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1451 S. Olive Ave. West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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Best Photography Exhibition
Award Winner 2011

Hours: Sun 1pm-5pm, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

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Features special exhibits and a permanent collection with more than 5,000 works, concentrated in European, American, Chinese, and contemporary art and photography.

2011 | Best Photography Exhibition

The best photographers succeed at freezing highly specific instants -- arresting the flow of time and isolating fragments that refine and define it. Richard Avedon, who was one of the best of the best, defined whole eras of our visual culture through his camera lens. This retrospective at the Norton included more than 150 photographs he took for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and the New Yorker (where he was, amazingly, the first staff photographer). The focus may be fashion, but the... More »
2011 | Best Painting Exhibition

History joined forces with art to make this show at the Norton more than just a bunch of paintings. The 40 works included were part of the enormous collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a prosperous Dutch dealer whose inventory was confiscated during World War II by Nazis under second-in-command Hermann Göring. Among Goudstikker's specialties were works from the Italian Renaissance, early Dutch and German paintings, Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th Century, French and Italian... More »
2010 | Best Art Museum

Since its 1941 opening, the museum has grown dramatically, more than doubling its size with one expansion, completed in 1997, and adding 75 percent more gallery space with another expansion a mere half-dozen years later. The museum now encompasses 122,500 square feet. The collection has grown commensurately, so that it's now up to more than 7,000 works, with substantial holdings in European, American, Chinese, and contemporary art as well as photography. And although a surprising amount of... More »
2009 | Best Duo Exhibition

Not since Mr. Reese introduced peanut butter to chocolate has there been such an inspired pairing as this show of more than 40 O'Keeffe paintings and more than 50 Adams photographs. The two met during their first extended stay in New Mexico in 1929, when she was 42 and he was 27. She eventually settled there, while he continued to visit. "Natural Affinities" refers not just to the friendship they maintained for the rest of their lives but also to their connection with the distinctive... More »
2008 | Best Solo Exhibition

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of those artists we think we know oh so well and hence often take for granted. Gigantic close-ups of flowers Check! Bleached-out cattle skulls Check! And it was just such assumed familiarity that made the Norton's "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction" such a delightful surprise. Working from a deceptively simple common denominator -- abstract works making use of more or less circular forms -- curator Jonathan Stuhlman (formerly of the Norton)... More »
2005 | Best Museum

Sometimes, if you come from New York, Boston, San Francisco, Bogotá, or Buenos Aires, it seems that South Florida is a cultural wasteland. But then you visit the Norton. It's a beautiful piece of property located a stone's throw from the Intracoastal Waterway. There, you can immerse yourself in the work of Duane Hansen, Jose Bédia, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollack, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, and Paul Klee, among others. Indeed, the permanent collection includes... More »
2003 | Best Museum in Palm Beach

The grande dame of South Florida museums just got grander: In March, the Norton continued its astonishing expansion with a new 45,000-square-foot, 14-gallery wing that brings the place to a total of 122,500 square feet, making it the largest art museum in the state. This follows the expansion and renovations of the early 1990s, which transformed a small, dignified facility into a cultural institution worthy of its holdings. And those holdings are vast -- so vast that the museum has never... More »

Trashy and Fabulous

By Betsey J. Denberg | Thu, April 19, 2012

In the hopes of celebrating Earth Day with a bit of style, the Norton Museum of Art’s weekly series “Art After Dark” is going green for the night. For this week’s event happenings, West Palm Beach designer Kristen Alyce will present a special fash... More »
Beth Lipman's Glass Installations at the Norton: A Meditation on Life, Decay, and Death

By Mills, Michael | Thu, March 22, 2012

Beth Lipman's One and Others sits in the center of a medium-sized gallery on the third floor of the Norton Museum's southwest wing. At first, it seems thoughtlessly hidden away, far from the main galleries clustered around the Central Courtyard on... More »
We Got Your Culture Right Here, Kids

By Rebecca Dittmar | Thu, March 22, 2012

In the land of eternal summer, high-minded culture can be a little hard to find. Not to say we don’t have culture; it just tends to get overlooked, especially by the young. There are lectures, symposiums, art shows, and literary talks going on at ... More »
Jewelry Sale at the Museum

By Devin Desjarlais | Thu, March 01, 2012

Jewelry sales are normally reserved for the fashionistas of New York City, ladies hell-bent on getting the best deals on this season’s hottest designs. Many people would agree that those jewelry sales should be reserved for that “in crowd.” Well, ... More »
Feminists, Unite!

By Devin Desjarlais | Thu, February 16, 2012

Feminism is alive and well. Enjoy that Saturday at Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach) with the “RAW Symposium: Imagining Feminities.” From 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the symposium will explore how women are represented in contem... More »
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bpbnewtimesbestof | Palm Beach, FL | 139 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of those artists we think we know oh so well and hence often take for granted. Gigantic close-ups of flowers? Check! Bleached-out cattle skulls? Check! And it was just such assumed familiarity that made the Norton's "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction" such a delightful surprise. Working from a deceptively simple common denominator � abstract works making use of more or less circular forms � curator Jonathan Stuhlman (formerly of the Norton) assembled a career overview that let us see O'Keeffe anew. The show, which originated at the Norton and moved on to the museum devoted to the artist in Santa Fe, partook freely from O'Keeffe's many subjects, including those ubiquitous flowers as well as landscapes and still lifes, with some especially inventive takes on the latter among the highlights. The exhibition gave us a well-rounded portrait of a major American artist who was consistently ahead of her time throughout a long, productive career that spanned the better part of a century.

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Norton Museum of Art

1451 S. Olive Ave. West Palm Beach, FL 33401

561-832-5196

Description

2011 | Best Photography Exhibition

2011 | Best Painting Exhibition

2010 | Best Art Museum

2009 | Best Duo Exhibition

2008 | Best Solo Exhibition

2005 | Best Museum

2003 | Best Museum in Palm Beach

Trashy and Fabulous

By Betsey J. Denberg | Thu, April 19, 2012

Beth Lipman's Glass Installations at the Norton: A Meditation on Life, Decay, and Death

By Mills, Michael | Thu, March 22, 2012

We Got Your Culture Right Here, Kids

By Rebecca Dittmar | Thu, March 22, 2012

Jewelry Sale at the Museum

By Devin Desjarlais | Thu, March 01, 2012

Feminists, Unite!

By Devin Desjarlais | Thu, February 16, 2012

bpbnewtimesbestof | Palm Beach, FL | 139 Reviews

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