The Bass, Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum, announces the launch of
New Monuments, a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through the museum’s Knight Art Commissions Program established in 2019. Open to artists living or working in Miami-Dade County, New Monuments invites project submissions that visualize a new,temporary monument atop a plinth in Collins Park. The Bass' curatorial team will select one artist each year for five years to create a work that will be on view for 10-12 months at a time. The first temporary monument will be installed around March 2021.
In 2020, we witness an international debate on monuments, reconsidering who they honor, their purpose and relevance and the validity of continued existence. What if we ponder the notion of impermanence and imagine a temporary monument dedicated to the present?
Building upon this context and engaging in current conversations, The Bass initiates a new program titled New Monuments by adding a fifth plinth to Collins Park and calling for artists to create a temporary new monument.
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