SUMMER HOURS FOR MUSEUM & MUSEUM SHOP/CAFÉ THROUGH SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Noon-6pm: Thursday
Noon-9pm: Friday
Noon-6pm: Saturday and Sunday
Closed Monday-Wednesday.
BLUE STAR MUSEUMS PARTNERSHIP
In effect through September 6, 2010—Join The Wolfsonian and 600 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 through September 6, 2010.
WOLF BOOK CLUB
Friday, June 4, 7pm
WHO IS MARK TWAIN? by Mark Twain, edited by Robert Hirst (2010)—When Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, died in 1910, he left behind a “stack of literary remains,” most of which have been published. From the remaining still-unpublished works, Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project at UC Berkeley, has selected the twenty-four essays in Who Is Mark Twain? The pieces include: Conversations with Satan, The Force of ‘Suggestion,‘ The Privilege of the Grave, Happy Memories of the Dental Chair, and The Missionary in World Politics. The pieces have been described as witty and insightful. “You can learn a lot about how he thought and wrote [from these essays] that you can’t learn from reading an edition of Huckleberry Finn,” Hirst told The Wall Street Journal. The Wolfsonian Book Club explores literary works whose subjects are relevant to current exhibitions and collection themes. To become a member or to RSVP: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free.
PUBLIC TALK AND BOOK SIGNING
Thursday, June 10, 7:30pm
MIAMI ARCHITECTURE: AN AIA GUIDE FEATURING DOWNTOWN, THE BEACHES AND COCONUT GROVE—Join authors Allan Shulman, Randall C. Robinson, Jr., Jeff Donnelly, along with photographer Robin Hill for a discussion about their book, which offers an overview and critical assessment of Miami’s planned and built environment. The book talk is offered in conjunction with the current collection-based installations, Unrealized Architecture, on view in the museum’s rare book and special collections library vestibule and The Grand Hotels of Schultze & Weaver, on view in the permanent exhibition gallery. Book signing to follow in The Dynamo Café. For more information: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free.
PUBLIC TALK
Saturday, June 19, 10:30am–12:30pm
DESIGNING HEALTHY SPACES: THREE VIEWS—How do your surroundings affect your health? Can a well-designed health care facility make patients feel better or heal faster? How does changing technology impact patient experience and care delivery? Join us for a discussion addressing the topic of healthy hospitals and health care facilities as we explore the roles innovation, evidence-based design, and nurturing social environments play in keeping us healthy. Panelists include: Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA and Fellow of the Center for Health Systems & Design and Associate Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University; interior designer Elizabeth C. Brawley, AAHID, IIDA, CID and president of Design Concepts Unlimited; and healthcare professional Glyn Jarvis, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and program director, Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, Oxford, UK. Jose Estevez, AIA/NCARB, and founding principal of MGE architects in Miami, will moderate the discussion. Co-presented with the Architeture Club-AIA Miami. Sponsored in part by VITAS Innovative Hospice Care; and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. AIA CEU credits available. For more information: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free for members; $10 all others.
DYNO’NIGHT
Friday, June 25, 7pm
ELEVATORS—The Dynamo Museum Shop & Café presents an evening of reggae music infused with hints of hip hop, ska, latin, and funk by the local band Elevators. Band members include: Jorge Bernal (Vocalist/ Turntablist), David Bernal (Vocalist/ Percussion), Johnny Garantiva (Vocalist/ Keyboard), Tommy Sanchez (Bass), Chris Olivares (Guitar), and Ray Ulloa (Drums). The Dynamo Café will also offer 2-for-1 beer and wine from 6-9pm on Dyno’Nights. Dyno’Nights offers the community a venue to present their talent and knowledge. For more information: 305.535.2680 or paola@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free.
ON VIEW
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 11, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection’s core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
UNREALIZED ARCHITECTURE
ON VIEW IN THE MUSEUM’S RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY VESTIBULE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
The exhibition explores the impact that unbuilt architectural projects have had on society and on other architects. Works on view include designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugh Ferriss, Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin, and many others.
THE GRAND HOTELS OF SCHULTZE & WEAVER
ONGOING AS PART OF ART AND DESIGN IN THE MODERN AGE
The Grand Hotels of Schultze & Weaver features renderings, floor plans, drawings, and photographs of some of the firm’s luxurious hotels designed from 1921-1931 in South Florida and New York. Items in the installation are drawn from The Wolfsonian’s extensive archive of drawings and other items produced by the renowned architecture firm, designer of landmark hotels including the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, the Breakers in Palm Beach, and the Miami Biltmore in Coral Gables.
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.
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.