Events: June 26, 2025
Georgia O'keeffe: The Brightness of Light
Thursday, Jun 26, 2025 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM - English
Academy Award-winning director Paul Wagner trains his lens onto one of the most influential American artists of the 20th-century. Prior to achieving her fame, Georgia O’Keeffe spent every summer from 1912-1916 taking art classes at the University of Virginia, where she rekindled her joy and desire to pursue painting, which she had considered giving up altogether.
Spiritually replenished, “The Mother of Modernism” headed for New York, upending the 1920s art scene with groundbreaking paintings of flowers, bones, and the splendor of the natural world. Denying her work depicted sexual imagery, she also posed nude for controversial photographs taken by Alfred Stieglitz. In the 1970s, isolated in the New Mexico desert, O’Keeffe emerged as a second-wave feminist icon.
Weaving together a fascinating and complicated story of an artistic life lived to the fullest, this essential biography features narration by Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes, and music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (All of Us Strangers, Living).
Location
Savor Cinema
503 SE 6th St,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33301
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CAP 2025 Summer Concert Series - Bridget Kibbey
Thursday, Jun 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM - English
The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with Bridget Kibbey. Bridget's great musical instincts transcend the harp. Whether in duo with Kathleen Battle or Dawn Upshaw, or in solo recital, Bridget's virtuosic and soulful power has audiences cheering!
"Remarkable gossamer colorings and improvisatory fervor!" - The New York Times
- Tickets $35-$50 / Packages Available ($5 more at the door on concert nights)
- Free and convenient parking included!
All info and tickets at the following.
Location
Coral Gables Congregational Church
3010 De Soto Boulevard,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Philip Smith: Magnetic Fields
Thursday, Jun 26, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM - English
Philip Smith: Magnetic Fields is a career survey and solo institutional debut for Miami artist Philip Smith. Curated by art historian Robin Clark, Magnetic Fields presents over 50 works spanning five decades of Smith’s expansive artistic career.
The exhibition unfolds across six gallery spaces at MOCA, with thematically organized environments that revolve entirely around Smith’s multifaceted pictographic language. Extending beyond conventional artistic practices, Smith explores metaphysical and spiritual themes through large-scale, vibrantly chromatic paintings.
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Smith’s work traverses a spectrum of influences—from a childhood imbued with mystical and spiritual healing to ancient pictographs—creating a tapestry of personal and collective memory. Iconography derived from biology texts, diagrams, and Cold War spy manuals coexist in his compositions, offering not only a visual feast but also an energetic, intellectual dialogue.
At MOCA, the exhibition traces Smith’s artistic evolution. Early works from the Pictures era showcase his ambitiously-scaled drawings based on found images forming enigmatic, puzzle-like compositions. Another section, “Black Paintings,” draws from his studies of ancient cultures and mystery schools, and then into “Modern Paintings,” which overlay linear patterns with abstract geometries inspired by mid-century painters like Barnett Newman, Mark Tobey, and Jasper Johns.
The latter half of Smith’s career is represented through“ Color Paintings”, which feature crisp graphic imagery carved into bold, monochromatic fields, and “White Paintings” works, where erasures evoke both disappearance and emergence.
The exhibition culminates in Smith’s newest series, “Energy Paintings,” in which monumental canvases are uniquely activated with gestural and chromatic energy. These works synthesize elements from earlier series, radiating a fresh dynamism. Much like the earth’s magnetic field—generated by molten iron at its core and shielding the planet from harmful solar radiation—Smith’s “Energy Paintings” emit their own magnetism. Vibrant lines and cosmological symbols pulse across the canvases, drawing viewers into their powerful, protective embrace.
Philip Smith: Magnetic Fields will remain on view through October 5, 2025.
Location
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
770 NE 125th Street,
North Miami,
FL
33161
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