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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 194 • One Section
By Max Marbut Staff Writer
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Heat on Friends cools off slightly
$5.8M Donald and Maria Cox Collection will debut Sept. 24
Council panel OKs short-term funding By David Chapman Staff Writer
Photos by Jonathan Duck/Museum of Contemporary Art
Christmas came early at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Maria Cox, a trustee of the institution for 12 years, donated The Donald and Maria Cox Collection, art that she and her late husband began acquiring in the 1970s when they lived in New York City. The donation is an acceleration of a planned bequest that began with the couple’s gift of 48 works in 2004. The current gift of 50 pieces is valued at $5.8 million and nearly triples the monetary value of the museum’s permanent collection. Highlights of the latest donation include Joan Mitchell’s 1986 painting, “Chord III,” two paintings by Philip Guston, a bronze sculpture by Joel Shapiro and Keith Haring’s “Two Dancing Figures” sculpture. The Cox collection comprises 16 paintings, 27 sculptures, 52 works on paper, one photograph and two pieces of ephemera — collectible memorabilia associated with an artist or his or her work. In addition to the aforementioned artists, the entire collection includes work by Frank Stella, Jasper Johns and Malcolm Morley. Sixty artists in the collection previously were unrepresented in the museum’s permanent inventory. Cox also established the Donald Cox and Maria Cox Fund by pledging a gift to support research, conservation, access and growth of the museum’s collection, said Ben Thompson, acting director. Maria Cox, in a news release, said she and her late husband would sometimes visit 28 galleries on a Saturday while in New York, including in uptown, midtown, SoHo and Tribeca. “Don and I mostly agreed on selections,” she said. “If we didn’t agree, we didn’t buy it.” The donated works are diverse in style and media and reflect the Coxes’ taste as they purchased the art over the years. “They went to galleries and exhibits and met the artists,” Thompson said. “They
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Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Acting Director Ben Thompson with Joan Mitchell’s “Chord III,” one of the objects in The Donald and Maria Cox Collection. Philip Guston, untitled, 1971. Oil on paper mounted on panel, 311/4-by39 inches (framed). Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Gift of Donald and Maria Cox. © The Estate of Philip Guston, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
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After weeks of heat, Friends of Hemming Park received a little bit of shade Wednesday. Not much. But enough to offer a sense of optimism, at least for the next couple of months. A special City Council committee reviewing the Downtown park and its future ultimately decided to pass along a recommendation that Friends receive two months of funding. The $58,000 total for August and September is down from the close to $75,000 sought, which is down from an initial sum of $150,000 that had been stowed away by council. Of the $150,000, though, council has decided to set aside close to $75,000 to repay Southwest Whitfield Airlines to fulfill a Friends grant obligation. Friends used that money to pay operating expenses in the past year instead of on a Black Sheep kiosk project that has since stalled. Even with passage, there is still dissent among council members. The motion couldn’t even merit a second early, but did after more than an hour of discussion. The committee vote passed 4-2, with council members Anna Lopez Brosche, Danny Becton, Bill Gulliford and Sam Newby in support. John Crescimbeni and Scott Wilson voted against the short-term funding. Sam Mousa, Curry’s chief administrative officer, was in favor of the short-term funding to provide an “orderly transition,” if necessary. Friends
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Permits sought for $18M Dolphin Pointe nursing facility By Karen Brune Mathis Managing Editor Dolphin Pointe, the proposed 120-bed skilled nursing center north of Jacksonville University, is an $18 million construction project. Developer Colonnades Management Group Inc. landed a $25,000 site-work tree-removal permit Aug. 3 for 13.4 acres for Dolphin Pointe at 3412 University Blvd. It applied this week for a construction permit for the project, a two-story 94,139-squarefoot center and a single-story
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7,535-square-foot support building for the kitchen, maintenance and housekeeping. The site is shown at 14 acres. No contractor is specified. Colonnades Management Group, based in Dayton, Ohio, is led by Greg Nelson, who is listed as the contact on the permit applications. He leads OLT II, the property owner of the nursingcenter site. Colonnades Management is a hospital and health care company. The plans refer to the nursing facility as Building I. Previous plans also show Nelson wants to develop an assisted-living facility
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The 120-bed Dolphin Pointe is slated for 3412 University Blvd., north of Jacksonville University. on the property. Nelson is a 1971 JU graduate who bought the property in July 2014. He did not respond Wednesday to two telephone calls. He previously took the pro-
posed Dolphin Pointe Landing before City Council in 2011, proposed a nursing home and assisted living facility that didn’t go forward. Dolphin Pointe, whose name
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references JU’s dolphin mascot, is expected to work with the university’s Brooks Rehabilitation College of Healthcare Sciences, which includes the School of Nursing. Dolphin continued on Page A-2
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