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Selections from the Collection
DATES:  2/1/2010 - 2/1/2013
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-7530
WEB SITE:  http://www.bassmuseum.org
DESCRIPTION:  The permanent collection of the Bass Museum of Art spans more than five hundred years and four continents, including works from Renaissance and Baroque paintings; Rococo court painting and English portraiture; painting and sculpture of North America, 19th and 20th century landscape and history paintings; painting and sculpture of North America, Latin America and the Caribbean; contemporary photography; Asian art; European decorative arts; as well as a unique collection of works on paper. Works from the collection will be rotated on a regular basis in the Bass Museum's Taplin Gallery, as well as the newly renovated Peter E. and Annemarie H. Houghton Gallery, located on the first level of the museum. Also on view is The Tournament, which has a particularly prestigious provenance in that it was part of Henry VIII's collection at Knole House in England and was later purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in the early twentieth-century before it came into John Bass's collection.

Egyptian Gallery at the Bass Museum of Art
DATES:  4/30/2010 - 3/3/2013
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-7530
WEB SITE:  http://www.bassmuseum.org
DESCRIPTION:  The new Egyptian Gallery will become a permanent display at the Museum and will showcase their prized Egyptian Painted Sycamore Fig Wood Sarcophagus and mummy within a dedicated gallery space. Over 37 events are expected to take place to include the celebratory opening weekend of private and public screenings, lectures, demonstrations, concerts, dedicated family days, special teen events, and group tours.

Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America
DATES:  9/8/2011 - 8/31/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Wolfsonian - FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/535-2645
WEB SITE:  http://www.wolfsonian.org
DESCRIPTION:  This exhibition of more than 50 American paintings, sculptures and fine art prints from the 1920s to the 1940s is drawn from The Wolfsonian's collection. It explores how artists manifested in their work the most profound and the most mundane aspects of American life. While the artworks provide personal records of the nation, they also express collectively held attitudes about the landscape, the built environment, domestic life, work, and leisure.

Laurent Grasso
DATES:  10/29/2011 - 2/12/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-7530
WEB SITE:  http://www.bassmuseum.org
DESCRIPTION:  Laurent Grasso often explores shifting and multiple temporalities in his conceptual art practice. For his project at the Bass Museum of Art, Grasso selects and juxtaposes historical works from the museum's permanent collection with his own series of paintings, sculptures, videos and neons to form unexpected connections that become reflections on the past from a contemporary viewpoint.

Rembrandt's Erotic Secrets
DATES:  11/1/2011 - 3/31/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  World Erotic Art Museum
1205 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/532-9336
WEB SITE:  http://www.weam.com
DESCRIPTION:  Curators and collectors have known for centuries of the 20 erotic etchings created in Rembrandt's lifetime. For the first time, all 20 have been gathered for a public exhibition. An exemplary showing of his masterful technique is seen through the subject matter including nudes, biblical subjects, Greek mythological studies, and everyday life subjects.

Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
DATES:  12/1/2011 - 3/8/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Wolfsonian - FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/535-2645
WEB SITE:  http://www.wolfsonian.org
DESCRIPTION:  The French motto, "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity," serves as the conceptual framework for this insightful exhibition exploring French cultural identity through design. The exhibition examines the changing political, economic, and cultural contexts in which French design is created and disseminated. Approximately 150 objects are exhibited, including furniture, industrial design, and craft, created by some of the most celebrated French designers of the past and present, including Pierre Paulin, Roger Tallon, Olivier Mourgue, Philippe Starck, and the Bouroullec Brothers.

Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business
DATES:  12/1/2011 - 3/4/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-7530
WEB SITE:  http://www.bassmuseum.org
DESCRIPTION:  The work of Erwin Wurm establishes a link between materials change and a psychological perspective. It also examines sculptural themes like mass, volume and surface.

"Bettie Page: Miami Noir" by Bunny Yeager
DATES:  12/1/2011 - 1/31/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  The Miami Beach Cinematheque
1130 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-4567
WEB SITE:  http://www.mbcinema.com
DESCRIPTION:  Bunny Yeager's life and work has been inspired by film. A new exhibition at MBC focuses on photos of her favorite model. Many of the images have never been exhibited or published before, which is the case for much of the work in Bunny's vast archive. Most were shot in a private home in Coral Gables.

Statistically Speaking: The Graphic Expression of Data
DATES:  12/1/2011 - 1/31/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Wolfsonian - FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/535-2645
WEB SITE:  http://www.wolfsonian.org
DESCRIPTION:  Statistically Speaking highlights eye-catching statistical graphics from the first half of the twentieth century in 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 Deco Walking Tours
DATES:  1/1/2012 - 12/31/2012
CATEGORY:  Tours
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ADDRESS:  Art Deco Welcome Center and Gift Shop
1001 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/672-2014
WEB SITE:  http://www.mdpl.org
DESCRIPTION:  Join a ninety-minute walking tour to get an introduction to the Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern (MiMo) styles found within the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District. Explore hotels, restaurants, and other commercial structures with a visit to a number of interiors. Tours depart from the Art Deco Gift Shop. Schedule: Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.; all other days at 10:30 a.m.

Potential Amendments
DATES:  1/6/2012 - 2/19/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  ArtCenter Gallery
800 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/674-8278
WEB SITE:  http://www.artcentersf.org
DESCRIPTION:  This show is based in structure, form, and mark making. All three artists - Jenny Brillhart, Vincent Hemphill and Moira Holohan - work within made and found forms, conceiving possibilities that allow for reworking, acknowledged errors, purpose and process.

Stage Door Theatre Presents: I Love a Piano
DATES:  1/13/2012 - 2/12/2012
CATEGORY:  Theater
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ADDRESS:  Byron Carlyle Theatre
500 71st St.
Miami Beach, FL 33141
PHONE:  305/397-8977
WEB SITE:  http://www.miamibeachstage.org
DESCRIPTION:  Take a nostalgic journey that spans seven decades of American history as seen through the eyes of legendary songwriter Irving Berlin. Including timeless classics such as “White Christmas,” “God Bless America,” “Puttin’ On the Ritz,” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” I Love a Piano does more than define the music of a generation - it defines the music of our country.

Miami Jewish Film Festival
DATES:  1/21/2012 - 1/29/2012
CATEGORY:  Film/Film Festival
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ADDRESS:  Various theaters throughout Greater Miami and the Beaches

Miami, FL
PHONE:  888/585-3456
WEB SITE:  http://www.miamijewishfilmfestival.com
DESCRIPTION:  The 15th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival presents ten days of extraordinary domestic and international features and documentaries. It includes intense dramas about intolerance and alienation, heartwarming stories of friendship and resilience, and rousing coming of age tales.

Free Fridays at The Wolf
DATES:  1/27/2012 - 1/27/2012
CATEGORY:  General Entertainment
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ADDRESS:  Wolfsonian - FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/535-2645
WEB SITE:  http://www.wolfsonian.org
DESCRIPTION:  Free gallery admission on Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. with the support of The Miami Herald. Exhibition tours at 6 p.m. Enjoy wine and light food at The Dynamo Musem Shop and Café.

Song Man Dance Man
DATES:  1/27/2012 - 1/29/2012
CATEGORY:  Theater
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ADDRESS:  Stage Door Theatre at the Byron Carlyle
500 71st St.
Miami Beach, FL 33141
PHONE:  305/397-8977
WEB SITE:  http://www.miamibeachstage.org
DESCRIPTION:  In response to requests from residents and visitors alike, the Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre will present a limited run of Song Man Dance Man, the widely acclaimed one-man show that played to enthusiastic audiences in its run at the theatre last year. The one-man show about one-man shows was created and performed by Jon Peterson, emcee from Broadway's revival of "Cabaret" and Drama Desk Nominee for the title role in the off-Broadway production "George M. Cohan Tonight!"

Exploring Dutch Design
DATES:  1/27/2012 - 1/27/2012
CATEGORY:  Museum/Art Exhibit
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ADDRESS:  Wolfsonian - FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/535-2645
WEB SITE:  http://www.wolfsonian.org
DESCRIPTION:  Modern Dutch design will be the focus of a public talk at The Wolfsonian–Florida International University between museum founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. and Dutch decorative arts expert Frans Leidelmeijer, moderated by Marianne Lamonaca, The Wolfsonian’s associate director for curatorial affairs and education. The informal conversation will center on Wolfson’s process of building the Dutch collection and recollect highlights along the way. This public talk is free and open to the public. 7 p.m.

danceAble
DATES:  1/28/2012 - 1/28/2012
CATEGORY:  Dance
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ADDRESS:  Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/324-4337
WEB SITE:  http://www.tigertail.org
DESCRIPTION:  The 12th annual danceAble event presents an electric evening of three works: The Narrowing by Sebastian Grubb, Light Shelter by David Dorfman and the Florida premiere of Full of Words by noted British dancer and choreographer, Marc Brew. 8 p.m.

Dance of Devotion
DATES:  1/28/2012 - 1/28/2012
CATEGORY:  Music
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ADDRESS:  New World Center, SunTrust Pavilion
500 17th St.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-3331
WEB SITE:  http://www.nws.edu
DESCRIPTION:  Mark Wigglesworth, conductor. Tippett: Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage; Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë. 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Road Farmer's Market
DATES:  1/29/2012 - 1/29/2012
CATEGORY:  General Entertainment
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ADDRESS:  Along Lincoln Road
Between Washington and Lennox Avenues
Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/531-0038
WEB SITE:  http://www.themarketcompany.org
DESCRIPTION:  A year-round, Sunday-only farmers' market featuring fruit, vegetables, fresh-cut flowers, plants and related items such as bread, honey and homemade jams.

Lincoln Road Outdoor Antiques & Collectibles Market
DATES:  1/29/2012 - 1/29/2012
CATEGORY:  General Entertainment
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ADDRESS:  Along Lincoln Road

Miami Beach, FL 33139
PHONE:  305/673-4991
WEB SITE:  http://www.antiquecollectiblemarket.com
DESCRIPTION:  Vendors display antiques including jewelry, china, vintage clothing, furniture, and more between the 800 and 1000 blocks of Lincoln Road and Drexel. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.