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Hotel/Gallery The Betsy Hotel New Shows open on December 1 - Property Opening on Dec 6 As the anchor for the arts in Miami Beach, The Betsy Hotel is committed to artistic excellence during Miami Beach Art Week and throughout the year, serving as both a leading luxury resort hotel and worldwide cultural destination. While at The Betsy, guests experience a rich tapestry of accessible and engaging interdisciplinary arts experiences. During Miami Beach Art Week 2024, The Betsy will celebrate 15 new exhibiting artists, while presenting live dance, a new public art installation, literary programming, and daily jazz performances. The hotel’s growing permanent art collection will be on display as well. Artwork is for sale with a portion of proceeds benefiting ZARA’S CENTER, The Betsy Hotel’s charitable haven for children in Zimbabwe. On Friday, December 6, from 5-8 p.m., The Betsy will host its annual property-wide art opening and artist meet-and-greet. Selected exhibiting visual artists along with Poet E. Ethelbert Miller and Choreographer Peter London will be present. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP on Eventbrite. From December 1–12, The Betsy Orb will be a canvas for Augmented Visions of the NatureVerse, an installation by digital artist [dNASAb] as part of the City of Miami’s No Vacancy 2024. In areas adjacent to The Betsy ORB - in the Alley (at 14th Place and Ocean Dr.) - featured window installations include [dNASAb]’s augmented reality activated stills, up through January 1, 2025. Throughout Art Week 2024, The Betsy will feature the “Art of Miami Jazz Past and Present,” a series of jazz performances at The Piano Bar, all free and open to the public. Saturday, November 30 | 9 p.m.: Vocalist Nicole Yarling & Pianist Jim Gasior celebrate Josephine Baker in partnership with the Black Affairs Committee of the City of Miami Beach. Thursday, December 5 | 6-11 p.m.: Jazz Pianist extraordinaire Leonard Reina performs. Friday, December 6 | 6 p.m. to midnight: Simon Mogul, young tenor sax talent and Curtis Lundy, Miami-born, award-winning double-bass player known for his work with Betty Carter, perform in partnership with the FIU Wolfsonian Public Humanities Project. Saturday, December 7 | 6 p.m. to midnight: The Harden Project, a Miami-born team that includes singer and composer Ja’Nia Harden and musician and composer John Harden. The Betsy Hotel’s Carlton Room galleries will display work by Elinor Carucci (b. 1971) an Israeli-American photographer best known for The Collars of RBG (2023), a collection that highlights the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong triumph over adversity and gender discrimination - as well as the individualism she expressed through her diverse collars. “I see this project as being (very) personal,” said Carucci. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg held special significance for Jewish women like me who dreamed of living a life that combined career success with (service to community). She represented my identity, values, and connection to America - and the values I hope to one day hand over to my daughter, [who, like Ginsburg,] is an American Jew, the child of an immigrant.” At The Betsy’s signature restaurant, LT Steak & Seafood, which also serves as one of the Hotel’s most visible and visited exhibition spaces, the curated photo collection is the work of Lillian Bassman (1917-2012) — a celebrated contemporary of Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, known as the most important fashion woman fashion photographer of the last century. Her work has recently received more critical and historical acclaim than she received during her lifetime.