Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Ai Weiwei: According to What?
December 5, 2013 – March 15, 2014 
Ai Weiwei: According to What? is the first major international survey of this vital artist’s multifaceted artistic oeuvre. This exhibition reveals Ai’s practice as emerging from an ever-questioning dialogue with the social, political and cultural positions of his native China and the world at large. Ai works in a range of media, including architecture and design, and this exhibition will feature work of the last 20 years, including photography and the large-scale sculptures for which the artist is best known. Visit: http://www.pamm.org
Amelia Paláez: The Craft of Modernity
December 5, 2013- February 23, 2014 
PAMM presents a focused selection of works by Amelia Peláez del Casal (1896 – 1968), one of the most important Cuban painters of the modernist era. Alongside artists such as Carlos Enríquez, Wifredo Lam, Victor Manuel and Fidelio Ponce de León, Peláez personifies the primera vanguardia — the first wave of Cuban artists who traveled to Europe before World War II, where they were exposed to Cubism, Surrealism and other contemporaneous styles. When these artists subsequently returned to the island nation, they introduced the artistic innovations they had adopted abroad and transformed them by incorporating aspects of their native cultural and national identities. Visit: http://www.pamm.org
First Beat
Get pumped up with “First Beat” a special drum performance taking place throughout Miami’s brand new art museum sponsored by Target. Each hour, on the hour, 15 female drummers (from Miami and New York City) will fill PAMM with beats that were intended to be performed exclusively by men, but were re-written to be performed by everyone.
Visitors will be invited to create their own percussion instruments and join in. The commissioned performance is composed by Mindy Abovitz, founder and publisher of Tom Tom Magazine, the only publication dedicated to female drummers.
Drummers: Mindy Abovitz, Emile Milgrim, Sean Desiree, Maia Macdonald, Maria Llorca, Zeva Soroker, Adonnas Jones, Ale Campos, Latoya Weste, Inez Barlatier, Nikki Fernandez, Tricia Thompson, Kaley Howard, Chloe Saavedra, Kiran Gandhi.
Tom Tom Magazine is the only print magazine in the world dedicated to women drummers. Get in touch: [email protected] or visit: http://tomtommag.com. PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Visitors of all ages are invited to Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) to kick off the museum’s free, monthly program featuring a day of art-making, family-friendly gallery tours, performances and more!