionados have to surf numerous websites to find out what’s coming up in, say, the worlds of FIU Music [...]
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 Frost Art Museum at Modesto A. Maidique Campus will observe International Day of Peace on Wednesday, Sept. 21, with the museum’s new Movies on the Lawn program. To kick off this series of outdoor screenings, the Frost will show I Am, a documentary written, directed and narrated by filmmaker [...]
Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg will deliver a lecture on Monday, Sept. 19, at FIU’s Frost Art Museum, reflecting on the Arab Spring and other global events that have transformed the Czech Republic. Titled “Through the Lens of the Czech Experience,” the lecture is set for 2:30 p.m. [...]
Events are part of “Unity/Diversity: Reflecting on the Meaning of 9/11” On Sept. 9, as the country readies to observe the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the FIU family will come together to honor victims, survivors, first responders and the armed forces. A day of events has been planned that includes [...]
