Week of October 21, 2010
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| ART Thursday 10/21 MODERN IDENTITYPhotographs, architectural drawings, posters, record albums and more illustrate how international links contributed to Havana's development of a modern identity in the decades before the Cuban Revolution in "La Habana Moderna." Ends April 24. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, 10975 SW 17th St., Tamiami. Details: (305) 348-2890 or http://thefrost.fiu.edu. IN THE NUDE The Bass Museum of Art presents "The Nudist Museum" by Ellen Harvey, an exhibition using the Bass Museum's collection to unearth a variety of historical paradigms of nudity. By copying every nude in the collection — including paintings, drawings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the present — Ms. Harvey showcases purity, titillation, truth, comedy, beauty, ugliness and more in representations of the human body. Ends Nov. 7. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach. Admission $6 students and seniors; $8 others. Details: (305) 673-7530 or www.bassmuseum.org. FACULTY WORK The University of Miami showcases faculty members' work, including drawings, prints, ceramics, sculptures and more. Ends Oct. 29. Wesley Foundation at the University of Miami, 1210 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. Details: (305) 284-2543 or m.cardoso1@miami.edu or www.miami.edu. PENCHANT FOR COLLECTION Miami Dade College opens a new exhibit, "Ways of Worldmaking: Notes on a Passion for Collecting." The exhibit documents the 20-year history and development of husband-and-wife team Dr. Arturo and Liza Mosquera's contemporary art collection. Includes more than 85 original works by contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American artists. Ends Nov. 6. Freedom Tower, 600 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Free. Details: (305) 237-7700 or galleries@mdc.edu. ABSTRACT ANGLES The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University presents "Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction." The works represent the origins of Venezuela's abstract movement from the late 1940s through the 1970s. Ends Jan. 2. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, 10975 SW 17th St., Tamiami. Details: (305) 348-2890 or http://thefrost.fiu.edu.
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