Cutting Edge New Miami Art Museum Opens in a Few Weeks
We are just around the corner for the grand opening to the public in December 2013 of the new Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron. The Museum will offer 200,000 square feet of programmable space for the display of works of art, educational activities, relaxation and dining.
The Miami Downtown Development Authority's (Miami DDA) final goal is to make Miami the Epicenter of the Americas and the PMAM will contribute to fulfill this purpose. The Miami DDA’s board of directors voted unanimously to approve the 2025 Downtown Miami Master Plan, a 15-year roadmap for enhancing the livability and quality of life in Downtown Miami. Since 2004, voters in Miami-Dade County passed a $2.9 billion bond issue that included money for cultural projects. One hundred million dollars of that went to the Miami Art Museum, which chose to relocate in what had been a dilapidated park on the waterfront. There it would be clustered with other developing cultural institutions, including the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 2004, and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science under construction and scheduled to open in 2015. Miami as every other global city will provoke people to visit and stay because of its rich cultural activity. The Art Museum is definitely one of the major elements to put Miami on the map as an International cultural hub. “These major new arts facilities are playing a real role in revitalizing all of downtown Miami,” said Michael Spring, director of the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Art Museum will reflect through the different expositions and exhibitions the lavish multifaceted cultural wealth of Miami. “We have one of the most diverse populations in one of the fastest growing regions of the country,” said Thomas Collins, director of the new museum. It was named after a board member and real-estate developer, Jorge M. Pérez, who contributed $40 million in cash and art toward the $220 million cost of the building. Now numbering more than 1,300 works, the collection includes 110 pieces donated by Mr. Pérez of works by significant Latin American artists like José Bedia, Wifredo Lam and Diego Rivera. It also has 300 pieces acquired from Dennis and Debra Scholl, collectors based in Miami, which include works by Vito Acconci and Carolee Schneemann. More than 100 works of 20th-century photography have been promised by Charles Cowles, a longtime art dealer and collector.
The timing of the opening of the new Miami Art Museum as an answer to the urge of educators, artists, lawmakers to make more emphasis on the arts is simply impeccable. America needs to invest more in the humanities and social sciences in order to preserve its cultural identity and economic competitiveness, according to a new report on the role those subjects play in shaping the national character.
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