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Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University, founded in 1958, is housed in a building designed by noted American architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and completed in 1986. In 2003, the museum inaugurated its Studio Arts Program, offering courses in painting, drawing, design, and other disciplines taught by professional artists. Classrooms are located in the Riverfront complex along the scenic New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale. An active performing arts program, including Inside Out as its resident theater company, is scheduled in the museum's 256-seat Horvitz Auditorium. The museum has now become well known for its exhibitions, which have ranged from Diana: A Celebration to Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, and for the highly regarded Artist in Residence Program, which broadens the sphere of conversation about contemporary art. The Museum of Art has become one of South Florida's leading cultural attractions. Since 2003, it has broken all South Florida museum records by hosting more than one million visitors. The Museum's collection of more than six thousand works is international in scope, while strongly reflecting the creative expression of the cultures of South Florida and the Caribbean. The collection includes significant works by the American artist William Glackens, by the artists of the northern European CoBrA movement and by contemporary Cuban artists. It is the mission of the museum to explore the broadest spectrum of visual culture at the highest level of quality.

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Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University

1 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Phone: 9545255500 | Fax: 9545246011 | Official Website

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11/20/11- 04/12/12	Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University November 20, 2011-April 12, 2012 Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery (November 20, 2011 – April 8, 2012.) This exhibition of Renaissance masterworks comes from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, one of the world’s greatest museums. The Uffizi Gallery dates to 1560 and began its storied history as the repository of the priceless collection of Florence’s famous Medici family. Making its United States premiere at the Museum of Art before touring to three other venues,...
10/25/11- 11/07/12	All in the Family: Paintings and Works on Paper by Members of the Glackens Family Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University All in the Family: Paintings and Works on Paper by Members of the Glackens Family Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University October 25, 2011-November 7, 2012 The Museum of Art is the repository of the estate of American painter William Glackens, a member of The Eight and a transformative artist at the turn of the twentieth century. What is less known about Glackens is that he was part of an extended artistic family. He married painter Edith Dimock and their daughter Lenna was a talented young artist. In addition, William’s older brother Louis was a well-known illustrator and cartoonist. Installed in the Museum’s Glackens Galleries,...
08/29/11- 05/27/12	Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldía, 1985 - 2011 Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldía, 1985 - 2011 Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University August 29, 2011-May 27, 2012 Demons, gods, ghosts and beasts are the subjects of this mid-career retrospective of the work of Panamanian-based artist Isabel De Obaldía, who places herself in the long line of modern ‘primitive’ artists – from Paul Gauguin to Diego Rivera – who explore the art of ancient cultures. In De Obaldía’s case, her work is inspired by the simplicity and power of pre-Columbian art, examples of which are included in this installation. Incorporating symbols...
02/24/10- Ongoing	The Many Faces of CoBrA Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University The Many Faces of CoBrA Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University February 24, 2010 - Ongoing In 1978, Dr. Meyer and Golda Marks donated a collection of nearly 1,500 works from their favorite collecting focus – works in all media from the Northern European mid-twentieth century CoBrA movement – to the Museum of Art ?Fort Lauderdale. A very generous and significant donation for this institution, the collection is considered the largest devoted to CoBrA in the United States. The name CoBrA is an acronym of the first letters of three of the central cities associated with...
02/24/10- Ongoing	The Spectacle of Life: The Art of William Glackens Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University The Spectacle of Life: The Art of William Glackens Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University February 24, 2010 - Ongoing When Ira Glackens, son of American impressionist William Glackens, died in 1991, he left his substantial collection of works by his father to the Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale. The original donation included more than two hundred works in a variety of media, later supplemented by another 300 works given by the Sansom Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Ira and Nancy Glackens in the 1950s to oversee their art interests. The Glackens Collection ranges...
02/24/10- Ongoing	The Indigo Room or Is Memory Water Soluble Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University The Indigo Room or Is Memory Water Soluble Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University February 24, 2010 - Ongoing This installation from the heart and hands of Duval-Carrié bespeaks his ineradicable connection to the island of his birth. Knowledgeable about Vodou since childhood, the artist incorporates the religion’s theatrical sacred personages as players in his visual dramas of upheaval and transcendence. Migration out of Haiti, with consequences for the country left behind, is a persistent theme.
02/24/10- Ongoing	Constructed Reliefs from the Maurice and Sarah Lipschultz Collection Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University Constructed Reliefs from the Maurice and Sarah Lipschultz Collection Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University February 24, 2010 - Ongoing Names for this body of work have changed over the decades. Charles Biederman (1906 – 2004), one of the best known artists represented here, used the term constructionism to describe his work, something related to and yet distinct from the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1910s and 1920s known as constructivism. Later, the term structurism was used. By the late 1970s, however, Biederman settled on the simpler term: new art.
02/24/10- Ongoing	Conrad Marca-Relli Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University Conrad Marca-Relli Presented by Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University at Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University February 24, 2010 - Ongoing In the late 1940s, following the end of World War II, a group of artists living in downtown New York created an informal gathering place they called the Eighth Street Club. Conrad Marca-Relli was one of the founding members along with Willem and Elaine DeKooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Barnet Newman, all hailed as pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, the first internationally recognized art movement to originate in North America. Drawing on the artists’ unconscious and...

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Dialect: All Together Now
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