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bass museum of art finalist for knight arts challenge 2013

admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:23:03 +0000

The Bass Museum of Art is thrilled to be among 66 finalists in the running for the Knight Arts Challenge 2013 sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Please click here to view all finalists – the winners will be announced later this year.

a work from our collection is traveling!

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:05:50 +0000

We are happy to announce that Kathleen Gilje’s work Het Pelsken, Restored will be exhibited May 11 – September 8, 2013 in the exhibition Revised and Restored: The Art of Kathleen Gilje at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. The show will offer a brief overview of Kathleen Gilje’s satirically pointed and technically adroit reincarnations of iconic Old Master and nineteenth-century paintings. The work from our collection is based on Peter Paul Rubens’ Helena Fourment (“Het Pelsken”), 1636/1638 located in the Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna.

A catalogue of the exhibition will be available through the Bruce Museum.

bass museum of art celebrated fourth annual “a night at the museum”

admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:18:40 +0000

The Bass Museum of Art, one of Miami Beach’s key cultural landmarks, along with Cultured Magazine, a select group of the city’s leading arts patrons, socialites and tastemakers hosted its annual fundraiser, “A Night at the Museum,” on Thursday, March 14, 2013. The event attracted more than 500 guests who received a private preview of From Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler curated by more »

deco drive features: bass museum of art happy hour

admin — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:29:21 +0000

The Bass Museum of Art was featured on WSVN’s DECO Drive on Thursday, March 28. Click the link below to see why Louis Aguirre and all of Miami think the Bass Museum of Art’s Beats After Sunset is the best happy hour on the beach!

Deco Features: Bass Museum of Art Happy Hour

knight foundation appoints carol coletta as vp/community and national initiatives

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:46:15 +0000

Today the Knight Foundation announced the appointment of Carol Coletta as the new vice president/ community and national initiatives, effective May 6. As the current director of ArtPlace, we worked closely with Carol when we received our ArtPlace grant for tc: temporary contemporary public art project. Congratulations, Carol! We look forward to working with you more »

George Lindemann Wins Inaugural Better Beach Award

admin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:54:02 +0000

Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce has awarded George Lindemann the award of Citizen at Large at the inaugural Better Beach Awards. This award was given to Lindemann based on his for his prolific and impactful role in growing, branding and leading the Bass Museum of Art for the past 5 years. As the President of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art, George Lindemann has not only been one of the few original members of the Board of Directors, but helped grow the board from 3 members to the current 23 current members of the Board creating a diverse and dynamic group of leaders for the Bass Museum of Art. Lindemann also helped conceptualize the current mission statement of the Bass Museum of Art, “we inspire and educate by exploring the connections between our historical collections and contemporary art”.

Along with the City of Miami Beach, George Lindemann’s generous donations and commitment to education, he created the Lindemann Family Creativity Center at the Bass Museum of Art. The Lindemann Family Creativity Center is 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. The Creativity Center is also the home of the Art Club for Adults, lectures, film screenings, and teacher training workshops. Additional programming includespre-school art classes, after school and weekend art classes (children ages 6 to 12), and experimental programming designed by the museum’s Stanford Fellow and other experts in the field of arts education.

Congratulations, George Lindemann!

miami herald review: “at bass, renaissance lives in 6 ambitious projects” by anne tschida

admin — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:00:08 +0000

The Bass Museum of Art received a fantastic review in The Miami Herald by Anne Tschida on Wednesday, February 28, 2013 titled, “At Bass, Renaissance Lives in 6 Ambitious Projects.” See why Anne writes, “when exhibits try and force a theme, lead an audience down one path, it often doesn’t work. These speak for themselves, individually, and out of the broad scope of the artists’ work, you can take away what you want.”

Click here for full article.

knight curatorial fellow, bryan granger responds to new york times article, “curator, tear down these walls”

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:50:58 +0000

Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Blending folk art with more polished contemporary works could enliven the appreciation of both. “Lake George and the Village of Caldwell,” left, by Thomas Chambers, challenges the perspective, right, of John Frederick Kensett’s “Hudson River Scene.”
_________________________________________________In recent article in the New York Times, Roberta Smith calls on art institutions to diversify their installations. (For original article please click here). Specifically, she argues for the inclusion of folk art and outsider art alongside “academic art” in temporary and permanent exhibitions. Though she specifies folk art, her general proposition to combine works from various art historical periods and geographies resonates with the mission of the Bass Museum of Art.Smith’s reasoning is twofold: the first echoes her desire to “finally break this linear historical account,” or to break the traditional art historical hierarchy, which broadly operates with regard to place and time. As we’ve seen with Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, a project where Warburg combined images of artworks and anthropological objects, this strategy proves enlightening, evoking unique connections between previously unrelated items. But she raises a second point, one that deals more with perception and phenomenology:“Homogeneity dulls the eye and lulls the brain. It is the discrepancies that grab our attention and make us look more sharply and deeply. Comparing and contrasting noticeably different artworks helps us learn to use our eyes, to look for ourselves rather than depend on labels, to see form itself rather than just subject matter and narrative. The process is reflexive; it works best when distinctions are forced on us, as when markedly unlike works that still speak to one another through echoes in form, subject, color or mood are placed side by side.”Hinting at not relying on labels, Smith pushes for an installation that encourages naïve readings of artworks, and a strategy for doing so consists of viewing works through the lens of other—supposedly completely unrelated—objects. Speaking of discrepancies and forced distinctions between various works, she alludes to a necessary frustration that enables us to perceive elements of works of art in different contexts. In their text for documenta XII, Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack elaborate on the need for such frustration: “Without any concrete idea that something could be different than it is (and if so, how), we would be hopelessly cast adrift on the tides of social change.”

At the Bass Museum of Art, we strive to explore the connections between past and present art. At times we have exhibitions of contemporary artists whose work creates a dialogue with art history, while other times we install contemporary art alongside the works from our historical collection. With these strategies, we hope to reveal universal connections between disparate artworks and objects that have never been discovered before.

-Bryan Granger, Bass Museum of Art’s Knight Curatorial Fellow

bass museum of art participates in the first annual artplace creative placemaking summit

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:16:17 +0000

The Bass Museum of Art was thrilled to participate in the first annual ArtPlace Creative Placemaking Summit. Included in the two-day festivities was a tour of the museum’s current exhibitions, The Endless Renaissance and tc: temporary contemporary.

MISO at the bass museum of art

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:03:23 +0000

Sunday, January 27, 2013: Bass Museum of Art, Miami Symphony Orchestra and City of Miami Beach Arts in the Parks presented a free concert on the lawn in Collins Park. Over 800 guests enjoyed an al fresco performance of “Ocean Drive in Vienna” conducted by Eduardo Marturet.