Close-up photo of an aged stitched leather football against a black background.
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World’s oldest known football arrives in Coral Gables during World Cup

By Coral Gables Gazette staff With the World Cup underway across North America, Miami Stadium hosting seven matches and FIFA’s Legal and Compliance Division operating from a corporate office in…

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Moroccan Visions brings together more than two dozen works by four artists
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‘Moroccan Visions’ brings four contemporary artists and a century of painting history to the Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables Museum is presenting Moroccan Visions, a program of exhibitions and family workshops developed in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Kingdom…

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Two painted portraits of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann shown side by side.
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Mozart to Schumann: A chamber program that traces how music changed

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Sixty years separate the two works on the South Beach Chamber Ensemble’s program this Sunday at the Coral Gables Museum — sixty years in which…

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A brightly colored sawdust carpet featuring intricate geometric and floral patterns is arranged on the ground, bordered by rows of green fruit and other natural materials.
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An art form made to be destroyed comes to the Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Imagine spending days placing colored sawdust, flower petals, pine needles, and fruit on the ground, spoonful by careful spoonful, building a work of art so…

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Aerial view of Château de Beynac, a large medieval stone fortress with multiple towers, crenellated battlements, and a red-tiled roof, perched on a steep limestone cliff above the Dordogne River. The surrounding landscape is dense green forest under a partly cloudy blue sky, with the river curving through the valley below and the rooftops of a small village visible at the base of the cliff.
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Coral Gables Museum opens a window onto medieval France — one castle at a time

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Imagine standing at the edge of a limestone cliff above the Dordogne River. Below, the valley spreads out in long green folds. Above, the walls…

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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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