George Lindemann and family at the Bass Museum

BASS MUSEUM OF ART CELEBRATES OPENING OF LINDEMANN FAMILY CREATIVITY CENTER

Miami Beach cultural institution unveils new educational center with inauguration ceremony and ribbon cutting during IDEA@thebass family day

Miami Beach, FL, On Sunday, January 29, 2012 the Bass Museum of Art celebrated the opening of its Lindemann Family Creativity Center with an inauguration ceremony and ribbon cutting followed by its monthly IDEA@thebass family day.

The newly opened center was packed with children producing specifically designed art projects for the themed day “Magic of Art”.  Outside of the center family day activities throughout the museum included; a face painting station, fortune telling by artist David Rohn, also known as “The Amazing Ultran, a scavenger hunt and a magic show by Gary Goodman. The new Lindemann Family Creativity Center is now the home of the museum’s IDEA@thebass program of art classes and workshops. Developed in conjunction with Stanford University’s acclaimed Institute of Design, IDEA classes employ a method of teaching known as “Design Thinking,” an open-ended method of problem solving that allows children to brainstorm, work in teams and engage in creative play.

VIP guests included President of the Board of Directors at the Bass Museum of Art George Lindemann; Executive Director and Chief Curator of the museum Silvia Karman Cubiñà; Mayor of Miami Shores Jim McCoy; Debi and Jeff Wechsler; Adam and Lenore Sender; Miami Beach City Manager and Bass Museum of Art board member Jorge Gonzalez; and other fellow board members, Alan Randolph, Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, Hugh Bush, Ramiro Del Amo,Sarah Harrelson with husband Austin Harrelson, Jonathan Kurry, Alice Matlick, Thomas Murphy, Jose Miguel Net,Laura Paresky Gould, Susan Richard, Cricket Taplin and Kevin Tomlinson.

The Lindemann Family Creativity Center will be open during regular business hours and be a creative lab for drop-in art fun for the entire family.  Additionally, a complete and extenstive education program of classes, camps and workshops such as; bass babies, bass buddies, IDEA@thebass inventive art classes, Spring and Summer art camps and more have begun.  An art instructor will be available to assist with the many projects developed for the center on the weekends.  Admission to the museum and the Lindemann Family Creativity Center is free for Miami Beach residents and cost of museum admission for adults ($8, students $6, and children under 6 are free).  For more information about the many education programs being launched in the center visist:  www.bassmuseum.org

Lindemann Family Creativity Center is generously supported by George Lindemann, the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and PUMA.Creative. Additional program support has been provided by Debi and Jeff Wechsler.

About the Bass Museum of Art:

Located in Miami Beach, the Bass Museum of Art offers a dynamic year-round calendar of exhibitions exploring the connections between contemporary art and works of art from its permanent collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculpture, textiles, Apulian Vessel Gallery and Egyptian Gallery. Artists’ projects, educational programs, lectures, concerts and free family days complement the works on view. Founded in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted a collection of Renaissance and Baroque works of art from collectors John and Johanna Bass, the collection was housed in an Art Deco building designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast. Architect Arata Isozaki designed an addition to the museum between 1998 and 2002 that doubled its size from 15,000 to 35,000 square feet.  Most recently, the museum selected internationally acclaimed Oppenheim Architecture + Design to lead its first phase of design and renovation tied to the 2010 completion of Miami Beach’s Collins Park. Oppenheim redesigned and relocated the museum’s arrival area to flow from and into the new park on Collins Avenue. For more information, please visit http://www.bassmuseum.org

The Bass Museum of Art is generously funded by the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; and sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and Bass Museum of Art membership.

As part of Noise Field, an exhibition at Dorsch Gallery this past summer and concurrent with Art Basel, in collaboration with Art Studio Miami last December, Brooklyn-based artist Kylin O’Brien has brought her ongoing street art initiative, The Monster Project, to Miami.

Over the course of four years, The Monster Project has been creating visions of neighborhood guardians by working with local children on drawings of monsters – then turning them into potent, quirky, iconic murals and placing them within the urban environment. Her children’s monster-guardians have roamed from Brooklyn to the West Coast and are now at home among the magnificent and diverse street art murals of Miami.

The two local children whose drawings have been turned into public works this past year are both of Haitian descent and participants in afterschool programs at Art Studio Miami, the wonderful non-profit organization where O’Brien held her monster drawing workshops last year. Since 2007, Art Studio has provided solutions towards healing systemic poverty by empowering young minds to lead successful lives and have hope-filled futures. The Monster Project and Art Studio Miami share the common goal of enriching children’s lives by encouraging their creative voices and by giving them an environment in which those voices may be both validated and heard.

As the children were overheard celebrating upon O’Brien’s completion of the first mural at Dorsch Gallery, “Jeffery’s got a BILLBOARD!” rang throughout Art Studio’s open space.

Boogie Man and Kids Mural-Photo by Jenn Kendall

About Kylin O’Brien:

Kylin O’Brien holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Vassar College and a B.A. (Honours) in Illustration from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK where she was awarded a part-time lectureship while pursuing her degree. Kylin has taught art and design abroad and in New York, published the webzine, The Chutney Breeder and the artsite chutney.org. She received a commendation award in 2004 from the MATRIX curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and in 2009 was awarded a Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant for her street art initiative, The Monster Project. Currently living, working and exhibiting in New York City.

Media contacts:

The Monster Project www.themonsterproject.net with ART STUDIO MIAMI

7230 Northwest Miami Ct.

Miami, FL 33150 (786) 250-2781

www.artstudiomiami.org

and DORSCH GALLERY

151 NW 24 St

Miami, FL 33127

(305) 576-1278

www.dorschgallery.com

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Kylin O’Brien / Director, The Monster Project

(212) 961 -7999

kylinobrien@gmail.com

Alan Gutierrez / Dorsch Gallery

(305) 576-1278

alan@dorschgallery.com

Soralee Ayvar / Operations Director, Art Studio

(786) 250-2781

soralee@artstudiomiami.org

ART WYNWOOD REVEALS EXHIBITOR LIST &

ANNOUNCES “THE FLYING MURALS” OF WYNWOOD

Inaugural fair attracts more than 50 galleries from around the world,

spotlights Wynwood Arts District as a flourishing cultural destination

Art Miami, LLC. is pleased to announce its confirmed exhibitor list in association with the launch of Art Wynwood, taking place President’s Day Weekend, Feb. 16 – 20, 2012. Held in the spacious 100,000-square-foot Art Miami Pavilion, which attracted more than 55,000 attendees during the 2011 edition of Art Miami, the inaugural five-day International Contemporary Art Fair will showcase a compelling array of cutting-edge, contemporary and modern artwork by both emerging and established artists from more than 50 galleries, including “the flying murals of Wynwood” commissioned by the district’s own Tony Goldman.

Art Wynwood will feature paintings, photography, sculpture, art video and new media, conceptual art and urban street art by 500 artists from 13 countries: Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, Venezuela, United Kingdom and the United States. With representation from 100 cities from around the world, including 50 across the U.S., Art Wynwood will further distinguish the Wynwood Arts District as a leading cultural destination for acquiring contemporary art. A VIP Private Preview will be held in celebration of the opening on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.

“This is a very exciting time and opportunity for the Wynwood Arts District, as well as Miami, our organization, exhibitors and the international community of art collectors who vacation or call South Florida home during President’s Day Weekend,” said Nick Korniloff, Director and Partner of Art Wynwood. “Art Wynwood will further ignite the Wynwood Arts District urban revitalization by providing a high quality, standalone International Contemporary Art Fair that will garner international recognition for the district and deliver a positive economic impact for many years to come.”

Capturing the essence of what the Wynwood Arts District and the Miami Art scene have to offer is paramount. Notably, Tony Goldman, who has been a driving force in the evolution of the arts and warehouse district of Wynwood, will exhibit what he describes as “the flying murals of Wynwood” in the fair’s VIP Lounge.  Under his guidance, six 8’ x 24’ murals by international artists, including a Retna work from the Janet and Tony Goldman Collection, an existing piece from How & Nosm, as well as new murals from DAZE, Aiko and Futura, will be installed. Goldman will also be an integral part of Art Wynwood’s soon-to-be-announced host committee, which will be comprised of industry leaders in the art, design and media worlds from Miami and beyond. He states, “We applaud the organizers of Art Wynwood for their decision to launch a new art fair in Miami next month. This is a wonderful example of how Miami – and specifically Wynwood – has evolved into a year round arts destination.  I think I speak on behalf of the entire Wynwood community in welcoming and supporting Art Wynwood.”

The following galleries have been confirmed for participation:

Stella McCartney Dress

 New York, NY (January 14, 2012) — This February, Saks Fifth Avenue will give 5% of all registered purchases made with a Saks Fifth Avenue credit card back to charity.  The donations will benefit certain local organizations, keeping support within each Saks Fifth Avenue store’s immediate community.

“Saks Fifth Avenueis committed to our local communities.  We appreciate our customers’ charitable involvement and look forward to giving back locally with this exciting and newly implemented national program,” Steve Sadove, Chairman and CEO, Saks Incorporated, said.

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Customers may select which local charity fromSaks Fifth Avenue’s roster they wish to allocate their 5% contribution. Registration is one simple step at point of sale linking the customer account with their chosen charity.

Saks Fifth Avenue Dadeland has partnered with the following charities from

February 1 to 29, 2012:

Grayvik Animal Care Center- ORCAT

ORCAT is dedicated to humanely reducing and controlling Ocean Reef’s feral cat population through an aggressive program of spaying and neutering, and maintaining existing small, managed, non-breeding feral cat colonies consistent with the needs of rodent control.  ORCAT also provides humane help for sick and injured animals.

The Jackson Memorial Foundation

The Jackson Memorial Foundation is the principal source of fundraising for Jackson Health System, seeking private philanthropic funds to improve the system’s facilities and to support its priority projects.  For further information call Jackson Memorial Foundation at 305-355-4999 or visit www.jmf.org.

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  Miami Science Museum

MiamiScienceMuseumaims to make a difference in people’s lives by inspiring them to appreciate the impact that science and technology can have on every facet of our world. For over 60 years,MiamiScienceMuseum’s award-winning educational programs, family-focused exhibits, historic planetarium, and rehabilitativeWildlifeCenterand Clinic have enriched locals and tourists alike. In 2014, the legacy continues with the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, a new world-class, state-of-the-art facility designed by Grimshaw Architects in the heart of downtownMiami.MiamiScienceMuseumis accredited by the American Association of Museums and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. For more information about the current Museum or our future home, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, visit www.miamisci.org or call (305) 646-4200.

MiamiScienceMuseumis located at3280 South Miami Avenue,Miami,FL33129. The Museum is open every day from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Admission is free for MiaSci members and children under 3; students (with valid ID), seniors (62+) and children 3 – 12, $10.95; adults are $14.95. Parking is free.

Miami Science Museum is funded with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

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University of Miami

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurology celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2012. It is a leader in research and advanced treatment and prevention of all Neurological diseases. It is one out of only two certified Stroke Centers inFlorida. The Department is also at the forefront of clinical trials for all new medications, genome research and new therapies working towards a cure for these complex neurological disorders.

With a team of 67 physicians, 47 clinical, and 20 researchers the Department is ranked 33rd in the country by US News And World Report. It is also ranked 9th in NIH research funding and 7th for resident education. It has the 2nd largest neurological resident training program in the country. With clinics in Kendall,Miami,Hialeah,PlantationandPalm Beachthe Department is capable of treating any and all neurological disorders.

Saks Fifth Avenue- Dadeland

7687 N. Kendall Drive

Miami,FL33156

Hours

Monday through Saturday 10AM to 9PM

Sunday 12PM to 7PM

Saks.com will also be supporting the program, with 5% of online purchases made using a registered Saks credit card, being donated to St. Jude Children’sResearchHospital.

About Saks Fifth Avenue

Saks Fifth Avenue, one of the world’s preeminent specialty retailers, is renowned for its superlative American and international designer collections, its expertly edited assortment of handbags, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics and gifts, and the first-rate fashion expertise and exemplary client service of its Associates. Today, Saks operates 46 full-line stores in 22 states, 2 licensed stores in the Middle East and 2 licensed stores in Mexico City,61 Saks Fifth AvenueOFF 5TH stores and saks.com, the company’s online store.

Starring local, Cuban soprano Elizabeth Caballero, Florida Grand Opera presents the South Florida premiere of this rarely performed Puccini opera – La rondine. It is the story of a kept woman who leaves her luxurious life to pursue true love. In the end, the hardships of reality force her to leave the man she loves and, like to bird to the nest, return to her former life.

The production is sung in Italian with projected translations in Spanish and English.

READ MY REVIEW, JAN 21, 2012: 

My experience at the Florida Grand Opera on opening night of La Rondine by Puccini.

Miami soprano, Elizabeth Caballero is superb as her beautiful voice reverberates throughout the entire opera. She plays the role of Magda in the romantic and comedic opera. Portuguese tenor Bruno Ribeiro plays Ruggero, the love of her life in this tale of aristocrats who fall in love, yet have to maintain their status among the elite which, unfortunately, denies them the opportunity to experience true happiness.

Magda’s female friends are wearing costumes which are pastel pink, lavender turquoise and teal flapper dresses. The highly-sophisticated Art Deco set and backdrop is evocative of the roaring 1920′s; so fitting for our magic city which has so many buildings of that style and time period along Miami Beach’s Ocean Drive.

Cecilia Paz

The set of the first act is simple, yet opulent in some of the elements of design which included chaise lounges, enormous French windows, Art Noveau style lamps as our eyes are being drawn to a grand crystal chandelier which is its central focal point.

As the story develops, Magda, is torn between her husband and her lover. Her husband is an older gentleman whom she grows accustomed to while maintaining a life of affluence and security. Ruggero visits Magda’s home and professes his love for her.

The audience, along with the Magda feels her sadness: she leaves us as a broken woman in love with a dilemma when the lights dim. When we see Magda again she is at a cabaret while frolicking in a playful coral dress. The can-can girls make flighty appearances as they sway their skirts and kick up their legs in an arena that exuded ravishing fun!

Ruggero appears again as the dancers in the cabaret enjoy themselves while carrying on in dance and conversation. Magda and he kiss, kiss and kiss some more as they delude themselves into a fantasy world of absolute magnificence. The lights dim and the large cast of the cabaret takes a bow.

The lights come on again for an intermission and the audience is left with the feeling that perhaps their romance would somehow continue. As the opera resumes the final act reveals a few twists and turns that changes the fate of their romance.

Magda and Ruggero come in from a swim in the ocean wearing their period style swimsuits and cover up while reminiscing about the wonderful time they are spending together. Then Magda reveals her consequential secret! Ruggero is in devastation and Magda walks off the set along with her maid leaving him to deal with the remains.

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MIAMI  ◙  Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County / Sanford & Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House

January 21, 2012, at 7 p.m. – Opening Night;

January 24, 27, February 1 & 4, 2012 at 8 p.m.;

January 29, 2012, matinee at 2 p.m.

Paco Fonta will perform a guitar recital contrasting traditional pieces with original, contemporary compositions. The purity of form and rhythm in Fonta’s playing is imbued with flamenco essence from the root. The concert is limited to 70 guests. It is free for members and $10 for non-members.

BASS MUSEUM OF ART

2100 Washington Avenue  Miami Beach, FL 33139-1825

(305) 673-7530

www.bassmuseum.org

Romero Hidalgo will host students Drawing at his studio at the Bird Road Arts District (BRAD) tonight!!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

7pm-10pm

$20 Fee

***MODELS WILL BE DRESSED IN BURLESQUE OUTFITS***

Music will be playing while Wine and Cheese is served.

Romero Hidalgo Artists’ Studio/MyArt Ventures  

4241 SW 75 th Avenue

Miami, FL 33155

Phone: 305-262-9966