September @ The Wolfsonian-FIU

JOIN THE WOLFSONIAN–FIU FOR A CURATOR’S TOUR OF ‘MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA’ MEMBER EVENT
Friday September 16, 6:30pm
CURATOR’S TOUR—Join Marianne Lamonaca, associate director for curatorial affairs and education, for a tour of Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America from The Wolfsonian Collection. Reception at 6:30pm, tour at 7pm. For Propagandist-level members and higher. Limited space. RSVP required: 305.535.2631 or ian@thewolf.fiu.edu.

NOT A MEMBER OF THE WOLFSONIAN?
Then it’s time to join! As a member, you’ll enjoy free admission to our galleries, free or reduced admission for our programs, invitations to our exhibition openings, member promotions at The Dynamo Museum Shop and Dynamo Food Factory & Café, and much more. For membership information or to join, CLICK HERE!

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 AND SHOP AT THE WOLFSONIAN’S DYNAMO MUSEUM SHOP!

Looking for a unique gift? The Dynamo Museum Shop should be first on your list for carefully curated, unusual gifts at a range of price points. Come by and check out our growing selection! For questions or information: 305.535.2680 or paola@thewolf.fiu.edu.
The Museum Shop is open noon-6pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; and noon-9pm on Friday; closed Wednesday.
BLUE STAR MUSEUMS PARTNERSHIP
In effect through September 5, 2011—Join The Wolfsonian and 1,300 museums across America in celebrating the Blue Star Museums partnership. In honor of the program, The Wolfsonian offers free gallery admission to all active duty military personnel and their families.

BOOK CLUB
Friday, September 9, 7pm
TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW: GENIUS, MADNESS, MURDER, AND THE 1939 WORLD’S FAIR ON THE BRINK OF WAR BY JAMES MAURO (2010)—The summer of 1939 was an epic turning point for America—a brief window between the Great Depression and World War II. It was the last season of unbridled hope for peace and prosperity; by Labor Day, the Nazis were in Poland. And nothing would come to symbolize this transformation from acute optimism to fear and dread more than the 1939 New York World’s Fair. A glorious vision of the future, the Fair introduced television, the fax machine, nylon, and fluorescent lights. The “World of Tomorrow,” as it was called, was a dream city built upon a notorious garbage dump—The Great Gatsby’s infamous ash heaps. Yet these lofty dreams would come crashing down to earth in just two years. From the fair’s opening on a stormy spring day, everything that could go wrong did: not just freakish weather but power failures and bomb threats. The Wolfsonian Book Club explores literary works whose subjects are relevant to current exhibitions and collection themes. Free for members. To join or to RSVP: 305.535.2644 or programs@thewolf.fiu.edu.

FILM
Sunday, September 11, 4pm
IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR—Thematically rooted in the double meaning of Aufklärung—the German word for both enlightenment and aerial surveillance—Farocki’s film maps the murky distinction between imaged event and lived experience in a world of technologically mediated vision. It traces the effect of imaging technology on human thought and action, illustrating how the representation (the virtual) and the thing itself (the actual) tend to converge wherever perception is subject to the selective sight lines of the camera. Free. For more information: 305.535.2644 or programs@thewolf.fiu.edu.

BOOK TALK & SIGNING
Saturday, September 24, 1pm
BOB GRAHAM: THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM—Senator Bob Graham, former two-term Governor of Florida and eighteen-year US Senator, discusses his suspenseful novel, The Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press, 2011). Following an explosive New York Times op-ed piece about the 9/11 investigation, a former Senator and co-chair of the Congressional Inquiry Commission is found dead near his Florida home. Carl Hiaasen claims Graham’s novel “delivers uncommon insight into the treacherous and sometimes frantic craft of intelligence gathering. It reads like a true story because Graham knows where the truth lies.” Free. RSVP required: http://tinyurl.com/wolf-graham. For more information: 305.535.2644 or programs@thewolf.fiu.edu.

ON VIEW
REFLECTIONS ON LOSS AND COMMEMORATION
ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
An installation that explores how humans record and commemorate disaster, tragedy, and loss through the visual arts. The installation marks the tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001.

MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
ON VIEW THROUGH AUGUST 2012
American artists working in the early twentieth century presented in their work both the manifest and mundane—the remarkable and routine—aspects of American life. They witnessed and recorded the challenges posed to the romantic idea of America by the realities of the time: war, technological advances, environmental distress, economic uncertainty, and corporate intervention. The works they produced provide a record of the nation and also exhibit collectively held attitudes about the landscape, the built environment, domestic life, work, and leisure—themes prevalent throughout The Wolfsonian’s collection.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING: THE GRAPHIC EXPRESSION OF DATA
ON VIEW THROUGH JANUARY 2012
Statistically Speaking highlights eye-catching statistical graphics from the first half of the twentieth century in the The Wolfsonian’s rare book and special collections library. The works in this exhibition were vehicles for the ambitions of Portuguese imperialists, Soviet propagandists, and American New Dealers. Each of these groups deployed graphic design as a means of making quantitative information vivid, understandable, and endowed with meaning beyond the numbers themselves.

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.

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