"Celebrating Florida's Historic Coastal Communities"

Art Deco Weekend

JAN 12, 13, 14, 2024

JAN 12, 13, 14, 2024

"Celebrating Florida's Historic Coastal Communities"

Aerial Vision at the Wolfsonian-FIU

Wolfsonian-FIU 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, United States

November 19, 2021–April 24, 2022 The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue Aerial Vision explores how early 20th-century inventions—airplanes and skyscrapers, each considered the embodiment of human achievement and a harbinger of a better tomorrow—sparked an era of remarkable creativity and new systems of seeing the world. Met with awe and excitement, both technologies introduced novel approaches […]

Bike Valet

Park for free at the Bike Valet at Art Deco Weekend! Sponsored by Better Streets Miami Beach and the Miami Design Preservation League. Please note: bikes must be picked up before close of festival.  

Ocean Drive Architectural Tour

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

This 1 1/2 to 2-hour walking tour provides an introduction to the Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern (MiMo) styles found within the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District. Explore hotels, restaurants, and other commercial structures with a visit to a number of interiors. Tour takers will be provided with a sanitized wireless receiver and […]

Free – $30.00

Sketchwalk #3: Tudor Hotel and Miami Beach Patrol Headquarters

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

Sketch with us at the Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District to capture the essence of the 1920s Era and the Now into your sketchbook! Meeting point is in front of the Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center. Join us as our sketchwalk guide Ana takes us to The Tudor Hotel (1001-1099, Collins Ave, Miami […]

Free

Jewish Miami Beach Tour

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

Explores the rise and fall of the Jewish population of Miami Beach over the past 100 years, including a look at the impact of selected key Jewish individuals and institutions, plus an overview of architectural styles in the southernmost part of the city.  Tour departs from the Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami […]

Free – $30.00

Ocean Drive Architectural Tour

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

This 1 1/2 to 2-hour walking tour provides an introduction to the Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern (MiMo) styles found within the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District. Explore hotels, restaurants, and other commercial structures with a visit to a number of interiors. Tour takers will be provided with a sanitized wireless receiver and […]

Free – $30.00

Arf Deco Dog Walk

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

This walk is all for the dogs! Join us with your pooch for a walk around Ocean Drive during Art Deco Weekend. Dress up with your furry friend in your best Art Deco Attire. Special prizes will be given out. Hosted by George Neary.

Free

Joel Levine: The Fontainebleau Hotel: Imagining Paradise

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

The Fontainebleau Hotel is a Miami Beach icon appearing in more than a dozen Hollywood films, representing  both the city’s splendid glory and sordid historical past. Utilizing  movie clips and other archival material, Joel will explore the meaning of architecture in American cinema and then reconstruct the history of the Fontainebleau while exploring the themes […]

Free

FIU Art Deco Combo under the direction of Dr. Lisanne Lyons (2022)

Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street

Enjoy live jazz by FIU students! The FIU Art Deco Combo is directed by Dr. Lisanne Lyons and consists of vocalists and a rhythm section who perform a varied and challenging repertoire of jazz and jazz-influenced music, as well as contemporary, latin, and  a cappella styles. The group emphasizes close harmonies, improvisation, cutting-edge repertoire, and […]

Free

South Beach Scandals Tour

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

This 90-minute walking tour focuses on illegal activities and shady characters in Miami Beach history. Topics include political corruption, illegal gambling, alcohol during prohibition, and organized crime figures. Tour departs from the Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139. All tours are rain or shine. Please dress for the weather as […]

Free – $30.00

The Big Broadcast of 1938

O Cinema South Beach 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, United States

The S.S. Gigantic competes with the S.S. Colossal in a luxury liner race from New York to France. S.B. Bellows (W.C. Fields), the bumbling brother of the owner of the Gigantic, accidentally wrecks the sophisticated engine of his sibling’s ship, built by brilliant engineer Bob Hayes (Leif Erickson). Meanwhile, radio entertainer Buzz Fielding (Bob Hope), […]

Deborah Desilets: Spotlight on Art in Public Places

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

In the 1930s art and national symbolism converged within the Federal Arts Projects, or the WPA Projects, that supported the values of the American Public. The great Depression and these Arts Projects changed the relationship between art and the public and are the harbinger of the relationships of art in the public realm today. Federal […]

Free

A Wonderful World

Colony Theater 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL, United States

A world-premiere musical about jazz legend and singular American icon Louis Armstrong, featuring songs recorded and made popular by Armstrong, and original book by Aurin Squire, the multi-talented Opalocka-raised playwright and TV writer (This is Us, The Good Fight), and co-author of Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy. A Wonderful World, traces Armstrong’s odyssey, the musical […]

Ocean Drive Architectural Tour

Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, United States

This 1 1/2 to 2-hour walking tour provides an introduction to the Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern (MiMo) styles found within the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District. Explore hotels, restaurants, and other commercial structures with a visit to a number of interiors. Tour takers will be provided with a sanitized wireless receiver and […]

Free – $30.00

Anibal Berraute’s Milonga Under the Stars

Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street

Anibal Berraute presents a Milonga Under the Stars. Enjoy a night of Tango Fusion with special dance performances. The program is led by Berraute, an Argentinean piano player, composer, arranger, and producer, that fuses the tango with elements of other musical forms. The fusion includes the "Uruguayan candombe" with its African roots and Argentinean rhythms, […]

Free