Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) became a household name in the 1990s because of her ability to fold her own experiences into her work. She was born in Mexico in 1907, but often claimed she was born in 1920, the same year as the Mexican Revolution. This is one of […]
(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) – On April 15, 1912, the world’s largest Ship, Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives and subsequently altering the world’s confidence in modern technology. A little over a century later, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium pays tribute to […]
South Florida’s art world just got bigger. From Miami to Palm Beach, old friends and new flocked to NSU’s Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale to welcome Bonnie Clearwater as the museum’s new Director and Chief Curator. Five hundred guests attended the museum’s End of Summer party that also celebrated […]
The Jewish Museum in New York will present Chagall: Love, War, and Exile which, for the first time in the U.S., explores a significant but neglected period in the artist’s career, from the rise of fascism in the 1930s through 1948, years spent in Paris and then in exile in […]
Upcoming Rockwell Center Tea & Talks “Imaging Thanksgiving” Sunday, October 6, 2 p.m. Americans have been enjoying Thanksgiving feasts since the settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 1620s. Join Rockwell Center curator Joyce K. Schiller, PhD for a look at the popularization of this national holiday and the plethora of […]
Museum-wide, Façade, & Roof This expansive presentation of Chris Burden’s work marks the first New York survey of the artist and his first major exhibition in the US in over twenty-five years. Occupying the entire Museum and featuring a dynamic installation on the Museum’s façade and roof, the exhibition offers […]
This fall, the Met invites you to experience an unprecedented Museum-wide collaboration that brings together three centuries of textiles, from seven Museum departments, in nine breathtakingly beautiful galleries: Interwoven Globe is the first exhibition to consider how textile design ideas moved across the world as a result of trade during […]
> The Annunciation (1481) on view for limited time in honor of Israel’s > 65th anniversary. This rare fresco, the first work by Botticelli to be exhibited in Israel, is on display as a special loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence in honor of the State of Israel’s 65th […]