into the renovation, enlisting Beyer Blinder Belle. After years of delays, the museum opens Friday, with the $15 entry fee waived for DC residents. It’s a chance for the city—a city that has to deal with the slow-moving board-controlled institutional pace of the Smithsonian museums—to see a risk-taking, fast-talking, immediately likable family with such catholic tastes in art that the switch from one show to the next can seem like completely different museums.
The development took years, and in the meantime, the Rubells got the first taste of what it was like to show their collection in DC when “30 Americans”—a landmark show of work by the most important African American artists of the last few decades, all culled from their collection—opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on the National Mall in October 2011., the massive 25-foot-long painting that usually has the star installation hang at the museum in Miami.
Opening in DC, the family stressed, was not a political move, and the museum is primarily for the neighborhood and art lovers in the city—not the politicians and lobbyists policy experts that fill the500. Well, not exactly.
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