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 […]
Diana Rodriguez/Contributing Writer Troublemaker and lifetime collector Micky Wolfson celebrated his 80th birthday this year by supplying 100 one-of-a-kind objects to a new exhibit at The Wolfsonian-FIU. The exhibit “A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects” takes over the sixth floor of the museum on Washington Avenue in Miami Beach. There’s a wall displaying old-fashioned […]
By Nelida Insua Coelho An exhibition that takes you back in time to explore how tobacco companies used the art of advertising to its full potential. The Wolfsonian-FIU is holding an exhibition until April of this year called “Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising,” carefully crafted to demonstrate the history of the tobacco leaf […]
Carmella Jimenez/Contributing Writer The Wolfsonian’s “America The Beautiful” exhibit features railroad advertisements in the 1900s to promote visits to national parks that featured American Indians as a key attraction. “They were advertising and promoting the national parks not necessarily with images of beautiful portraits and mountain peaks and the like, but really with Native Americans,” […]
