MIAMI – December 19, 2014 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will host its most important annual fundraising affair on Saturday, January 17, 2015.  The proceeds from the evening’s ticket sales fund the museum’s robust education program, which is the largest behind the Miami-Dade County school system and has garnered participation from more than 80,000 adults and children since December 2013.  Art of the Party Presented by Louis Vuitton– formally known as the MAM Ball and attracting former guests such as Marc Anthony and Elle Macpherson– will debut a contemporary spin on a classic tradition, on a new date and with a modern format conceptualized by event mastermind Lee Brian Schrager. Louis Vuitton has a longstanding affiliation with the world of art and is proud to present Art of the Party.

Art of the Party will showcase the architectural gem’s distinct, interconnected spaces with three forms of expression in a single evening:

• “Chef’s Table” seated dinner, 7:00 p.m.: World-renowned Chef Thomas Troisgros has crafted a four-course menu for an unforgettable dinner under the stars on the picturesque east terrace.  Dinner guests will be welcomed in the Podhurst Lobby and Lobby Terrace for cocktails prior to being seated, and are invited to extend the evening at Supper Club and enjoy dessert at the Remix after party.  Tables of 10 are available for $25,000 or $50,000; table hosts at the $50,000 level will receive a limited edition print by artist Beatriz Milhazes.
• “Supper Club” dinner lounge, 8:30 p.m.: Expected to be the most coveted ticket of the season will be the Supper Club dinner lounge in the museum’s special exhibition galleries where partygoers can reserve exclusive private seating for up to 12 guests, complete with a dedicated butler providing table cocktail service.  Chef Thomas Troisgros will orchestrate the culinary offerings in the lively nightlife setting of dinner and dancing, which will take unexpected turns with live entertainment popping up in different forms throughout the night.  Individual tickets are also available for $1,000 per person.  All guests will be invited to have desert at the Remix party on the terrace.
• “Remix” after party, 10:30 p.m.: The museum’s West Portico and Knight Plaza will be transformed into a vibrant dance club by Brazilian Funk band Batuke Samba Funk featuring Pee Wee Ellis.  Chef’s Table, Supper Club and Remix guests will join together for decadent desserts, cocktails and dancing under the stars. Individual Remix tickets can be purchased for $250 each.   

The three adaptations of Art of the Party will be infused with the essence of Brazil with famed Rio de Janeiro-based Chef Thomas Troisgos of the internationally regarded Olympe Restaurant and a live concert by popular Brazilian band Batuke Samba Funk featuring Pee Wee Ellis, the legendary sax player and bandleader for James Brown.  Chef Troisgos, the fourth generation of a clan of chefs that has made history in modern gastronomy, will arrive to Miami specifically to present custom dinner menus for Art of The Party Chef’s Table and Supper Club. 

Who:               

PAMM Art of the Party Chairs: Arlene and Wayne Chaplin
Chef’s Table Chairs: Padma and Raj Vattikuti
Supper Club Chairs:  Andreea Baclea; Kristin and Chapman Ducote; Rachel and Joe Furst; Jon Paul Pérez
Remix Chairs: Tara and Jack Benmeleh; Erin Newberg; Ginger Fulkerson Harris
Production: Lee Brian Schrager, Southern Wine & Spirits of America & South Beach Wine & Food Festival Founder

When:           

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Chef’s Table seated dinner, 7:00 p.m.
Supper Club dinner lounge, 8:30 p.m.
Remix after party, 10:30 p.m.

Where:          

Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33132
Complimentary valet

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility and is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

LOUIS VUITTON & ART:            
A symbol of elegance and style throughout the world, Louis Vuitton has cultivated a close relationship with the world of art since its founding in 1854. Inventing the art of travel, Louis Vuitton and his successors kept pace with a rapidly changing age, working with the most accomplished engineers, decorators, painters, photographers and designers of the day. This fascination with ever-new forms of expression grew through the subsequent decades and continues today. Some of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists have joined forces with Louis Vuitton, increasing the points of exchange between art and fashion to an unprecedented degree. 

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI — January 8, 2015 — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is launching an international search for a director to replace Thom Collins, who will step down in March after guiding the museum’s successful move to a spectacular new waterfront venue, PAMM Board Chair Aaron Podhurst announced. Collins will become executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

PAMM trustee Dennis Scholl, the vice president/arts for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will head the committee searching for the new director and Leann Standish, PAMM deputy director for external affairs, will serve as interim director following Collins’ departure.

In its opening year, the museum exceeded its key attendance and membership goals, with more than 300,000 visitors, compared with 60,000 annually at the previous venue. The museum has reached more than 70,000 students and children, with the largest art education program in Miami-Dade County, outside the school system, itself. PAMM’s new director will help the contemporary art museum develop a five-year strategic plan, Podhurst said.

“Thom’s leadership has been instrumental to our many successes, from the tremendous public response to the museum after its opening in Miami’s Museum Park, to the continued successes of our fundraising campaign and collection-building programs,” said Podhurst. “We congratulate him and are grateful that he has led the museum to a place of stability and strength from which we can continue to move forward.”

Collins’s departure comes a little more than a year after PAMM opened its new, Herzog and de Meuron-designed facility in Miami’s Museum Park on time, on budget and to international acclaim. The museum has grown its membership base to over 9,000 member households, generating in excess of $2.24 million in revenue. PAMM recently announced more than $6 million in cash gifts, bringing its capital campaign to more than 90 percent of goal, as well as significant new gifts to its permanent collection, some of which are currently on view at the museum through March 1, 2015, in the exhibition Beyond the Limited Life of Painting.

"The new director will have the opportunity to lead the most important visual arts institution in a city that has emerged as an internationally renowned cultural center,” said Scholl. "The success of the museum in all areas, from the building itself to record-breaking attendance and critically acclaimed exhibitions will allow us to attract excellent candidates to take the Pérez to the next level."

The international scope of the director search reflects Greater Miami’s diverse community and its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas.  The city of Miami is home to a vibrant mix of cultures and traditions from across North America, the Caribbean, and South America, and PAMM has attracted tourists from more than 90 countries and all 50 states in just 12 months since opening.

Following the acclaimed run of Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico, the first major US retrospective on the Brazilian artist’s work organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostander, which closes on January 11, PAMM will open the U.S. exclusive presentation of Tàpies: From Within on February 6. The exhibition explores the career of Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies and features 50 works from 1945 through 2011. The exhibition joins current and upcoming exhibitions on the work of Mario García Torres, Diego Bianchi, Victoria Gitman and Shana Lutker, among others, for the 2015 season.

“The support that this museum has received and the tremendous success it experienced in its opening year is testament to how important the arts are to this community,” said Collins. “Although I am sad to leave Miami, I proud that we have cemented the museum’s role as Miami’s flagship art museum, a leading U.S. institution, and an international art destination. I have seen an entire community come together to create something tremendous, and I am so grateful to have had the chance to be a part of it.”

The search committee for the new director will be Chairman Dennis Scholl; Vice-Chair Rose Ellen Greene; Jorge Perez; Jeff Krinsky; Susana Ibarguen; Dede Moss; Craig Robins; Carol Hall; Greg Ferrero; Walid Wahab; Gail Myers; and Aaron Podhurst.  

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas; advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design; and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with spacious galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

Vento, who had been with Shutts & Bowen and a related firm for 35 years, took her new position Monday, Jan. 5 after serving 26 years on the board of trustees for PAMM and its predecessors, the Miami Art Museum (“MAM”) and the Center for Fine Arts. During much of that time, she was also the museum’s pro bono general counsel, while working full-time as a Shutts & Bowen business litigation partner. While a partner at Shutts & Bowen LLP, she practiced general civil and business litigation, with an emphasis on representation of financial institutions. She has been listed as a Florida Super Lawyer in Business Litigation, a Leading American Attorney in Florida in Commercial Litigation, has been elected a lifetime Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and is A-V rated by Martindale Hubbell law directory.  She is profiled in the book "Beyond Julia's Daughters", which celebrates women of vision who have made exceptional contributions to Miami-Dade County's history.  She is an ex officio president of The Miami Forum, and served for nine years on The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Executive Council. 

Both Vento and the firm were major contributors to the museum in time and treasure. In honor of Vento’s volunteer work, PAMM created the M. Thérèse Vento Café Lounge when it opened in December 2013. Shutts & Bowen, founded in 1910, celebrated its 75^th anniversary in 1985 at the museum, then next to the Miami Public Library on Flagler Street, by co-sponsoring the Picasso in Miami exhibit.

Bowman Brown, chair of Shutts & Bowen’s executive committee, said: “We’re delighted to see Terry pursue her passion on a full-time, in-house basis after working for more than a quarter century as the museum’s outside general counsel and legal adviser as part of her pro bono duties with our firm, in addition to her distinguished work on behalf of our clients. It has been a privilege to have made this contribution, and we look forward to working with the museum, and with Terry Vento, for years to come.”

Thom Collins, PAMM’s director said, “Terry has played a vital role in advising the museum as plans for our new, world-class facility took shape. From assisting with contracts of all types, risk management, human resources protocols, documentation for acquisition of artwork, corporate compliance, and oversight of intellectual property issues. Terry has been instrumental in this museum’s success, and we are very lucky that she has chosen to permanently focus her efforts on the best interests of Miami’s flagship art museum.”

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas; advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design; and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with spacious galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

About Shutts & Bowen LLP
Shutts & Bowen, established in 1910, is a full-service business law firm with more than 250 lawyers in offices in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Tampa, West Palm Beach and Amsterdam.  Learn more about Shutts & Bowen at www.shutts.com.

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

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MIAMI – January 18, 2015 – It was a night full of surprise and delight at Pérez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) Art of the Party presented by Louis Vuitton where Magic City’s art patrons, cultural ambassadors, philanthropic leaders and social tastemakers gathered to reaffirm their commitment to the museum’s robust education program, the largest behind the Miami-Dade County school system. 

Supermodel Karolína Kurková and music superstar Pitbull attended the night of samba and soul at Miami’s waterfront museum, PAMM.  Kurková and guests mix and mingled in the Art of the Party Supper Club, which gave a modern twist to the traditional gala. 

Within the nightlife setting of Supper Club in the museum’s second-floor special exhibition galleries, partygoers reveled in amazement of the intricate five inch, paper silhouette portrait of guests crafted by Mr. Cheng and which quickly became collector pieces among friends; the 20-person flash mob that emerged from the crowd dancing to Fergie’s “A Little Party Never Hurt Nobody” ignited a vibrant dance scene; and the 20-person Samba procession, reminiscent of Brazil’s Carnival festivities, led guests to the after party. 

Simultaneously below the star-studded sky, guests of the Chef’s Table four-course, seated dinner were serenaded with a 90 minute performance by Soul Train Award winner Nicole Henry, who is in the midst of a four-month U.S. tour.  Pérez Art Museum Miami Board Chair Aaron Podhurst opened the night with a heart-felt thanks and Dom Perignon Champagne toast toArt of the Party chairs Wayne & Arlene Chaplin. 

The Remix after party quickly came to life in the hands of popular Brazilian band Batuke Samba Funk and their signature high energy beats.  The legendary sax player and James Brown band leader Pee Wee Ellis joined the dynamic group for the waterfront concert that kept guests dancing into the early hours. 

Lee Brian Schrager conceptualized the three-piece night and enlisted the expertise of famed, fourth-generation Chef Thomas Troisgros, who flew from Rio de Janeiro for the occasion, to orchestrate the evening’s two distinct dinner parties.

Notable attendees included: Supermodel Karolína Kurková; music superstar Pitbull; Kara & Stephen Ross; Jorge & Darlene Pérez; Craig Robins & Jackie Soffer; Food Network Simply Delicioso host Ingrid Hoffman; photographer Iran Issa Khan; fashion designer Silvia Tcherassi; Lee Brian Schrager; Mayor Carlos Gimenez; Mayor Manny Diaz; Chef Thomas Troisgros; Raul “El Gordo” & Millie de Molina; Univision news anchor Maria Elena Salinas; Walid & Susie Wahab;Nicole & Edgar Lozano; Michelle & Jason Rubell; Debra & Dennis Scholl; Jonathan & Criselda Breene

Art of the Party event chairs were: Arlene & Wayne Chaplin, Padma & Raj Vattikuti, Andreea Baclea, Kristin & Chapman Ducote; Rachel & Joe Furst, Jon Paul Pérez, Tara & Jack Benmeleh, Erin Newberg and Ginger Fulkerson Harris

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility and is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

LOUIS VUITTON & ART:
A symbol of elegance and style throughout the world, Louis Vuitton has cultivated a close relationship with the world of art since its founding in 1854. Inventing the art of travel, Louis Vuitton and his successors kept pace with a rapidly changing age, working with the most accomplished engineers, decorators, painters, photographers and designers of the day. This fascination with ever-new forms of expression grew through the subsequent decades and continues today. Some of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists have joined forces with Louis Vuitton, increasing the points of exchange between art and fashion to an unprecedented degree.      

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​Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – January 27, 2015 – On February 6, Pérez Art Museum Miami will open a major historical survey of Catalan master Antoni Tàpies. The first major survey since the artist’s death in 2012, the exhibition is comprised of 50 works, including paintings, assemblages and drawings. Tàpies: From Within features work from the mid-1940’s up through 2011, with notable examples from every decade of the artist’s 70-year long career. All the works were drawn from the artist’s own collection, or that of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. These pieces, which had personal resonance for Tàpies and remained in the artist’s control throughout his lifetime, offer a unique perspective on his creative process. Many of the works selected have rarely been seen prior to this exhibition, providing an intimate glimpse into Tàpies’ relationship with his practice.

This retrospective was organized jointly by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, and curated by former Tate Director Vincente Todolí. PAMM’s chief curator, Tobias Ostrander, worked closely with the Fundació and Todoli to choose the 50 works included in PAMM’s focused presentation of Tàpies: From Within, which is the sole US presentation of the show. The artist’s early “matter paintings” from the 1950s, up through his recent works, emphasize the materials from which they are made- oil paint mixed with dirt and stones, covered with gestural markings. Their emphasis on “poor” materials contrast with the gleaming surfaces of Miami, creating a critical dialogue with the museum and its surrounding context. Ostander also emphasizes Tàpies’ influence on a new generation of contemporary artists also interested in discarded materials and rich surfaces. PAMM will open a commissioned project by Argentinian artist Diego Bianchi on February 19, whose appropriation of worn and found materials highlights the link between Tapies’ work and that of many of today’s contemporary artists.  

“Tàpies’ emphasis on matter, earth and humble materials, creates an interesting counterpoint to our increasingly digital world,” explained Ostrander.  “His works were a response to the Atomic age and new relationships understood between humans and matter. Today we see many artists increasingly interested in surface textures, density and weight, in physicality and the unique art object; all as a critique of the non-materiality of the digital world. In this context Tàpies’ alchemical works become a dynamic reference.”

The survey offers a window into the most important artistic and social developments of the post-war period, as seen through the eyes of one of the most successful abstract painters of his generation. Displayed chronologically, the works reveal the influence of major movements in the art world on Tàpies, from surrealism to abstract expressionism, to conceptual art. The impact of pivotal cultural shifts and world events are also evident, such as the explosion of the atomic bomb, ethnic violence and the AIDS epidemic. At the same time, Tàpies steadfast interest in “poor” materials – such as clay, dirt and detritus – remains evident throughout the retrospective. His characteristically bold techniques are on full display, such as his groundbreaking method of “carving” into his canvases by mixing paint with found materials.

Highlights from Tàpies: From Within include:

• Fils sobre cartó (Threads on Cardboard), 1946 - a delicate collage represents an early exploration of two materials that would later become established aspects of his practice.
• Gris amb dues taques negres. N. oXCII (Gray with Two Black Marks, No. XCII), 1959 - textured, mixed-media on canvas conveyed with gestural markings.
• Tela encolada (Glued Fabric), 1961, - a bold reinvention of a sailcloth accented with paint and folded into a compelling geometric design atop a canvas.
• Cadira i roba (Chair and Clothes), 1970 – an elegant yet simple object assemblage that defines with the arte povera movement, made from everyday materials found in the artist’s studio.
• Díptic amb dues formes corbes (Diptych with Two Curved Forms), 1988 - a dream-like mixed media reponse to the figurative resurgence of the 1980s.
• Atman, 1996 – displays the strong influence of Asian art on his practice, particularly Japanese calligraphy and the structure of folding screens.
• Sóc terra (I Am Earth), 2004 – a mixture of graffiti-like marks with spray-painted sections, this piece speaks to both the artist’s ecological and spiritual concerns.

Organization and support
Tàpies: From Within is an exhibition organised by Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and curated by Vicente Todolí. At Pérez Art Museum Miami, this exhibition is co-presented by Sabadell United Bank and Related Group. Major support has been received from the National Endowment of the Arts with additional support from the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Related Programs and Events:

Free Public Tours in Spanish
Pérez Art Museum Miami will offer free guided tours of Tàpies: From Within in Spanish every Saturday at 2pm from February 7 through May 2, 2015. English tours are also offered during regular museum hours (times vary). Los sábados ofrecemos recorridos gratis en español a las 2pm de Tàpies: From Within.  To learn more about tours, visit pamm.org/learn/tours.

Museum Circle Preview of Tàpies: From Within
Wednesday, February 4, 7-9pm
Pérez Art Museum Miami Museum Circle members are invited for an exclusive preview of the new special exhibition, Tàpies: From Within. Exclusively for Museum Circle members. To become a Museum Circle member and receive an invitation, visit pamm.org/support

Member Early Access for Tàpies: From Within
Thursday, February 5, 10am-7pm
PAMM members receive early access to the exhibition. To become a member, visit pamm.org/support.

Art Talk: Curator Vicente Todolí on Antoni Tàpies
Thursday, February 5, 7pm
Vincente Todolí, former Tate Director and guest curator of Tàpies: From Within, will lecture on the life and work of artist Antoni Tàpies. Free with museum admission. Space is limited (first come, first seated).

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: "Making Your Mark"
Saturday, February 14, 1-4pm
Study the surfaces in the art by Antoni Tápies. What kind of marks does he make? How do you think he made them and why? On the outside terrace, join in the mark-making art workshop for individual abstract expressions and a collaborative group graffiti mural! Free and open to the public.

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. This mission is reflected in the initial installation of its permanent collection of art from the World War II era to the present, AMERICANA, at the new home of the 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM). Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with sprawling galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami. Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. 
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MIAMI – February 2, 2015 – Pérez Art Museum Miami received a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support upcoming exhibition Nari Ward: Sun Splashed, a survey of the artist’s work that will be on view from October 2015 through spring 2016. The grant, considered among the most prestigious for contemporary art, will support the exhibition directly, as well as a robust schedule of related programs, which will foster a deeper understanding of the works on view and the artistic process.

“We are thrilled to be among the few to receive this generous grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation,” said Leann Standish, PAMM deputy director for external affairs. “The grant will enable PAMM to continue to engage the community in the lively exchange of fresh ideas, and to convey the excitement of the creative process through the presentation of vibrant and innovative contemporary visual arts.”

Nari Ward: Sun Splashed will be the largest survey of Nari Ward’s work to date, and will be presented in the Fernandez family galleries, the museum’s largest exhibition space. The exhibition will examine Ward’s career through interrelated frameworks that have guided his work for more than 20 years, including his native Jamaica, ideas of migration, African American history and culture, urban space and the dynamics of power and politics.

Nari Ward: Sun Splashed is curated by PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi. Support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

About The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
​The Foundation's objective is to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. The Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting, exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice. The Andy Warhol Foundation’s grant making activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing; and efforts to promote the health, welfare and first amendment rights of artists.

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – February 3, 2015 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) launches WAVES, a series of commissioned performances that feature musicians collaborating with artists across fields of dance, video and visual art. Combining stage design, visual and sonic components, these immersive installations bring the influence of technology on contemporary culture into a three-dimensional, social space.   Each of the four performances will create distinct experiences ranging from a “waiting room in DJ hell” to a sci-fi, R&B opera. The WAVES series features performances by Trina, Dawn Richard, Jacolby Satterwhite, Physical Therapy, Kingdom, Helado Negro and more.  WAVES is part of PAMM’s year-round, time-based art initiative dedicated to film, video, sound, movement and performance art.  For more information, visit pamm.org/waves.

“For centuries artists have been interested in the idea of multisensory ‘total works of art’ – in the way that opera, avant-garde ballets and theatre have combined design, music, dance and visual arts to transform an entire environment,” said Emily Mello, deputy director for education and public programs. “This approach continues now with the activity in nightclubs, warehouses and the web influencing what takes place in theatre halls and galleries.”

The museum’s new, state-of-the-art facility, which opened December 2013, was designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron with contemporary art practices such as time-based art, and today’s museum visitor, in mind. The innovative layout is characterized by a series of interconnected galleries and multi-use spaces: the auditorium can be configured for performances and screenings of various sizes; the open-layout Vattikuti Learning Theatre allows visitors to drift in an out of an installation or performance-in-progress; and the outdoor bayfront terrace transforms into a stage using built-in seating on the bayside stair and exterior walls designed for projection. The format of PAMM’s modern building facilitates a new model of curating and experiencing art.

Upcoming WAVES Programs:

WAVES: The Waiting Room in DJ Hell (Physical Therapy x Gobby x Jeffrey Joyal)
Thursday, February 12, 7pm
Producer and DJ Physical Therapy, musician and cartoonist Gobby and New York-based sculptor Jeffrey Joyal present an interactive installation in conjunction with the winter release of Physical Therapy’s“The Waiting Room in DJ Hell,” a record inspired by a fictional purgatory-within-a-purgatory – a waiting room in Hell reserved exclusively for DJs.  In the waiting room, visitors enter a Miami purgatory, where DJs await their turn for eternal punishment for their late night sins. Flamingos suspended in an eternal state of limbo, reclaimed waiting room furniture and gruesome cartoon wallpaper illustrate the liminal space. In a city where the seasons never change, uncertainty becomes torture as the audience waits for the beat to drop; the payoff never arrives.

Free with museum admission ($16)
Performance ongoing in PAMM’s Vattikuti Learning Theatre, 7-9pm
(Installation on view through February 22, 2015)

WAVES: Nexus Re-Morph (Kingdom x Dawn Richard x Kyselina™)
Thursday, March 26, 7pmMulti-platinum recording artist Dawn Richard stars in Nexus Re-Morph, a performance described as “the soul of R&B distorted in space-time, and rendered as a high tech video vortex” by its creator, influential producer and Fade to Mind label head, Kingdom. Richard’s emotional vocal delivery and Kingdom's otherworldly bass-driven beats will come together for the first time on stage, surrounded by dynamic multimedia projections created by artist Kyselina™. The piece traverses vast emotional terrain from the darkness of love lost to the rapture of overcoming a natural disaster. The 90-minute performance will take the audience through a post-apocalyptic re-creation myth complete with enveloping tsunami waves, violent digital storms and alien wreckage. 

Space is limited. Pre-registration is recommended. Tickets available at pamm.org/calendar.
$16 (includes museum admission)
Performance begins at 7pm in the PAMM Auditorium (90 minutes)

WAVES: En Plein Air: Diamond Princess (Jacolby Satterwhite x Trina x Total Freedom)
Thursday, April 30, 10pm

PAMM debuts a new film by video artist Jacolby Satterwhite featuring Miami-based rapper Trina titled, "En Plein Air: Diamond Princess" on Thursday, April 30 with a live outdoor performance by Trina. Co-commissioned by PAMM and Borscht Film Festival, Satterwhite’s film features objects of desire inspired by a collection of his own mother’s drawings. Trina, best known for her hits with Trick Daddy and Slip-n-Slide Records, was chosen as the star of the film because her self-representation as a feminist, and capitalist diamond princess, mirrors the celebration of American material culture prevalent in the drawings. According to Satterwhite, “both my mother and Trina's body of work obsess so densely over objects of desire that it dissolves into abstraction.”

Culling images from a collection of his mother’s drawings including objects of weaponry, architecture, armor and clothing, he references motifs of 'erasure,''violence' and 'images of imperialism' as both a visual and compositional guide. Satterwhite then renders the images through 3D software to create a surrealist lexicon for the performance to take place. He then takes that abstraction further by combining both of their archives and remixing Trina's body and voice, with the help of renegade DJ and producer TOTAL FREEDOM, into a platform that uses language and observation as prompt to network and unify disparate references from Google to nude male wrestlers.

PAMM members $10, non-members $20. Pre-registration recommended. Tickets available at pamm.org/calendar
Doors open 9:30pm, performance at 10pm on the PAMM Beach
(*Special event hours. Galleries close at 9pm.)

WAVES: No Love can Cut our Knife in Two (Helado Negro)
Thursday, May 14, 7pm
Florida-born, Brooklyn-based musician Helado Negro performs his blend of electronic compositions and live vocals with the dreamy movements of his “tinsel dancers” in this new choreographed production. For No Love Will Cut Our Knife in Two, Helado Negro will work with Miami-based dancers adorned in his handmade, full-bodied cloaks of silver. Helado Negro’s amorphous tinsel costumes transform his collaborators into androgynous kinetic sculptures.  Enigmatic, non-tempo, drone like movements of the figures float against the rhythms of his music; rather than follow the sonic composition as a map, the figures create a distinct layer with an emotional tenor that is both playful and melancholic.

Tinsel creates a sense of wonder and magic, yet is also recognized as a cheap and artificial material. Helado Negro plays with this paradox, creating uncanny forms that evoke furred textures of mammalian warmth while reflecting the light and color of their surroundings. Inspired by science fictions (the work’s title sourced from the mixed up words of a robot wandering in circles, facing the choice of self-preservation or obeying orders, in Isaac Asimov’s story “Runaround,” set in 2015), and the choreographed geometries of Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922), Helado Negro abstracts the figure, mechanizing the emotive human body into a modern form while conjuring a sense of mystery.  He developed the performance for PAMM during his recent 42-city tour by working with volunteers at each venue to experiment with new movements. The fully conceived choreography for PAMM will also debut an additional costume using new materials. 

Space is limited. Pre-registration is recommended. Tickets available at pamm.org/calendar.
$16 (includes museum admission)
Performance begins at 7pm in the PAMM Auditorium

WAVES is organized by Katerina Llanes, time-based art coordinator, and Emily Mello, deputy director for education and public programs.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility and is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – February 13, 2015 - Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents a newly-commissioned installation by Argentinian artist Diego Bianchi (b. 1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina) that addresses consumption and consumer waste, on view from Thursday, February 19 through Sunday, July 26. The installation will open with a special four-day performance that uses tattoos as a method to consider waste and “disposable” products in relation to material commitments that last a lifetime. Inés Katzenstein, Argentinian contemporary art scholar and curator, will discuss Diego Bianchi’s body of work on Saturday, February 21 at 2pm in the PAMM auditorium. (Space is limited. First come, first seated.)

An immersive installation composed of found objects from around Miami, WasteAfterWaste (2015) is structured around impulsive purchases and the rapid use and disposal of products. The installation removes “trash” from its normal context of invisibility and repositions it as groupings of sculptures in an intentionally crude, tornado-like environment, forcing the viewer to confront its presence. The project involved several research visits by the artist to Miami, followed by six weeks of intense production, both on-site in PAMM’s Project Gallery space and at an off-site warehouse. During this time, Bianchi collected discarded objects found on the streets and in thrift stores, such as broken stereo equipment, chairs, sunglasses, cell phones, beach towels and even drywall from the de-installation of the museum’s recent exhibition, Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico.  

WasteAfterWaste will commence with an ongoing performance from Thursday, February 19 through Sunday, February 22, 2015, wherein performers will display their tattooed body parts through the museum’s glass walls that surround the installation, alluding to how tattoos transform bodies into objects to be desired and consumed. The performance will take place in the installation space, adjacent to the museum’s entrance. Performances are ongoing (with breaks) during regular museum hours.

“Bianchi’s artistic practice matured during the period in Argentina after 2001, when the country’s currency was devalued, plunging it into a dramatic economic crisis,” said Tobias Ostrander, PAMM’s chief curator. “The growth in the number of cartoneros seen in the street, men collecting cardboard and other trash items to resell, and the greater visibility of these discarded materials had a particularly strong impact on Bianchi, who increasingly pursued an ethic of art-making involving reuse, versus engaging newly manufactured materials.”

Bianchi’s work is directly informed by artists like Catalan master Antoni Tàpies, whose retrospective Tàpies: From Within is concurrently on view at PAMM (on view through May 3). Although they were born nearly 50 years apart, both artists share an interest in discarded objects and the mundane, creating a cross-generational dialogue within the museum about daily life through subject and material choices, such as old used shoes and human hair.

Project Gallery: Diego Bianchi is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. Support is provided by Knight Foundation.

Related Programs:

Patron Sip and Learn with Artist Diego Bianchi
Wednesday, February 18, 6:30-8pm
Museum Circle members are invited to conversation and cocktails with Argentinian artist Diego Bianchi and PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander, in anticipation of the artist's new Project Gallery at PAMM. Exclusively for Museum Circle: Patron and above members. To join at the Patron level, contacts join@pamm.org or visit pamm.org/support.

Opening performance
​This special four-day performance, taking place within the WasteAfterWaste (2015) installation space adjacent to the museum’s entrance, will use tattoos as a method to consider waste and “disposable” products in relation to material commitments that last a lifetime. Performers will display their tattooed body parts through the museum’s glass walls that surround the installation, alluding to how tattoos transform bodies into objects to be desired and consumed.

• Thursday, February 19: 7-9pm
• Friday, February 20: 11am-1pm & 2-4pm
• Saturday, February 21: 11am-1pm & 2-4pm
• Sunday, February 22: 11am-1pm & 2-4pm​

Art Talk: Inés Katzenstein on Diego Bianchi
Saturday, February 21, 2pm
Inés Katzenstein, Argentinian contemporary art scholar and curator, will discuss ​Diego Bianchi’s body of work in conjunction with the artist's new large-scale installation on view in PAMM’s project gallery. Free with museum admission. Space is limited (first come, first seated).

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility and is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – February 25, 2014 – Pérez Art Museum Miami’s upcoming exhibition openings include three solo shows by Florida-based artists: Hallandale-based Victoria Gitman’s highly-naturalistic depictions of fur purses and beaded clutches will have viewers second guessing whether they are looking at a painting, a photograph, or the actual object; Gainesville-based Eugenio Espinoza brings the grid form to life with 50 exceptional works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, postcards and documentation of performances and interventions; and Miami-based Nicolas Lobo creates a new project, presenting a group of sculptures cast inside a swimming pool that point to the demands of private leisure activities on public infrastructural systems.

A series of public programs will accompany the exhibitions in a way that fosters engagement among adults, children and families.  Each of the three show openings will be complemented with an Art Talk: Victoria Gitman and exhibition curator René Morales will discuss Desiring Eye on February 26, and art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky will host a lecture relating to Gitman’s work on April 9; Eugenio Espinoza will share in a conversation with guest curator Jesús Fuenmayor on Saturday, March 21; and Nicolas Lobo and exhibition curator René Morales will discuss The Leisure Pit on April 16. A variety of interactive studio and family programs are also planned for truly immersive hands-on experiences such as a giant group picnic on one of Espinoza’s signature black and white grids on Saturday, April 11. For more information about programs, visit pamm.org/calendar.

Victoria Gitman: Desiring Eye
February 26 – May 31, 2015
Victoria Gitman (b. 1972, Buenos Aires; lives in Hallandale, FL) creates highly naturalistic oil paintings that exude sensuality while bearing rich conceptual undercurrents. Desiring Eye features 19 works representing four phases in the artist’s career, spanning nearly 15 years of disciplined production. Gitman’s depictions of necklaces, beaded clutches and fur purses are painted from life and rendered in true scale. Working from items that she finds online or in thrift stores, she imbues these inexpensive objects with an air of luxury and refinement. The exhibition also includes a series of paintings of young women based on graphite drawings by French neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867). Gitman meticulously reenacts every mark of Ingres’s pencil with oil and brush, introducing slowness, premeditation, and analytical scrutiny to a process associated with immediacy and spontaneity, in a way that amplifies the fetishistic aspect of the originals.

Victoria Gitman: Desiring Eye is organized by PAMM Curator René Morales.

Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980)
March 19 – August 23, 2015
Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980), features over 50 exceptional works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, postcards and documentation of performances and interventions by Eugenio Espinoza (b. 1950, Caracas; lives in Gainesville, FL). The exhibition focuses on his practice during the decade of the 1970s, highlighting Espinoza’s significance within the Latin American avant-garde of that period. Currently living in Gainesville, Florida, Espinoza is known for his nonfigurative, humorous and irreverent manipulations of grid forms, that he began developing in the late-1960s. These works were produced as a reaction to the dominant tendencies of geometric abstraction and Kinetic art in Venezuela during these decades. Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980) traces these seminal works, which include his large Impenetrable (1972)—an installation that subverted the modernist canon, challenged Kinetic art, and engaged post-minimalist strategies—and explores Espinoza’s active involvement in the evolution of abstraction during the post-war period. The title of the exhibition refers to the countless experiments Espinoza made to produce his emblematic black grid supports, as he folded, stretched, and cut to this geometric form, contaminating this iconic symbol of modern art.

​Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980) is organized by guest curator Jesús Fuenmayor and coordinated by Pérez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz.

Nicolas Lobo: The Leisure Pit
April 16—December 13, 2015
Pérez Art Museum Miami presents a new series of works by Nicolas Lobo (b. 1979, Los Angeles; lives in Miami, FL). Commissioned for one of PAMM’s project galleries, The Leisure Pit is a site-based installation encompassing a group of mixed-media sculptures, which the artist cast inside a swimming pool using an experimental process. The ensemble relates to Lobo’s interest in the intersections among cultural, technological, and corporeal systems of consumption. Lobo’s point of departure is a set of concrete forms derived from massive storm drain components, reduced to human scale. To produce the final sculptures, Lobo interlocks these forms with the molds that he used to make them. The outer shells of these molds comprise another level of imagery, including an outsized pill shape bearing the Versace logo—a reference to a legendary strain of the drug Ecstasy. By turning a swimming pool—the epitome of affluent suburban recreation—into a facility for industrial manufacture, Lobo points to the demands of private leisure activities on public infrastructural systems.

Nicolas Lobo: The Leisure Pit is organized by PAMM Curator René Morales and presented by BNY Mellon. Support is provided by Knight Foundation.

RELATED EVENTS AND PROGRAMS

Art Talk: Victoria Gitman in Conversation with René Morales
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 7-8:30pm
In conjunction with the opening of Victoria Gitman: Desiring Eye, the artist will discuss her work with PAMM Curator René Morales. Free with museum admission. Space is limited. First come, first seated.

Adult Workshop: "Observe the Detail: A Drawing Workshop" by Maria Lino
Thursday, March 12, 10am-1pm
Inspired by Victoria Gitman's exhibition, Desiring Eye, participants will explore the concepts of observation and personal connection through focused drawing.
Fees vary. Space is limited. Pre-registration required

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: "Revisiting Representation"
Saturday, March 14, 1-4pm
Explore the gallery of Victoria Gitman and create your own still life to take home.

Art Talk: Eugenio Espinoza in conversation with Jesús Fuenmayor
Saturday, March 21, 2pm
Eugenio Espinoza will speak about his humorous and irreverent manipulations of the grid, a modernist icon, with Jesús Fuenmayor, curator of the exhibition Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980). This talk will be in Spanish with English simultaneous interpretation. Free with museum admission. Space is limited. First come, first seated.

Scholl Lecture Series: Barry Schwabsky
Thursday, April 9, 7pm
Art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky speaks about ideas relevant to painting today with several examples including the work of Victoria Gitman. Schwabsky, art critic for The Nation and contributor to Artforum, has authored several books including Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (2002) and his latest collection of essays Words For Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice (2013). Free with museum admission. Space is limited. First come, first seated.

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: "Off the Grid,a picnic with artist Eugenio Espinoza”
Saturday, April 11, 1-4pm
Families play and picnic on Espinoza’s signature black and white grid in the form of a giant blanket by the bay. This interactive work will be on view this day only. Experience the limitless creative possibilities of the grid with hands-on art making activities facilitated and inspired by the artist. Bring lunch or pick one up at Verde.

Art Talk: Nicolas Lobo in Conversation with Curator RenéMorales
Thursday, April 16, 7pm
Miami-based Artist Nicolas Lobo speaks about his new project gallery installation, The Leisure Pit, with PAMM Curator René Morales. Free with museum admission. Space is limited. First come, first seated.

Teen Workshop: “Reconstruct A Clutch: Design and Create Your Own Bag”
Saturday, April 18th, 1–4pm
Explore the work of Victoria Gitman and learn of her attraction to vintage purses as artifacts laden with personal history, social significance and aesthetic value. Sketch your design ideas for remaking your own handbag by changing, combining and recombining different parts of a vintage purse. Fees vary. Space is limited. Pre-registration required. 

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.
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Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) received a grant for $5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to endow newly-commissioned projects by international artists, and related community programming, as part of its Project Gallery series. This new gift brings PAMM’s capital campaign to a total of $206 million raised toward its $220 million campaign goal. This will bring the museum’s total endowment to more than $20 million.

Miami-Dade County’s flagship art museum, PAMM features four Project Galleries, unique spaces dedicated to showcasing a new project by a single artist. These artists visit Miami over the course of a year to interact with the community and learn about the city, and their work frequently responds to the museum’s architecture and site, as well as the broader Miami community and South Florida environment.

“Work presented in the Project Galleries advances PAMM’s mission to support the work of living artists and promote cultural engagement with communities in Miami and South Florida,” said Tobias Ostrander, PAMM chief curator and deputy director for curatorial affairs. “With this grant, we will be able to offer rich programming that will give the community an opportunity to share in the artists’ process.”

Knight’s gift is part of a new $25 million investment in the Miami arts, that also includes extending the Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest funding the best ideas for the local arts, for three years.

“In short time, PAMM has exceeded attendance projections and has become an important community gathering place for Miamians,” said Dennis Scholl, vice president of arts for Knight Foundation. “We hope new funding will help bring residents closer to the artists who show in the Project Galleries and their work.”

Current Project Gallery presentations include works by: Nicole Cherubini (b. 1970, Boston), Mario García Torres (b.1975, Monclova, Mexico), Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York), and Diego Bianchi (b. 1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Upcoming projects include a project by Shana Lutker (b. 1978, Northport, New York), the third work in her series born from her research on Surrealist fistfights which will open on Thursday, May 7, 2015, with a performative lecture based on the work; and a project by Miami-based conceptual artist Nicolas Lobo (b. 1979, Los Angeles) encompassing a group of mixed-media sculptures, which the artist cast inside a swimming pool, opening Thursday, April 16, 2015 with an artist talk. For more information about these and other upcoming program, visit pamm.org/calendar. 

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility and is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

These works were produced as a reaction to the dominant tendencies of geometric abstraction and Kinetic art in Venezuela during these decades. Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980) traces these seminal works, which include his large Impenetrable (1972)—an installation that subverted the modernist canon, challenged Kinetic art, and engaged post-minimalist strategies—and explores Espinoza’s active involvement in the evolution of abstraction during the post-war period.  Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980), features over 50 exceptional works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, postcards and documentation of performances and interventions by Eugenio Espinoza (b. 1950, Caracas; lives in Gainesville, FL). The exhibition focuses on his practice during the decade of the 1970s, highlighting Espinoza’s significance within the Latin American avant-garde of that period. The title of the exhibition refers to the countless experiments Espinoza made to produce his emblematic black grid supports, as he folded, stretched, and cut to this geometric form, contaminating this iconic symbol of modern art. Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980) is organized by guest curator Jesús Fuenmayor and coordinated by Pérez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz.

Related programs

Art Talk: Eugenio Espinoza in conversation with Jesús Fuenmayor
Saturday, March 21, 2pm
In conjunction with the opening of Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980), Eugenio Espinoza will speak about his humorous and irreverent manipulations of the grid, a modernist icon, with Jesús Fuenmayor, curator of the exhibition. This talk will be in Spanish with English simultaneous interpretation. 

PAMM Free Second Saturdays: "Off the Grid,a picnic with artist Eugenio Espinoza”
Saturday, April 11, 1-4pm
After exploring Eugenio Espinoza’s work in the galleries, experience the limitless creative possibilities of the grid with hands-on art making activities for all ages, facilitated and inspired by the artist! Then, picnic on Espinoza’s signature black and white grid in the form of a giant blanket by the bay, an installation on view for one day only as part of the giving festival, Philanthrofest: Carnival of Dreams, in Museum Park. Bring lunch or pick one up at Verde. Arrival by free Miami-Dade Metromover is recommended (Museum Park station).

About the artist and curator
Eugenio Espinoza was born in 1950, in San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela. From 1966 to 1974, he studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristobal Rojas and the Instituto de Diseno Newmann-Ince both in Caracas. From 1977 to 1981, he lived in New York where he studied at the Pratt Institute, New York University and the School of Visual Arts. In 1972, Espinoza exhibited cut and folded canvases at the Museo de Bellas Artes and his Impenetrable at Ateneo de Caracas. His works belong to numerous permanent collections such as Tate Modern, London; the Fine Arts Museum of Houston; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach; the Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogota; Foundation Gego, Caracas; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York; the Cisneros-Fontanels Art Foundation, Miami; among others. He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.​

Since 2012, Jesús Fuenmayor has worked as the director and curator of The Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO).  Fuenmayor also worked as curator at Periférico Caracas, where he organized over thirty exhibitions.

MIAMI – Monday, March 12, 2015– Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) partners with Poplife, masterminds behind Miami’s famously sought-after and sold-out independent acts, to host PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social, every third Thursday of the month through September, 6-9pm. Visitors will enjoy an eclectic variety of musical acts, while creating their very own masterpiece, and enjoying happy hour drink and food specials by Verde restaurant and bar. The interactive experience extends into the galleries with a social media-based scavenger hunt that awards winning participants with food and drink tickets and other prizes.  PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social runs the third Thursday of the month from March through September, from 6-9pm. Entertainment is free with museum admission ($16 adults, members free), and drink and food specials are available for purchase.  PAMM Contemporaries members will have access to a dedicated lounge area serving complimentary cocktails. For more information, visit pamm.org/calendar. 

“PAMM Third Thursdays is an opportunity for people to unwind with friends while listening to music, enjoying the waterfront, and exploring the galleries,” said Leann Standish, interim director and deputy director for external affairs. “Poplife has programmed a really diverse and exciting roster of bands, DJs and musicians, and we look forward to kicking off the series this month!” 

Record producer and club DJArthur Baker kicks-off the PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social series in a rare live session on Thursday, March 19, 2015.  Baker is best known for his work with hip-hop artists such as the Beastie Boys, cross pollinating music genres, and producing the pivotal prototype for the house music movement, his 1984 reworking of Rolling Stones ‘Too Much Blood.’   Baker has created music with epic talents including Mick Jagger, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan since beginning his career in Boston in in the early 1970s.

His fellow visionary and one-time collaborator Jellybean Benitez will ignite PAMM’s East Portico on Thursday, April 16, 2015, with his signature trend-making remix style that earned him DJ residency at New York’s Studio 54 in the 1970s.  The American musician and music producer of Puerto Rican descent began his love for music in the South Bronx of Manhattan.   Touting a 40-year career in the music industry, Jellybean is the remix genius behind Madonna’s first-album hits ‘Everyday,’ ‘Lucky Star,’ and ‘Borderline,’ and tracks by artists the likes of Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Whitney Houston, Fleetwood Mach, Billy Joel and The Pointer Sisters.

Additional musical acts will be announced separately.  The event is free to visitors with museum admission. Food and beverage offerings are available for purchase. 

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility and is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

About Poplife
Established in 1999, Poplife is a dream come true for Miami’s music culture. Poplife specializes in producing and promoting events where everyone has one common interest, music! For the past fifteen years they've been the masterminds behind Miami’s most sought out independent acts, continuously booking sold-out performances and parties because they firmly believe that… Music does the body good. For more information and upcoming events please visit www.epoplife.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@poplifemiami). 

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI - March 19, 2015 - Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) received a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Rating for its innovative and sustainable design, use of local and recycled materials, and location with access to public transportation. The state-of-the-art facility, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, opened in downtown Miami’s Museum Park in December 2013.

Awarded by the US Green Building Council, the rigorous LEED certification uses a points-based system to evaluate new projects on their siting, sustainability, water efficiency, use of reusable energy sources and recycled materials, as well as their indoor environmental quality and design innovations, among other factors. The certification identifies PAMM as a showcase example of museum design that conserves resources while promoting the use of clean, renewable energy.

“Working in harmony with the natural environment to create a world-class model for sustainability was at the heart of the design concept for Pérez Art Museum Miami,” explained Interim Director Leann Standish. “The building was designed to function with as small of a carbon footprint as possible, while ensuring proper temperature and humidity controls needed for conserving, storing and displaying works of art.”

PAMM’s innovative design uses cutting-edge technology from around the world. The museum was the first in the U.S. to use Cobiax voided slab technology, a system that incorporates 100% recycled plastic with rebar into concrete slabs, which not only allows for expansive galleries with fewer support columns, but efficiently reduces approximately 35% of the amount of concrete used. The largest single sheets of hurricane resistant glass provide natural light throughout the museum, and the lush vegetation is sustained with rainwater collected in cisterns, and a drip-chain system that irrigates greenery from canopy to garage.

Due to South Florida’s tropical climate and severe heat, sustainable temperature control was a major consideration in the museum’s design. PAMM is cooled by a state-of-the-art Plenum system that recirculates air through ducts in the building’s floors, rather than ceilings, saving energy and improving efficiency. The museum is elevated above sea level, which not only puts the waterfront museum at a safe floodplain in the event of a hurricane, but also takes advantage of optimum breeze patterns off the bay, lowering the temperature of the museum’s indoor and outdoor spaces by as much as 10 degrees, year-round. The overhanding canopy shades the museum from South Florida’s intense sunlight, and PAMM’s signature hanging gardens create a microclimate throughout the terrace that filters sunlight and cools outdoor display areas. A solar study was done to optimize shading and window positioning to take advantage of the climate for maximizing visitor comfort and energy efficiency.

During construction, the architects focused on recycled and local materials throughout the museum, including steel, wood and gypsum extracted from sustainable sites within the state of Florida. Eighty-seven percent of the steel used was recycled, as was a substantial portion of the non-load-bearing concrete. Seating using sustainable cork, floor coverings are made out of Bolon, a recycled flooring alternative, and curtains made of recycled fibers and plastics were all used.

Public transportation access, site selection and restoration were also considered. The former home of an oil refinery, PAMM undertook an extensive remediation process to clean the Museum Park site and turn the blighted land into a valuable resource for the community. The formerly crime-ridden area has now become safe for visitors, allowing for the reopening of public transportation to the park.

A Miami-Dade Metromover station is adjacent to the museum, with bus and trolley access, as well as bike racks and a Citi Bike station. PAMM’s central location puts it within easy access of all the city’s major metropolitan areas.

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. This mission is reflected in the initial installation of its permanent collection of art from the World War II era to the present, AMERICANA, at the new home of the 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM). Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with sprawling galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – March 24, 2015 – On May 28, Pérez Art Museum Miami will open Poetics of Relation, an exhibition featuring six of the most noted artists addressing issues of diaspora, immigration, and cultural identity today. Multiple works address these issues through depictions of landscapes executed in a broad variety of media—including painting, photography, and sculpture—as well as site-specific installations and newly commissioned film projects for the PAMM exhibition. Inspired by the cultural commentary of the Martinican writer Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), Poetics of Relation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most pressing issues of our time by examining the intergenerational impact of immigration, diaspora, and cultural identity on understandings of place.  

Highlights from the exhibition include:

• Zarina Bhimji’s Jangbar, 2015—a new film that investigates the railroad built in Kenya at the turn of the century by Indian workers.
• Hurvin Anderson, Last House, 2013—an oil on linen composition with expressionist palm trees that captures vibrantly-colored but fading memories of a distant tropical home.  
• Yto Barrada, Twin Palm Islands, 2012—a sculpture of two metal palm trees lit with light bulbs that evokes the signs of old film theaters of Tangiers as well as the city’s current tourist attractions.
• Tony Capellán, Mar Caribe, 1996—a compelling installation of plastic and rubber sandals with barbed wire that speaks to poverty, danger and marginalization.
• Ledelle Moe, Congregation, 2002—a wall-based installation of concrete human heads, whose unheard “voices” manage to create a cacophony without sound.
• Xaviera Simmons, The Wandering Night Sea, 2014—a characteristic text-based painting that seems to detail the running thoughts of a seafaring traveler.

“We organized this exhibition to be in direct dialogue with the multiplicity of cultural communities that have called Miami home for generations,” explained PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. “The show will bring international contemporary artists exploring the issues of place and cultural identity into direct engagement with the diversity and local experiences of South Florida. This artistic exchange can enrich our understanding of diasporic identities across platforms. The diversity of work included in Poetics of Relation speaks to the complexity of the issue, and the six artists were chosen specifically to create a textured dialogue recognizing multiple viewpoints.”

Work from acclaimed Ugandan Asian photographer Zarina Bhimji will feature prominently in Poetics of Relation. The artist, who lives and works in London, will examine the colonial structures of her adopted country’s past in relation to her experience as an African-born woman of South Asian descent. Nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2007, Bhimji will explore the lives of the Indian workers who built Kenya’s railways—also known as the “Lunatic Line” because of the high cost and dangerous construction. Another artist in the show who is also based in London, Hurvin Anderson, conversely contemplates the freshness of British identity for Caribbean immigrants as a second-generation British-born Jamaican. Exploring traditions of landscape painting and engaging a strong color palette, he wavers between figuration and abstraction, as if placing a memory under reality’s harsh light.

Emerging artist Yto Barrada exemplifies an under-discussed but not uncommon path to self-identification among second and third-generation members of diaspora communities: born in Paris, she returned to Tangier, Morocco after studying photography in New York. Her work is inspired by the particularities of Tangier, including the precarious flow of North Africans to Europe’s wary shores—an issue she approaches with exceptional insight as the daughter of immigrants who established lives abroad. Her complex and nuanced work is rapidly gaining international attention, and she was the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2011. On the other hand, Ledelle Moe is among the many immigrants who regularly travel between their adopted homes and their homelands. Born in South Africa, Moe has lived in the United States since graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University. Moe was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Award in 2002.

Not all the artists in the Poetics of Relation are members of diaspora communities, but their work still reflects the intergenerational transmission of cultural identity. African-American artist Xaviera Simmons, for example, spent two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Her diverse practice—which ranges from text-based paintings to found object assemblages—is united in its examination of cultural identity, marginalized history, and stereotypes. Also included in the show is Dominican artist Tony Capellán, who lives and works in his native Dominican Republic. There, he explores a perspective on immigration and diaspora as a lifeline to home for friends, family members, and countrymen abroad.

Related Programs

Poetics of Relation Museum Circle Preview
Wednesday, May 27, 7-9pm
Museum Circle members are invited to preview Poetics of Relation on the eve of the exhibition's opening. To receive an invitation, join at the Museum Circle level.

Poetics of Relation Member Early Access Day
Thursday, May 28, 10am-7pm
PAMM members receive early access to Poetics of Relation, an exhibition inspired by the writings of author and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928 - 2011) which responds to Miami as a site defined culturally by its diasporic communities. Become a member to receive an invitation.

Art Talk: Poetics of Relation Panel Discussion
Thursday, May 28, 7pm
In conjunction with the opening of Poetics of Relation, curators Tobias Ostrander and Tumelo Mosaka will be in conversation with international exhibition artists. Free with museum admission. Space is limited. First come, first seated.  

Organization and Support:
Poetics of Relation is co-organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander and guest curator Tumelo Mosaka. Support received from the JW Marriot Marquis.

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. This mission is reflected in the initial installation of its permanent collection of art from the World War II era to the present, AMERICANA, at the new home of the 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM). Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with sprawling galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – April 3, 2015 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announced the acquisition of three new works by African American artists Terry Adkins, Ed Clark and Leslie Hewitt at the Second Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art. The reception was held at PAMM on Thursday, April 1, 2015 in celebration of the fund’s inaugural year.

Members of the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art and invited guests as well as Pérez Art Museum Miami Ambassador Co-Chairs Marilyn Holifield and Barron Channer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen, PAMM donor Jorge M. Pérez, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Xavier Suarez, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, City of Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon, former president and chief executive officer of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Ben Jealous, collection artist Ed Clark, and Merele Adkins, widow of collection artist Terry Akins, attended the event which featured performances by Peter London Global Dance Company and jazz musicians throughout the museum’s galleries.

The PAMM Fund for African American Art was initiated with a $1 million grant funded equally by Jorge M. Pérez and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support the growth of the collection of Miami's flagship museum with works by African American and African Diaspora artists. It is supported and sustained through the museum’s acquisition group, the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art. Through the fund, the museum has previously acquired works by Al Loving, Faith Ringgold and Xaviera Simmons.

“Our goal is to make art general in Miami, which it means that it must be general in all communities,” said Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation president.  “The Fund for African American Art is acquiring world-class works by African American artists for Pérez Art Museum Miami, and giving people of all backgrounds an opportunity to engage in the acquisition process."

The artworks by Terry Adkins, Ed Clark and Leslie Hewitt represent a variety of artistic practices, ranging from sculpture and painting to photography. The artists explore a range of subjects relating to art and materiality, history and the African Diaspora, thereby adding important voices to the contemporary African American dialogue in PAMM’s permanent collection.

• Terry Adkins’ Beahearer, 2014, a wall-based sculpture, showcases the artist’s practice of working with found objects and his central interests in music, sound and history.
• Ed Clark developed a unique painting method using unprimed canvas and a broom that combines painterly, sculptural, and performative techniques to create energetic compositions filled with texture and movement, which is exemplified by Pink Wave, 2006,
• Leslie Hewitt’s Untitled (Median) is part of the Series Still Life, 2013. The large framed photographs explore the paradoxical nature of photographs as well as racial politics in the United States and the relationship between individual experiences and broader social contexts.

The new acquisitions join other significant PAMM collection works by African American artists such as Lorna Simpson, Carrie May Weems and Rashid Johnson, and continue PAMM’s long-standing commitment to exhibiting and collecting the work by African American artists, celebrating their critical contributions to contemporary culture and reflecting the diversity of the local community and range of cultures that make up Miami.

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Caption: [Name] at the Second Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art

About PAMM:
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. This mission is reflected in the initial installation of its permanent collection of art from the World War II era to the present, AMERICANA, at the new home of the 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM). Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with sprawling galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

Pérez Art Museum Miami serves one of the most diverse populations in one of the fastest growing regions in the country, where a unique confluence of Caribbean, North and South American cultures adds vibrancy and texture to the civic landscape. According to the U.S. census, 58% of the county's 2.6 million residents speak Spanish and 65% self-identify as Hispanic. Of the 72% of households who primarily speak another language at home besides English, 88% spoke Spanish, making the engagement of this community important for PAMM.

“All major cities want to have organizations and institutions that respond to the local public,” said PAMM interim Director Leann Standish. “PAMM truly reflects the identity of Miami through its exhibitions and educational programming. We could not be happier to have Goya be a part of this initiative.”

Spanish language tours are offered every Saturday at 2pm on a variety of subjects and will be provided free of charge with museum admission. 

About GOYA
Founded in 1936, Goya Foods, Inc. is America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, and has established itself as the leader in Latin American food and condiments. Goya manufactures packages and distributes over 2,200 high-quality food products from Spain, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Goya products have their roots in the culinary traditions of Hispanic communities around the world; their combination of authentic ingredients, robust seasonings and convenient preparation make them ideal for every taste and every table. For more information on Goya Foods, please visit www.goya.com. 

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm)

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – May 20, 2015 – On November 19, Pérez Art Museum Miami will present Sun Splashed, the largest exhibition of Nari Ward’s found object sculptures and groundbreaking installations to date. This mid-career survey, featuring work from the 1990s to today, will also showcase lesser-known aspects of his practice such as photography, video, and collage. Taken together, Ward’s oeuvre speaks with penetrating insight and imagination to a broad range of themes, including African- American history and culture, the dynamics of power and politics, and Caribbean diaspora identity.

“We’re pleased to mount this important mid-career survey of Nari Ward’s work as part of our commitment to bringing internationally influential contemporary artists to PAMM. In our local context, it’s especially interesting to draw out the aspects of Ward’s practice that reference his native Jamaica, the politics of immigration, and the search for cultural identity—issues of particular relevance to the city of Miami,” said Diana Nawi, the exhibition’s curator and associate curator at PAMM. “Sun Splashed is an overdue opportunity for a close consideration of Ward’s diverse and experimental production that has pushed the boundaries of sculpture.”

Emerging alongside a notable group of African-American artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s, Nari Ward’s massive and tactile approach to art-making has expanded contemporary definitions of installation, assemblage, and site-specificity. His deft use of found objects imbues his work with a visceral relationship to history and the real world, allowing him to challenge viewers’ perceptions of familiar objects and experiences. Ward’s innovative approach has earned him numerous prestigious awards, including the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The catalog for Sun Splashed will feature crucial scholarship on his singular practice, with essays by Naomi Beckwith, Ralph Lemon, Erica Moiah James, and Philippe Vergne.

Highlights from Nari Ward: Sun Splashed include:

• Happy Smilers – Duty Free Shopping, 1996—An immersive architectural installation that includes a real fire escape, found domestic objects, and an audio track
• The Saviour, 1996—A 10-foot tall sculpture that transforms a quotidian shopping cart through intricate assemblage
• Glory, 2004—A trenchant installation centered on a tanning bed made from oil barrels incised with the American flag
• Naturalization Drawing Table, 2004—An interactive installation based around Ward’s experiences of becoming a U.S. citizen; when activated, viewers will be able to fill out a facsimile of an INS naturalization form and have it notarized in exchange for an editioned set of drawings the artist made on the same forms
• Mango Tourist, 2011—A play on a form the artist has returned to in many works, the snowman, these larger than life sculptures transpose these frozen figures into tropical “tourists” made from foam, electrical detritus, and mango seeds
• Homeland Sweet Homeland, 2012—A densely textured work that transcribes the rights of citizens when interacting with police officers and prosecutors into a seemingly domestic wall hanging that upon closer inspection contains all manners of collaged found elements including barbed wire
• Canned Smiles, 2013—Two tin cans, one labeled “Jamaican Smiles” and one labeled “Black Smiles,” which reference a seminal 1961 work of conceptual art by Italian artist Piero Manzoni and play with structures and limitations of ideas around national and racial identity

Sun Splashed will coincide with a solo show at PAMM for Ward’s former student, Firelei Báez, her first at a major museum. Báez’s exhibition, opening on October 15, will feature the emerging artist’s delicate and labor-intensive works on paper exploring issues of black culture, Afro-Caribbean folklore, and the complexities of diasporic experiences. Báez’s large-scale works illuminate the excluded historical narratives of women of color, while simultaneously placing her subjects in a futuristic setting where skin tone is no longer a sufficient signifier of race. A native of the Dominican Republic, her work reflects contradictions within the current discourse on race, class, and culture by carefully examining superficial variants that designate femininity, including body shape, hair texture, and clothing. The show will highlight new work by Báez and large-sized paintings created specifically for PAMM’s Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Greene and Gerald Greene Gallery. The catalogue for the exhibition will feature contributions by Naima Keith and Roxane Gay.

“Báez’s new works embody a provocative investigation on decorative elements, textiles, hair designs, and body ornaments that explores methods of resistance in black communities within the United States and the Caribbean. Her exceptional paintings show a profound appreciation of diasporic histories, as well as new contemporary approaches towards painting.” said María Elena Ortiz, the exhibition’s curator and an assistant curator at PAMM.

Highlights from Firelei Báez: Bloodlines include:

• Man Without a Country (aka anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River), 2014—A highly detailed work composed of over 144 small drawings that crafts parallels between obscure episodes of history and contemporary social struggles
• Patterns of Resistance, 2015—An arresting new series comprising blue and white drawings centered on a textile-pattern created by Báez, using different political references from social movements in the black diaspora in the Unites States and the Caribbean​
• Bloodlines, 2015—A new series of portraits inspired by the tignon, a headdress which free women of color were obligated to use by law in18^th century New Orleans 

Organization and Support
Nari Ward: Sun Splashed is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami Associate Curator Diana Nawi. This exhibition is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support received from the Funding Arts Network.

Firelei Báez: Bloodlines is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz. This exhibition is presented by BNY Mellon with additional support from Chloé.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

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MIAMI – May 29, 2015 – Pérez Art Museum Miami is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tapestry, a linen and cotton weaving  by American artist Sheila Hicks. Created in 1977, Tapestry is the latest addition to the Museum’s permanent collection. The work was acquired under the leadership of Craig Robins, a member of PAMM’s board of trustees since 2002 and chair of the PAMM Collectors Council since October 2014. Tapestry is Robins’ second acquisition since he accepted the position, the first being Ai Weiwei’s Jade Handcuffs from 2012.

Robins, chief executive officer and president of the real estate development company Dacra, is known for his dedication to the cultivation of creative communities. He has spearheaded some of the most successful and transformative commercial, residential, and mixed-use projects in Miami’s history. He is an avid collector and a principal of the leading international design show Design Miami.

“As Miami’s flagship art museum, PAMM’s collection is of great interest to donors, collectors, and artists worldwide who want to make a meaningful contribution to the city’s cultural heritage,” said Robins. “I have been a member of PAMM’s Collectors Council for more than 10 years, and I’ve always looked forward to the exciting meetings with this smart and dynamic group of highly engaged individuals. I donated a large portion of my personal collection to the Museum, and it’s an honor to chair the Council at this important time in the institution’s history.”

The acquisitions made during Robins’ tenure join additional recent additions to PAMM’s collection,  including notable examples by Beatriz Milhazes, Robert Morris, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Adler Guerrier and Victoria Gitman, as well as a Mark di Suvero sculpture, La Plume de Pierrot, gifted by collectors Dede and Robert Moss. The monumental work was installed in PAMM’s sculpture garden on May 4.

Additional recent acquisitions to PAMM’s collection include:

• Beatriz Milhazes, Canela, 2009: a gift from Darlene and Jorge M. Pérez from the museum’s special exhibition Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico (September 19, 2014 – January 11, 2015)
• Robert Morris,Untitled (Mirrored Cubes), 1965/1993: a museum purchase
• Victoria Gitman, A Beauty, 2008: a museum purchase from the current exhibition, Victoria Gitman: Desiring Eye, on view through May 31, 2015
• Adler Guerrier, Untitled (BLCK-We wear the mask), 2007-08: a museum purchase from the museum’s exhibition Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot (August 7, 2014 – January 25, 2015)
• Edouard Duval-Carrié, After Heade: Moonlit Landscape, 2013: a museum purchase from the museum’s exhibition Edouard Duval-Carrié: Imagined Landscapes (March 13 – August 31, 2014)
• Nicolas Lobo, Napalm Stone, 2014 and Nexcite Flooring, 2014: a gift from Diane and Werner Grob
• Christy Gast, Self-Portrait as the Barefoot Mailman, 2013: a gift from Nina Johnson-Milewski and Daniel Milewski
• George Sánchez-Calderón, La bendición (The Blessing), 2001-03: a purchase by PAMM’s Young Collectors Council (YCC), an acquisition group dedicated to growing the Museum’s collection with works by Miami-based artists
• John Ahearn, Double Dutch, 1981/2010: a purchase by PAMM’s Collector’s Council, the large-scale sculpture presents an image of everyday energy and vitality via the depiction of four girls engaged in the jump rope game of the title
• Cao Fei, People’s Limbo in RMB City, 2009: a purchase by PAMM’s Collector’s Council, the video comments on the current pace of urbanism and development in China via the depiction of a virtual city as, at times, futuristic paradise and oppressive inferno

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. This mission is reflected in the initial installation of its permanent collection of art from the World War II era to the present, AMERICANA, at the new home of the 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM). Designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, the facility, opened in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013, is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming. The facility features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with sprawling galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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MIAMI – June 8, 2015 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Poplife present the tropical pop music of John Hancock III at the June PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social on Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6-10pm. Enjoy Hancock’s live performance, purchase happy hour drink and food specials or make reservations at Verde restaurant, see the new exhibition Poetics of Relation, and partake in art-making for prizes.

New this month, Poplife Social will introduce a pre-ticketing system for quick entry whereby museum tickets can be purchased online at http://www.pamm.org/poplife-social-john-hancock. Admission is $16 for adults (food/drink not included). Space is limited and pre-purchase is highly recommended. Poplife Social runs every third Thursday through September 2015, 6-10pm (galleries close at 9pm) and general museum admission rates apply. Verde will be open for dinner on June 18 from 5pm and the last seating will be at 9pm.  Reservations can be made online at http://www.pamm.org/dining or by calling 305-375-8282.

“PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social is the perfect place to unwind after a long day, impress a first date, or just wait out the traffic after work, and we are thrilled that the response has been so positive,” said PAMM Interim Director Leann Standish. “To meet the growing demand for the series, we are adding pre-ticketing and more food and bar stations to make sure that everyone has a magical evening enjoying the galleries, live music, great food and time with friends.”

June 18 Food and Drink Prices
Miso Glazed Chicken Skewers - $9
Pork Belly Bao Buns - -$9
Grilled Mushroom Bao Buns - $9
Shrimp Chips - $3
Kimchee Pickles - $3  
Soda and Bottled Water - $3
Beer and Wine - $6
Liquor - $9

PAMM members receive complimentary general museum admission for 12 months, which includes PAMM Third Thursdays, as well as other benefits which vary by level. PAMM Contemporaries level members receive access to the Poplife Social Contempo Lounge, complete with a dedicated bar serving complimentary cocktails. To join, visit pamm.org/support. PAMM members are guaranteed entry to Poplife Social with valid membership card.

Pérez Art Museum Miami has its own Metromover station, Museum Park on the Omni Loop. On-site parking is limited, and arrival by Metromover is recommended. Overflow parking is available at Omni Garage (take Metromover one stop south from Omni station to Museum Park station.)

About John Hancock III
John Hancock III makes tropical pop music for every season, ranging from spaced out Arthur Russell inspired grooves to hyped-up digital calypso. Best known as the lead singer of Miami bedroom pop pioneers ANR (Awesome New Republic), Hancock, or ‘MJ’ as he’s called by most, has produced music with multi-media artist Jillian Mayer, as well as scoring many wild works of the Borscht Film Festival. This year promises several new releases full of saccharine 60’s pop fed through an old computer, via the 10K Islands music collective.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

What:           PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social featuring John Hancock III
When:          Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6-10pm
Cost:            General museum admission ($16); Tickets available at http://www.pamm.org/poplife-social-john-hancock; Space is limited, pre-registration is recommended. PAMM members free.
Where:         Perez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132
​Getting Here/Parking: Limited parking on site for a fee; Metromover recommended (Museum Park station); Overflow parking at Omni Garage (take Metromover one stop).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – June 9, 2015 – This summer, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents a new project by Marjetica Potrč, titled The School of the Forest | Miami Campus, on view from June 11 through October 18, 2015. This multi-part endeavor centers on a kind of elevated, open-air shelter common among Amazonian forest communities, which the artist encountered while carrying out an extended research residency in the Brazilian state of Acre. Over the course of the exhibition period, the museum will present a series of lectures and workshops by esteemed scholars inside a similar structure constructed in the gallery. For more information, visit pamm.org/theschooloftheforest.

Program Schedule:

Thursday, June 11, 7pm
Lecture by Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida: "How to Learn from the Forest"
Auditorium. Space is limited (first come, first seated). Free with museum admission.

Friday, June 12, 3pm
Workshop led by Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida, with Marjetica Potrč
​Diane and Robert Moss Gallery. Space is limited.  Pre-registration required; free museum admission with pre-registration.Register here.

Dr. Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida played a leading role in establishing the "Universidade da Floresta" in Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil—the the initiative that inspired The School of the Forest | Miami Campus. He is a professor emeritus of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Center for Rural Studies of the State University of Campinas. Currently, he heads an international project on the role of indigenous family farmers as producers of agricultural biodiversity, while organizing the defense of traditional communities in Central Brazil, Acre, and the Atlantic coast.

Friday, June 26, 3pm
Workshop led by Nicholas Mirzoeff: "How to See Climate Change"
Diane and Robert Moss Gallery. Space is limited.  Pre-registration required; free museum admission with pre-registration.Register here.

Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and one of the founders of the academic discipline of Visual Culture. His most recent book is The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011), which he is expanding into a trilogy. This program is presented in conjunction with r.a.d. (research.art.dialogue), an experimental pedagogical initiative launched by the Miami-based non-profit organization Cannonball.

Thursday, July 2, 7pm
Lecture by Elizabeth Povinelli: "Karrabing: An Indigenous Otherwise in the Late Liberal Australian Geontology"
PAMM Auditorium. Space is limited (first come, first seated). Free with museum admission.

Friday, July 3, 3pm
Workshop led by Elizabeth Povinelli with Marjetica Potrč
Diane and Robert Moss Gallery. Space is limited.  Pre-registration required; free museum admission with pre-registration. Register here.

Dr. Elizabeth Povinelli is the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of five books, including the upcoming Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, and has directed three films. She is a founding member of the Karrabing social project, which rejects state forms of land tenure and group identification—namely the anthropological imaginary of the prehistoric clan, totem, and territory. Her lecture will address the improvisational relationship of the Karrabing to Late Liberalism settler colonialism, the modes of existence it seeks to maintain and enhance, and the networks of power and possibility that it encounters and reveals.

Thursday, August 6, 7pm
Lecture by Renzo Taddei: "Seeing from the Perspective of the End of the World"
PAMM Auditorium. Space is limited (first come, first seated). Free with museum admission.

Friday, August 7, 3pm
Workshop led by Renzo Taddei
Diane and Robert Moss Gallery. Space is limited.  Pre-registration required; free museum admission with pre-registration.Register here.

Dr. Renzo Taddei is Assistant Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo, where he directs the Research Laboratory on Sociotechnical and Environmental Interactions. He has published extensively on environmental citizenship and governance in Brazil, and is currently working on the sociological and philosophical dimensions of climate sciences and climate-related technologies. His talk will focus on "alter-geoengineering."

Thursday, October 8, 7pm
Lecture by Paulo Tavares: “Over the Ruins of Amazonia: Colonial Violence and De-colonial Resistance at the Frontiers of Climate Change”
PAMM Auditorium. Space is limited (first come, first seated). Free with museum admission.

Friday, October 9, 3pm
Workshop led by Paulo Tavares
Diane and Robert Moss Gallery. Space is limited.  Pre-registration required; free museum admission with pre-registration. Register here.

Dr. Paulo Tavares is an architect and urbanist based in Quito and São Paulo. Grounded in research-based methodologies and a commitment to field work, his work traces a cartography of the relations between environmental and political conflict in Amazonia. Dr. Tavares will argue that global climate change is the product of the violence of colonialism against both peoples and environments, societies and territories, rather than the unintended casualty of growth, development or progress.

*Space is limited for lectures. First come, first seated.
**Space for Friday afternoon workshops is limited and pre-registration required.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A 29-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.