articles/Miamis art museums are becoming rudderless ships — theartnewspaper.com

Artist Hew Locke’s 2011 installation For Those in Peril on the Sea at the Pérez Art Museum Miami Four museums in Miami are currently searching for new directors. In a city that has transformed itself into one of the top destinations for contemporary art in the US over the past decade and boasts perhaps ten significant art institutions, nearly half are now leaderless. The circumstances of each may differ but the challenges faced by their directors are similar: increased competition for funding amid paltry local support, unruly trustees and, in the case of galleries run by private collectors, overbearing patrons whose decision to run their own spaces instead of supporting municipal museums has given Miami a series of identikit collections with rarely changing displays.

Read More