Camille Orquera/Staff Writer Judith Leiber’s iconic handbags that graced artists like Beyoncé and Presidential First Ladies are featured at a new Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU exhibit. The exhibit, “Judith Leiber: Master Craftsman,” celebrates the designer’s life and work through photographs of Leiber and her legendary creations. The museum’s Executive Director Susan Gladstone and Curator Jacqueline […]
Anna Radinsky/Entertainment Director Photos created by Nazis of newly arrived Jewish people at the Auschwitz concentration camp returned home to Miami after being displayed in Israel for 30 years. The exhibition opening of “Auschwitz-A Place on Earth: The Auschwitz Album” at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU featured images of the only known documentation of Jews […]
Camille Orquera/Contributing Writer The only known documentation of Jews arriving at the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago will be featured at a new Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU exhibit. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and with it comes a photo album exhibit called “Auschwitz—A Place on Earth.” Over two […]
Anna Radinsky/Entertainment Director It’s that time of the year again. Instead of rejoicing about Miami’s heightened traffic jams, why not indulge in what the fuss is about anyway? It’s Art Week in Miami, folks. And FIU also has some tricks up its sleeve when it comes to Art Basel. Here is a list of all […]
By Milagros Viquez By design alone, these are the instruments of the future. One resembles a violin, the other a cello and yet another, an electric guitar, except they have been redesigned, or rather reimagined, to look like a cosmic orchestra’s instrument from “The Fifth Element” or perhaps even from a galaxy farther away than […]
Milagros Viquez/Contributing Writer Picture it: South Beach, year 2000. Photographer of the stars, royalty and other notable and notorious figures alike. Annie Leibovitz, pointed her lens at a different sort of individual–a four-foot-tall, 83-year-old Jewish woman wearing only a beach towel, in the middle of Lincoln Road. This might not have been so unusual, […]
Photo credit: Andres Cardenas/The Beacon Daniel Uria/Staff Writer This past summer, The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, located on Miami Beach, debuted a collection of posters that had been confiscated by Nazis from collector Dr. Hans Sachs. Sachs’ collection included 12,500 posters, making it the largest private poster collection in the world. In 1938, during the occupation […]
