museum
With my mother visiting us from NYC, I was looking for somewhere interesting to take her and my daughter this past week. A friend of mine suggested the new Museum of Illusions in Miami being that it just opened this past December. What is the Museum of Illusions, you ask? Well, the new Museum of […]
So, I had one of my oldest friends visiting me here in South Florida for the wedding of his daughter this past weekend. We both grew up in the Bronx where graffiti was prevalent wherever you went. From tenement walls to building lobbies and elevators to public restrooms and just about every train you’d hop […]
Guadalajara, located in the Western-Pacific area of Mexico, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The Guadalajara metropolitan area has a reported population of over five million inhabitants, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Mexico, behind Mexico City. It’s also the tenth-largest Latin American city in population, […]
Founded in 1929 by by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) officially opened on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash(!). It was housed in six rooms of galleries and offices […]
During a short visit to Mexico City a few weeks ago, I decided to stop into the largest and most visited museum in Mexico – Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology). The building was designed in 1964 by award-winning Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, along with Jorge Campuzano, and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca, and […]
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibitions highlight Miami’s diverse community and pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it became known as […]
