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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 [...]
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 [...]
Find out everything you need to know to navigate the new academic year, whether you’re an incoming freshman or a returning Panther. FIU’s faculty and staff are poised to welcome an anticipated 46,000 students to the university Monday, Aug. 22, for the first day of Fall 2011 classes. Among this [...]
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 [...]
Move it, Iron Man…step aside, Superman – here comes…Phoebe Corrigan? That’s the name of the bespectacled, clueless, 26-year-old company assistant Comic Kraze student Carolina Beguiristain dreamed up while she participated in the annual, 10-day summer workshop at The Wolfsonian-FIU. Phoebe, Beguiristain said, is always finding herself in circumstances that require [...]
Seventeen Miami-Dade County Public School students ages 14-17 are spending the early part of their summer attending Comic Kraze, a free 10-day workshop at The Wolfsonian-FIU. To view some of their creations, click here.
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.” [...]
