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Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale presents The Indestructible Lee Miller
Oct 4, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016

This exhibition explores the life and work of the pre-eminent American photographer, Lee Miller, from several perspectives: as the favored fashion model in the 1920s for photographers such as Edward Steichen and Arnold Genthe; as the assistant, collaborator, and muse of surrealist photographer Man Ray in the 1930s; as a heralded art and fashion photographer, and as a combat photographer during World … +

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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South
Through Oct 12, 2014

When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South considers the category of “outsider” art in relation to contemporary art and black life. Situating itself within current art historical and political debates, the exhibition features work by self-taught, spiritually inspired and incarcerated artists, alongside other projects based in performance and social-engagement, as well as painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage, that … +

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Aesthetic Decisions at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
Mar 8 – Aug 2, 2015

This group exhibition curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Director and Chief Curator, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, features 20th- and 21st-century works that explore the philosophy of aesthetics. Artists featured include Marcel Duchamp, John Baldessari, Judy Fiskin, Claire Fontaine, Jorge Pardo, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Mike Kelley, the Bechers, Elad Lassry, and Claire Fontaine, among others. These artists challenge the … +

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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Feb 26 – May 31, 2015

Few artists have captured the public’s imagination with the force of painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) and painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886–1957). Featuring over 30 masterful works by Kahlo and Rivera from the renowned Gelman Foundation Collection in Mexico City, along with works from NSU’s own superb Mexican Modernism collection (a gift of Stanley and Pearl Goodman), this exhibition speaks of these … +

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American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Nov 2, 2014 - Mar 22, 2015

Martin Z. Margulies has avidly collected photographs for over 20 years, and this exhibition, American Scene Photography, is drawn from his extensive collection. The Margulies collection reflects Mr. Margulies’s own interest in the human condition. This is especially evident in his collection of photographs from the first decades of the 20th century to the present, documenting the character of America, the beauty … +

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Highlights from the William J. Glackens Collection at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
Through Feb 2015

The Glackens Art Collection covers the artist’s versatile talent from 1892, when he made a living as an artist/reporter, to 1938, the year of his death, when he was internationally known as America’s Renoir. This encyclopedic collection boasts a wide variety of examples of Glackens’s artistry – from casual crayon sketches to a unique hand-carved wooden panel, from rare etchings to heartwarming … +

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Wall Painting Arturo Herrera at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
Through Dec 31, 2014

The Museum of Art has commissioned three art installations for the exterior of its building, the largest being a 30×50 foot mural by internationally-known Venezuelan painter Arturo Herrera that graces the Bernard and Miriam Peck Terrace. Other artists include Jen Stark and husband and wife team Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt, each of whom have designed installations that enliven the three sides … +

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Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen
Oct 12, 2014 - Feb 1, 2015

This exhibition presents paintings by three provocative artists: the work of late French artist Francis Picabia, celebrated for his contribution to the Dada art movement, but whose later figurative paintings remain relatively unknown in the U. S.; work dating from the 1980s to the present by the acclaimed New York artist Julian Schnabel; and work from the late 19th- to mid-20th-century by … +

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Highlights from the William J. Glackens Collection at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
Through Feb 2015

The Glackens Art Collection covers the artist’s versatile talent from 1892, when he made a living as an artist/reporter, to 1938, the year of his death, when he was internationally known as America’s Renoir. This encyclopedic collection boasts a wide variety of examples of Glackens’s artistry – from casual crayon sketches to a unique hand-carved wooden panel, from rare etchings to heartwarming … +