Rubell Family Collection
Lectures Director Tours Film Series
Second Saturdays Education Information
Free with admission to the Collection.
Pillow Talk
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 7 pm
Don and Mera Rubell chat with Hernan Bas about his work and influences.
Dominic Molon
Friday, Feburary 29, 2008 - 7 pm
Dominic Molon lectures on the works of Hernan Bas.
Dominic Molon is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago. His recent exhibitions and accompanying catalogs include Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) and Wolfgang Tillmans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). He is presently organizing solo exhibitions for Daria Martin and Liam Gillick. Molon has contributed to numerous publications including Art Review, Whitewall Magazine, Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing (London, Phaidon Press, 2005), and Vitamin P: New Perspectives on Painting (London: Phaidon Press, 2004). Molon has an M.A. in Art History and Criticism from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Robert Hobbs
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 7 pm
Robert Hobbs lectures on the work of Hernan Bas.
Robert Hobbs is the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a regular visiting professor at Yale University. Recognized as both an academic and a museum curator, Hobbs specializes in both late modern and post-modern art. Hobbs’ recent publications include “Kelley Walker’s Continuum: Consuming and Recycling as Aesthetic Tactics” in Suzanne Cotter, ed., Seth Price/Kelley Walker: Continuous Project (Oxford, UK: Modern Art Oxford, 2007) and “Robert Beck’s Dust” in Bill Horrigan, Helen Molesworth, and Robert Hobbs, Robert Beck: Dust (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2007). He is the author of many books, including monographs on Edward Hopper, Mark Lombardi, Lee Krasner, and Robert Smithson. Hobbs lives in Manhattan and in Richmond.
Free with admission to RFC.
Mark Coetzee, the RFC director, conducts a walkthrough of the current exhibitions. Cheese and wine reception to follow.
Space is limited, please RSVP to director@rubellfamilycollection.com
John Stezaker, Saturday, February 9, 2008 - 3 pm
Hernan Bas, Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 3 pm
Euro-Centric, Part 1, Saturday, March 8, 2008 - 3 pm
FILM SERIES
Free with admission
The Films of Derek Jarman
The prodigiously talented self-proclaimed “queer filmmaker” Derek Jarman is known for his beautiful and touching films exploring hidden gay history and homoerotic fantastical worlds. His work is reminiscent of the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Though he created only eleven films during his career—his life cut short by the AIDS epidemic—he is regarded as one of the most visionary filmmakers of all time.
Recalling Hernan Bas’ paintings of beautiful young boys in period dress, Jarman’s films are filled with richly layered iconography and deeply moving images.
Jubilee (1977) U.K. (100 min.)
Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 1 pm and 3 pm
An anachrononistic fantasy about Queen Elizabeth I traveling four hundred years into the future to find England a Punk Rock wasteland.
Caravaggio (1986) U.K. (93 min.)
Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 1pm and 3 pm
A poetic biographical portrait of the Italian Baroque painter.
Edward II (1991) U.K. (90 min.)
Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 1 pm and 3 pm
This adaptation of Elizabethan playwright’s Christopher Marlowe’s “Edward II” is perhaps Jarman’s most accessible film.
Wittgenstein (1993) Japan/U.K. (75 min.)
Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 1 pm and 3 pm
A homage to the early twentieth century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
The foremost filmmaker of the thriller and suspense genres, Alfred Hitchcock directed more than fifty films in career spanning six decades. His films often portray innocent people caught in absurd situations beyond their control or understanding and keep the audience in suspense by not letting them in on the secret until the end of the story. He is widely regarded for his unrivaled control of pace and is revered as one of the best loved directors of all time.
Hitchcock’s films draw heavily on psychoanalysis, voyeurism and phobias. His protagonists are mysterious and inaccessible, much like the subjects of John Stezaker’s collages. The incisions and voids in Stezaker’s works recall the psychology of Hitchcock’s tales.
Rear Window (1954) U.S.A. (112 min.)
Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 1 pm and 3 pm
A wheelchair-bound Jimmy Stewart passes the time spying on the residents of a neighboring apartment building and becomes convinced that one of his neighbors has murdered his wife.
Spellbound (1945) U.S.A. (111 min.)
Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 1 pm and 3pm
Ingrid Bergman is the star of this psychological thriller. Bergman plays the head doctor of a mental asylum, who uses her knowledge of psychoanalysis to solve a murder mystery. “Spellbound” features a dream sequence designed by the Surrealist painter Salvador Dali.
Marnie (1964) U.S.A. (90 min.)
Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 1 pm and 3 pm
Sean Connery plays a young widower who falls in love with a beautiful and cunning kleptomaniac, played by Tippi Hedren. He helps her discover that the root of her psychosis is a traumatic memory, which she has buried deep in her unconscious.
Psycho (1960) U.S.A. (109 min.)
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 1 pm and 3pm
There is hardly a film fan that does not know this classic by heart. Released in 1960, “Psycho” promised to take “audiences to places it had never been before.” It stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, a psychotic killer who runs a desolated motel with his handicapped mother. The shower scene with Janet Leigh is certainly the film’s most famous sequence, but there are dozens of memorable moments in this extraordinary thriller.
Vertigo (1958) U.S.A. (128 min.)
Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 1 pm and 3 pm
Jimmy Stewart plays an agoraphobic ex-police officer who is obsessed with transforming his new girlfriend, played by Kim Novak, into the exact replica of his dead lover.
Free with admission to the Collection.
Every second Saturday, from January to May, 2008, the Collection will remain open from 10 am until 10 pm, and will feature special screenings of works from the Rubell Family Collection.
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 10 am – 10 pm
Gregor Schneider,
Nacht-Video Haus ur, Rheydt, Oktober 1996 (1999)
Saturday, February 9, 2008, 10 am – 10 pm
3 films by William Kentridge,
Felix in Exile (1994)
History of the Main Complaint (1996)
Ubu Tells the Truth (1997)
Saturday, March 8, 2008, 10 am – 10 pm
Robin Rhode,Saturday, April 12, 2008, 10 am – 10 pm
Dara Friedman, Ezra Johnson,
What Visions Burn (2006)
Museum Docent Tours
We are happy to schedule tours any day of the week
We offer tours in English, Spanish, French, Cantonese and Afrikaans
To book a tour, please call Visitor Services
Stephanie Garcia
Telephone: (305) 573-6090
Email: info@rubellfamilycollection.com
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Museum Education Program
To book a tour, please call our Museum Educator
Linda Mangual
Email: lmangual@dadeschools.net
Museum: (305) 573-6090
School: (305) 642-4141
Home: (305) 673-6384
Cell: (305) 527 5738
RFC is open for pre-arranged educational tours throughout the year:
June – November
Monday through Friday
10 AM to 6 PM
December – May
Tuesday through Saturday
10 AM to 6 PM