An artistic image showing a city plan overlaid on a landscape scene, with streets, water features, and open space visible.
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A city as a shared work of art: Victor Dover on streets, scale and livable communities

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Cities reveal their values not only in grand plans or landmark buildings, but in the everyday spaces people inhabit most: streets, sidewalks, intersections and public…

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An illustrated portrait of a child wearing a red scarf and cap from Edel Rodriguez’s graphic memoir Worm, used to promote the page-to-stage performance event.
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Edel Rodriguez brings graphic memoir to life in immersive page-to-stage performance event at Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Graphic art, political memoir, documentary film, and live theater converge in a unique evening of visual storytelling when Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez is celebrated in…

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Graphic reading “GALA: The Next 100 — Legacy & Vision,” the theme of the Coral Gables Museum’s 2026 Annual Gala.
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‘The Next 100’: Vision-forward gala to benefit Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables Museum will trade reverence for projection on Saturday night. Its annual gala, themed The Next 100: Legacy & Vision, is designed as…

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A man in a 1930s-era coat looks at a chess set through a shop window in a scene from the film The Chess Player.
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War-time chess thriller comes to Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff When Coral Gables Museum hosts a special screening of The Chess Player on Thursday, December 11, it will do more than present a Spanish drama…

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Bright pink and blue poster featuring multiple images of Celia Cruz in a sequined blue dress, smiling with arms raised, promoting the Coral Gables Museum exhibition Happy 100th Birthday, Celia! photographed by Alexis Rodríguez-Duarte and Tico Torres.
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¡Azúcar!: Coral Gables Museum opens dazzling centennial tribute to the Queen of Salsa

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The rhythm of Celia Cruz’s voice has outlived every stage she ever graced. Today, that rhythm fills the galleries of the Coral Gables Museum as…

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Four musicians from the South Beach Chamber Ensemble stand together holding string instruments—two violins, a viola, and a cello—before their performance of Schubert and Dvořák quartets at the Coral Gables Museum.
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Free afternoon of Schubert and Dvořák at the Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The elegant galleries of the Coral Gables Museum will become the intimate setting for a chamber-music encounter of rare ambition. At 2 p.m. on Sunday,…

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Portrait of artists Olga Dueñas and Magaly Barnola-Otaola, whose work is showcased in the Coral Gables Museum exhibition Women Trailblazers, highlighting their contributions to Latin American contemporary art.
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‘Women Trailblazers’ leads September’s Gallery Night

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The spotlight at this month’s Gables Gallery Night falls on two pioneering women whose artistic legacies stretch across Latin America. On Friday, September 5, the…

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Opening Friday, August 29, Blueprints for Beauty: 100 Years of Coral Gables Streetscapes traces the evolution of the city’s public spaces through historic photographs, maps, documents, and original planning materials.
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‘Blueprints for Beauty’ charts 100 years of Coral Gables streetscapes

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A century of civic vision, Mediterranean aesthetics, and deliberate design goes on display this month as the Coral Gables Museum unveils a major new exhibition…

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Patricia L. Cooke invites participants to transform everyday objects into mixed-media sculpture at Open Studio, August 27 at the Coral Gables Museum.
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Open Studio at the Coral Gables Museum: Patricia Cooke closes out the Summer of THINGS

By Coral Gables Gazette staff For the past three months, the Coral Gables Museum has invited residents to turn ordinary objects into works of art. On Wednesday, August 27, the…

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Artist Loni Johnson will lead the Coral Gables Museum’s next Open Studio, guiding participants in turning meaningful personal objects into small altars honoring their ancestors.
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Open Studio turns personal objects into ancestral altars at Coral Gables Museum

In the next edition of the Coral Gables Museum’s Open Studio series, artist Loni Johnson will guide participants in transforming meaningful personal objects into small altars as offerings to their…

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