Tara Solomon Welcomes You to Season in Miami Principal, TARA, Ink. Public Relations; blogger for Huffington Post
The new Herzog & de Meuron-designed Perez Art Museum Miami is unveiled on December 7th during Art Basel Miami 2013, all eyes will be affixed on our Magic City.
Text Tara Solomon // Photography Navid
SEPT-OCT 2013
There has never been a better time to live in Miami. I tell that to everyone who will listen. Every great city has a golden decade of unparalleled growth – New York in the 1910s, Paris in the 1920s, Rome in the 1950s. The 2010s will belong to Miami.
As a proud University of Miami graduate who has lived in Miami Beach since the late 1980s, I’ve seen my chosen city be cyclically glorified and vilified as its gone through various incarnations, from its hard-partying disco days to its current obsession with art and design.
And while we cannot ignore the impact of our swiftly rebounding real estate market – whose infusion of wealth is due largely to Miami’s new BFFs, the Brazillionaires, who have a penchant for purchasing double-digit penthouses in cash – the true catalyst is the arts.
When the new Herzog & de Meuron-designed Perez Art Museum Miami is unveiled
on December 7th during Art Basel Miami 2013, all eyes will be affixed on our Magic City. PAMM is an insanely brilliant space – every square inch intelligently designed, with expansive water views of the Intracoastal, to boot. And, in case you’re wondering, all the tables for the opening gala have long been sold out (at $25,000 a table, yet).
PAMM’s next door neighbor, the Miami Science Museum, will debut its new state-ofthe-art space – complete with rooftop hydroponic garden – in early 2014. And just over the causeway, Argentine visionary Alan Faena has enlisted starchitects Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas, along with landscape deity Raymond Jungles, to develop five city blocks on Collins Avenue in the 30s, transforming a neglected stretch of beachfront property into an aesthetically gifted microcosm of cool.
Welcome to season in Miami. It’s going to be a great one