30 Americans at the Rubell Family Collection
| The current exhibition at the Rubell Family Collection is made up of work by 31 African American artists. It shows more than 200 works of art, occupying the entire 45,000-square-foot exhibition space of the Rubell Family Collection. The show is called 30 Americans and is a portrait of contemporary African-American art.
The artists presented are: Nina Chanel Abney, John Bankston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Iona Rozeal Brown, Nick Cave, Robert Colescott, Noah Davis, Leonardo Drew, Ren?e Green, David Hammons, Barkley I. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marschall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, William Pope.L, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, Jeff Sonhouse, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, Purvis Young.
30 Americans. Rubell Family Collection, Miami. Impressions from the Private View on December 4, 2008.
Rubell Family Collection - Miami 2012
Mera Rubell At the Rubell Family Collection
Mera Rubell speaks to the Urban Environment League members during their bus tour of the Upper East Side of Miami on February 4th 2011. She speaks about how Art Basel came to Miami, how she got started in art collecting, etc.
BIKING TO THE RUBELL COLLECTION IN MIAMI
BIKING TO THE RUBELL COLLECTION IN MIAMI
30 Americans (2019)
“In the years since 30 Americans opened, it has become undeniable that African-American artists are making much of the best American art today.”⠀–The New York Times⠀
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After ten years traveling the US, #30Americans finally comes to Philadelphia and will be on view from October 27, 2019–January 12, 2020. Drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, this powerful exhibition spotlights many of the most influential African American artists of the past four decades as they explore identity against a backdrop of pervasive stereotyping. ⠀
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Learn more: barnesfoundation.org/30americans⠀
This exhibition is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal
An exhibition from the Rubell Family Collection
Kehinde Wiley. Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares, 2005
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Bird on Money, 1981
Mickalene Thomas. Baby I Am Ready Now, 2007
Rashid Johnson. The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Thurgood), 2008
Barkley L. Hendricks. Noir, 1978
30 Americans images courtesy of Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Mera Rubell
Sometimes people don't understand how integrated art is to the economics and vitality of a place. Artists are constantly bringing fresh ideas to the world.
An art collector and philanthropist, Mera Rubell is cofounder of the Rubell Family Collection, based in Miami. She advocates for the arts as a means to encourage tolerance and creativity, as well as to provide tangible economic and social benefits to communities where it is cultivated.
De la Cruz Collection - Miami 2012
Don & Mera Rubell on American Exuberance
American Exuberance at Rubell Family Collection - Wynwood, Miami
Unscripted Bal Harbour Art Chat - Rubell Family Collection speak to Hank Willis Thomas
The Rubell Family Collection founders (RFC) Don and Mera Rubell speak with renowned artist Hank Willis Thomas about his (gently) provocative practice that has, for over a decade, exploded the presentation of the African American black identity in the media through series such as Branded, Strange Fruit and Fair Warning
Unscripted Bal Harbour Art Chat held on May 23, 2014 at The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort
Wings Over Miami Museum
Flying at Tamiami Airport, Wings Over Miami Museum, with awesome pilots Sam, Terry and Gary. Come and visit the Wings Over Miami with your family and see amazing warbirds, and get to meet the pilots.
Moleskine Cristina Lei Rodriguez notebook @ Detour ehibition
Cristina Lei Rodriguez was born in 1974 in Miami, FL, Lives and works in Miami, FL. Her Solo show include Team Gallery, NY, USA. Amongst many shows upcoming in 2007, Endless Autumn, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL in 2006 she had a Solo at Rocket Projects, Miami, FL and Daydreaming in the California Landscape, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA in 2002.She was one of the selected artists of the group show Uncertain States of America, American Art in the 3rd Millennium curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley for the Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway. And afterwards set in Serignan, France, Beijing, China, The Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; The Serpentine Gallery, London and in Reykjavik, Iceland; the Bard College in NY. Other group shows includes CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, Other Worlds: The Landscape in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Heartbreaker, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY and The Art Parade, Deitch Projects, New York. She is in the Reclaimi Ruins, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL and the Arte Latino: the Smithsonian Collection, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, Time, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Group exhibition, Honolulu.
Visiting Artist: Frank Benson
Visiting Artist: Frank Benson
February 15, 2017
Hosted by the Graduate Sculpture program at Boston University.
Frank Benson was born in 1976 in Norfolk Virginia, USA. He earned his undergraduate degree in art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore in 1998 and in 2003 he received his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2000 he was an Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL. After moving to New York from Los Angeles Frank was awarded the prestigious Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2004. In 2011 he was an Artist in Residence at Artpace San Antonio, TX and in 2012 he was an Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Recent solo exhibitions include Flag (Union Jack) at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2013) Airports and Extrusions (with Peter Fischli and David Weiss) at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, (2012), Extrusions at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, and Human Statue (Jessie) at Taxter & Spengemann New York, NY and Overduin and Kite in Los Angeles, CA (2011), and the Miami Art Museum in 1999.
Benson’s work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including Gosh! Is it Alive?, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark, (2017) Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (2016), The 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, The Human Factor, curated by Ralph Rugoff at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2014). The Body Issue at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2014). Busted, curated by Cecilia Alemani, as part of the High Line Commission, New York, NY (2013). To Be With Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2012); Home Alone, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2011); Frank Benson, Mark Grotjahn, Matt Johnson, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece (2011); In the Name of the Artists - American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil (2011); and Permanent Mimesis, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (2010).
Benson’s work has also been highlighted in several international publications including: Art Forum, The New York Times, Kaleidoscope, Art in America, Flash Art, and Interview Magazine and his work resides in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, FL, the Astrup Fearnley Musset in Oslo, Norway, and the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL.
Frank Benson lives and works in New York.
miami-2008
arteamericas & MOLAA tour
places where some of the photos were taken:
South Beach Art Deco Walking Tour
Martin Margulies Collection
Beatriz Salvatierra Giardinella Private Collection
Rubell Collection
Gomez Mulet Gallery in the Wynwood Art District
Studio of Artist Fernando Davila
Art Basel Miami: Everyone Goes for the Art
A brief video about the Miami art fairs from Sotheby's Institute of Art.
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The 2015 Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art
Ten artists from throughout Florida will have their work displayed for three months in one of the State's top art museums, as the Orlando Museum of Art hosts its annual Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition.
The annual invitational exhibition -- that focuses on the production of contemporary art in the State -- kicked off with a preview on Thursday, June 11, from 7-8:30 p.m.
The exhibition's three-month run will end September 6.
This is the second consecutive year that OMA has invited a select group of outstanding artists for the exhibition, with one -- Farley Aguilar -- receiving the Florida Prize $20,000 award.
The purpose of the Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art is to bring a new level of support to the State's most exciting artists by recognizing their contributions to the field, and their impact on the cultural vitality of Florida. The exhibition includes artists whose studio practices cross all platforms including film, video, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, and large scale installations created specifically for the exhibition.
This year's selected artists include: Aguilar [Miami]; Bhakti Baxter [Miami]; Cesar Cornejo [Tampa]; Michael Covello [Tampa]; Rob Duarte [Tallahassee]; Jennifer Kaczmarek [Pensacola]; Nicolas Lobo [Miami]; Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz [Orlando]; Alex Trimino [Miami]; and Antonia Wright [Miami].
Three jurors selected this year's recipient of the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art: Juan Roselione-Valadez, director of the Rubell Family Collection; Ginger Gregg Duggan, independent curator; and Ben Thompson, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville.
For more information, phone 407-896-4231, or visit omart.org.
Bugatti Grand Sport Venet at Geneva 2013
Bugatti presents automobile sculpture
at the VW Group evening in Geneva
Molsheim/ Geneva -- March 4, 2013. French artist Bernar Venet has been invited by Bugatti, legendary supercar-maker, to create a work of art that combines the artist's vision and passions with Bugatti's celebrated Grand Sport. Bugatti presents this unique piece of art exclusively at the VW Group evening on the eve of the Geneva Auto Show (March 5 -- 17, 2013).
Through a congenial synthesis of artistic concept and technical possibilities, Venet has created an object that integrates the symbol of speed with a fascinating, painterly exterior and an interior that alludes to haute couture. This one-of-a-kind sculptural work will be on view at the Rubell Family
Collection in Miami during Art Basel Miami.
Bernar Venet remarks, A Bugatti is already a work of art in itself, one that transports both its beholder and its driver into new dimensions of reality. I realized how I could translate my passion for mathematical equations and scientific treatises into three-dimensional form. My works are usually
self-referential. So I found the idea of translating the equations of the Bugatti engineers onto the bodywork of the car very appealing. It was, so to speak, a logical conclusion and a new challenge in terms of the specific form of collaboration and implementation. To me, the result is also exceptional when measured by artistic standards and bestows the object with a mythical character.
The artistic avant-gardes of the first half of the twentieth century found inspiration in the car as an object of desire; they depicted it in drawings, paintings and sculptures that projected absolute speed as their point of orientation. In the 1970s, the car served as an unconventional canvas for many artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, who painted what became known as art cars. This practice continued to be embraced in the 1980s.
Since the 1990s, international artists have concentrated on exploring the shifting cultural historical significance of the car. This has resulted in sculptural and conceptual responses such as those by
Erwin Wurm, Gabriel Orozco, Christoph Keller, Olafur Eliasson and Damian Ortega, which tend
to contextualize the car as a paradigm for the acute social and cultural changes of a globalized world.
Bernar Venet´s approach is radically different from these movements and art works. He takes on the Bugatti Grand Sport by selecting a totally original solution, which distinguishes itself from the more
traditional work of his predecessors. The application of mathematical formulae calculating the enormous power of the Bugatti engine on the car itself, allows him to implement the self-referential character inherent for his paintings. In doing so he pays tribute to the genius of technological science as well as the German Know-How of automobile production.
In his 2012 artistic adaptation and exploration of the Grand Sport Bernar Venet has combined image and object to highlight the fascination with this model's absolute beauty and speed. His work unites a conceptual approach and sculptural craft on equal footing. In this work for Bugatti, Venet links the Pop artists' claim to the car as a canvas with the utilization of every technical and aesthetic means available for designing the fastest and costliest car in the world today. Venet incorporates
signs taken from the realm of production into his visual idiom and creates a total work of art that harmonizes object and outer surface, interior and exterior, and evokes the exhilarating speed of the Bugatti Grand Sport.
Achim Anscheidt, Chief Designer at Bugatti, states, Our collaboration with Bernar Venet, one of the most demanding artists of our time, has led to creative impulses and inspiration that will continue to motivate us in the fields of concept and design. We are pleased that this collaboration has resulted in the creation of a significant, collectible work of art. The self-image of the Bugatti
brand derives from an artistic identity that unites sketch, drawing, technical planning and realization into an intermedial whole. Bernar Venet doubly honors our brand by making reference to the technical formulae of our engineers without fully revealing their secrets. It is an homage to the principle of dialogue and to the human capacity to question and redefine established boundaries.
Venet is always focused on the essentials and so is Bugatti.
The Art of the Steal (2009/2010)
An un-missable look at one of the art world's most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argott's gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.
In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes' death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes' former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man's will be broken and one of America's greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?
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Director: Don Argott
Producer: Sheena M. Joyce
Executive Producer: Lenny Feinberg
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verfoto,
Verf.Ed. uses his pocket camera as a photographic scrapbook of his life and thoughts. This is not Art photography, in fact, despite of the photographic surface, this isn't photography. It's the need to survive and to capture life and thoughts before they explode. Verf. hasn't the time to make compositions or to think about techniques, the subjects are passing by at the speed that he hardly can capture them. His photographic production is huge. That makes it impossible to judge them. While judging them you are judging life...
Through and in the work of Verf., the journey becomes more and more intimate and personal.
The visitor is invited to experience the explicit tension between the private and the public space.
The literal space becomes a metaphor for a social context nearly one hundred years after T.S.Eliot.
Verf.s photographs are confronting and autobiographical and show the inside of daily life.
In the installation Life at last on the bright side of life, the visitor becomes a voyeur and discovers a curious piece of Waste Land.
(uit de begeleidende tekst voor de fototentoonstelling Waste Land over de dichter T.S. Eliot)
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verf ed fang lijun,wang dajun, wang guangyi, yue minjun,zeng fanzhi, zhang bin, zhang xiaogang, ai weiwei, wang shihua,
cang xin, gao yang, zuoxiao zuzhou, ma zhongren,zhang huan,ma liuming, zhang binbin, duan yingmei & zhu min, rong rong, yang shaobin, bai yiluo,
hai bo, li songsong, shao yinong & muchen, shi jing, xiang jing, zhuang hui, cui guotai, huang rui, li dafang, miao xiaochun, song dong, zhang dali, zhong biao, hong hao, jing kewen, liu jianhua, liu wei, yan lei, zhang xiaotao,
qin yufen, xu bing,
yin xiuzhen, zhu jinshi, chi peng, lai shengyu, yang xiaogang, UNMASK, jerome sans,ullens center for contemporary art peking, Beijing, arte contemporáneo, современное искусство, arte contemporânea, 現代美術の陶磁器, arte contemporaneo, σύγχρονη τέχνη, zeitgenößische Kunst, art contemporain, , 当代艺术瓷,
Verf. intimate photography
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A Conversation with the Rubells
Join Mera and Donald Rubell, founders of the extraordinary Rubell Family Collection in conversation with Dr. Pedro Moura Carvalho, Deputy Director of Arts & Programs at the Asian Art Museum, as they discuss 28 Chinese which was the result of more than a decade’s worth of exploration, research and collecting. For more information:
BBN interviews Miami art collector Donald Rubell on Puerto Rico #ArtBaselMiami
Rubell Family Collection co-owner Donald Rubell speaks to Capitol Intelligence/BBN using CI Glass on Art Basel San Juan during RFC VIP reception of Allison Zuckerman during Art Basel Miami in Miami on December 6, 2017