On Sunday, January 29, the Bass Museum of Art will introduce the Lindemann Family Creativity Center. The museum will commemorate the opening of the center with an inauguration ceremony and ribbon cutting at 12:30 p.m. followed by family activities from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. as well as a fortune telling by artist David Rohn, also known as “The Amazing Ultran.” Regularly scheduled family day activities will also take place in the museum’s café from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. In addition, the Bass Museum of Art will introduce two new children’s programs with multiple sessions spanning February through May. The Bass Babies program for ages 2 – 4 will be held weekly on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. and allow parents and their toddles to tap into their creative side while learning the basics of art. The Bass Buddies program for ages 4 – 6 will be held every other Saturday from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. and will include specific art lessons that are paired with a fitting song. Other activities may include science experiments, slide shows, museum walks and short stories. Admission to the museum and activities are free of charge as always on IDEA@thebass family days.
On Sunday, January 29, 2012 the Bass Museum of Art will introduce the Lindemann Family Creativity Center. The museum will commemorate the opening of the center with an inauguration ceremony and ribbon cutting at 12:30 p.m. followed by family activities from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. as well as a fortune telling by artist David Rohn, also known as “The Amazing Ultran.” Regularly scheduled family day activities will also take place in the museum’s café from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The fun-filled afternoon will celebrate the magic of art, featuring inventive art projects for children and a magic show by Gary Goodman at 3 p.m. The new Lindemann Family Creativity Center will be the home of the museum’s IDEA@thebass program of art classes and workshops. Developed in conjunction with Stanford University’s acclaimed Institute of Design, IDEA classes employ a method of teaching known as “Design Thinking,” an open-ended method of problem solving that allows children to brainstorm, work in teams and engage in creative play.
In addition, the Bass Museum of Art will introduce two new children’s programs with multiple sessions spanning February through May. The Bass Babies program for ages 2 – 4 will be held weekly on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and allow parents and their toddles to tap into their creative side while learning the basics of art. The Bass Buddies program for ages 4 - 6 will be held every other Saturday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will include specific art lessons that are paired with a fitting song. Other activities may include science experiments, slide shows, museum walks and short stories.
Admission to the museum and activities are free of charge as always on IDEA@thebass family days.
The Lindemann Family Creativity Center will be open during regular business hours and serve as a creative outlet for drop-in art fun for the entire family. An art instructor will be available to assist with the many projects developed for the center. Additionally, the center will house the very popular Thursday afternoon Art Club for Adults led by the museum’s Director of Education, Dr. Adrienne von Lates. Admission to the museum and the Lindemann Family Creativity Center is free for Miami Beach residents and cost of museum admission for adults ($8, students $6, and children under 6 are free).
Lindemann Family Creativity Center is generously supported by George Lindemann, the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Children’s Trust - The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Debbie and Jeff Weschler and Bass Museum of Art membership.
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Upstairs, downstairs
The Miami HeraldIn a pair of Bass Museum exhibits, creativity takes divergent forms
If you go "Portrait of a Man” from Laurent Grasso, with pieces from the Bass At tBass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7530; www.bassmuseum.org.By Anne Tschida
Special to The Miami Herald
A strange soundtrack from a vaguely sci-fi-looking video greets visitors to the ground-floor exhibit at the Bass Museum, Portrait of a Young Man. The video, along with paintings and works made from electric lights, comes from French artist Laurent Grasso. The darkened rooms also hold early Renaissance treasures from the museum’s collection, creating a lovely and enlightening mixture.
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The Artist: He Pushes
A new documentary paints Ai Weiwei as both impish and serious.
Alison Klayman, a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, met the artist in 2008 and followed him around for the next three years gathering footage for the film. Initially, she said she was drawn to his irreverent photographs and conceptual sculptures—often made from porcelain, tea or temple wood—but her film also captures his awakening as an activist.
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Picasso and Warhol are being outsold by Chinese painters as a new wave of wealthy buyers reshapes the global market. Inside China's high-rolling art world.
On the outskirts of Beijing in a private club house called Paradise, there is a large, windowless room where Yang Bin displays his collection of modern and contemporary art.
"Sit down and get ready," Mr. Yang recently told a few friends visiting from Taiwan. Grabbing a remote control, he turned to a set of wall panels that, with a click, began to slide apart. Each panel revealed a few of his recent acquisitions, from Chairman Mao-era portraits of revolutionaries to brightly colored abstracts by China's rising stars. As his friends applauded the slide-show, Mr. Yang grinned and lit a cigar.
Purchases by Chinese collectors accounted for roughly a fifth of Christie's global sales last year, Eben Shapiro reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Liu Wei, "Outcast No. 2." Courtesy of the artist.
The art market is being transformed by Chinese collectors willing to pay top dollar for everything from Ming vases to contemporary Chinese abstracts. In some cases, these works are outstripping prices paid for blue-chip Western artists like René Magritte and Clyfford Still...
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The End of the Art World in 2012By Adam LindemannJanuary 11, 2012
Let’s humor the doomsday prophets: what if the art world ends in 2012?
The web has been rife with Mayan predictions of a 2012 doomsday on Dec. 21. This date was discovered on a stele carving at a little known archaeological site in Tabasco, Mexico, and it points to the day that the gods of the underworld will rise up to destroy the world as we know it. These dire predictions have already been discredited by several Mayan scholars, but people love to believe in false prophecies, and the apocalyptic story has garnered interest from all sorts of quacks, even prompting the scientists on NASA’s website to comment: “There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.”
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Read the Press for “Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!”December 6, 2011Read the waterfall of press for my article: “Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!” Read the good, the bad, and the indifferent from The New York, Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Observer, W Magazine, Departures, The Spectator, Artinfo.com, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and Le Quotidien de l’Art.