Art: One of the most important exhibits the Norton Museum of Art has ever mounted opened yesterday and continues through Feb. 15. Called Master Prints: Dürer to Matisse, the exhibit includes 40-plus works by some of the greatest masters of art, including Rembrandt, Canaletto, Picasso and Cezanne, in pieces spanning the 15th to the 20th centuries. The exhibit, which includes a video about printmaking, is the Norton’s own and is not traveling, so this is the only opportunity to see this collection. This could well turn out to be one of those exhibits that art fans will remember for years to come; it’s certainly the case that in few other exhibits in South Florida has so much great quality been gathered together in one show. The Norton, 1451 S. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach, is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. General admission is $12 for adults, and this Saturday is free admission if you can prove you’re a resident of Palm Beach County or West Palm Beach. Call 832-5196, or visit www.norton.org.
Film: Chances are you are headed to see Interstellar this weekend or maybe taking the kids to the new Disney animated franchise, Big Hero 6. They will be huge at the box office nationwide, but a small, independent documentary, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, is opening exclusively in South Florida and is worth your attention. The bawdy, brassy Tucker, the so-called “Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” broke the glass ceiling for women performers, liberating them to become more sexually frank, so this film connects the dots between Tucker and such disciples as Bette Midler, Madonna and Lady Gaga. The doc is a passion project of Tucker fans Susan and Lloyd Ecker, who walk us through the 400 scrapbooks that Tucker kept on her life and career. At the Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton.
Theater: Sarah Treem is a successful writer for television, having contributed to the admired HBO series In Treatment and the current Netflix blockbuster, House of Cards. But when she wants to talk about issues, she turns to the stage, as she has done with The How and the Why, a heady dialogue between two women evolutionary biologists with differing theories about the anatomical purpose of menstruation (C’mon, admit it. That’s a subject you have never seen in a play before.) It kicks off Theatre at Arts Garage’s Celebration of Women’s Voices season, with a production featuring Laura Turnbull and recent FAU graduate Elizabeth Price. Call (561) 450-6357 for tickets.
Music: Marshall Turkin spent many years behind the scenes as executive director of the Detroit and Pittsburgh symphonies and of the Ravinia and Blossom music festivals in Chicago and Cleveland, respectively. But four years ago, the saxophonist returned to writing music, and now the 88-year-old composer is enjoying some success as a latecomer to the contemporary music scene. Tonight, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival wraps its last concert of the winter season with a program of music that includes Turkin’s wind quintet, Century Souvenirs, which pays homage to Bernstein, Smetana and Haydn. Also on the program is a wind quintet by George Onslow and the Piano Trio No. 1 (in D minor, Op. 49) of Mendelssohn. The music starts at 7:30 tonight at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth. Tickets are $25. Call 800-330-6874 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. or visit www.pbcmf.org.