Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection

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Collectors since 1967, the Rubell family today owns some 6,000 works of art, from paintings to sculptures, photography, videos, and installations, by the most significant artists working from the 1970s to the present. Their collection is virtually a "Who`s Who" of contemporary art, with works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Rineke Dijsktra, Thomas Struth, Mike Kelley, and Louise Bourgeois, among many, many others. This book showcases their Miami gallery, with about 300 color photographs and reproductions of the most important works in the collection.

"One of the country`s most significant collections of contemporary art is housed in a former Drug Enforcement Agency warehouse in Miami... A clear joy in collecting comes through in the introduction, and in the selections themselves. As Don Rubell notes: `We just bought the pieces that really amazed us at the moment we encountered them.... Every time we buy a work, it`s the same feeling. We always think it`s the most exciting thing we ever looked at`."

- Publishers Weekly