The 1941 entrance of the Norton Museum of Art. WEST PALM BEACH — The Norton Museum of Art, which has been closed since May 30 to prepare for a three-year construction project, will reopen Tuesday, with admission free until late 2018. The Norton is undergoing a major overhaul and expansion under the direction of the eminent British architect Norman Foster. The museum’s … [Read more...]
Norton’s ‘This Place’ explores ‘otherness’ of Israel
By Sandra Schulman The Norton Museum of Art is the first U.S. venue to host This Place, an international photo exhibition that explores Israel and the West Bank. “I wanted to do a broad-ranging exhibition that looks beyond the headlines,” said photographer/curator Frederic Brenner. “It was not done to connect the dots.” Brenner started the project in 2008 to “try and … [Read more...]
The ageless Everglades, old and new, at the Norton
No landscape carries the beauty and the beast within it better than the Florida Everglades. More than 200 images capturing its changing habitants and moods compose an ongoing exhibition titled Imaging Eden: Photographers Discover the Everglades. I know what you are thinking. Shouldn’t this read Imagining Eden? No. The photography exhibit organized by the Norton Museum has … [Read more...]
Kristalova at the Norton: A dark, necessary Wonderland
Better than looking at art is to be part of its history and development or, better yet, to have a personal association with it. Since we cannot all be muses, we take the next best thing: being the first to see it. An ongoing exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art offers that opportunity through March 29. A strong personal voice fills the galleries housing porcelain and glazed … [Read more...]
Norton’s 500 years of prints a true master’s course
To the large crowd that attended his recent talk while still holding their magnifying glasses, Norton Museum curator Jerry Dobrick said the museum was incredibly lucky. And he was not talking about a large monetary donation. Dobrick, the museum’s curatorial associate for European art, was referring to the 43 works by old and modern masters that make up Master Prints: Dürer to … [Read more...]
Norton’s ‘Industrial Sublime’ a poem of water, iron, stone and sky
If New Yorkers won’t come to New York, the city will come to them, in the form oil paintings, watercolors and oil pastels with impressionist, cubist and realist tones. A rich selection of works depicting the pros and cons of the booming city makes up Industrial Sublime, which opened March 20 at the Norton Museum. The gallery rooms are filled with cityscapes by famous and … [Read more...]
Whimsical jewelry captivates at Norton’s Webb exhibit
A gypsy monkey, a turtle and twin frogs are having the time of their life, and not just because they are made of gold, rubies and diamonds. Framed by elegant green walls, these bejeweled animals are among 80 jewelry pieces enjoying a great deal of attention at the Norton Museum of Art. On view since January, David Webb: Society’s Jeweler is like an expensive Christmas … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 1-2
Art: This is the last weekend to see Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Landau is a philanthropist and a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States and the exhibition on display at the Norton is a selection of the more than 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper that Landau gifted to the … [Read more...]
Leibovitz at the Norton: Scenes from the eye of a ‘reluctant director’
By Tom Tracy Leonardo DiCaprio is wearing a living swan around his neck, while Allen Ginsberg is caught tying his shoe in a grungy bathroom. And the Rev. Al Sharpton sits in a beauty salon with his hair up in curlers under a dryer. Yet the laid-back Annie Leibovitz, one of American popular culture’s leading portrait photographers for four decades, said she has never pushed … [Read more...]
Norton unveils a congenial set of changes
“Visitor experience” is a phrase one hears a lot these days when museums are the topic of discussion. Now, more than ever before, many, as a direct result of cuts in government funding for the arts, are focusing on how to make changes that keep people coming back to the museum because it is an enjoyable place to be. This can also mean that museums must now find ways to … [Read more...]