MIAMI – April 20, 2017 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Florida Grand Opera (FGO), two of Miami’s leading cultural institutions, announce a special event at PAMM, pairing music and art, on April 27, 2017 at 7 pm.
The event is inspired by OUT OF SIGHT, a participatory installation by legendary post-minimalist conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, currently on view at PAMM. The project is based on the design and concept of a hopscotch and reconsiders language through a new dimension, where its presentation on the floor emulates the form of an activity that invites viewers to engage with the work through motion and play. The 40-foot long artwork culminates in a message of personal empowerment, such as:
“Spit into the wind, hope for the best.” “The destination is straight on.” “Imagined things can be altered to suit.”
On April 27, Florida Grand Opera offers its own twist on OUT OF SIGHT. Members of FGO’s Young Artist Program will perform excerpts from seven classic operas re-imagined to include the inspiring phrases from Weiner’s artwork. These phrases have been translated into five operatic languages—French, Italian, Spanish, German and English.
Rebekah Diaz-Fandrei, FGO’s Director of Education and Community Engagement, calls the event “an exciting mashup of interactive art and opera.
The seven operas that have been reinterpreted to fit Weiner’s vision are: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Bellini’s Norma, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Weber’s Der Freischütz, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Lehár’s operetta Das land des lächelns. Participants from FGO’s Young Artist Program include soprano Sarah Payne, mezzo-soprano Courtney Miller and tenor Dominick Corbacio.
“Florida Grand Opera is delighted to add a musical dimension to this remarkable piece of conceptual art,” says Diaz-Fandrei. “I have to credit Adrienne Chadwick, deputy director for education at PAMM, for giving me the original spark for the idea. Our ultimate message is that opera can take you in surprising directions in life—something that true opera lovers have always known.”
Lawrence Weiner was born in 1942 in the South Bronx, New York. After growing up in the city, he spent the late 1950s and early 1960s venturing around the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Weiner’s first exhibition as an artist was in 1960 in a field in Mill Valley, California. Since then, he has maintained:
ART IS THE EMPIRICAL FACT OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF OBJECTS TO OBJECTS IN RELATION TO HUMAN BEINGS & NOT DEPENDANT UPON HISTORICAL PRECEDENT FOR EITHER USE OR LEGITIMACY
The artist divides his time between his New York City studio and his boat in Amsterdam.
Lawrence Weiner: OUT OF SIGHT is produced by Guest Curator and Collaborator Larry Warsh and is organized at PAMM by Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. Support is provided by Knight Foundation. Courtesy Lawrence Weiner Studio and Larry Warsh. The exhibition is on view through May 28, 2017.
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 32-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 Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).
About Florida Grand Opera
Florida Grand Opera (FGO), the oldest performing arts organization in Florida, celebrates its 75th Anniversary Season in 2016-17. The mainstage operas of the season include: Georges Bizet’s Carmen, November 12-December 3, 2016; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, January 28-February 11, 2017; Jorge Martín’s Before Night Falls, March 18-25, 2017; and Giuseppe Verdi’s A Masked Ball (Un Ballo in Maschera), April 29 – May 13, 2017.
FGO is currently accepting duet subscription and single ticket purchases for the 2016-17 season and subscription renewals for the 2017-18 season online or at FGO’s offices. FGO’s Box Office is located at the Doral Center on 8390 NW 25 Street, Miami, FL 33122, and is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday through Friday during the season. Season tickets may also be purchased by phone at (800) 741-1010. For more information on supporting our work through donation, or to make a pledge, please contact Individual Advancement Officer Carlton Ford at 305 403 3320 or cford@fgo.org.
Founded in 1941 as Greater Miami Opera and later merging with The Opera Guild Inc. in 1994, FGO presents a mixture of standard repertoire and contemporary works as well as commissions and new productions – all featuring projected translations in English and Spanish. FGO is recognized for funding by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding is also provided, in part, by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners and the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council. Program support is provided by the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, and the Cultural Arts Council. Florida Grand Opera is a Resident Company of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and a member company of OPERA America. Intercontinental Miami is the Official Hotel and Steinway & Sons is the Official Piano of Florida Grand Opera.
MIAMI – May 4, 2017 – Today, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) welcomed its one-millionth visitor since opening in its Herzog & de Meuron-designed building on December 2013. As Miami’s flagship museum, PAMM serves a multicultural population in one of the fastest growing regions in the country. The museum’s diverse programming and special exhibitions have helped to draw visitors to Miami from across the globe.
“After just three years in our home on Biscayne Bay, we are very proud to reach this important milestone and acknowledge the public’s continued support of our institution,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “PAMM sits at a pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Our goal has always been to serve our diverse community by offering a place for people to come together and have a global dialogue about contemporary art. As we celebrate this milestone, we’re pleased that we’ve been able to create these connections with such a vast audience.”
Throughout its history, PAMM has sought ways to enrich the lives of the diverse communities that make up Miami-Dade County through its dedication to progressive arts education and programs. The museum’s robust Knight Schools education program, the largest outside the Miami-Dade County school system, reaches approximately 40,000 students annually.
“Great art defines and lifts the soul of a community,” said Alberto Ibargüen, president of Knight Foundation, a founding supporter of PAMM. “We’re delighted that PAMM has reached this important landmark so quickly, by providing a space for all Miamians to come together, be inspired and connect around great art and a common cultural experience.”
Innovative programming, such as PAMM’s recently launched Art Detectives program – an exciting new arts education program that promotes critical and timely dialogue between local middle-school students and police officers – enables PAMM to effect positive change within Miami. In April, Miami-Dade County Public Schools recognized PAMM’s arts education programs with its prestigious Superintendent’s Choice Award.
“Pérez Art Museum Miami is a shining jewel in our community and a great partner with Miami-Dade County Public Schools,” said Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho. “A 2017 Superintendent’s Choice honoree, PAMM has helped to expand our students’ world view and opened to them new possibilities of creativity and personal artistic expression.”
Recent exhibitions have also contributed to growth in visitation at PAMM. The 2016 blockbuster exhibition, Julio Le Parc: Form into Action drew a record-breaking 132,249 visitors. Other successful shows include Ai Weiwei: According to What?, which saw nearly 114,000 visitors, and Poetics of Relation, which had more than 90,000 visitors.
City of Miami Mayor Tomás Pedro Regalado explained, “In the three years since PAMM opened in its new building, downtown Miami has transformed into a central destination on Miami’s cultural map. The Museum has also strengthened Miami’s reputation as a global capital of contemporary art year round.”
In February 2017, the museum launched its new PAMM Free Community Night on the first Thursday of each month. Reflecting PAMM’s mission and vision of serving as a place for community conversation and dialogue, this program immediately reached new audiences and met record-breaking attendance numbers.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said, “We have one of the most diverse and dynamic cultural communities in the hemisphere. With outstanding art exhibitions and exceptional educational programs, Pérez Art Museum Miami continues to serve our residents and visitors with a deep understanding of the value of the arts in building communities, educating the youth and advancing Miami-Dade County’s artistic impact on the world’s creative dialogue.”
To mark the occasion, the lucky one-millionth visitor, Anya Brjevskaia and her two-year-old son Alexandre Forbin, were welcomed by PAMM staff with confetti, balloons and celebration. Brjevskaia had just moved from New York last summer with her son and husband Charles Forbin. Her experience from living in New York amongst the many galleries and cultural institutions gave her an appreciation for the arts that followed her to Miami. A patron of the city’s arts and culture scene, Brjevskaia is a frequent visitor of PAMM and was introducing her aunt Rita Mamoshkena, who was visiting from Moscow, Russia, to the museum as the one-millionth visitor moment happened.
They received a gift basket with art supplies, art catalogues of the museum’s latest exhibitions, PAMM branded goodies, a $100 gift certificate for PAMM Shop, a complimentary meal at Verde restaurant, and a year-long Sustaining-level membership.
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 33-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 Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).
MIAMI – May 5, 2017 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) today launched a mobile app, powered by Cuseum, to enhance the museum-going experience for its visitors. The PAMM app gives users an opportunity to experience, learn and engage with the art on view at PAMM by providing contextual multi-media content, including audio tours and videos of the interior and exterior galleries, an interactive map, and a calendar of museum events and programs. The app also offers unique content related to PAMM’s special exhibitions. For PAMM’s current exhibition, Toba Khedoori, the app offers exclusive audio interviews with PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, the exhibition’s curator, that address the artist’s silent, slow and exacting process of working by hand.
“Art and technology have always been intertwined,” said Sirmans. “With technology always rapidly changing, we are looking to evolve the museum-going experience with our visitors’ wants and needs. This app is next step in our evolving relationship to technology and its application to the museum experience.”
The PAMM app is part of a six-month pilot with Cuseum, a leader in the mobile app space for art museums and cultural organizations.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Pérez Art Museum Miami, one of the most innovative contemporary art museums in the country,” said Brendan Ciecko, CEO & founder of Cuseum. “PAMM's commitment to engaging and connecting with their audience through new digital channels is inspiring – we’re honored to support these initiatives with the new PAMM mobile app.”
The mobile app also supports PAMM’s wide range of interpretation needs and is a key tool for video storytelling, putting rich and unique content into the palm of visitors’ hands. With artist interviews and videos produced by the museum’s on-staff digital journalist – a newly established position at PAMM that seeks to leverage video content to amplify PAMM’s art, mission and programs – the app is the first in a series of upcoming tech initiatives launching at the museum. Later this month, PAMM will announce a new pilot program funded by the museum’s close partners at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, focused on in the intersection of art and augmented reality.
The launch of PAMM app has been part of a broader conversation with the Knight Foundation on how to incporate technology into the museum to connect people to art, enhance the visitor experience and advance scholarship.
“Art museums have a unique role in telling our stories, reflecting our cultures and helping us understand the world around us. To remain relevant, they have to adapt to the way people live today,” said Victoria Rogers, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. “We hope to help museums accelerate that process and use digital tools to meaningfully engage visitors in high-quality art.”
The PAMM app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, or on all devices at pamm.org/app.
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 33-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 Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).
MIAMI —May 15, 2017—Pérez Art Museum Miami presents John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night, on view May 26, 2017 – January 14, 2018. The exhibition, on view in the museum’s Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Greene and Gerald Greene Gallery, presents the work of John Dunkley (b. 1891, Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica; d. 1947, Kingston), widely considered to be one of Jamaica’s most important historical artists. Neither Day nor Night will include paintings from the 1930s and ‘40s alongside a smaller selection of carved-wood and stone sculptures. Dunkley’s paintings are defined by their distinctive dark palette, detailed imagery—often landscapes––and psychologically suggestive underpinnings. His intimate sculptures reflect more figurative elements—people and animals—and offer insights into his unique iconography. His oeuvre spans little more than a decade, and only approximately 50 paintings are known to exist today, alongside a small number of sculptures. Although his work is well represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, as well as in international private collections, Dunkley has not been the focus of a solo exhibition since the 1970s, and never before outside Jamaica. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to bring together a substantial grouping of his work and to create an international context for its study. Dunkley’s work has previously been show at PAMM as part of the large group exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (2014). This current project reflects PAMM’s on-going commitment to fostering new scholarship and deeper investigations of artists working in the Caribbean region.
The exhibition is organized by PAMM’s Associate Curator Diana Nawi with Nicole Smythe-Johnson, an independent curator and writer based in Kingston. David Boxer, an art historian and artist, and the foremost expert on Dunkley’s work, has served as an advisor for the exhibition. Boxer has long studied Dunkley’s practice, preserving his legacy, and Nawi and Smythe-Johnson have been working to realize an exhibition of his work for over two years. “Organizing an exhibition of Dunkley's work, which is so compelling and singular, is an exciting and necessary outgrowth of the conversations I had with local institutions, artists, and curators during my many trips to Kingston,” says Nawi. “Neither Day nor Night represents a critical opportunity to deepen our understanding of this artist's work and allows us to look beyond the well-known 1970s Jamaica of the international imagination, exploring a history of the island that predates its independence,” explains Smythe-Johnson.
Dunkley was born in rural northwestern Jamaica, and as a young man traveled to Costa Rica, Cuba and Panama to work, eventually settling for a time in Chiriquí, a province in western Panama. There he worked as a barber and began to create his first small paintings. Concurrently, he is also believed to have worked as an assistant to a studio photographer active in the region, possibly retouching and coloring photographs. Dunkley returned to Jamaica in the mid-to-late 1920s, where he established his own barbershop near downtown Kingston’s busy port, and to make paintings and carvings. Dunkley was working at a pivotal time in Jamaica’s history, and like figures such as Marcus Garvey, he is part of a generation of West Indian men who traveled abroad to work, both in the region and internationally, and returned home to contribute to the formation of what would eventually become an independent nation. His life and work provide rich insight into the broader economic and social factors, as well as the popular culture, that defined this era in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night is organized by PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi with Nicole Smythe-Johnson, independent curator. David Boxer serves as curatorial advisor on this exhibition. This exhibition is presented by Davidoff Art Initiative and the catalogue for this exhibition is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
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 32-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).
MIAMI—May 17, 2017 — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announces On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, an exhibition of over 170 works of art, spanning painting, drawing, photography, mixed-media and sculpture. The exhibition is presented in three parts over the course of a year, and features a rich panorama of recent work produced by artists living both in Cuba and abroad. On the Horizon celebrates the recent generous gift of Cuban artworks donated to the museum by Jorge M. Pérez in December 2016, and includes a significant number of recent acquisitions purchased during the last year with funds provided as part of the donation.
As Miami’s flagship contemporary art museum, collecting the work of Cuban artists and documenting the Cuban Diaspora exemplifies PAMM’s mission to represent its place in the world—geographically, conceptually and intellectually. Cuba, equally a part of Latin America and the Caribbean, has been an area of sustained interest at PAMM going back to its beginnings as a presenting institution.
"This vast collection is an incredible resource, something that this multipart exhibition looks to demonstrate,” says PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “It helps us position the museum as a crucial center for the collection and discussion of Cuban Art, one that very much reflects Miami's own cultural history and contemporary relationship to Cuba."
Jorge Pérez: "My initial interest in building this collection has been personal, being born of Cuban parents and having spent several early years of my life on the island, I've been drawn to Cuban art for how it relates to my own cultural background. My additional interests are purely art-related, as I find the work being produced by Cuban artists on the island, here in Miami and throughout the diaspora, as some of the most exciting art being produced today."
On the Horizon is presented in three distinct, yet interconnected “chapters”, with a new chapter opening every three months. The exhibition is organized around the metaphor of the horizon line—a motif that appears in many of the works on view—and brings together a strong view of artistic practices in Cuba from the last three decades as well as work by young, lesser-known artists working on the island and across the globe. The individual chapters each explore various meanings of the horizon, which include the vista as a symbol of desire, longing or containment. This symbolic framework helps generate a larger dialogue between the works on view and the specificities of Cuba’s current physical, social and political landscape, as revealed through each artist’s personal experience and unique aesthetics.
Describing the chosen thematic approach to the presentation, Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander explains: "Structuring this exhibition around the poetic and open symbol of the horizon line allows us to focus on the diverse and often subtle visual languages of the artists included in this extensive collection; as they each look to address their personal, aesthetic and socio-political concerns."
On the Horizon features works by many of the world’s leading contemporary Cuban artists, including Alexandre Arrechea, Carlos Garaicoa, Hernan Bas, Yoan Capote, Teresita Fernández, Enrique Martínez Celeya, Glexis Novoa, and Zilia Sánchez, among others. Each presentation involves a partial rehanging of the exhibition galleries, accompanied by distinct public programs and performances, as well as the placement of select works from the Pérez collection within the museum’s permanent collection galleries. A number of works are included in each presentation, serving as a contextual link between each chapter. These include: Yoan Capote’s outstanding large-scale painting Island (sea-escape) (2010); Enrique Martinez Celaya’s Summer / Verano (2007); Fire (America) 5 (2017) by Teresita Fernández; and Horizonte (2015) by Elizabet Cerviño.
Chapter 1: Internal Landscapes opens June 8, 2017 and focuses on the horizon as it relates to the body, as the horizon evokes both a vast, physical space and an internal, psychological one. Artists represented in this Chapter include AntoniaWright, José Bedia, Juan Carlos Alom, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Hernan Bas, Tania Bruguera, Rubén Torres Llorca, and Sandra Ramos, among others. These artists create expansive visual spaces that engage the body of the viewer as well as works that represent the human figure as a symbol of mystery, longing and the unknown.
Chapter 2: Abstracting History opens fall 2017 and takes a closer look at abstract geometries—including linear horizon lines—as they relate to both personal and historical narratives. The works selected explore spiritual as well as political histories, and examine both past and contemporary realities within Cuba and its diaspora. Works by Havana-based artist Reynier Leyva Novo revisit scenes from Cuban history to offer new critical perspectives—including El Peso de la Historia (The Weight of History) (2014), an installation involving black squares of ink painted directly on the gallery wall that represent the distinct amount of ink used to write nine influential laws that changed the history of Cuba. Multipanel canvas works Zilia Sánchez, a Cuban artist living and working in Puerto Rico, showcase the artist’s approach to formal abstraction through her signature use of a shaped canvas, expressing a sensual juxtaposition between femininity and masculinity. Other artists included in Chapter 2 include Alexandre Arrechea, Waldo Balart, Manuel Piña, and Eduardo Ponjuán.
Opening in early 2018, On the Horizon concludes with Chapter 3: Domestic Anxieties, a presentation of works focusing on the everyday insecurities and personal stresses of the individual. Artists included explore both domestic and public architecture as designated emotional spaces, as well as how language and texts are used to create spaces of aspiration, haven and doubt. In Glexis Novoa’s Revolico (2014), the Miami-based artist mixes words like “Guggenheim” “Phillips”, and “Revolico”, as a means of co-opting familiar language to comment on the contradictory sociocultural and economic experiences for those living between Cuba and America. Angel Delgado’s Dream reflections (2014) depicts a man trying to push open a larger than life lock. For Delgado, an artist living and working in Las Vegas, Nevada, the theme of struggle against control and societally imposed limitations results in a poetic commentary on individual freedoms. Works by Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros are also included in Chapter 3. A large watercolor triptych entitled Parte de parte (2008) elegantly explores themes of conceptualism, formalism, and architecture.
Many of the works on view throughout On the Horizon have never been seen before in a museum setting, while others have appeared in important previous exhibitions at MAM and PAMM or other significant venues such as the Havana Biennial and Venice Biennale, among others. The unique serial exhibition format reflects the diversity of curatorial themes and works featured, and showcases the breadth of PAMM’s Cuban art collection, one of the largest collections of contemporary Cuban art in any American museum.
Exhibition Schedule Chapter 1: Internal Landscapes June 8, 2017 – September 10, 2017
Chapter 2: Abstracting History September 21, 2017 – January 7, 2018 Chapter 3: Domestic Anxieties January 18, 2018 – April 8, 2018
Publications On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection will be accompanied by two publications, the first being an exhibition guide available at the opening of Chapter 1 and a fully illustrated bi-lingual exhibition catalogue with commissioned essays.
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 32-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).
MIAMI – May 18, 2017 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announced today a new pilot program to develop an augmented reality app for its visitors, with a generous $185,000 grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The app will be easily accessible to visitors through their smartphones, and will offer multimedia elements and shareable content to include videos, games and quizzes, and an interactive map to help visitors more deeply engage with the museum’s spaces.
“As a 21st century museum, PAMM seeks to reinforce the idea of the museum as a place for experimentation, a laboratory for ideas,” said Director Franklin Sirmans, “we are grateful for the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in allowing PAMM to implement this cutting-edge technology meant to enhance, refine and further our mission to engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds to interact with the most progressive visual arts of our time.”
Knight Foundation’s funding is part of a $1.8 million investment to help museums use technology to immerse audiences in art.
“People want their art experiences to be personalized, interactive and shareable, just as they expect of everything else in their daily lives. Museums need to continue to make this cultural shift, engaging visitors on-site and on-line with their collections in innovative ways. We hope funding from Knight Foundation can help fuel the process, so the PAMM and other institutions can continue to be vibrant centers of community life,” said Victoria Rogers, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation.
Monica Mesa, PAMM’s Project Manager, will work closely with members of PAMM’s Public Engagement, Curatorial, Education, and IT teams, alongside contracted tech vendors to develop the app. Mesa contributed to the successful launch of PAMM’s Inside|Out program, which, also generously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, brings high-quality reproductions of works from PAMM’s permanent collection to communities throughout Miami-Dade County.
“Art museums are much more than repositories of art works; they have become meeting places for people and ideas,” said PAMM AR + Art Project Manager Monica Mesa, “Their future relies in remaining a dynamic part of the public realm. Thanks to this project, which is generously funded by Knight Foundation, PAMM looks forward to engaging with its visitors in a completely different way. Through a collaboration with StartHub Miami and France-based startup Magic Xperience, our institution hopes to ignite cultural excitement using augmented reality as a conduit to broaden and democratize our visitors’ art-viewing experience.”
StartHub Miami is a tech incubator in Miami that is exploring new developments in Augmented Reality and is working to develop the technology behind the app alongside France-based startup Magic Xperience.
"PAMM is an emblematic symbol of Miami’s intentions to bridge culture and innovation under one roof. We couldn’t have asked for a better local partner to showcase how Augmented Reality is enhancing customer engagement and guiding today’s learning experiences,” said StartHub Managing Director & Founder David Bensoussan, “This is the perfect opportunity to strengthen the position of Miami as an international dynamic market.”
Funding for this project is part of a Knight Foundation initiative to help museums better meet new community demands and use digital tools to thoughtfully involve visitors in compelling experiences and conversations surrounding art. Knight, which promotes more informed and engaged communities, has helped institutions – from newsrooms to libraries – adapt to and thrive in the digital age. This funding extends the foundation’s expertise to art museums with the goal to build stronger, more vibrant communities.
As part of this project, Knight Foundation is working with MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab, to assist with research and project framing.
"MAYA is excited to partner with PAMM to help bridge a world-class brick and mortar institution with a nearly endless list of completely virtual or augmented experiences that support richer visitor engagement,” said MAYA CEO Dutch MacDonald. “By creating seamless digital layers illustrated with the motivations, contexts and environments of the best 20th and 21st international artists, PAMM will pioneer new ways to educate and inspire countless visitors. PAMM is using technology to amplify the museum's mission of sharing the most progressive visual art of our time with the broadest audience possible.”
This augmented reality pilot program is one of multiple tech initiatives PAMM has rolled out this year, including the hiring of a fulltime digital journalist, a first of its kind position, and the recent launch of the PAMM APP which aims to enrich the visitor experience with multimedia content, video and audio tours.
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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 33-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 Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).
MIAMI – May 19, 2017 – On Monday, May 29, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will host its annual Memorial Day BBQ on the terrace overlooking Biscayne Bay. From 1-4pm, enjoy live music by the Wynwoods, barbecue specials by Verde and a special appearance by the Coast Guard Air Station Miami. Inside the iconic museum, explore newly opened exhibitions by Toba Khedoori, John Dunkley, Youssef Nabil and more.
The lively daytime celebration will kick off PAMM’s second year of participation in Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The national summer initiative compliments PAMM’s year-round policy of extending free admission to U.S. military with identification. The program provides families an opportunity to enjoy the nation's cultural heritage and learn more about their community, especially after a military move. With this program, PAMM is able to give complimentary admission to active duty military personnel, veterans and family members.
PAMM’s Memorial Day BBQ is open to the public, and general museum admission rates apply ($16 adults; $12 for youth, seniors, students; Free for members, active duty military personnel, veterans and family members). Verde barbecue and drink specials are available for purchase. Active duty military personnel and veterans will receive a voucher for a complimentary hotdog.
The museum will remain open from 10am–6pm, with live entertainment and barbecue from 1-4pm. Arrival by free Miami-Dade Metromover is recommended due to high expected attendance for special events. For more information about special event parking, visit pamm.org/parking.
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 33-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/Instagram (@pamm).
About Blue Star Museums
Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America. The program runs from Memorial Day, May 29, 2017 through Labor Day, September 4, 2017. The free admission program is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID card (dependent ID), or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card, which includes active duty U.S. military - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, as well as members of the National Guard and Reserve, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps - and up to five family members. Some special or limited-time museum exhibits may not be included in this free admission program. For questions on particular exhibits or museums, please contact the museum directly. To find participating museums and plan your trip, visit arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.
All summer long, Blue Star Museums will share stories through social media. Follow Blue Star Museums on Twitter @NEAarts and @BlueStarFamily, #bluestarmuseums, on Facebook, and read the NEA Art Works blog for weekly stories on participating museums and exhibits.
This is the latest NEA program to bring quality arts programs to the military, veterans, and their families. Other NEA programs for the military include the Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network.
MIAMI – May 23, 2017 –Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announces a new curatorial fellowship thanks to the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at PAMM is offered to students of underrepresented ethnic backgrounds who have completed their studies at the undergraduate level and is designed to help individuals interested in embarking on a curatorial career. Over the course of 24 months the Curatorial Fellow will conduct extended research and help organize annual exhibitions of the museum’s permanent collection.
“Modeled on successful programs at other art museums around the country the fellowship program supports PAMM’s and the Ford Foundation’s shared goals to encourage diversity and access to the museum and curatorial fields,” said Director Franklin Sirmans.
“This fellowship greatly supports our curatorial and exhibitions programming that reflects Greater Miami’s unique and diverse community,” said Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.
For its inaugural fellowship, PAMM seeks one qualified candidate who will work within the curatorial department at PAMM from September 2017 through September 2019. The fellow will work to support the curatorial team with all phases of exhibition development, including: checklist development; lender and artist relations; publication development; writing texts for exhibition interpretation, online content, and press and promotional materials; exhibition floor plan development, installation; and related public program development. Successful candidates will demonstrate interest and expertise in a curatorial focus of their choice in modern and contemporary art that reflects Greater Miami’s diverse community and pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas.
Applicants must submit the following documents to eromero@pamm.org:
Resume
Letter of interest that includes an outline of the candidate’s proposed curatorial focus
Three academic or museum references
Short writing sample
Application Deadline: July 1, 2017
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 33-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 Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).
MIAMI —June 28, 2017—Pérez Art Museum Miami presents Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes, on view June 30–October 29, 2017. This thematic exhibition highlights the domino game, an activity played daily in Miami, as metaphor for contemporary art practice. Played throughout the American South, Latin America, and the Caribbean, dominoes have been used extensively in contemporary art to address notions of abstraction, politics, race, urban life, and social practice. . The exhibition originated at Hunter East Harlem Gallery (HEHG) in New York and features more than 19 international contemporary artists—including Adriana Lara, Oscar Murillo, Betye Saar, Donald Sultan, Nari Ward, and Lawrence Weiner—working across a variety of media, including painting, mixed-media, sculpture, installation, and video. Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles is organized by Maria Elena Ortiz, PAMM Associate Curator, and Arden Sherman, HEHG Curator.
“I am most interested in how artists around the world enrich the understanding of our own distinct cultures and histories interconnected with art,” said PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz. “Curatorially speaking, this exhibition is mono-thematic and focused on a popular activity in Miami (the domino game) , but the trope serves as an opportunity to show a group of exceptional artists, including Betye Saar, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Rhode, Nari Ward, together with a younger generations of artists such as Adriana Lara, Juni Radames, Glendalys Medina, and Rodolfo Peraza among others. It is our hope that the exhibition brings new audiences into the museum.”
“I first became interested in the theme when I discovered Lawrence Weiner’s domino set, which he created as a multiple meant to be distributed and played not only as an art object.” commented Arden Sherman, the co-curator of the exhibition.
Dominoes originated in ancient China; the version of the game commonly played today was first recorded in 18th century Italy. In contemporary art, it has a discernible aesthetic, political vantage point, and relationship with communities that grow around the domino table. Some of the works in the exhibition directly reference dominoes, while others provide a conceptual relationship to the game. The oldest work is Sitting…dominoes (1966) by Öyvind Fahlström, a historical work representative of Brazilian studies on Concrete art and poetry.
PAMM’s presentation of Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles will feature several additional works, including:
Öyvind Fahlström, Sitting…dominoes, (1966): This print shows colorful tiles with distinct matching drawings arranged like an active game. On the tile, each symbol is part of a visual language created by the artist. The composition resembles the imagery of a comic book forming an abstract narrative. Also known as a Concrete poet, Fahlström was a pioneer of investigating the relationship between art and participation through language and visual games.
Adriana Lara, Coup (2012): Coup, a large-scale painting, depicts a row of black-painted rectangular shapes toppling over one by one on a white canvas. Lara uses the mechanical effect of dominoes in a chain reaction to explore the relationship between politics and abstraction and the political undertones of the game, such as the Cold War concept of the Domino Effect.
Oscar Murillo, A weeks' worth (2016): The title of the work, A weeks' worth, suggests the binary relationship between labor and leisure, in which the seven paintings stand for seven days of the week. The background of each canvas – red, green, or blotchy white – is meant to distort the viewer’s perception. In this series of paintings, Murillo is interested in depicting the overall geometric compositions achieved at the end of a domino game.
José Patricio, Jogo Cor (2005): Located in the West terrace of PAMM, this work is a series of colorful domino tables and chairs designed by the Brazilian artist Jose Patricio. His works address the notion of an interactive, social sculpture for people’s participation.
Robin Rhode, Bones (2013): Embracing performance and fine art, this series of prints documents the artist’s body next to spray-painted domino configurations on a public wall with graffiti. The title of the work is derived from the ivory and bone origins of the playing pieces themselves and the present-day colloquial term used to describe the domino tiles.
Other notable works include an assemblage by Betye Saar, titled Eat Seeds ‘n All! (2010), which evokes American folk art while critiquing stereotypical and racist ways of depicting African Americans and others of color. A classical-style painting by Donald Sultan, titled Stacked Dominos, Oct. 28, 1994 (1994), illustrates scattered dominoes that seem to be moving throughout the composition, commanding the viewer’s attention by playing tricks on the eye. The exhibition also includes an interactive piece made for community and conversation building, titled DominoDomino (2014), by Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan, which encourages museum visitors to play a game of dominoes in the gallery.
In conjunction with the exhibition, PAMM will host a pop-up dominoes park on the museum’s West Portico, encouraging visitors to experience the game firsthand. Visitors will also be encouraged to share their thoughts, memories, and connection to the game on social media by tagging posts with #PAMMDomino and @pamm for a chance to be featured and win a domino set.
Exhibition Artists
Papo Colo, Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker, Donald Evans, Öyvind Fahlström, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Adriana Lara, Glendalys Medina, Oscar Murillo, José Patricio, Rodolfo Peraza, Robin Rhode, Kenny Rivero, Betye Saar, Curtis “Talwst” Santiago, Edra Soto & Dan Sullivan, Donald Sultan, Ana Maria Tavares, Nari Ward, and Lawrence Weiner.
Organization and Support Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes is organized by PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz and Hunter East Harlem Gallery Curator Arden Sherman. The exhibition is presented by Northwestern Mutual, The South Florida Group.
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 33-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).
MIAMI —July 5, 2017— A 1987 sculpture by artist George Segal, Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, has undergone a complete restoration by Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) thanks to a recent grant award received through the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. This is the second year that PAMM received a grant, used exclusively to treating the sculpture. The conservation effort included repairs to areas with intensive damage throughout the rock including: flaking paint, cracks, and correction of many retouches and overpaints visible throughout the work and that occurred before the piece came into the permanent PAMM collection.
Segal’s Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael is a sculptural representation of a key event in the Old Testament around a dilemma faced by the patriarch Abraham. Segal cast the figures from real models, capturing a range of human emotions.
“Conservation is an important art in itself and we are fortunate enough to have works in our collection of such historical importance and meaning to our patrons,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “Through Bank of America’s consistent support, which extends back to the earliest acquisitions in our collection, we are able to not only showcase these works to the community, but also be the best caretakers of these pieces so they can be shown and enjoyed for years to come.”
“Miami has steadily become an important arts destination,” said Gene Schaefer, Bank of America Miami market president. “It is long-standing partnerships with arts organizations, like PAMM, that have made a difference in fostering a vibrant cultural arts community, connecting people of diverse backgrounds and positively impacting our thriving economy.”
The Bank of America Art Conservation Project is a unique program that provides grants to nonprofit museums throughout the world to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art that are in danger of deterioration. Since the program’s launch in 2010, Bank of America has provided grants to museums in 29 countries supporting more than 100 conservation projects. Other conservation projects include ‘Blue Boy’ a painting by Thomas Gainsborough at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles, a painting by Claude Monet at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas; an Andy Warhol piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and three paintings at the Dalí Museum in Tampa/St. Petersburg. Fla. For more information on the Art Conservation Project, click here.
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 nearly 35-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/Instagram (@pamm).
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MIAMI – July 27, 2017 – On November 3, 2017, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, the first career survey of the work of internationally renowned, Miami-based artist Dara Friedman. The exhibition features 17 major film and video works that combine the techniques and principles of Structural Filmmaking with a strong emotional charge and an intuitive approach to subject matter. Perfect Stranger, Friedman’s largest museum show to date, also marks the largest exhibition of a Miami-based artist organized by PAMM. The exhibition is on view from November 3, 2017 through March 4, 2018 in PAMM’s M.B. Fernandez Family galleries.
Friedman is a former student of legendary Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Kubelka, whose work was a precursor to the Structural film movement in Europe during the 1960s. Her work unravels cinematic conventions, laying bare the materiality and mechanics of film production while harnessing the accidents that occur as light passes through lens and celluloid. The results demystify film’s illusionistic tendencies, while distilling uncanny fragments from the ordinary world and transforming everyday sights and sounds into the raw material for sensual—and often euphoric—encounters.
“The exhibition at PAMM captures the intensity that marks Dara’s films, reflecting the ways she uses this intensity to reach viewers directly and at a gut level, with the ultimate goal of encouraging and fostering empathy toward others,” commented Curator René Morales. “Dara’s work helps us to see ourselves and others with greater clarity; it pounds on the walls that separate self from other, and loved ones from friends and strangers.”
“Dara’s trajectory powerfully embodies the possibility that life as an artist in Miami is not just viable, but that the city can serve as a home base for a global artistic career,” remarked PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “PAMM has always considered its aspiration to support and collaborate with the local art community to be one of its core values and a central facet of its mission.”
Perfect Stranger consists of 17 major works by Friedman. The first gallery will be comprised mainly of early work (pre-2001), many on 16 mm film. The gallery will be completely open, allowing light and sound to leak from one piece to the other, resulting in a cacophony of intense energy. The second gallery will take the opposite approach, consisting of a series of closed, soundproofed rooms for each film, complete with seating. Each room will feel like its own universe, encouraging deep immersion and focus.
Exhibition highlights include:
Government Cut Freestyle, 1998: Part of PAMM’s permanent collection, this film shows young people taking turns jumping off a pier in South Pointe Park in Miami Beach into Government Cut, the waterway that connects Biscayne Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. The artist shot the footage so the divers’ bodies remain tightly constricted within the frame. As a result, the camera bobs and sways gently as the divers plummet through the air, each time arching over the horizon line. The film’s slow motion pacing and the steady, undulating rhythm with which the scenes unfold elicit a swooning, hypnotic effect.
Bim Bam, 1999: In two separate 16 mm film loops, one stacked atop the other, a pair of silhouetted female figures (both the artist) repeatedly step through a threshold, slamming the door in front of or behind them. When the doors are open, they fill the frame with either yellow or blue light; when they are closed, the frame goes black. The footage was filmed with the camera turned on its side so that the figures appear at a 90-degree angle from the floor. The sound of doors slamming plays on an independent track and is left unsynchronized with the projections, either anticipating or lagging behind the action.
Romance, 2001: Part of PAMM’s permanent collection, this work shows a succession of approximately 70 couples kissing tenderly, playfully, or with passionate abandon in slow motion in a tightly framed composition. Friedman captured the grainy footage through a zoom lens while taking long walks with her infant daughter in a public park in the Gianicolo neighborhood of Rome. Each scene focuses on the negative space between the lovers’ profiles. The artist has likened this film to a nature documentary, as clinical in tone as a study of the mating habits of birds.
Musical, 2007–08: A total of 55 participants perform in the crowded streets, subways, diners and plazas of Midtown Manhattan while singing a song meaningful to them at full volume. The resulting soundtrack features a spectrum of musical genres, from Broadway show tunes and classic rock to a Kabuki ballad and a Michael Jackson tune, culminating in a rousing interpretation of “America, the Beautiful.” The singers are, in general, barely registered by the throngs of people surrounding them.
Dancer, 2011: Co-produced by PAMM, this film depicts 66 people of diverse ages and backgrounds—from classically trained ballerinas to pole dancers, tap dancers, clubbers, capoeiristas, calypso dancers, yogis, belly dancers, and tumblers—as they move through Miami, using the city’s sidewalks as a stage. The musical medleys that comprise the work’s soundtrack are punctuated by the sound of city traffic and the dancers’ breathing. The camera moves alongside each person’s body like a dance partner.
Organization and Support Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger is organized by PAMM Curator René Morales and presented by Citi with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lead individual support received from Dennis Richard and Susan Bell Richard, Mark and Nedra Oren, and George Lindemann. Support from Veuve Clicquot is also gratefully acknowledged.
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 nearly 35-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/Instagram (@pamm).
On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection Chapter 2: Abstracting History: September 22, 2017–January 7, 2018 Chapter 3: Domestic Anxieties: January 19–April 8, 2018 Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, an exhibition of over 170 works of art, spanning painting, drawing, photography, mixed-media and sculpture. The exhibition—PAMM’s largest dedicated Cuban art exhibition to date—is presented in three parts over the course of a year, and features a rich panorama of recent work produced by artists living both in Cuba and abroad. On the Horizon celebrates the recent generous gift of Cuban artworks donated to the museum by Jorge M. Pérez in December 2016, and includes a significant number of recent acquisitions purchased during the last year with funds provided as part of Pérez’s donation.
The selection includes multiple images of the horizon, and these works serve to structure the conceptual framework of the exhibition. The diverse meanings placed on the horizon—which include it as a symbol of longing, containment, or desire—radiate across the additional works on view. Produced in various media, such as painting, sculpture, drawing, video, and installation, these contemplative artworks help generate a discussion regarding the specificities of Cuba’s current physical, social, and political environment, as revealed through each artist’s personal experience and unique aesthetics.
On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. This exhibition is presented by City National Bank with additional support provided by Cidade Matarazzo, Crystal & Co., and Pomellato.
Haroon Mizra: A C I D G E S T July 21, 2017–May 20, 2018
Haroon Mirza (b. 1977, London; lives in London) is a multimedia artist who works with audiovisual materials, electronic equipment, amplifiers, and found objects to create immersive environments and kinetic sculptures. His work amplifies phenomena that are often imperceptible––such as electricity––and seeks to create or distort the relationship between optics and acoustics, giving unexpected visual and sensorial analogs to what we hear. Mirza uses a particular visual and material vocabulary to modify architectural spaces, including colored neon and sculptural acoustic foam, creating installations that offer a precise, highly mediated experience of sound and light.
PAMM has commissioned Mirza to produce a new work for its double-height gallery. For this project, A C I D G E S T, he created a specialized technical system that transmits an electrical current through speakers and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that act in coordination with one another so that different colors are activated by corresponding noise frequencies. This system produces a choreographed experience of sound and light based on a concrete poem the artist has created, which serves as a score for a dynamic installation that redefines our phenomenological experience of the space.
Haroon Mirza: A C I D G E S T is organized by PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi. This exhibition is presented by John Varvatos with additional support provided by Knight Foundation.
Within Genres August 25, 2017–August 19, 2018
The Pérez Art Museum Miami collection focuses on modern and contemporary art. While it includes examples from as early as the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of the artwork housed in the collection is by living artists and has been produced during the last several decades. While this emphasis on contemporary artistic practices informs the museum’s collecting and programming, the museum continually looks to emphasize connections between our current moment and a longer history of art.
Informed by these interests in art history, the current presentation of the permanent collection is organized around the historical criteria of genres within Western painting and the traditional hierarchy of genres that developed out of the Renaissance period and was promoted within European art academies up through the 19th century. The five genres explored in these galleries, Still Life, Landscape, Scenes of Everyday Life, Portraiture, and History Painting developed as categories when painting was still in its infancy as a respected medium. Each category was meant to highlight the intellectual rigor of the medium. The hierarchy that formed between genres placed still life at the lowest end of the intellectual spectrum, as it involved the representation of inanimate objects, and history painting at the highest level of artistic achievement, as it depicted human subjects involved in allegorical themes related to religion, mythology, or historical events.
Within Genres is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.
Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger November 3, 2017–March 4, 2018
PAMM presents the first major career survey of the work of Dara Friedman (b. 1968, Bad Kreuznach, Germany; lives in Miami). Friedman is best known for film and video installations that combine the techniques and principles of Structural filmmaking with a strong emotional charge and an intuitive approach to subject matter. Her work unravels cinematic conventions, laying bare the materiality and mechanics of film production while harnessing the accidents that occur as light passes through lens and celluloid. The results strip away and demystify film’s illusionistic tendencies, while distilling uncanny fragments from the ordinary world and transforming everyday sights and sounds into the raw material for sensual—often euphoric—encounters. Perfect Stranger, Friedman’s largest museum show to date, also marks the largest exhibition of a Miami-based artist organized by PAMM
The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color, bilingual catalogue.
Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger is organized by PAMM Curator René Morales and presented by Citi with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lead individual support received from Dennis Richard and Susan Bell Richard, Mark and Nedra Oren, and George Lindemann. Support from Veuve Clicquot is also gratefully acknowledged.
Steve McQueen: End Credits November 17, 2017–March 11, 2018
Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London; lives in Amsterdam and London) is a film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist, whose work focuses on historical narratives, politics, race, and other themes concerning a deep social consciousness. In the video installation End Credits, McQueen pays homage to the African American singer, actor, and Civil Rights activist Paul Robeson (1898–1976). An anti-imperialist committed to fighting inequality, Robeson was watched in the 1950s and blacklisted by the FBI—a government organization that kept an extensive archive on the Civil Rights leader and mass media performer. During the McCarthy era, the FBI compiled thousands of pages on Robeson, now a public archive which McQueen used to create the video, End Credits. This work shows the significantly censored pages read by male and female voices. McQueen creates a compelling visual composition that brings forth the perverse nature of politically driven discrimination and persecution.
Steve McQueen: End Credits is organized by PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz. This exhibition is presented by Bank of America with additional support provided by Knight Foundation. It is made possible through a generous loan from the collection of Eric J. Schimmel, Miami Beach.
From the truer world of the other: Typewriter Art from the PAMM Collection November 17, 2017–April 15, 2018
This exhibition presents a selection of works acquired from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry through a combined gift and purchase made possible by the generosity of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner, and the Sackner Family Partnership. Featuring the work of approximately 15 individuals—including Carl Andre, Henri Chopin, Dom Sylvester Houédard, d. a. levy, Françoise Mairey, and Gustave Morin—the exhibition explores how artists and poets have transformed the typewriter, a machine for office work, into a tool for experimental artistic and poetic expression. Harnessing the machine’s inherent precision while defying its physical limits, these artists create a dizzying array of optical effects and novel forms of geometric abstraction.
From the truer world of the other: Typewriter Art from the PAMM Collection is organized by PAMM Assistant Curator Jennifer Inacio and PAMM Curator René Morales.
The Words of Others: León Ferrariand Rhetoric in Times of War February 16–August 12, 2018
Originally organized as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty, this is the first solo exhibition of the Argentinian artist León Ferrari (b. 1920, Buenos Aires; d. 2013, Buenos Aires) in the United States, and features the first full performance of his seminal 1967 publication Palabras ajenas (The Words of Others). The exhibition focuses primarily on Ferrari’s influential practice from the 1960s to the 1980s, with a particular emphasis on Ferrari’s literary collages, most notably Palabras ajenas, an important Vietnam era anti-war piece written in the form of a dramatic script.
Ferrari considered his literary collages to be a central element of his practice, yet many remained unpublished or had only minimal circulation as limited editions or as sketchbooks. The exhibit re-visits many of these works, exploring an uncharted territory while marking a turning point in both the understanding of his work, as well as the aesthetic forms of political intervention that emerged in Latin America. This profoundly contemporary project highlights the obscenity of war, the ways the media represents it, and the role of political and religious discourse in the expansion of Western culture.
The Words of Others: León FerrariandRhetoric in Times of War is curated by Ruth Estévez, curator and director of the Gallery at REDCAT; Miguel A. López, director of TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica; and Agustín Díez Fischer, director Fundación Espigas in Buenos Aires. Andrea Giunta served as advisor. It is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty. Support for this exhibition and publication is provided through grants from the Getty Foundation. Special thanks to Fundación Augusto y León Ferrari, Arte y Acervo (FALFAA) and Silvia and Hugo Sigman Collection, Buenos Aires. The presentation of this exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami is coordinated by PAMM Assistant Curator Jennifer Inacio.
The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art April 6–September 2, 2018 The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art is an art-based exhibition on the subject of soccer, or fútbol, and its interactions with societies around the world. Planned to overlap with the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the exhibition will explore how the sport has stimulated artists to reflect upon its implications on society. With approximately twenty artists working in video, photography, painting, and sculpture, the aim of this exhibition is to create an experience where the viewer/spectator can use a universal theme to engage with the work of contemporary artists from around the world. Through visual art, PAMM seeks to present the art form of soccer—a place where social, cultural, and political issues of identity, nationalism, globalism, and mass spectacle play out vibrantly. The exhibition celebrates the commonality of human experience through a sport that has been one of the few common languages worldwide.
The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art is organized by PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans with the support of PAMM Assistant Curator Jennifer Inacio.
William Cordova April 27–October 17, 2018
This exhibition is the first extensive museum survey of cultural practitioner William Cordova (b. 1969, Lima; lives in Miami, Lima, and New York). It presents a selection of works embodying the three main themes that have inspired the work of this celebrated Miami artist for decades: transmission, alchemy, and transcendence. In his nationally and internationally recognized drawings, sculptures, installations, and collaborative projects, Cordova collapses linear concepts of time and history to address contemporary notions of displacement. He extensively researches symbols and artifacts from different cultures and times, ignoring the boundaries between the past and the present. Then, he uses ephemeral and precarious materials to create elegant works that challenge traditional Western typologies. Striving to create a flexible and critical space for the understanding of our contemporary moment, he builds bridges between “apparently” separate narratives, such as contemporary hip-hop culture, African artifacts, and the pre-Columbian history of the Incas. This exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s first museum catalogue.
William Cordova is organized by PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz.
Sid Grossman May 18–October 28, 2018
Sid Grossman (b. 1913, New York; d. 1955, Provincetown, Massachusetts) was a founding member of the Photo League, a group of primarily Jewish photographers active in New York who used their medium to shed light on issues of social inequality in the urban environment. Grossman created humanizing and intimate documentary portraits of everyday people on the street and experimented with more artful, stylized image making as well.
Drawing from PAMM’s collection, this exhibition presents a series of photographs of New York—specifically the Lower East Side—depicting street scenes, tenements and architecture, and daily life. A selection of photographs produced while Grossman was stationed in Panama will also be presented along with additional works from a trip he took in the early 1940s to document life in the Dust Bowl. This exhibition focuses on Grossman’s overall body of work and his move between socially focused documentary photography to experimental approaches.
Sid Grossman is organized by PAMM Assistant Curator Jennifer Inacio.
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 nearly 35-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/Instagram (@pamm).
MIAMI— August 14, 2017 —Abstracting History, the second chapter of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) multi-part, yearlong exhibition dedicated to contemporary Cuban art, opens September 22, 2017. On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection features over 170 works of art spanning painting, drawing, photography, mixed-media and sculpture and highlights a rich panorama of recent work produced by artists living both in Cuba and abroad. Chapter 2: Abstracting History takes a closer look at artists whose work primarily explores abstract geometries—including linear horizon lines—as they relate to both personal and historical narratives. On the Horizon celebrates the recent generous gift of Cuban artworks donated to the museum by Jorge M. Pérez in December 2016, and includes a significant number of recent acquisitions purchased during the last year with funds provided as part of Mr. Pérez’s donation.
Picking up the thematic thread from Chapter 1: Internal Landscapes (on view June 9, 2017 – September 10, 2017), Chapter 2: Abstracting History explores spiritual and political histories, and examines past and contemporary realities within the context of Cuba and its diaspora. A triptych by seminal 20th century Cuban abstract artist, Waldo Balart, will hang alongside works by contemporary artists who share similar formal, linguistic and modernist tendencies, including Kenia Arguiñao, Sandú Darié, and Aimée Garcia. Havana-based artist Reynier Leyva Novo revisits scenes from Cuban history to offer new critical perspectives; his El Peso de la Historia (The Weight of History) (2014), an installation of black squares of ink painted directly on the gallery wall, represents the amount of ink used to write nine influential laws that changed the history of Cuba. Multi-panel canvases by Zilia Sánchez, a Cuban artist living and working in Puerto Rico, showcase the artist’s approach to formal abstraction through her signature use of a shaped canvas, expressing a sensual juxtaposition between femininity and masculinity. Other important works that are now in PAMM’s permanent collection and part of the installation are: José Ángel Vincench Barrera’s Exilio 5 (2013); Alexandre Arrechea’s Remote Control – Campamento (2005); a series of 12 photographs by Havana-based artist, Leandro Feal, entitled ¿Y allá qué hora es? (2015-16); Ser culto, ser libre (2012), a pair of bronze boxing gloves by Arlés del Río Flores; Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova’s mixed-media work, A Layered Frame Set (2013); and two artist books by Glenda León.
With a new chapter opening every three months, On the Horizon is PAMM’s most ambitious Cuban art exhibition to date. The exhibition is organized around the metaphor of the horizon line—a motif that appears in many of the works on view—and brings together a strong view of artistic practices in Cuba from the last three decades as well as work by young, lesser-known artists working on the island and across the globe. The individual chapters each explore various meanings of the horizon, which include the vista as a symbol of desire, longing or containment. This symbolic framework helps generate a larger dialogue between the works on view and the specificities of Cuba’s current physical, social and political landscape, as revealed through each artist’s personal experience and unique aesthetics.
On the Horizon features works by many of the world’s leading contemporary Cuban artists, including Alexandre Arrechea, Carlos Garaicoa, Hernan Bas, Yoan Capote, Teresita Fernández, Enrique Martínez Celeya, Glexis Novoa, and Zilia Sánchez, among others. Each presentation involves a partial rehanging of the exhibition galleries, accompanied by distinct public programs and performances, as well as the placement of select works from the Pérez collection within the museum’s permanent collection galleries. A number of works are included in each presentation, serving as a contextual link between each chapter. These include: Yoan Capote’s outstanding large-scale painting Island (sea-escape) (2010); Enrique Martinez Celaya’s Summer / Verano (2007); Fire (America) 5 (2017) by Teresita Fernández; and Horizonte (2015) by Elizabet Cerviño.
As Miami’s flagship contemporary art museum, collecting the work of Cuban artists and documenting the Cuban Diaspora exemplifies PAMM’s mission to represent its place in the world—geographically, conceptually and intellectually. Cuba, equally a part of Latin America and the Caribbean, has been an area of sustained interest at PAMM going back to its beginnings as a presenting institution. The presentation of On the Horizon at PAMM coincides with a renewed energy internationally around Cuban art at a time when US-Cuban relations remain an active subject of discussion. Through this gift, PAMM now holds one of the largest collections of contemporary Cuban art in any American museum.
Many of the works on view throughout On the Horizon have never been seen before in a museum setting, while others have appeared in important previous exhibitions at MAM and PAMM or other significant venues such as the Havana Biennial and Venice Biennale, among others. The unique serial exhibition format reflects the diversity of curatorial themes and works featured, and showcases the breadth of PAMM’s Cuban art collection, one of the largest collections of contemporary Cuban art in any American museum.
Publications On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection will be accompanied by two publications, the first being an exhibition guide available at the opening of Chapter 1 and a fully illustrated bi-lingual exhibition catalogue with commissioned essays.
Support On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. The privately-funded exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Jorge M. Pérez, and is presented by City National Bank with additional support provided by Cidade Matarazzo, Crystal & Co., and Pomellato.
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 32-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 Instagram and Twitter (@pamm).
MIAMI – August 17, 2017 – The highly-anticipated Tenth Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Events, will take place on Wednesday, September 27, from 11am–2pm, when the museum will open its doors to South Florida’s most influential business leaders, in honor of their vital support of the arts in South Florida. PAMM Corporate Honors will be awarded to Publix Super Markets Charities, and all funds from the Luncheon will be donated to the museum’s art and education outreach programs. Reservations can be made online at pamm.org/cl10.
“At this milestone Corporate Luncheon, we’re celebrating Miami’s growing and thriving cultural landscape built with the support of business leaders and corporations who care about the community they operate in and the arts,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “This year, we are pleased to honor Publix Super Markets Charities, whose 20 years of support and partnership has helped shape and build PAMM’s education programming.”
Publix Super Markets Charities has played a fundamental role in the community since 1966. By supporting a variety of nonprofit organizations engaged in life-changing work, Publix Charities makes a far-reaching impact throughout the Southeast, resulting in stronger communities infused with hope and preparedness for a brighter future. Publix Super Markets Charities has been involved with PAMM since 1998, supporting the museum’s exhibitions and educational programs, including PAMM Free Second Saturdays, which attracts more than 4,000 visitors each month.
The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs. PAMM is the largest provider of art education outside of Miami-Dade County Schools, reaching more than 160,000 children since opening in December 2013. Corporate support has made many of these free programs possible, which include: free family activities every second Saturday; Art Detectives, a new arts education program that promotes critical and timely dialogue between community youth and police; Brick x Brick, a program for at-risk teens which takes place at community centers in underserved areas throughout Miami-Dade, and focuses on architecture, design and community planning; PAMM in the Neighborhood, a summer camp program for underserved youth; and more.
This year’s lunch reception will allow attendees to network, browse the museum and enjoy a film highlighting conservation and restoration efforts by Bank of America, Miami-Dade College, and Fendi.
PAMM Corporate Luncheon sponsorships are available, ranging from $20,000 diamond-level sponsorships which include 20 tickets, to $2,500 silver-level sponsorships which include five tickets. Individual tickets are available for $500. For sponsorship levels and benefits, or to make reservations online, visit pamm.org/cl9. For event and ticket information, contact Christopher Pastor at 786 345 5633 or cpastor@pamm.org.
The Tenth Annual PAMM Corporate Luncheon co-chairs are Simon Levine, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Oti Roberts, Deutsche Bank. Luncheon host committee: Marivel Andreu, Marsh & McLennan Agency, AIG; Andres Asion, Miami Real Estate Group; Tere Blanca, Blanca Commercial Real Estate; Brian L. Bilzin, Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP; Adelee Cabrera, STARR Events Miami; Fernando Crespo, Sun Trust; Greg Ferrero, Goldman Sachs; Jose Ignacio Gonzalez, Fortune International Group; Dave Howard, Brightline; Laura Kaplan, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management; José Mas, MasTec; Joseph Milton, J. Milton & Associates; Luke Palacio, Citi Private Bank; Jorge Pérez, The Related Group; Aaron Podhurst, Podhurst Orseck; Stefanie Reed, Art Basel; Alejandra Salaverria, Joe Sirven, Holland & Knight LLP; Monica Souza, Avant Design Group; and Gloria Zaldivar, BNY Mellon.
For the second consecutive year, presenting sponsor of the PAMM Corporate Luncheon is STARR Events. Additional PAMM Corporate Luncheon supporters include gold sponsors: Podhurst Orseck, P.A. and Related Group; silver sponsors: AIG, Art Basel, BNY Mellon, Bizlin Sumberg, Blanca Commercial Real Estate, Brightline, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Fortune International Group, Goldman Sachs, Holland & Knight, J. Milton & Associates, Marsh & McLennan Agency, Mastec, Miami Real Estate Group, SunTrust, Tory Burch, and U.S. Trust.
PAMM Corporate Luncheon is attended by South Florida business, civic and cultural leaders such as real estate developer and collector Craig Robins, Miami Dolphins Owner Stephen M. Ross, Victoria’s Secret model Ines Rivero, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez and more. Past Corporate Honors recipients are Cricket Taplin and The Sol Taplin Charitable Foundation (2016), Kirk Landon (2015), J.P. Morgan (2014), MBF Healthcare Partners (2013), Target (2012), Bank of America (2011), Northern Trust (2010), Carnival Corporation & PLC (2009) and UBS (2008).
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 33-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/Instagram (@pamm).
MIAMI – August 21, 2017 – Today, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announced that it exceeded its $200,000 fundraising goal to match a challenge grant for the PAMM Fund for African American Art, a fund initiated for the purchase of contemporary art by African American artists for the museum’s permanent collection. Gifts by 160 supporters helped PAMM exceed its goal by more than $7,000. The fund also gained 62 new Ambassador members, who will continue to help shape the institution’s collection of contemporary art by African American artists and support the fund’s inclusive nature.
“We could not have surpassed the match without the help of our community,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “From a dollar to six-figure gifts, every gift will make a difference in continuing to ensure that our collection is reflective of our diverse community.”
The fundraising campaign was initiated in February at PAMM’s Fourth Annual Reception for the Fund for African American Art, where Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced the $200,000 challenge grant. That evening, fund ambassador member and trustee Dorothy A. Terrell spearheaded efforts by generously donating $100,000 towards the match, encouraging more supporters to come forward to support PAMM’s acquisition of world-class works by African American artists for generations to come.
“Great art not only inspires, it connects us to each other and this vibrant city we call home,” said Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation president. “We’re delighted that the community stepped up to the challenge to join us in building an important collection of work by African American artists.”
Through the completion of this match, the fund will be endowed in in perpetuity, offering the opportunity to create a collection of the highest artistic standard that reflects PAMM’s community, as well as a more inclusive environment for being challenged by, and delighting in, art.
The PAMM Fund for African American Art was established in 2013 with a $1 million donation, funded equally by Jorge M. Pérez and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, for the purchase of contemporary art by African American artists for the museum’s permanent collection. Through the Fund, the museum first acquired works by Al Loving, Faith Ringgold, and Xaviera Simmons. These works joined other significant PAMM collection objects by artists such as Leonardo Drew, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson, Lorna Simpson, James Van Der Zee, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, and Purvis Young. At the last Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art, the museum acquired works by Kevin Beasley, Martine Syms, Juana Valdes, Theaster Gates, and Sam Gilliam.
For more information about the PAMM Fund for African American Art, or to join the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art, visit pamm.org/artfund.
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 nearly 35-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/Instagram (@pamm).
MIAMI – August 24, 2017 – On September 7-9, 2017, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will merge art and technology for a weekend-long technology takeover. Bringing together a variety of partners from Miami’s local tech scene—including Refresh Miami, Code/Art Miami, and Wyncode Academy—PAMM will facilitate a conversation about using innovative technology in the museum space.
The weekend-long festivities kick off on September 7, 11am-2pm with Made at PAMM: Navigation Noise, a free art-making program that will connect the computer generated sounds of artist Haroon Mirza’s installation with the “King of Noise,” Rat Bastard. The day continues from 6-9pm with PAMM Free Community Night: Tech Takeover, a tech-filled evening showcasing the best of Miami’s emerging tech start-ups. The fun continues on Friday with a two-day conference, ART+HACK+DATA; MIAMI MEDIA ART WEEKEND, that brings together new media creators and tech-enthusiasts to discuss issues in the digital environment. The weekend culminates on Saturday, 1-4pm, with PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Techpalooza, a free day of art-making with local artists highlighting different ways to use technology to make art.
“As a 21st century museum—much more than just repository of art work, PAMM seeks to reinforce the idea of the museum as a place for experimentation, a laboratory for ideas,” said Director Franklin Sirmans.
"It's been really exciting to see the many ways PAMM has embraced and integrated technology throughout the museum this year” said Maria Derchi Russo, Executive Director of Refresh Miami. “It's the perfect example of how more traditional industries can utilize technology to improve the customer experience. We're thrilled to celebrate these intersections of art and technology as part of September's Tech Takeover, and hopefully inspire others to follow suit."
PAMM’s technology takeover complements the multiple PAMM tech initiatives that have been rolled out this year, including an augmented reality pilot program, funded by Knight Foundation; the hiring of a full-time digital journalist, a first of its kind position; and the launch of the PAMM App, which aims to enrich the visitor experience with multimedia content, video, and audio tours.
Made at PAMM: Navigation Noise
Thursday, September 7, 11am-2pm
Get inspired by the artwork of Haroon Mirza and navigate sound waves. Visitors can drop-in to create album covers, play electronic instruments, and record with local musician and the “Trailblazer of Noise,” Rat Bastard.
Free and open to the public.
PAMM Happy Hour Thursday, September 7, 5-7pm
Start your weekend early with our Thursday night waterfront happy hour. Enjoy drink specials on the terrace set to a live DJ set by electronic group, the XYZA Collective, in celebration of PAMM Free Community Night: Tech Takeover.
Specials: $6 beer, $7 wine and $8 cocktails
PAMM Free Community Night: Tech Takeover Thursday, September 7, 6-9pm
Join us for a tech-filled evening showcasing the best of Miami’s emerging tech start-ups. In our auditorium, catch cutting-edge presentations on the different ways technology is transforming our community, emceed by Refresh Miami. In the galleries, delve into our interactive tech showcase featuring some of Miami’s biggest tech players including Code/Art Miami, Wyncode Academy, Daruma Tech, Branger_Briz, Breeze Creative, and 01. Also, enjoy a guided augmented reality tour through Museum Park with the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.
Free and open to the public. Space in auditorium is limited. First come, first seated.
ART+HACK+DATA; MIAMI MEDIA ART WEEKEND at PAMM September 8-9, 10am-1pm (Day one | Day two)
Join us for ART+HACK+DATA; MIAMI MEDIA ART WEEKEND, a weekend-long social artistry event driven by technology. New media creators and tech-enthusiasts will come together to discuss issues in the digital environment and work with participants to find their own means of creative expression. Panels at PAMM will be followed by workshops at Bakehouse Art Complex.
Complimentary admission with RSVP: http://bit.ly/arthack. Space in auditorium is limited. First come, first seated.
PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Techpalooza Saturday, September 9, 1-4pm
Art meets technology at PAMM’s Techpalooza! Inspired by the multimedia work of Haroon Mirza, local artists will facilitate hands-on workshops that highlight the ways they use technology to make art. PAMM’s Teen Art Council (PTAC) will provide a fun and engaging “Ask A Teen” interactive station, where teens will provide answers to visitors most pressing tech and social media related questions.
Free and open to the public.
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 nearly 35-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/Instagram (@pamm).
MIAMI – September 5, 2017 – On Thursday, September 7, 11am-2pm, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), in collaboration with American Red Cross and The Salvation Army, will join hurricane relief efforts through PAMM Postcards for Texas. During Free First Thursdays, teaching artists will encourage visitors to write inspirational messages on postcards to be delivered to families and first responders in Texas impacted by Hurricane Harvey.
“Our hearts go out to the families and first responders in Texas dealing with unprecedented loss,” said Franklin Sirmans, PAMM director. “We are happy to support and complement aid efforts with a gesture that expresses our heartfelt compassion via art and messages of hope. We welcome the community to join us to work with our collaborators and PAMM teaching artists in this PAMM Postcards to Texas project.”
The most powerful storm to hit mainland U.S. in over a decade, Hurricane Harvey’s torrential rain, devastating winds, and widespread flooding has forced more than 40,000 people to look for shelter at more than 270 Red Cross and partners’ shelters, and caused extensive destruction that will likely make it one of the costliest storms in U.S. history.
“We are grateful for the support the South Florida Community and organizations like PAMM have shown to the victims of Hurricane Harvey,” said Emily Borababy, executive director of the American Red Cross Miami & The Keys Chapter. “Anything people can do to show their support for the people affected by what is being called the worst flooding disaster in U.S. history is greatly appreciated. The American Red Cross is working day and night to get help to where it is needed most.”
"The Salvation Army stands for hope. When clients see The Salvation Army, they see hope and they know we will do everything we can to help them,” said Captain Enrique Azuaje, the Salvation Army Miami area commander. “In Houston, Salvation staff and volunteers have been working nonstop to help aid first responders, victims and survivors - providing comfort, a hot meal and most of all, hope. We hope these inspirational letters will be a tangible way to provide hope to those affect by the storm and that the victims and survivors know that people all over the country are sending their love and prayers."
Photo/Interview opportunities on Thursday, September 7, 11am-2pm:
PAMM: Adrienne Chadwick, deputy director for education
The Salvation Army: Mozart Charles, music director of TSA Miami Area Command and Rebeca Hidalgo-Gato, soldier of TSA & Secretary for Sunset Corps
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 nearly 35-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/Instagram (@pamm).
About the American Red Cross
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. The Red Cross has launched a massive response to this devastating storm and needs financial donations to be able to provide immediate disaster relief. Help people affected by Hurricane Harvey by visiting redcross.org, calling 1- 800-RED CROSS or texting the word HARVEY to 90999 to make a $10 donation.For more information, please visit redcross.org or cruzrojaamericana.org, or visit us on Twitter at @RedCross.
About the Salvation Army
The Salvation Army, established in London in 1865, has been supporting those in need without discrimination for more than 135 years in the U.S. More than 25 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through a range of social services: food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless, and opportunities for underprivileged children. The Salvation Army tracks the level of need across the country with the Human Needs Index (HumanNeedsIndex.org). The Salvation Army has served survivors of every major national disaster since 1900. The Salvation Army does not place an administrative fee on disaster donations. During emergency disasters, 100 percent of designated gifts are used to support specific relief efforts. For more information, go to SalvationArmyUSA.org or follow on Twitter @SalvationArmyUS.
MIAMI – September 13, 2017 – To relieve some of the stress from Hurricane Irma, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) invites South Florida residents to enjoy a day at the museum with free admission on Thursday, September 14 and Friday, September 15. In addition to free admission, PAMM will host a variety of activities, including family-friendly art-making and a Thursday night happy hour.
10am-6pm: Verde restaurant and bar is open for dining
11am-2pm: Family-friendly art-making in the Vattikuti Learning Theatre
“We were fortunate to sustain no major damage from Hurricane Irma. While the museum was spared, we join our Miami-Dade community in wishing the best for those who were not as fortunate,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “During this time, the museum will be free and open to the public with a variety of activities. We look forward to welcoming you back to PAMM, as efforts are underway to get our community clean and back to normal.”
Hurricane Irma was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina in 2005 and the strongest since Andrew in 1992. It made landfall in the Florida Keys, west of its projected course of directly hitting Miami, as a Category 4 hurricane—leaving a path of destruction throughout the state.
Designed to be hurricane resistant, PAMM will reopen its doors on September 14 after fortunately sustaining no damage to the building or flooding.
"Safety and security are top priorities at PAMM, and storm preparation is something we focus on year-round. Every spring, we fine tune our policies and procedures, and implement training so we are ready for the hurricane season,” said PAMM CFO Mark Rosenblum.
For more information about PAMM’s free admission days and programs, please 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 33-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/Instagram (@pamm).
MIAMI – September 28, 2017 – At the Tenth Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Catering Group, South Florida’s business community gathered to honor Publix Super Markets Charities with PAMM Corporate Honors. For nearly 20 years, Publix Super Markets Charities’ financial involvement and partnership with the museum has helped to fund special exhibitions and educational programming for PAMM’s visitors.
“Publix Super Markets Charities has helped build community with their contributions to PAMM’s Second Saturday initiative, providing an accessible monthly program to connect people to art, introduce families to the museum’s dynamic education department, and reach new audiences,” said Deborah Koch, PAMM Corporate Honors presenter and Vice President of U.S. Regional Marketing, J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
In addition to PAMM, Publix Super Markets Charities supports a variety of nonprofit organizations engaged in life-changing work, making a deep impact throughout the Southeastern United States. Its contributions result in stronger communities infused with hope and preparedness for a brighter future.
“Miami is fortunate to be home to many successful businesses and professionals who care about the communities they operate in,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “This museum, and Miami’s cultural landscape, is growing and thriving because of businesses that provide support to the arts, and incorporate culture into the core of their business philosophies.”
On Wednesday, September 27, hundreds of South Florida’s most influential business leaders attended the highly anticipated annual luncheon, which honors the corporate community for its vital support of the arts in South Florida. Attendees enjoyed a delicious lunch reception by STARR Catering Group, explored new exhibitions, and viewed a short film highlighting preservation and conservation efforts of art and architecture for future generations. The video showcased Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project, which has helped restore three works from PAMM’s permanent collection; FENDI’s restoration of the historic Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy; and Miami Dade College’s management and preservation of the Freedom Tower, a National Historic Landmark, as well as the Tower Theater, the Koubek Center Mansion and Gardens, and the Dyer Building.
“What these organizations have in common is the belief in the power of the arts to connect to communities, to enrich lives, to drive our economies, and create a legacy,” said Oti Roberts, luncheon co-chair and managing director of Deutsche Bank. “They exemplify the benefits of working together to find synergy, to fund exhibitions, preservation projects, and education initiatives that speak to the corporate community and PAMM’s vision of being Miami’s museum.”
The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs. PAMM is the largest provider of art education outside of Miami-Dade County School District, reaching more than 160,000 children since opening in its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in December 2013. Corporate support has made many of these free educational programs possible, including: free family activities every second Saturday; Art Detectives, a new education program that promotes critical and timely dialogue between community youth and police; Brick x Brick, a program for at-risk teens which takes place at community centers in underserved areas throughout Miami-Dade County, and focuses on architecture, design and community planning; and PAMM in the Neighborhood, a summer camp program for underserved youth, among others.
For the second consecutive year, STARR Catering Group served as the presenting sponsor of the PAMM Corporate Luncheon. Additional PAMM Corporate Luncheon supporters include Gold sponsors: Deutsche Bank, J. Milton & Associates, Podhurst Orseck, P.A., and Related Group. Silver sponsors include: AIG, Art Basel, Art Miami, Bizlin Sumberg, Blanca Commercial Real Estate, BNY Mellon, Brightline, Citi, Century Risk Advisors, Fortune International Group, Goldman Sachs, Holland & Knight, Marsh & McLennan Agency, Mastec, Miami Real Estate Group, Moss Construction, Pritchard, SunTrust, Tory Burch, and U.S. Trust.
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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 33-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/Instagram (@pamm).
MIAMI – September 28, 2017 – At the Tenth Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Catering Group, South Florida’s business community gathered to honor Publix Super Markets Charities with PAMM Corporate Honors. For nearly 20 years, Publix Super Markets Charities’ financial involvement and partnership with the museum has helped to fund special exhibitions and educational programming for PAMM’s visitors.
“Publix Super Markets Charities has helped build community with their contributions to PAMM’s Second Saturday initiative, providing an accessible monthly program to connect people to art, introduce families to the museum’s dynamic education department, and reach new audiences,” said Deborah Koch, PAMM Corporate Honors presenter and Vice President of U.S. Regional Marketing, J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
In addition to PAMM, Publix Super Markets Charities supports a variety of nonprofit organizations engaged in life-changing work, making a deep impact throughout the Southeastern United States. Its contributions result in stronger communities infused with hope and preparedness for a brighter future.
“Miami is fortunate to be home to many successful businesses and professionals who care about the communities they operate in,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “This museum, and Miami’s cultural landscape, is growing and thriving because of businesses that provide support to the arts, and incorporate culture into the core of their business philosophies.”
On Wednesday, September 27, hundreds of South Florida’s most influential business leaders attended the highly anticipated annual luncheon, which honors the corporate community for its vital support of the arts in South Florida. Attendees enjoyed a delicious lunch reception by STARR Catering Group, explored new exhibitions, and viewed a short film highlighting preservation and conservation efforts of art and architecture for future generations. The video showcased Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project, which has helped restore three works from PAMM’s permanent collection; FENDI’s restoration of the historic Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy; and Miami Dade College’s management and preservation of the Freedom Tower, a National Historic Landmark, as well as the Tower Theater, the Koubek Center Mansion and Gardens, and the Dyer Building.
“What these organizations have in common is the belief in the power of the arts to connect to communities, to enrich lives, to drive our economies, and create a legacy,” said Oti Roberts, luncheon co-chair and managing director of Deutsche Bank. “They exemplify the benefits of working together to find synergy, to fund exhibitions, preservation projects, and education initiatives that speak to the corporate community and PAMM’s vision of being Miami’s museum.”
The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs. PAMM is the largest provider of art education outside of Miami-Dade County School District, reaching more than 160,000 children since opening in its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in December 2013. Corporate support has made many of these free educational programs possible, including: free family activities every second Saturday; Art Detectives, a new education program that promotes critical and timely dialogue between community youth and police; Brick x Brick, a program for at-risk teens which takes place at community centers in underserved areas throughout Miami-Dade County, and focuses on architecture, design and community planning; and PAMM in the Neighborhood, a summer camp program for underserved youth, among others.
For the second consecutive year, STARR Catering Group served as the presenting sponsor of the PAMM Corporate Luncheon. Additional PAMM Corporate Luncheon supporters include Gold sponsors: Deutsche Bank, J. Milton & Associates, Podhurst Orseck, P.A., and Related Group. Silver sponsors include: AIG, Art Basel, Art Miami, Bizlin Sumberg, Blanca Commercial Real Estate, BNY Mellon, Brightline, Citi, Century Risk Advisors, Fortune International Group, Goldman Sachs, Holland & Knight, Marsh & McLennan Agency, Mastec, Miami Real Estate Group, Moss Construction, Pritchard, SunTrust, Tory Burch, and U.S. Trust.
Press photo link: https://ws.onehub.com/folders/l6pstot8 Long Caption: [NAME] at the the Tenth Annual PAMM Corporate Luncheon presented by STARR Catering Group Short Caption: [NAME] at the the Tenth Annual PAMM Corporate Luncheon Photo credit in filename
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 33-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/Instagram (@pamm).
