Luxury Guide: Miami Winter 2021-2022

A Few Words From MAYOR LAGO

Art adds character and encourages people to visit, which serves as an economic driver to our businesses. Also, through art, we get to communicate our ideas, express our emotions, and effectively connect with others. Simply put, art builds a sense of community... The Coral Gables Museum is an incredible addition to our City. The Museum does an incredible job with programming and is vital to our community. It allows artists to showcase their work and serves as a cultural and historic destination to all those who live and visit our City Beautiful. We are very proud to have this institution in our city and grateful to John Allen’s leadership as the Executive Director.” “The sign of any great city is the strength of its cultural life.”

CORAL GABLES MUSEUM Coral Gables Museum, an institute devoted to the 1920s planned community, opened in 2010 in the historic Old Police and Fire Station structure. The Museum’s mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore the civic arts of architecture and urban and environmental design, including fostering an appreciation for the history, vision, and cultural landscape of Coral Gables, promoting beauty and planning as well as historic and environmental preservation. The museum’s programming includes exhibitions, collections, educational offerings, lectures, tours, publications, and special events.

CORAL GABLES MUSEUM PRESENTS ARTIST JULIO LARRAZ

Saturday, Dec. 4 , from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Coral Gables Museum, mimosas and small bites will be served in celebration of artist Julio Larraz’s first museum retrospective, The Kingdom We Carry Inside . There will be a book signing of Larraz's most recent and comprehensive retrospective book of the same title, published by Rizzoli New York, at 11 a.m. Dec. 1-April 30, 2022 | Julio Larraz: The Kingdom We Carry Inside Curated by Yuneikys Villalonga. Sponsored by Alirio Torrealba.

Julio Larraz (b. Havana, Cuba, 1944) is currently one of the most influential figures in Latin American art. During a career spanning six decades, Larraz has garnered institutional recognition and plaudits from both colleagues and younger painters from across the world for his masterful harnessing of technique, color and light, along with the poetry and subtlety of his pieces. This exhibition will be Larraz’s first museum retrospective, representing all mediums and key time periods of his life and work, from his early days as a caricaturist for major newspapers and magazines, to later drawings, paintings and sculptures.