Miami Art Museum to present leading artist Dana Schutz’ “If the Face Had Wheels”

MIAMI, FL.- Even before she reached the age of 30, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Now 35, Schutz’s first ten-year (2001-2011) survey, opening atMiami Art Museum January 15, 2012, was heralded by art critics nationwide when it opened at the Neuberger Museum of Art earlier this year, even landing on the cover of November’s Art in America. The acclaimed exhibition, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, will open with an exhibition preview and artist [...]

Miami Art Museum receives $35 million gift from Miami developer Jorge M. Perez

MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum announced that long-time museum supporter and Miami-Dade County business leader Jorge M. Pérez has increased his contribution to the museum’s new downtown facility to $35 million. The gift includes $15 million in support to the institution’s Capital Campaign—on top of his original $5 million pledge at the campaign’s outset—bringing his total monetary support for the museum’s building project to $20 million–a 300% increase from his original pledge. The monetary gift brings the total amount raised for the [...]

Miami Art Museum names Emily Mello Director of education & public programs

MIAMI, FL.- In preparation for its move to a new, expanded facility, Miami Art Museum, a leading modern and contemporary art museum located in Miami, FL, has named Emily Mello director of education and public programs. In this role, Mello will oversee MAM’s diverse educational programming that today reaches nearly 35,000 people, and will plan for the greatly expanded educational offerings that will be available when the Museum’s new facility in downtown Miami’s Museum Park opens to the public in 2013. Now [...]

American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s paintings of the 1960s at the Miami Art Museum

MIAMI.- Today, Faith Ringgold is well known as the progenitor of the African American story quilt revival that began in the late 1970s. The once influential paintings she created during the previous decade, with only a few notable exceptions, disappeared from view, omitted from critical, art historical discourse for more than forty years. This is the first comprehensive survey of these paintings, organized on the occasion of Ringgold’s 80th birthday. The exhibition will include the landmark series American People (1963-1967) and [...]

Neuberger Museum of Art presents first ten-year survey of paintings and drawings by Dana Schutz

PURCHASE, NY.- Even before she had reached the age of thirty, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Her imaginative work, filled with inventive stories and hypothetical situations, is strange, humorous, whimsical, disturbing, and oddly compelling, all at the same time. Combining fantasy and reality, humor and horror, her vibrant paintings abound with expressionist energy. From September 25 through December 18, 2011, the Neuberger Museum of Art will present Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, the first [...]

Miami Art Museum Presents Brazilian Artist Rivane Neuenschwander’s First Mid-Career Survey

MIAMI, FLA.- The Miami Art Museum presents the first mid-career survey of the work of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) focusing on over ten years of innovative practice. Neuenschwander’s work, which includes painting, photography, film, sculpture, immersive installations and participatory actions, combines conceptual rigor, sensory appeal, poetic evocation and viewer interaction. Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other (July 17 through October 16, 2011) punctuates the elements that have led to her reputation as one of the most [...]

Miami International Art Fair Announces New Features, Previewing January 13th, 2011

MIAMI, FL.- From Beijing to Buenos Aires to New York, the MIA- Miami International Art Fair will showcase prestigious galleries from over 15 countries. A major contribution of the Fair is its support of the Miami art scene. Unlike any other Miami art fair, over 25 local galleries are participating and partnerships have been formed with important Miami museums and emerging art organizations, such as the Miami Art Museum, the Lowe Art Museum, the Robert and Patricia Frost Museum, the [...]

Craig Robins Donates Netscape Installation by Konstantin Grcic to Miami Art Museum

MIAMI, FL.- Craig Robins, co-founder of Design Miami /, has donated this year’s Designer of the Year installation to Miami Art Museum (MAM). Entitled Netscape, the large-scale outdoor seating installation was created by Konstantin Grcic as a centerpiece of the December 2010 edition of Design Miami /, a global forum for design. Robins made the donation with the Museum’s new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in mind. The new Miami Art Museum is scheduled to open to the public in Downtown [...]

Miami Art Museum Breaks Ground on New Building in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park

MIAMI, FL.- Following years of planning and anticipation, Miami Art Museum has broken ground for its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park and next to the future home of the Miami Science Museum. The groundbreaking ceremony was held at the Museum’s new site overlooking Biscayne Bay. The new Miami Art Museum is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. “Today’s groundbreaking is a giant step forward in Miami’s emergence as one of the world’s great cultural [...]

Miami Art Museum Presents Focus Gallery: Purvis Young

MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum opens a new exhibition in the Focus Gallery section of its Permanent Collection installation, dedicated to works by the late Purvis Young. Focus Gallery: Purvis Young (July 30 – November 7, 2010) features a selection of Young’s paintings from the museum’s permanent collection that span the career of the celebrated, self-taught Miami painter who passed away in April of this year at the age of 67. Purvis Young’s work reflects the condition experienced by residents [...]

Miami Art Museum Names Thomas “Thom” Collins as Director

MIAMI, FL.- Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM). Collins will join MAM after serving for five years as director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester County , New York . Collins’ appointment comes just as MAM begins to transition into a new [...]

Exhibition by Christian Jankowski at Friedrich Petzel Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrich Petzel Gallery presents Strip the Auctioneer, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of Berlin based Christian Jankowski. The art of the auction is center to Jankowski’s installation Strip the Auctioneer. The gallery space, set in auction-house colors, contains sculpture, photographs and a video connected to a live auction that was orchestrated by Jankowski in May of 2009. The action takes place at Christie’s auction house in Amsterdam and incorporates the auctioneer, Amo Verkade. Verkade bids [...]

Miami Art Museum Dedicates Largest Exhibition Space to Permanent Collection

MIAMI, FL.- In preparation for the move its new, expanded facility at Museum Park, Miami Art Museum (MAM) will present the first, long-term installation of its growing Permanent Collection in the museum’s largest exhibition space, the 9,000 square foot Upper Level Gallery. BETWEEN HERE AND THERE: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, opening Sunday, February 28, 2010, will remain in place with periodic changes until MAM moves to the new museum, scheduled for completion in 2013. The exhibition [...]

Cuban Artist José Bedia has First Show at Heriard-Cimino Gallery

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Heriard-Cimino Gallery presents “Fragment of Journeys,” new work by José Bedia. The exhibition will be on view January 15 through March 3rd, 2010. José Bedia is an exceptionally masterful and compelling artist whose visual narratives and iconic language are distilled to their essence. He approaches his subjects with the social awareness of an anthropologist. The universalism of Bedia’s work is derived from his effort at synthesizing, unifying and blending elements from the most diverse ancient, geographical, historical, [...]

Hauser & Wirth to Show Guillermo Kuitca’s The Warhol Series

ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth announced an exhibition of works by Guillermo Kuitca, one of the most important artists to have emerged from Latin America. The works on show, Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) and The Warhol Series, reflect Kuitca’s intense relationship to his primary medium, painting. Guillermo Kuitca, The Flying Dutchman, 2008/2009. Archival dye printed silk organza and stainless steel armature, 3 parts, 243 x 396 cm / 95 5/8 x 155 7/8 in each. Der Fliegende Holländer (Scrim [...]

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