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The Historic Riviera
The Historic Riviera is a monthly journal dedicated to exploring the history of Coral Gables
THE ENIGMATIC SCULPTRESS
AN ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION
MURDER AT THE PULPIT
Tent City
Panic and Quarantine; Miami’s 1899 Yellow Fever Outbreak
The Middle Merrick Brother
A Spanish Royal in the Gables
The Dream Screen at the Theater Beautiful
Trolley-Ho!
The Lady in the Portrait
Dade County Slash Pine
The City Beautiful Movement
MIAMI, FLORIDA; EARLY FAMILIES AND RECORDS
MURAL: DENMAN FINK’S “ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI”
THE SECOND WIFE OF RICHARD MERRICK
FOX HUNTS AT THE BILTMORE HOTEL
THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF CORAL GABLES
THE POETRY OF GEORGE MERRICK
THE MIAMI COLISEUM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GUAVA IN CORAL GABLES
THE FIRST WIFE OF RICHARD MERRICK
MURAL: DEWING WOODWARD’S “MIGRATION”
Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery
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![INSIDE THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM:
Liu Bolin
Info Wall, 2011
From the series: Hiding in the City
Archival pigment print on metal, 47 x 59 inches
Courtesy of Raúl and Mily de Molina
Liu Bolin (Shandong, China, 1973) has been called the “Invisible Man”. His “Hiding in the City” series, a mix of performance, photography, and social activism, started in 2005, as a protest against the government’s forced demolition of the artist village Suo Jia Cun, Beijing, as China prepared for the 2008 Olympics. Using acrylic paint, he camouflaged himself in the ruins of demolished buildings, as a form of resistance. Bolin has continued to use this technique to denounce other ills of his society and government. He said, “I have chosen for my body to be covered and erased; that’s not the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans [...] used to fool the public. [...] I choose to camouflage my body into the environment so that people will pay more attention to the background’s social property by erasing the meaning of my body as an individual.”
From the exhibition "Alien Nations 2020” December 1st – March 14th, 2021 | Carol A. Fewell Gallery, Coral Gables Museum.
In online collaboration with Lehman College Art Gallery. Curated by Yuni Villalonga, Chief Curator, Coral Gables Museum, and Bartholomew Bland, Executive Director, Lehman College Art Gallery
A new video from The Nation I inhabit is now available, featuring a conversation between Liu Bolin and "Alien Nations 2020" co-curator Bartholomew Bland. Visit the exhibition page on our website (link in bio) to view it and to learn more about the exhibition.
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