September 2018

The following museum activities and programs are planned
at other venues:
Mini Book + Art programs will be at Palm Beach County
branch libraries, 3:30 to 5pm, the first Tuesday of each
month beginning in September.
Book + Art programs will take place 2 to 3:30pm on select
Saturdays at different Palm Beach County library branches
beginning in September.
Afterschool Art Outreach, which provides year-round
art classes to students ages 5 to 18 at eight community
centers throughout the county, will continue and instead of
the normal visits to the Norton, will include free visits to other
cultural institutions.
School Partnerships with Forest Hill Community High
School, Jupiter Community High School, Palm Beach Day
Academy, and four international Spanish Academy schools
will continue at the schools and incorporate art projects into
their curricula.
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RAW: Nina Chanel Abney (Feb. 9-June 25, 2019)
featuring politically minded paintings and other artwork of
the New York-based painter.
Out of the Box: Camera-less Photography (Feb.
9-June 16, 2019): Not all photographers use cameras and
this exhibit proves it by revisiting British inventor William
Henry Fox Talbot’s 19th century “photogenic drawings” and
Man Ray’s surrealistic “rayograms.”
Going Public: Florida Collectors Celebrate the Norton
(Feb. 9-June 4, 2019): Plucked from private South Florida
art collections, these works will showcase Nick Cave, Mary
Cassatt, Roy Lichtenstein and Anselm Kiefer.
Modern Spontaneity: Ralph Norton’s Watercolors (Feb.
9-May 7, 2019): The Norton Museum’s namesake founder
was fond of watercolors, and this collection includes 17 of
them from 19th-century masters Winslow Homer, Charles
Burchfield and others.
Good Fortune to All: A Chinese Lantern Festival
in 16th-Century Nanjing (Feb. 9, 2019-Jan. 28,
2020): These rare, half-dozen paintings capture a 500-yearold
scene: soldiers, children, immortal figures, and acrobats
in reverie during a Chinese Lantern Festival in Nanjing in the
late 16th-century.
The Norton Museum of Art is recognized for its notable
holdings in American, European, and Chinese art and
a continually expanding presence for photography and
contemporary art. Its masterpieces of 19th-century and 20th
-century European painting and sculpture include works by
Brancusi, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, and American works
by Stuart Davis, Hopper, O’Keeffe, Pollock, and Sheeler. P
For more information, visit Norton.org/New.
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ArtSpeaks, the annual, subscription lecture and luncheon
series, will be at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach on Jan. 17
and 18, 2019, and on Jan. 31 and Feb 1, 2019.
The Museum will re-open to the general public on Feb. 9,
2019, with its annual free Chinese New Year celebration
Feb. 16 and Black History Family Day Feb. 23.
Exhibits that will open along with the “new” museum are:
1 – Aerial photo of the Norton Museum of Art taken in September 2017. (Courtesy of
Norton Museum of Art)
2 – Famed British architect Norman Foster examines model of the “new” Norton
Museum. (Courtesy of Norton Museum of Art)
3 – The Living Room visitor area at the Grandview Public Market. (Photo by Nick Mele)
4 – Rendering of planned exterior of the Norton Museum of Art, showing updated
west plaza, circular door and divided Grand Hall. (Courtesy of Norton Museum of Art).
5 – Rendering of new auditorium. (Courtesy of Norton Museum of Art)
6 – Photo of a Norton after Dark event. (Courtesy of Norton Museum of Art)
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