Allyson Ifergan | Contributing Writer Students made their way to South Beach on March 30 for a night of dancing, poetry and jazz with the Wolfsonian Museum celebrating the Harlem Renaissance. The event was put on by the SGA and Wolfsonian Museum, along with the English Graduate Student Organization, to celebrate voices from the Harlem […]
Jonathan Davis | Contributing Writer Modern artists warn of industrialization with once lush landscapes in the Wolfsonian Museum’s The Big World exhibition. A new exhibition titled The Big World: Alternative Landscapes of the Modern Era containing world-renowned art unveiled in Miami Beach last week. All pieces in The Big World originate from the 1850s-1950s- a […]
Dante Nahai/ Staff Writer Miami and South Florida have a wealth of history and cultural artifacts from the diverse communities they contain. However, connecting communities with their artifacts and history can be a challenging task. That’s why FIU’s Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) recently received a grant of one million dollars from The Andrew W. […]
Katerina Rodriguez// Staff Writer In the midst of global protests against police brutality, FIU Wolfsonian Museum Curator, Shoshana Rsniikoff, came together with Dale Zine artists Steve Saiz and Lillian Saiz Banderas, to discuss the history of protest art and how it can be used to ignite change today. During the conversation held over Zoom, wartime […]
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,” […]
Milagros Viquez/Assistant Entertainment Director Fifteen Instagram photos inspired by road trips now hang at the lobby of the Wolfsonian-FIU, helping to legitimize Instagram as a platform for new and seasoned photographers. With the collaboration of #JJ community, the largest online photography community on Instagram, these 15 photos stood out from over 7,000 submissions after the […]
Astrophysicist Jorge Perez Gallego will be taking over Wolfsonian-FIU on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. for a tour of the museum’s special exhibition: “Margin of Error.” The event is part of the museum’s “Takeover Tour Series,” created in an attempt to bring knowledgeable professionals to lead tours of the museum’s collections. “The idea is that […]
