The city of Miami Beach provided a $7.5 million construction grant, in addition to a $650,000 annual subsidy and handling building maintenance. The president of her museum’s board since 2008, Mr. Lindemann, his sister Sloan, and his older brother, Adam (also a well-known art collector), are heirs to a family fortune that Forbes estimates at $3.2 billion. Mr. Lindemann said making the Bass sustainable was key. The ICA Miami would seem perfectly primed to pick up on that challenge of moving beyond the narrow confines of the contemporary milieu and showing the full history of art. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“We don’t want the museum to be construed as ours, it’s the community’s museum,” Mr. Braman said.

Source: New York Times November 30, 2017 22:41 UTC