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Best Solo Art Exhibition
Award Winner 2011

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The museum continues to attract people of all ages with its permanent and traveling exhibitions, children's educational gallery, and expanded sculpture garden.

"European Painting and Sculpture, 1775-1945"

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Areas of interest are French artists from the turn-of-the-century, from Barbizon paintings, Toulouse-Lautrec posters, to the turbulent Fauvist work...
"The Mayers Collection of Modern Masters"

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A stellar collection of 53 works by many of the greatest European masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries like Braque, Campigli, de Chiri...
"American Art"

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Features works by early 20th-century masters Prendergast, Glackens, Pene Du Bois, Stuart Davis, John Marin, and more.
"Modern and Contemporary Art"

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From the op art of Stanciwicz, Bridget Riley, and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to the pop art of Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Warhol, to post-painterly a...
"Prints and Drawings"

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Features more than 800 European and American prints and drawings from 19th-century European drawings to large-scale contemporary works.

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2011 | Best Solo Art Exhibition

Photography is all about capturing the moment, and no show this year captured its cultural moment as well as this collection of photographs from 1956. That's when a beautiful young man named Elvis Presley was just two years into his soon-to-be tumultuous career and poised to change American pop forever. Alfred Wertheimer was a young photographer-for-hire who had never even heard of Elvis when he spent two brief periods with the singer. But the lensman's instincts were such that his hungry... More »
2011 | Best Art Museum

A great museum must perform a delicate balancing act of satisfying the public while also expanding and enhancing that same public's cultural literacy. The Boca Museum has long done an exceptionally fine job of giving the public both what it wants and what it doesn't even know it needs. That has especially been true under the leadership of Executive Director George S. Bolge, who is leaving this summer after roughly 16 years at the museum. During his tenure, Bolge has programmed his share of... More »
2010 | Best Solo Exhibition

Just last year, we were welcoming Enrique Martínez Celaya back to South Florida, the artist having decamped from his Delray Beach studio a year earlier and moved back to Los Angeles. But who would have guessed that the itinerant painter, philosopher, photographer, poet, and publisher -- he was born in Cuba, grew up in Spain and Puerto Rico, teaches in Colorado and Nebraska, and has shown all over the world -- would make a comeback as dramatic as this one-man show For years,... More »
2010 | Best Museum Curator

Curating art exhibitions can seem like thankless work. Not only do curators have to deal with the artists themselves, who are often sensitive and sometimes downright temperamental, but they also have to work with museum directors, a notoriously driven lot with, shall we say, healthy egos. As senior curator at the Boca Museum, where she has been since 1997, Wendy Blazier is the unseen hand behind the scenes. She knows what it's like to run the show from both perspectives, having previously... More »
2009 | Best Art Museum

If variety is indeed the spice of life, then this year's schedule at the Boca Museum was a buffet as satisfying as it was highly seasoned. There were crowd pleasers such as "Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures" and "Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited." There was a massive and far-reaching group show, the "57th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition," and a look at some historically significant photography, "I Shot Warhol Wesselmann Lichtenstein Rosenquist and... More »
2008 | Best Group Exhibition

Nearly half a century has elapsed since the meteoric career of Marilyn Monroe, and a case can be made that we still don't really know the creature who started out life as Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker and ended it 36 years later as a drug-overdose statistic. That premise was beautifully realized in the Boca Museum's "Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe," which used more than 300 works by more than 80 artists to make the case. No such exhibition would be complete, of course, without some of Andy... More »
2005 | Best Art Museum

Yes, we've said it before -- this time last year, in fact -- but we'll say it again: The Boca Museum continues to dazzle. Some of the newness may have worn off the big, beautiful Mizner Park headquarters it moved into nearly four and a half years ago, but the programming has lost none of its luster. After the grand inaugural Picasso show, the museum has steered away from blockbuster exhibitions and emphasized variety. The payoff has been substantial: photography ranging from Roman Vishniac's... More »
2004 | Best Museum in Palm Beach

When the Boca Raton Museum of Art reopened in its spectacular new 44,000-square-foot facility in Mizner Park, it pulled out all the stops. The inaugural show was the sweeping retrospective "Picasso: Passion and Creation -- The Last Thirty Years," which raised a question: Could the museum sustain such a high level of quality The answer, three years later, is a resounding "Yes!" The museum ended 2001 with "Arman: The Passage of Objects," a show as impressive as the Picasso. And under the... More »
2001 | Best Museum

For much of its half-century history, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was crammed into a woefully inadequate structure on Palmetto Park Road -- an acoustically atrocious set of galleries that was hardly worthy of the extensive holdings. Under the stewardship of long-time executive director George S. Bolge, the museum built a solid track record of creative programming, but there was no getting around it: the building sucked. That changed in January, when the new and improved Boca Raton Museum of... More »

Glass Act: There's More to Glass Art Than Dale Chihuly

By Michael Mills | Thu, May 24, 2012

Glass as fine art is now so commonly seen in museums, galleries, and private collections that it's easy to forget how, a century or so ago, most glass was mass-produced and utilitarian in nature. You didn't display a piece of glass as a work of ar... More »
New Times' Beerfest, the 17th-Annual Wine and Culinary Celebration, and Other Food Events This Week in South Florida

By Tricia Woolfenden | Mon, March 26, 2012

As if you needed another reason to obsessively count down until the weekend, this Saturday is the New Times' Beerfest, with a chance to try dozens of beer samplings from Florida craft brewers in addit... More »
See Brad Pitt Up Close! Giant Photos of Him, Bill Clinton, Judi Dench, and More on Display at Boca Museum's Martin Schoeller Exhibit

By Michael Mills | Thu, February 23, 2012

For centuries, the history of human portraiture in Western art was all about likeness. Subjects sat for their portraits, and artists were expected to deliver respectable reproductions of their sitters, who were often portrayed surrounded by the tr... More »
"American Treasures" at the Boca Museum Presents a Smattering of American Greats

By Michael Mills | Thu, January 19, 2012

Like a skater gliding across an icy pond, or someone skipping stones across the waters of a placid lake, "American Treasures" revels in surfaces. It's an exhibition that celebrates sparkling high points, not murky depths. Not that there's anythin... More »
Get Intimate at the Museum

By | Thu, January 12, 2012

It might not seem like it at first, but the face is probably the most intimate part of the human body. Sure, it's also the most public, but no other area of your physical being is a better representation of who you are. Your face expresses every e... More »
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Boca Raton Museum of Art

501 Plaza Real Boca Raton, FL 33432

561-392-2500

Description

"European Painting and Sculpture, 1775-1945"

Daily

"The Mayers Collection of Modern Masters"

Daily

"American Art"

Daily

"Modern and Contemporary Art"

Daily

"Prints and Drawings"

Daily

2011 | Best Solo Art Exhibition

2011 | Best Art Museum

2010 | Best Solo Exhibition

2010 | Best Museum Curator

2009 | Best Art Museum

2008 | Best Group Exhibition

2005 | Best Art Museum

2004 | Best Museum in Palm Beach

2001 | Best Museum

Glass Act: There's More to Glass Art Than Dale Chihuly

By Michael Mills | Thu, May 24, 2012

New Times' Beerfest, the 17th-Annual Wine and Culinary Celebration, and Other Food Events This Week in South Florida

By Tricia Woolfenden | Mon, March 26, 2012

See Brad Pitt Up Close! Giant Photos of Him, Bill Clinton, Judi Dench, and More on Display at Boca Museum's Martin Schoeller Exhibit

By Michael Mills | Thu, February 23, 2012

"American Treasures" at the Boca Museum Presents a Smattering of American Greats

By Michael Mills | Thu, January 19, 2012

Get Intimate at the Museum

By | Thu, January 12, 2012

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