This week's New York Magazine features a look into Miami's progressing art scene. The feature specifically targets Miami developer, Craig Robins, and his plan to start a free postgraduate art program.
"The son of a local developer, Robins is a Miami Beach native who’s
always had an interest in art (he wanted to trade in his graduation
Rolex for a Salvador Dalí print). He learned that there’s added value
in a cleaned-up bohemia. “Everybody thought these properties were
useless,” he recalls of South Beach’s cheaply purchased Art Deco
buildings, many of which his company restored as boutique hotels and
chic retail strips. Artists were a key part of the mix that revived the
area: Courtesy of Robins, many found themselves with subsidized studio
spaces or special commissions—enough that in 1992, this magazine
christened the resort “SoHo in the Sun.”
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