Join Miami Art Museum Today!
Miami Art Week and Art Basel Miami Beach is right around the corner! MAM members receive a variety of privileges to get the most out of this whirlwind week of special exhibitions, art fairs and events. Join online now or contact membership@miamiartmuseum.org for more information.
Friends ($1,000) and above level members: receive passes and invitations to early fair previews including:
- Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage
- Art Miami VIP Preview
- Design Miami/ VIP card
- Pulse Miami VIP Preview, and more!
MAM Contemporaries ($145): receive an Art Fair Survival Kit with fair passes and event invitations*
Individual ($45) and above level members: receive free admission to:
- Aqua12 Museum Day, Thursday, December 6, with MAM membership card
- JUSTMAD MIA Art Fair, Thursday, December 6 through Sunday, December 9, with MAM membership card
- Discounted admission to Pulse Miami with promotional code PMIAMUSMAM
Miami Art Week at MAM
MAM Contemporaries Art Fair Survival Party presented by Art Miami
Friday, November 16, 2012, 7-10pm
The James Royal Palm, 1545 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach
MAM Contemporaries get ready for Miami Art Week at the annual Art Fair Survival Party. Members receive an Art Fair Survival Kit with event invitations and VIP passes to the can’t-miss art fairs. MAM Contemporaries and Young Collectors Council members free, guests $25. View evite here.
*Limit one Survival Kit per membership including dual membership.
**Member must be present to receive Survival Kit.
***Supplies limited. First come, first served. Guests do not receive Survival Kits.
Cocktails courtesy of AMC Liaisons, Inc.
Passes provided by:
Art Miami VIP Preview + CONTEXT VIP Preview
Benefitting Miami Art Museum
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
By invitation only - VIP cardholders and members of the press
The Art Miami Pavilion
Midtown | Wynwood Arts District
3101 NE 1 Avenue, Miami, FL 33137
Contact 305.515.8573 or info@art-miami.com
For more information: http://www.art-miami.com/
Collectors, curators, artists, art enthusiasts and members of the press are invited to experience an exclusive First View of the highly anticipated Art Miami Fair and the Inaugural CONTEXT Art Miami Fair for a cocktail reception benefiting the Miami Art Museum.
This can’t miss event is the first opportunity to acquire the finest works from the emerging, cutting-edge, contemporary and modern art movements prior to the fairs opening to the public the following day.
MAM Party on the Plaza
Celebrating New Work Miami 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012 / 7–11pm
Music by Spam Allstars / Cocktails
The Museum's largest event of the year celebrates the opening of the New Work Miami 2013, showcasing newly-commissioned works by Miami's vibrant artistic community. Hosted by MAM Director Thom Collins, Party on the Plaza will feature special musical performance by Spam Allstars and cocktails on the Museum's outdoor plaza:
- New Work Miami 2013 will present recent and newly commissioned work by approximately a dozen Miami-based artists. The exhibition will highlight the diverse and innovative practices of Miami’s artists, featuring site-specific installations, sculpture, painting and photography. New Work Miami 2013 will be among the last presentations in MAM’s current facility, marking the 12-month countdown to the Museum’s reopening in fall 2013 as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in a new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Museum Park.
By invitation only: MAM Contemporaries or Contributing ($250) and above level membership; Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), Art Miami, Design Miami/, Pulse VIP and exhibitor pass card holders.
For information or to join Miami Art Museum, contact 305.375.5935 or events@miamiartmuseum.org.
Directions/Parking: Shuttle bus service available from Miami Beach Convention Center to MAM; Free garage parking at 50 NW 2nd Avenue.
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New Work Miami 2013 is organized by Miami Art Museum and co-curated by MAM Associate Curators René Morales and Diana Nawi. Support is provided by Macy’s Foundation. Additional support is provided by Nedra & Mark Oren, Patricia Papper, and Dorothy & Aaron Podhurst.
Miami Art Museum Ball
Saturday, December 8, 2012 / 7–11pm
The 2012 Miami Art Museum Ball, Saturday, December 8, 2012, will commemorate the Museum's 29 historical years at Miami-Dade Cultural Center in anticipation of next year's move to Museum Park. In December 2013, the Museum will reopen as Pérez Art Museum Miami in a new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility alongside Biscayne Bay. The 2012 MAM Ball chairs are Patricia Papper, Patricia and William Kleh, and Marcella and Daniel Novela.
Dinner will be served in the upper-level gallery featuring a menu inspired by the waterfront bistro at the Museum's new facility. The gallery will be transformed into an environment created by New Work Miami 2013 artist Emmett Moore, known for his innovative experimentation between the fields of art and design. Following dinner, guests will dance the night away under the stars on the magically-transformed outdoor plaza as Crash the Ball attendees join the party. Brooklyn, NY-based duo Tanlines will DJ, and guests will enjoy a sea of signature desserts created by James Beard-nominated pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith.
Held annually since 1983, the MAM Ball caps off Art Basel Miami Beach and is attended by art collectors, artists and cultural leaders both locally and internationally. The MAM Ball is the Museum's main annual fundraiser. Proceeds from the event sustain the Museum's exhibition and education programs.
Advance ticket purchase required: Tickets start at $1,000. Tables range from $10,000 to $25,000. To purchase tickets or tables, please contact 305.375.5935 or events@miamiartmuseum.org.
Directions/Parking: Self-parking at Cultural Center Garage, 50 NW 2nd Avenue. Complimentary valet on West Flagler Street.
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Crash the Ball, MAM Ball after party
Saturday, December 8, 2012 / 10pm – 2am
DJ set by Tanlines / Cocktails / Dessert bar by Hedy Goldsmith
Crash the Ball is the MAM Ball's high-energy after party. Guests will dance the night away under the stars on the magically-transformed outdoor plaza as Crash the Ball attendees join the party. Brooklyn, NY-based duo Tanlines will DJ, and guests will enjoy a sea of signature desserts created by James Beard-nominated pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith.
Ticket purchase required: Tickets: $150, $75 MAM Contemporaries (free for MAM Ball attendees). Details at 305.375.1704 or events@miamiartmuseum.org.
Directions/Parking: Self-parking at Cultural Center Garage, 50 NW 2nd Avenue.
Valet parking $10 on West Flagler Street.
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Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art: “Currency, Value, Hype”
Sunday, December 9, 2012 / 11:30am – 1pm, doors open 11am
Miami Art Museum and University of Miami, Department of Philosophy present Martha Buskirk, Professor of art history and criticism at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts. Despite the astonishing volume of activity in the realm of contemporary art, the subject itself defies easy categorization. Tangible objects may still have a certain edge in the marketplace, but that is less true in other contexts where programing often centers on ephemeral gestures and their reception. How have recent situation-based works transformed expectations about art? To what degree do these simply draw attention to the larger role of art as a social nexus?
Martha Buskirk is author of The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art and recently completed Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace.
Lecture admission free and open to the public. Light refreshments following lecture.
Details at education@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.4073
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The Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art is supported by Gonzalo Parodi.
Photo by Robert Moeller.
