3 minutes read
By Ana Mengotti
Miami, Jan 14 (efe-epa).- Miami Beach, Florida, is paying homage this week to its significant “Art Deco” heritage, a style that had its heyday between 1920-1939 and the annual cultural festival this year is being held – exclusively virtually – from Jan. 14-17.
In December 2020, President Donald Trump issued a controversial executive order just before he traveled to Florida for the Christmas holiday saying that only architectural styles that do not break with “Classical” (i.e. Ancient Greek and Roman) architecture are acceptable in buildings paid for with federal taxpayer funds.
The Art Deco style brought “modernity to the masses,” Silvia Barisione, the chief curator of The Wolfsonian-FIU museum in Miami Beach, told EFE. Her institution holds an important collection of tens of thousands of decorative and artistic objects and works from many different epochs.