Don’t miss this happening event on the South Florida calendar! VOOM HD Networks, the pioneer in HD television, and Robert Wilson, one of the world’s masters of drama and light, come together to create a groundbreaking video series of high-definition portraits of the 21st century, capturing superstars and royalty, ordinary people and extraordinary animals.

Commissioned and produced by VOOM HD Networks

Become a member of the Bass Museum of Art and be the first to view this exciting exhibition! Call 305.673.7530 x 9-1013 for more information about membership.

By invitation only.

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Trained in experimental film & photography at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Adalberto Delgado has worked as a cinematographer for various advertising agencies during the 80s and 90s, specializing in the Hispanic market.

Together with local gallerist Fredric Snitzer, Delgado co-founded the experimental artists’ group "NADA" in 1984. Delgado has been responsible for the creation of innovative children’s programs throughout Miami-Dade County and Hillsborough County teaching photography and video. As a visual artist, he has created and shown video installations and sculptures, and his work has been shown in museums, galleries and alternative spaces since the late 70s.

Join us for a fascinating video presentation and hear Delgado share his experiences and explore video portraiture as a powerful art form.

Free with museum admission

This program reflects the progression of keyboard music from the Baroque style of Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous Sarabande in C-minor to the Classicism of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (often considered the pinnacle of sonata composition); and from the Romantic nuances of Chopin’s Nocturnes to the jazz-influenced classical music of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Pianist Marta Milosevic-Brankovic who was born in 1980 in Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia), recently completed her second Master’s degree at Florida International University in the studio of well known concert pianist Kemal Gekic. Since her concert debut and highly acclaimed performance at the Ganz Rudolph Hall in Chicago in 2005, Ms. Milosevic-Brankovic has held more than forty solo performances in the USA and Europe and won many international prizes.

Free with museum admission

This provocative documentary from Katharina Otto chronicles the epic life, times and creative genius of Robert Wilson, intimately revealing for the first time one of the most controversial, rule-breaking and downright mysterious artists of our era. Wilson, who overcame childhood learning disabilities growing up in Waco, Texas, rose to become one of the most respected avant-garde artists in late 1960s New York. As much a tale of social injustice as a portrait of an artist, this mix of interviews and live performance is testimony to how Wilson's early challenges influenced his creative expression.

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During the last quarter of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th century, portrait painting flourished as in no other era. The 18th century English painters were avowed admirers of female beauty, courage, and panache – characteristics shared by the courtesans whom they painted – and left posterity a living testament to these women. But, who were the sitters?

This illustrated presentation will answer this question and give a glimpse into Georgian society by fleshing out the living women behind the exquisite portraits as well as the artists who immortalized them.

Jo Manning, a graduate of Queens College and Syracuse University, was the founder and director of the Reader’s Digest General Books Library in New York City and is the author of novels and short stories set in the 18th century. Among them the award-winning Seducing Mr. Heywood (New American Library) and My Lady Scandalous (Simon & Schuster), that was her first non-fiction work.

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The program features works by Jewish composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Selections include the astounding "Fairy Tales" composed in 1910 by the 13-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold, possibly the greatest musical prodigy of all time, the enigmatic French virtuoso Charles Valentin Alkan’s "Petites Fantaisies," and the works of two women composers from different centuries: 19th-century composer Fanny Mendelssohn (older sister of Felix Mendelssohn) and contemporary composer Judith Shatin.

Performed by pianist José López, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Florida International University School of Music.

Free with museum admission

A "must-see" exhibition opens at the Bass Museum of Art! Experience the sense of wonder inherent in the art of drawing - its spontaneity and the feeling of speed and fragility that the pencil strokes impart on the sheet of paper. Some of the most important names of 20th century art such as Picasso, Joan Miro, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez and Joaquin Torres-Garcia are included in this exhibition of 84 drawings.

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