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Article: Expanding horizons: with the Miami art world in the throes of rapid change, the author examines the impact of growth, spurred by the arrival of Art Basel, on public institutions, galleries and artists.(Report From Miami)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Over the course of the past few months, as I was gathering information to write this updated profile of the Miami art scene, I received word that yet another pair of Miami collectors, Debra and Dennis Scholl, were transforming a warehouse into a public exhibition space for work from their personal collection. I then heard that Venezuelan philanthropist Ella Cisneros was refurbishing an old office building in South Miami in which to establish a nonprofit institution devoted to presenting ambitious contemporary art exhibitions and related public programs. On an almost daily basis, news arrives about the opening of new galleries and alternative spaces. Numerous Miami-based ...