Archive for April, 2015
MIAMI BEACH, TODAY AND YESTERDAY: CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS AND GLIMPSES OF THE CITY’S EARLY HISTORY
• April 22, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: 1920s, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, Boulevard Hotel (Miami Beach), cafetarias, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), concerts, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach), Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami Beach), Gloria Estefan, Great Depression, Hurricanes, J. N. Lummus, Jackie Gleason, Jane Fisher, John Stiles Collins, Land booms, Land busts, Lincoln Road, Lincoln Road Theater, Mediterranean-influenced architecture, Miami Beach Centennial celebrations, Mike Douglas show (North Shore Community Center, millionaires, Nautilus Hotel (Miami Beach), New World Center, nouveau riche, Ocean Beach Development Company, Palm Beach, Projection projects, real estate developers, Redfish Media, socialites, the Great Hurricane of 1926, Thomas Pancoast, Wallcasts
OVERT / COVERT: MIAMI DADE COLLEGE STUDENTS USE WOLFSONIAN ART OBJECTS TO DECODE THE ICONOGRAPHY OF LABOR
• April 18, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Aryans, CCC, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Constructivism, curators, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Futurism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), interns, Italian design, Italy, leftist artists, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA, youth movements
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Amanda E. Caceres, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bill Iverson, Carolina Gutierrez, Cecilia Arellano, Charlie Chaplin, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Diana E. Lopez, Fascist Italy, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Freedom Tower, Giselle Gonzalez, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italian Futurism, Jonathan Sanabria, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan D. Rojas, labor, Lea Nickless, Lewis Hine (1874-1940), Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Marta Palao, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Study Centre, Modern Times (film), Museum of Art + Design, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, neo-classicism, New Deal, Overt/Covert (exhibition), Photomontage, propaganda, Russian Constructivism, Savannah Diaz, Soviet Union, student curators, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), work, working class, Yanelis Valdes
A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, OR, A STUDENT RECEPTION WITH WOLFSONIAN-FIU RARE BOOK LIBRARIANS
• April 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Ben Stiller, New York Museum of Natural History, Night at the Museum
Tags: Antonio Pettini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boxer Rebellion, C. A. Lion Cachet, China, Dr. Annette Fromm, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Fannie Caldwell, Fascism, FIU Museum Studies, Germany, Indonesia, Jacob Maris, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kawi, Milan Trenc, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sergeant Edwin Taylor, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, South African War (1899-1902), Wakana Utigawa, Wolfsonian-FIU library
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