meet the executive director and chief curator

Dear Bass Museum Members and Friends,
Spring in Miami is special. Arts organizations are in the midst of their best and brightest programming. The Bass Museum recently re-installed it’s historical collection in a thought-provoking presentation where once again, the Botticelli altarpiece is placed front and center, alongside contemporary works of art by Ana Mendieta, Janine Antoni and Annee Olofsson.

As you may remember, in 2009, we presented The Endless Renaissance and since then, our curators have sought out contemporary artists creating work inspired by art history, while looking at Old Masters from our collection through a contemporary point of view. Our new mission statement “We inspire and educate by exploring the connections between our historical collections and contemporary art” reflects that all art was once contemporary and inversely, that all contemporary works of art are part of a continuum of art history.

In April, the Bass Museum is pleased to inaugurate an exhibition of work by Charles LeDray, including his most important installation to date, Mens Suits. This installation was most recently presented as part of the artist’s retrospective at the ICA Boston and the Whitney Museum of Art, among other museums. Don’t forget to save the date for A Night at the Museum, our annual fundraiser on Thursday, April 26, 2012 when we will inaugurate the exhibition. Please click here for more information and to purchase tickets.

As you know, we inaugurated the Lindemann Family Creativity Center in January and since then, it has been bubbling with activity: Bass Babies, Bass Buddies, Art Club for Adults, lectures, Family Days and Inventive art Class. The Bass Museum now has a dedicated space for all these programs and other collaborations and special events. Speaking of which, we have been invited to participate in Doodle for Google, a national campaign whereby schoolchildren unleash their creativity in a competition for scholarship funds. In June, we will host the Florida finalists in the Creativity Center. For more information and entry forms, contact Kylee Crook, our Education Program Coordinator at 305-673-7530 x 9-1016.

I look forward to seeing you all in one of our upcoming events!

Warm regards,
Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator
Bass Museum of Art