By Sandra Schulman Pulling from a deep collection and even deeper current events, the Norton’s curator Cheryl Brutvan has amassed a stellar exhibit of works from African-American artists. In Art Finds a Way, she builds on some of the buzzier names the Norton owns – Nick Cave’s zany tribal Space Suits, Mickalene Thomas’s hyper-decorative collage paintings – and adds in … [Read more...]
Norton’s new CEO: The museum as hub for creativity and dialogue
Early into a recent interview, it becomes clear why Ghislain d'Humières landed the job of director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art. A native of France with a last name that exudes harmony and elegance, d'Humières is grounded, energetic and has the well-rounded business acumen to take one of Palm Beach County’s most precious cultural jewels to the next level. This … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2020-21: Palm Beach art institutions forge ahead
By Sandra Schulman Palm Beach is counting on the arts and art lovers to rebound this season, with ambitious shows planned, and plenty of outdoor art viewing available. The Norton Museum plans to reopen this month, and the Boca Museum has been renovated and is offering several new exhibits. Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue emerges as a new gallery hotspot. Norton Museum of … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: Norton director Davis resigns; Morikiami to reopen grounds
WEST PALM BEACH — Elliot Bostwick Davis, CEO and director of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach since March 2019, has resigned. “The events of the past months have impressed upon me the importance of being closer to my family and I’m looking forward to returning to Boston and beginning the next chapter of my life,” she said in a prepared statement. She declined to … [Read more...]
Norton opens a fresh look at Rauschenberg
By Sandra Schulman Bicycles, T-shirts, tin cans – everything was fodder for art materials for Robert Rauschenberg, the radical 1950s artist who used the beauty and detritus of the world as his aesthetic. For the next major show in its newly expanded gallery space, the Norton Museum of Art is presenting a large survey of the work of Rauschenberg (1925-2008), tracing the … [Read more...]
Georgia O’Keeffe: Norton takes close look at an American original
By Sandra Schulman Floating bones and flowers in the Southwestern sky are the most famous images produced by Georgia O’Keeffe. As a woman and an artist, O’Keeffe was a mass of artful contradictions, due to her sensual abstract work and her monastic personal style. As her life as an artist evolved, she became a self-created masterpiece with a progressive, independent … [Read more...]
Norton’s movie poster show a summer must-see
By Myles Ludwig The movie poster is a metaphor in design, albeit with a specific purpose: A kind of Coming Attractions on paper. Coming Soon, the new show at the Norton (it opened Friday and runs through Oct. 19), is a marvelous view of design as metaphor. Some 215 movie posters from the U.S. and other countries have been curated from the 3,000-plus collection of Dwight … [Read more...]
Art: The 2019 Summer Season
By Sandra Schulman It’s sure to be a long hot summer, so the cool quiet of museums and galleries offer a welcome retreat. With more of a year-round population in South Florida, cultural centers are offering up more top-notch shows with a lighter touch. The new Norton Museum in particular, with its shady sculpture garden, gleaming new restaurant and water-inspired art, is a … [Read more...]
Four photo shows, endless questions
By Myles Ludwig Process — the origination of something — pre-exists as form, said Heinrich Schenker, the 19th century Ukrainian-born, Vienna- schooled composer, conductor, performer and theorist, and that appears to be the subject of four photography exhibitions I visited recently. In some cases, it was the act of taking the picture, in others it was the act of making it … [Read more...]
Stunningly redone Norton sure to be South Florida cultural landmark
A soft blue light descends upon delicate Chinese artifacts housed inside dark cabinets. Each has a dedicated source of light announcing it. From a distance, the mechanism holding them vanishes, leaves them floating like fragile notes on an invisible music sheet. The room is quiet, ceremonial. The song of hammers and drills can’t touch this sacred space. Nobody dares speak. Not … [Read more...]