Let South Florida art historian and critic Helen Kohen guide you through the sketchy past of Miami’s art scene, back to the days (1960) when the Miami Museum of Modern Art was housed in a boom-era mansion and artist Bill Hutton protested Miami’s overdevelopment (in 1965!) with an art show at the Stuffed Shirt Lounge, all captured by local TV news, home movies, amateur films, video art and documentaries, selected from the ever-growing holdings of the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Vasari Collection and the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives. Reception to follow sponsored by Friends of The Library. Before the program, or during the reception, explore “Highly Variable - See Movie,” an intriguing exhibition of the art and/or science of South Florida artist Albert L. Robinson, on view at the Main Public Library.
Invasion of the Historians: Art on Film + Video
Art in Miami Before Art Basel…WAY Before Art Basel! Free Event!
Thursday, August 21, 7:00 pm. Free.
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami
