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feet of exhibition space and sprawling 5,000-acres,
strategy and walk away from a business with a billion
complete with artificial lakes and luscious vegetation.
dollars in your pocket. What would you do with your fortune? Give it to the kids? Invest in another enterprise? Save the world?
Inhotim is rapidly becoming a major tourist attraction in Minas Gerais by offering gourmet dining, luxury hotels and spas, and a cultural center that hosts film
There are many worthy projects that beg for the major injection of funds. Former mining tycoon, Bernardo
festivals, music concerts, and theater performances, and international policy meetings.
Paz, decided to build an enormous contemporary art museum, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, in the southwestern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Every
Paz spends about $20-million on the upkeep and the
year more than 250,000 visitors are attracted
continuing evolution of Inhotim --employing thousands
to Inhotim. In a true multi-media fashion, Inhotim
of locals to who support the activities of this major
exhibits the major works of the most important
attraction. Paz believes that his creation will continue
international artists of our time strategically placed
to benefit the citizens of Minas Gerais as well as the
among 1,500 species of palm trees and tropical
entire population of our planet for hundreds of years
vegetation. It would take a casual visitor a few days to
to come. We certainly wish Senor Paz success in his
wander through its dozens of galleries, 115,000 square-
projects. ML
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