Haiti Place Miami’s Art World Sets Sights on Little Haiti Neighborhood

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  • NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
  • NEWS_POSTED_ON: Nov 24, 2015
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  • Description : The New York Times
    By BRETT SOKOLNOV. 23, 2015

    Photo: Karla Ferguson, director of the Yeelen Gallery in Miami, with a portrait by her husband, Jerome Soimaud, called “Isis.” Credit Ryan Stone for The New York Times
  • Location : Miami, FL, United States

Overview

  • MIAMI — “Everybody’s always looking for the next art neighborhood,” mused Tony Cho, standing amid the scrum outside Gallery Diet. Taking in the scene at its opening night party here, he motioned to another new gallery across the street, its neon sign punctuating an otherwise darkened stretch of this city’s Little Haiti neighborhood. “It’s going to happen here.”

    All the key art world participants were present: affluent collectors, museum curators, local artists and not least, investors like Mr. Cho, chief executive of Metro 1 Properties in Miami and a figure associated with the art-linked real estate surge in the once-industrial Wynwood neighborhood, 30 blocks south.

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