the former Miami Museum of Art. In 2011, the Miami Museum of Art was going through a capital campaign, when Jorge M. Pérez, a board member of the museum, took charge and was the first to support the museum’s capital campaign by contributing 35 million dollars, 20 million dollars in capital and 15 million dollars worth of artwork. In return, the Miami Museum of Art renamed the museum in his honor to the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The renaming has an “in perpetuity” clause, meaning the Museum was legally
The Pérez Art Museum Miami, abbreviated PAMM, is a contemporary art museum located in Downtown Miami, in the state of Florida. It was founded in 1984 as the Center for Fine Arts, and in 1996 it changed to Miami Art Museum. It was not until 2013 that the museum changed to its current name and location, moving from East Flagler Street to Downtown Miami. The current name derives from a donation of Jorge M. Pérez, the biggest among private donors. Besides, Mr. Pérez is a well-known and respected trustee
cultural Reference books actually see tattooing as an art. (Levin) During the 1970 's artists began actually expanding their artistic skills on to tattooing. Artist took discipline fine arts to a whole new level. They aggrandized their im-agination and began to embrace tattooing for the art it actually is. They found a new way to show their personality through new arts. Tattoos have changed in the cultural status, been put in to museums and galleries as art, and have changed from just being in the subculture
The two cultures that I identify myself with Haitian culture and American culture. The American culture is more dominant and I identify myself most with this culture. Although I was born in Haiti and Haitian culture was once my dominant culture, it is now my co-culture. Nonetheless, a combination of these two cultures would be Haitian-American culture. People who are part of the Haitian-American culture, like myself, are either born in Haiti and moved to the U.S. and have assimilate to the American
How does one embrace the message and soul of artwork when you can’t get passed the color of skin in the portraits? Two barrier breaking retrospective artists born with more than 2,899 miles between them have beat down the walls in the art world opening up endless opportunities for female artist today. Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson specialize in catching the viewer’s eye and penetrating their feelings towards issues of culture, politics, equality, and feminism. It is well established that these
but taught himself how to paint. He is relatively unknown today for his Beautiful artworks of landscapes and serene, Duncanson’s work sheds light on American art that has been forgotten for over decades. As a young boy, Duncanson lived with his father in Canada, while his mother lived in Ohio. The village was fifteen miles north of Cincinnati. In the summer of 1841 Duncanson left Canada for Mount Pleasant. As he return to his mother’s home, Duncanson was excited to inform
IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY OVERVIEW The Iroquois Confederacy, an association of six linguistically related tribes in the northeastern woodlands, was a sophisticated society of some 5,500 people when the first white explorers encountered it at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The 1990 Census counted 49,038 Iroquois living in the United States, making them the country's eighth most populous Native American group. Although Iroquoian tribes own seven reservations in New York state and one in Wisconsin