{"id":182,"date":"2021-02-09T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=182"},"modified":"2021-02-09T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:35:09","slug":"perez-art-museum-miami-renames-endowment-fund-for-black-art-to-reflect-the-wider-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/latest-news\/perez-art-museum-miami-renames-endowment-fund-for-black-art-to-reflect-the-wider-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami renames endowment fund for Black art to reflect the wider diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement coincides with acquisitions of works by Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones .<\/p>\n<p>The P\u00e9rez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">Art Museum<\/a> Miami (PAMM) has acquired artworks by Kwame Brathwaite, Gordon Parks and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones through the Fund for Black Art, an endowment fund previously titled the Fund for African American Art that has been renamed to reflect a more accurate definition of the Black diaspora in its collection, which includes artists from Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">The announcement was made by PAMM\u2019s director, Franklin Sirmans, during the museum\u2019s eighth annual benefit (hosted virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic) on 6 February to support the endowment fund, which museum patron Jorge M. P\u00e9rez and the Miami-based Knight Foundation launched in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">\u201cThe last four years, and especially the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, have obviously prompted introspection and sparked thousands of constructive conversations,\u201d Sirmans tells\u00a0<em>The Art Newspaper<\/em>. \u201cWhile the fund\u2019s definition of African American was used expansively in the past, this change acknowledges that we are committed to Black art and the Black diaspora on a global level, and that the fund is an infinite and not a finite project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">The works acquired by PAMM include\u00a0<em>Untitled (AJASS Model on Black Background)<\/em>\u00a0(around 1970s; printed 2019) by the Brooklyn-born photographer Kwame Brathwaite;\u00a0<em>Untitled, Harlem, New York<\/em>\u00a0(1963) by the Kansas-born photographer Gordon Parks, and the painting\u00a0<em>Dance in Heat II\u00a0<\/em>(2020) by the Brooklyn-based artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">Brathwaite and Parks both \u201ccreate conversations about the past around art and activism\u201d, and both \u201cfit into our holdings in 20th-century photographs\u201d, while Adeniyi-Jones offers an important \u201cgenerational balance\u201d to the acquisition, Sirmans says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">The exhibition\u00a0<em>Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM\u2019s Fund for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">African American Art<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(until 1 March)\u2014a show that opened in February last year\u2014features some of the artworks the museum has acquired since launching the fund, including pieces that have become cornerstones of its collection by artists like Ed Clark, Juana Valdes, Tschabalala Self and Xaviera Simmons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement coincides with acquisitions of works by Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones . 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