Reception for the Artist
Saturday Night, January 10, 2009
7 PM - 10 PM

One Man Show
TONY CHIMENTO
opening at
MUSEO VAULT PROJECT ROOM
346 NW 29TH ST
MIAMI FL 33127
305-987-4722

Tony Chimento will debut a number of never before seen new paintings along with a small number of very special paintings dating as far back as 1979 chosen by the artist. This will be only the second time Mr. Chimento has mounted a one man gallery show here in Miami.

CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW SHOW ONLINE

Tony Chimento’s career as a realist painter has spanned the last 30 years. After arriving from the northeast, he built his reputation at Art Center/South Florida. He served on their board of directors and was vice chair of the Art Center Board for many years. Presently Mr. Chimento lives and works in the Wynwood Arts District.

Most recently Mr. Chimento has been the recipient of a $25,000.00 2008 Pollock-Krasner Award for artistic merit. He is best known for his extremely detailed and complex still life scenes of amazing detail and clarity. Mr. Chimento has shown in numerous one man shows and been chosen for regional and national juried shows and competitions.

He has been chosen twice as a winner in the “New American Paintings” competition for the Southern Region. The Winsor and Newton Company chose his work as the winning entry in their 3rd Annual Competition. He has been written about in articles in various publications including American Artist Magazine and the New York Times.

Other awards include The New York Graphic Society Award at the National Academy of Design Show in NYC, and the Grand Prize for painting in the prestigious Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts Competition. He has been chosen for awards by jurors like Ted Stebbins, Curator of Paintings, Boston Museum, Vivian Raynor, Art Critic, New York Times, and John I H Baur, Director Emeritus, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC.

Critic Hilton Kramer in reviewing a show for the New York Times containing Mr. Chimento’s work commented in a review: “…still, there are painting of some interest here by artists who were new to this writer…. Tony Chimento’s “Sunday Afternoon” is a solid realist work.”

In one of the first reviews of his work, Sylvia Day writes in Lifestyle Magazine: “My first introduction to Chimento’s work was at a show at the Woodstock Artist’s Association. There…was a large canvas which made an immediate impression of elegance and uncommon technique…. Chimento paints large canvases, their dramatic subjectmatter and impeccable draughtsmanship a feast for the eye. He owns an original an unmistakably unique style.

Mynt Celebrates Ocean Drive’s January Cover Model, Joanna Krupa

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Dear Inner Circle of the Homeless and Needy:

I would like to invite you to a special graduation of our Miami Students (both men and women). This SUNDAY at 2:30PM will be graduation for nearly 20 men and women of the Miami Rescue Mission Regeneration and AWARNESS program. These are the programs for our men and woman who were formerly homeless and now are ready to be a life changer. They have worked many months and some over a year to get ready for this great achievement. They have gone throuh a life change themselves and now will embark on a NEW PATH.

Please come and be a special guest and also see how your support has helped change lives….

January 11, 2009
SUNDAY
2:30PM

Come to 2020 NW 1st Avenue 33127

This will be a cap and gown ceremony. Testimonies, music and much more….with a finger food reception at the end.
Your investment and support has an outcome…..Please know you are very welcome to come…..

We would love to know that you are coming…..

You can RSVP to Marilyn Brummitt
marilynb@caringplace.org
305-571-2245

Thank you and God Bless You

Marilyn Brummitt, CFP
Director of Community Development
Miami Rescue Mission, Inc/ Broward Outreach Centers
305-571-2245
see special video link to learn more about volunteering Find out about Volunteering

“Please remember the Least, the Last and Lost by remembering Miami Rescue Mission/Broward Outreach Centers in your will or trust” www.miamirescuemission.com www.browardoutreachcenter.com

Put On Your Bowling Shoes For Alonzo Mourning Charities
4th Annual Zo’s “King Pin” Classic

WHAT: The Annual Zo’s “King Pin” Classic is back, bringing Tracy and Alonzo Mourning and VIP guests, to bowl alongside them, at Lucky Strike Lanes on South Beach in early 2009! In addition to bowling, the event will offer rounds at the billiards tables, relaxation at massage stations, virtual bowling on Nintendo Wii, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres for all. Bowlers will receive a bowling shirt, commemorative team gift, and photo with the Mournings. Auction and raffle prizes accompanied by great music from Miami’s own DJ Irie and crashing pins will keep guests on their toes throughout the night!

WHEN: Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm

WHERE: Lucky Strike Lanes 1691 Michigan Ave., South Beach

WHO: Alonzo Mourning Charities, along with bowlers and party-goers from the community, will help raise funds for the Honey Shine Mentoring Program, a program of Alonzo Mourning Charities. South Florida media and the public are invited to attend!

ATTEND: Teams of 10 may enter for $5,000, individual slots are available for $500, and general admission is $125. Join Zo’s “King Pin” Classic by contacting Alisha Sanford at (305) 476-0095 ext. 109 or asanford@amcharities.org.

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ABOUT ALONZO MOURNING CHARITIES
Alonzo Mourning Charities (AM Charities) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) public fundraising foundation. Its mission is to encourage the educational development of youth by creating programs and youth enrichment centers that promote positive change in low socioeconomic communities. Since 1997, AM Charities has raised more than $6.5 million for various programs that aid in the development of children and their families. In addition to supporting numerous educational initiatives, Mourning focuses his attention to stimulating the development of youth enrichment centers. With the help of donors, Mourning opened the first center in 2003 in the historic area of Overtown, in South Florida, known as the Overtown Youth Center. For more information, visit www.AMCharities.org.

ABOUT HONEY SHINE MENTORING PROGRAM
Honey Shine Mentoring Program, a program of Alonzo Mourning Charities, works to empower young girls to shine as women. The bi-weekly workshops and summer camp that make up the program help develop and nurture the mind, body, and soul, of young women by providing experiences that enlighten and create balance in their lives. For more information, visit www.HoneyShine.org.

Annette, the far better and much more beautiful half of Soul Of Miami is celebrating the anniversary of her birth today! Actually, we are all celebrating because we are so happy to know her. So please join us in wishing her a very Happy Birthday!

www.soulofmiami.org
www.lifeisartfest.org
www.uncommontimes.com
And soon to come - www.ajpdesigns.com!

University of Wynwood
Spring 2009 Syllabus
“In All Likelihood These Dreams Will Be Crushed”:
Ambitious Cultural Projects by Young Miamians
Catalog Number: 001
Enrollment: Unlimited

Course Description: This lecture series explores the idea of Progress in Miami by examining several ambitious cultural projects undertaken within the last five years. Our approach will be non-comparative and mostly ineffectual. A quiz precedes every lecture, which is further preceded, and punctuated throughout by, the drinking of free bad wine. Grades are based on top-secret Scientological principles and in no way reflect performance or attendance. Rony Seikaly has preemptively been given a D minus.

1/10/09: Lauren “Lolo” Reskin, founder of Sweat Records

The University of Wynwood is located inside the Brikolodge Coworking Office, Unit 204 of the Wynwood Gallery Lofts Building, 250 NW 23rd St., Township of Miami, State of Florida, Postal Code 33127. Our events typically coincide with the “Second Saturdays” art walk event, which happens beneath, around and inside of the Wynwood Gallery Lofts.

http://www.universityofwynwood.com/

08 THU 8:30pm:
“The Dreams of Aleksandr SOKUROV”
Film Retrospective coinciding with the
Russian Dreams Exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art
Aleksandra (Александра) (Russia/2007)
With Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva

Starring Russia’s opera legend Vasila Vishnevskya in a monumental performance, Sokorov’s Aleksandra is a simple story of a down-to-earth grandmother’s visit to her grandson’s military camp during the war of Chechnaya (but it is barely recognizable as such, so could be a war anywhere). But it is also a story of the ugliness of war, without ever actually depicting battle scenes, and the totality of the war experience and loss of basic humanity, as told through the intimacy of a grandmother and grandson’s relationship. In Russian with English subtitles.
Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival
“A film of startling originality and beauty”—Manohla Dargis NY Times
“MASTERFUL! Crisply shot and impeccably framed, with an audio tapestry as densely woven as any by David Lynch or Gus Van Sant”—Village Voice
“A POWERFUL and PUZZLING EXPERIENCE. . .Sokurov’s films literally don’t belong in the same conceptual universe as American-European narrative cinema and don’t play by its rules.”—Salon
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
Your ticket is also good for a discount to the Russian Dreams exhibition
at the Bass Museum of Art
For tickets click HERE

07 WED 8:30pm:
The Brilliant Light of Carlos REYGADAS
Japón
(Mexico/2002)
With Magdalena Flores, Alejandro Ferretis

In his debut filmmaking effort, Carlos Reygades burst upon the international festival circuit as the new master of moving images in Mexico. A man leaves Mexico City for the remote countryside to prepare his own death. In the heart of an immense canyon he finds lodging with an old widow in her humble home. He then confronts the power of nature and the woman’s infinite humanity. With a style reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky - Reygadas seminal cinematic inspiration – Japón’s design evokes the physical and emotional ties between the characters, nature and the landscape. (Also see Battle in Heaven and Silent Light.) In Spanish with English subtitles.
WINNER: Best First Work, Best Screenplay Ariel Awards Mexico
Camera d’Or Special mention Cannes Film Festival
New Directors Award Edinburgh Film Festival
Best First Work Havana Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize Rio De Janeiro Int. Film Festival
“Mr. Reygadas has talent to match his ambitions; or, rather, gifts that undercut them sufficiently to give his film a prickly, haunting poignancy.”—A O.Scott NY Times
“THE WORK OF AN EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED FILMMAKER!”—BBCi
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
For tickets click HERE

04 SUN, 05 MON, 06 TUE 7:30pm & 9:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
(Kevin Rafferty/2008)
With Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dowling, Frank Champi, Meryl Streep

HARVARD STADIUM, NOVEMBER 23, 1968: for the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are undefeated as they meet for their final game. Yale is heavily favored, with Brian Dowling, its captain and quarterback, satirized in classmate Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury strip. Harvard’s lineman is Tommy Lee Jones —Al Gore’s roommate. Kevin Rafferty (ATOMIC CAFÉ) intercuts original footage with the hilarious, suspenseful recollections of the 50 men who played in what has become one of college football’s most famous games.
“The best football game I ever saw. . . for pure narrative beauty, culminating in the athletic equivalent of a MULTIPLE ORGASM, it wasn’t just the best game I ever saw – it was THE BEST GAME THAT EVER WAS. . . Now you, too, can experience the magic.”– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker online
“PREPOSTEROUSLY ENTERTAINING. . . A narrative that pulses with the artful, exciting beats of a thriller.” –Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“The best football movie I’ve ever seen!”– J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
For tickets click HERE

Lurie - Kavachnina Gallery would like to cordially invite you to the opening cocktail reception of our up-coming exhibition From Warsaw to Mexico City via New York with artists Leseks Skorski (Poland), Ben Freeman (NYC) and Luis Sanchez (Mexico). Saturday, January 10th from 7:00 - 11:00 pm.
Come enjoy great Art and a great ambiance!
Warm Regards
Lurie - Kavachnina Gallery
info@lurie-kavachnina.com
www.artrouge.com
www.luriegalleries.com

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