MARCH 2010
SPECIAL EVENT
Thursday, March 18, 7pm
EMPOWERING TOWN PARK VILLAGE—Join Michael Hughes, associate director for development at The Wolfsonian, and his 2010 Leadership Miami team for “Empowering Town Park Village,” a Wolfsonian-sponsored fundraising event. Town Park Village is a 147-unit HUD cooperative in Overtown with an active board and senior committee. It opened in 1971 and many of its residents have lived there thirty years or longer. The Leadership team is seeking to raise funds to secure the grounds and fully activate its Youth Resource Center. Join us to meet the community’s leaders, learn what the volunteer team is doing, and make a donation to benefit Town Park Village. All contributions will be made through the South Florida Progress Foundation, a 501(c)(3) of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. The presentation and discussion includes a reception sponsored by The Wolfsonian and a silent auction. Donations encouraged. Space is limited. RSVP required: 305.535.2602 or michael@thewolf.fiu.edu.
TOUR
Friday, March 19, 6pm
DECO AND DESIGN TOUR—This two-hour adventure begins with a walking tour of the Art Deco District, then moves inside to explore The Wolfsonian’s collection. The tour focuses on architecture and the exhibition Art and Design in the Modern Age. Limited to twenty participants. Presented with the Miami Design Preservation League. RSVP required: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Tour begins and ends at The Wolfsonian. $10 for members; $20 all others.
TALK
Sunday, March 21, 1pm
COLLECTOR’S TALK: MICKY WOLFSON—Celebrate the passion of collecting with the man who started it all at The Wolfsonian–FIU. Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Businessman, collector, and philanthropist, Wolfson shares his experiences and insights with Marianne Lamonaca, The Wolfsonian’s associate director for curatorial affairs and education. Join us as they discuss his life-long pursuit of the rare and overlooked objects that are the foundation of The Wolfsonian’s collection. RSVP required: 305.535.2645 or ian@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for members; $10 all others.
TALK
Friday, March 26, 7pm
A PRESCRIPTION FOR GOOD BRANDING—Scott Piergrossi, vice president of creative branding at the Miami-based Brand Institute, sits down with Neil Flanzraich, former president of IVAX Corporation, to discuss the process of branding pharmaceutical drugs from naming to testing and through the rigors of FDA approval. For more information: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for members and students; $10 all others.
APRIL 2010
FILM & DIRECTOR’S TALK
Thursday, April 1, 7pm
MILLION-DOLLAR ORGASM COMES AT HIGH COST—Join filmmaker Liz Canner for a discussion on women’s pharmaceutical objectification following the screening of her documentary Orgasm, Inc. (2009, USA, Liz Canner, 78 minutes, color, DVD). The film offers a provocative look at how pharmaceutical companies risk women’s health and happiness for billions in profits to treat the newest “disease,” Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD), as they attempt to create the female version of Viagra. Co-presented with the World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM), FIU College of Arts and Sciences, FIU Women’s Studies Center, and the FIU Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association. For more information: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for members and FIU community, $10 all others.
BOOK CLUB
Friday, April 9, 7pm
EVERY MAN DIES ALONE by Hans Fallada (1947)—When Otto and Anna Quangel learn that their only son is killed on the German front they begin a Nazi resistance postcard campaign. This suspenseful account of a working-class Berlin couple’s transformation from passivity to action during the Second World War is based on fact and was written in twenty-four days by a German drug addict and former inmate in an insane asylum during the last year of his life. The Wolfsonian Book Club explores literary works whose subjects are relevant to current exhibitions and collection themes. To join or to RSVP: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free.
TALK
Friday, April 16, 7pm
WHAT BIOLOGY TEACHES US ABOUT ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC DESIGN—Technology is making great strides in the merging of body and machine. Hugh Herr, associate professor for Media Arts and Sciences, associate professor at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and director of the Biomechatronics Group, discusses his research on technologies including device architectures that resemble the body’s musculoskeletal design—that behave like muscles and exploit principles of biological movement. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Free for members and students; $10 all others.
PERFORMANCE
Saturday, April 17, 3pm
FIU NEW MUSIC MIAMI CONCERT—Amernet String Quartet, Music from the Americas with guest composer Alfredo Rugeles. 2:45pm Pre-Concert Meet-the-Artist Session. For more information contact 305.535.2644 or 305.348.0496. Free.
TALK
Sunday, April 25, 1pm
COLLECTOR’S TALK: MARK MAMOLEN—The work of Chicago artist Edgar Miller is the focus of this collector’s talk by Mark Mamolen. The catalyst for Mamolen’s collecting occurred more than thirty years ago when he moved into a home designed by Miller and sought to learn more about “Chicago’s forgotten Renaissance man.” For more information: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for members and students; $10 all others.
BOOK TALK
Thursday, April 29, 7pm
HAVANA REVISITED—Artist and photographer Cathryn Griffith explores Havana’s significant buildings and public spaces by juxtaposing vintage tourist postcards with contemporary images. Griffith investigates how the most prominent city in Spanish colonial America developed over several centuries and the important role restoration plays in the city today. Book signing by author to follow in The Dynamo Café. Free for members and students; $10 all others. For more information: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu.
FREE GALLERY ADMISSION ON FRIDAYS FROM 6-9PM
Enjoy Free Fridays at The Wolfsonian from 6-9pm. Join us for a guided tour at 6pm and innovative programming at 7pm. Galleries remain open until 9pm.
THINK, SHOP, AND EAT AT THE DYNAMO MUSEUM SHOP AND CAFÉ!
Looking for a unique gift? The Dynamo Museum Shop should be first on your list for interesting, unusual gifts at a variety of price points. Come by and check out our growing selection!
Information:
The Dynamo Museum Shop and Café is open noon-6pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday; and noon-9pm on Thursday and Friday; closed Wednesdays. For questions or information, call 305.535.2680 or paola@thewolf.fiu.edu.
ON VIEW
STYLED FOR THE ROAD: THE ART OF AUTOMOBILE DESIGN, 1908-1948
ON VIEW THROUGH MARCH 14, 2010
Styled for the Road is an engaging exploration of automobile design in America which highlights the important role played by designers and visual artists in communicating the complex ideas that guided the development of automobiles, roadways, service stations, and advertising materials.
ADVERTISING FOR HEALTH
ONGOING AS PART OF ART AND DESIGN IN THE MODERN AGE
Advertising for Health explores nearly a century of advertising for medicine, pharmacy, and public health. The installation features rare advertisements, printed ephemera, and posters from a recent gift by William H. Helfand, a recognized author and print collector. Together with a selection of printed materials and objects from a rarely-exhibited segment of The Wolfsonian collection, these works reflect through their design strategies changing ideas about health in the Americas and Europe between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War.
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
BERNARR MACFADDEN AND THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL CULTURE MOVEMENT: SELECTIONS FROM THE GIFT OF ROBERT J. YOUNG
ON VIEW IN THE MUSEUM’S RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY VESTIBULE
This installation commemorates the recent passing of Robert J. Young, a long-time supporter of The Wolfsonian, with a selection of physical culture material he generously donated over the years. Young was an advocate of healthy living through attention to physical fitness, proper diet, sunbathing, and eschewing smoking. He was also a great admirer and collector of the publications of Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955), a pioneer of the American physical culture movement, a body-builder, and a self-made millionaire. Macfadden used his publishing empire to distribute popular magazines and books that championed his crusade against Victorian prudery, exposed early twentieth-century medical establishment quackery, and advocated better living through a healthy diet and physical fitness.
SLOWLY BUT SURELY/ LENTO PERO SEGURO
ON VIEW THROUGH MARCH 14, 2010 IN THE BRIDGE TENDER’S HOUSE
This site-specific installation by artist Federico Uribe transforms discarded healthcare equipment into a wry meditation on the commonplace. Crutches, a wheelchair, and walkers have been reassembled into a tree, a bicycle, and a dog. This ordinary urban scene, placed within a “green field” comprised of drug capsules and discarded pill containers, invites the viewer to experience the work on multiple levels—aesthetic, physical, and psychic. The installation is presented in conjunction with the gallery display, Advertising for Health.
ART AND DESIGN IN THE MODERN AGE: SELECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
ONGOING
The Wolfsonian–FIU holds an astounding collection of modern objects—both the rare and the overlooked—from the 1885 to 1945 era, demonstrating the active role design plays in motivating actions, expressing ideas, creating desires, and shaping identities. Exhibition themes underscore designers’ responses to new materials and technologies, the role of graphic design as an instrument of political and commercial persuasion, and the nature of state-sponsored public art and architecture programs.
About The Wolfsonian–Florida International University
The Wolfsonian is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945—the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.
The Wolfsonian is located at 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Admission is $7 for adults; $5 for seniors, students, and children age 6 -12; and free for Wolfsonian members, State University System of Florida staff and students with ID, and children under six. The museum is open Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday from noon-6pm; Thursday and Friday from noon-9pm; and is closed on Wednesday. Contact us at 305.531.1001 or visit us online at www.wolfsonian.org for further information.
The Wolfsonian receives ongoing support from The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; the William J. and Tina Rosenberg Foundation; Continental Airlines, the Official Airline of The Wolfsonian–FIU; Bacardi USA, Inc.; and Arrowood Vineyards & Winery.