Those of us who missed this year’s Bastille Day fireworks celebration at the Eiffel Tower, had a couple of options: looping Charlez Aznavour songs, watching Alain Delon films or seeing Norton Museum’s French Connections. Nothing wrong with the first two, but the third option can’t be found on YouTube. The bite-size exhibit is drawn from the museum’s photography … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 14-16
Art: Allons, enfants, to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach on Saturday for a celebration of all things French (for Bastille Day, which is today). Beginning at noon Saturday and running until 5 p.m., the free festival offers French-language instruction from Natacha Koblova of the Multilingual Language and Cultural Society, classic French film (The Red Balloon), music … [Read more...]
The art of the epistle: Meta-text at the Norton
By Myles Ludwig Handwritten letters are like fossils of an earlier age, docubones from a world B.M. (before Microsoft), and Pen to Paper at the Norton is an exhibition of more than 30 letters from well-known artists dating from the late 18th century to the early 1980s. They are addressed to each other, friends, family, dealers and critics. A midden of text. Few … [Read more...]
Svenja Deininger’s elusive art, at the Norton
By Myles Ludwig The young Austrian artist Svenja Deininger paints shadows and phantoms in textured layers of subdued tones and vibrant colors that sometimes hide and sometimes reveal themselves. Her exhibition of 20 paintings spanning some 11 years is currently marching in carefully ordered formation along the walls at the Norton Museum of Art. Deininger was selected … [Read more...]
N.Y.-based photographer Bick wins Rudin Prize
We can officially say it now. New York City-based Elizabeth Bick is the winner of the 2016 Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers at the Norton Museum of Art. The announcement Thursday night was the climax of the biennial group exhibition that rewards one of the exhibiting photographers with $20,000. Shortly after 7 p.m., Bick heard her name being called out by Beth Rudin … [Read more...]
Norton spotlights quiet beauty of Chase’s landscape
The Norton Museum of Art’s last Spotlight exhibition of the year brings us a drama-free impressionistic work by an American master who taught Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper, and lacks all of the flamboyance associated with its creator. On view (and admission is free) through Jan. 29, William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Hills, Autumn (1893), captures the Long Island … [Read more...]
Emerging photographers, emerging visions at the Norton
For a photography competition extending a $20,000 trophy, this edition of Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers is decisively not very thrilling. Don’t tell museum officials, but we think we know how this one ends. The experimental, the pretty, the safe and the emotional are sharing a large white room inside the Norton Museum of Art through Jan. 15. The four contemporary … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 4-6
Art: The disgraceful election season of 2016 is, thankfully, almost over, and this year on the presidential level, there has been little to no discussion of actual issues. Equally thankfully, some real discussion is available on the question of African-American male life in an exhibition now on through Dec. 18 at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Question Bridge: … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2016-17: Art in Palm Beach County
This season, brace yourselves for an identity crisis. The art and artists being featured are driven by it. Clearly, creativity thrives in the absence of a defined self. In an attempt to come up with something highly personal and unique, artists are pulling deeper than ever from within them. Equipped with more free admissions, night operating hours and themes suited for the … [Read more...]
Ming dragon tiles good addition to Norton’s Chinese collection
Move aside, blue-and-white Chinese ceramics. The new highlight at the Norton Museum of Art is centuries old and once guarded a Chinese temple from the natural elements. On view through Oct. 2 are glazed dragon tiles dating back to the Ming Dynasty acquired by the museum earlier this year. Known as sancai or three-color tiles, the pieces are thought to have adorned the … [Read more...]