Norton Museum of Art
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American Masters at the Norton: Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 22-March-2012 to 02-September-2012
Three exceptional canvases by Joan Mitchell and Clyfford Still, each a master of late twentieth century American painting, will be on view at the Museum from March 22 through the Fall of 2012. Still (1904 – 1980) is credited with laying the groundwork for the Abstract Expressionism movement, which is exemplified by a variety [...]
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Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 07-June-2012 to 02-September-2012
Edward Gorey’s voracious consumption of literature, his love of the ballet, and his off beat and wry view of the world resulted in a sardonic and witty oeuvre. This exhibition explores the diversity of Gorey’s art through original pen and ink illustrations, preparatory sketches, unpublished drawings and ephemera. Drawn from the [...]
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Outside/In: Florida Photographers Face-to-Face with the Museum Collection
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 22-March-2012 to 10-June-2012
Outside/In begins with the premise that no image exists outside of the ongoing collection of images that we are exposed to on a moment by moment basis. The exhibition (the first by Tim Wride, the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography) brings together works by five contemporary Florida artists using photography in proximity [...]
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Tacita Dean
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 03-February-2012 to 06-May-2012
The Norton Museum’s exhibition of work by Tacita Dean focuses exclusively on “photo-based” artworks that have been produced during the past two decades. Born in Canterbury, England in 1965, and currently based in Berlin, Dean initially studied to be painter. Now, much of her artistic practice is defined by the 16 mm film [...]
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Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Roadshow
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 18-January-2012 to 25-March-2012
The Beth Lipman installation will be accompanied by a 10-week visit from the Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Roadshow. The Roadshow is the world’s premiere mobile glassblowing unit, a mobile “hotshop” housed in a 28-foot-long trailer. Corning glassblowers demonstrate complex hot glassmaking techniques using their unique glassmaking equipment to recreate a state-of-the-art [...]
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Cocktail Culture
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 15-December-2011 to 11-March-2012
Cocktail Culture is one of the first multi-disciplinary exhibitions to explore the social rituals of the cocktail hour through the lens of fashion and design. Featuring more than 150 objects, including attire, accessories, ads, decorative arts, illustrations, photography and more from the 1920s to the present, the exhibition will leave you [...]
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Recent Acquisitions: Photography
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 01-October-2011 to 01-January-2012
During the past year, the Museum was fortunate to acquire through gift and purchase significant works by a younger generation of photographers with fresh insight into the use of the camera. Their photographs run the gamut of making us see the fascinating in the mundane and quotidian to creating a sense [...]
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Tacita Dean
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 03-February-2012 to 06-May-2012
The Norton Museum’s exhibition of work by Tacita Dean will focus exclusively on her “photo-based” artworks produced over the past two decades. Born in Canterbury, England in 1965, and now based in Berlin, Dean initially studied to be painter. Now, the 16 mm film camera defines much of her artistic practice [...]
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Studio Glass: Works from the Museum Collection
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 18-January-2012 to 27-May-2012
Exhibition: “Studio Glass: Works from the Museum Collection”.
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Beth Lipman: “A Still Life Installation”
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach From 18-January-2012 to 27-May-2012
Exhibition solo: works by Beth Lipman.
