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MIAMI, Fla. (October 21,
2003)- TIME magazine art critic and historian, Robert Hughes will be
the keynote speaker during a weekend of festivities
leading up to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Patricia and
Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University
next month.
The renowned art historian will delve
into art, life, love, rage, impotence, and death in the context
of his new book Goya. Hughes
will bring the Spanish master to life at 8 p.m. on Fri. Nov.
14, in room 100 of the Green Library at FIU-University Park,
11200
SW 8th Street.
Hughes has been TIME magazine’s art critic since 1970. Best
known for his books The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and
Barcelona, his work also includes monographs on painters Lucien
Freud and Frank Auerbach, The Culture of Complaint, Nothing
if Not Critical, and Heaven and Hell in Western Art. He is the recipient
of numerous awards and prizes, including the Jewett Mather Award
(in 1982 and 1985), the Order of Australia (1992), and The Sunday
Times Writer of the Year in 2002.
“Hughes will set the tone for
a weekend that many of us have been waiting for a very long time,” said
FIU Art Museum director Dahlia Morgan. “It has been my
dream and passion of over 20 years to see a museum of international
acclaim and significance
on the FIU campus. We are closer than ever.”
The groundbreaking is scheduled to
take place on site on Sun, Nov. 16 at 4 p.m. across from the
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
at
FIU-University Park. The ceremony will be followed by a private
reception at the University House.
Designed by Yann Weymouth, AIA, currently
senior vice president and director of design for Hellmuth, Obata
+ Kassabaum (HOK)
and the former chief of design for Paris’s Grand Louvre
Project, the
40,000-square-foot, $12million Frost Museum will be built on
a lakeside site on the Avenue of the Arts -- a mall that will
connect
the Frost Museum, the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, and the
Management and Advanced Research Center (MARC) on University
Park.
The Frost Museum is expected to be
completed by the fall of 2005 and will house FIU’s permanent
art collection and its program of temporary exhibitions and lectures,
art scholarship and conservation.
The Museum is being named after the
Frosts in appreciation for their generous contribution and continued
support for FIU and
the arts throughout the years. Dr. Phillip Frost, who is chairman
of
IVAX Corporation, is a former member of the FIU Foundation Board.
In 1993, FIU presented Phillip Frost with an honorary degree
for his many contributions in medicine,
business, and community service. Patricia Frost, a retired public
school principal, is a current member of FIU’s Board of
Trustees and the FIU Foundation Board. She works closely with
FIU’s
College of Education, has served as an adjunct professor at FIU,
was honored with FIU’s Outstanding Educator of the Year
award, and was presented an honorary degree in 2002.
“Phillip and I find it especially
gratifying to contribute to the growth of a vital cultural institution
serving not only the University,
but also the entire South Florida community,” said Patricia
Frost.
For more information about the Frost
Art Museum, please contact Carol Foster at 305-348-2278 or email fosterc@fiu.edu
Both, Hughes’ lecture and the Museum’s groundbreaking,
are free of charge and open to the public.
For more information click
here to
visit the FIU Art Museum.
Click
here to view images of the Frost
Art Museum.
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