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BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
The Boca Raton Museum of Art is one of South Florida's finest cultural attractions that presents changing exhibitions of national and international importance, and a wide range of studio art classes, educational programs, lectures, and gallery tours. The Museum's permanent collection includes a superb assembly of modern masters including works by Matisse, Degas, Arman, Modigliani and Picasso; important European and American modern and contemporary works by artists ranging from Louise Nevelson to Andy Warhol; an outstanding photography collection; and important collections of Pre-Columbian and African art.
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432
T: 561.392.2500 F: 561.391.6410
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday - Friday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 12 PM - 5 PM
Current Exhibitions
November 17 - August 8, 2010 African, Oceanic and Meso-American Treasures from the Museum's Permanent Collection
In the first decade of the twentieth century, tribal sculpture was "discovered" by modern artists. These objects - particularly those of Africa, Oceania, and Meso-America - suddenly became a crucial influence to modern art. "Primitivism" influenced the works of Gauguin, the Fauves, Picasso, Brancusi, the German Expressionists, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, the Surrealists, and the Abstract Expressionists, as well as contemporary artists and art movements including earthworks, shamanism, and ritual-inspired performance.
This exhibition features nearly 70 exquisite masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Meso-American art - sculptural figures, masks, ritual artifacts, architectural elements, adornments, and performance items. Visually stunning and intellectually provocative, this exhibition will confront the complex aesthetic, art- historical, and sociological problems posed by collecting and appreciating tribal art. The exhibition presents outstanding masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Meso-American treasures from the Museum's Permanent Collection.
Education
Adult Programs | Children & Family
Educators and Students | Outreach Program
Enrich your experience with one of the Museum's programs for children, students, families and adults. Their education programs encourage lifelong learning and an increased appreciation of cultural diversity for everyone.
Adult Programs: From Art Films to Lectures, Museum Adult Programs offer a chance for adults to learn and apply newly acquired knowledge in an entertaining setting. Museum staff-guided gallery talks such as Curator's Highlight Tours and Art of Seeing provide a deeper understanding of Museum works in an engaging format.
Children & Family: Interactive children's programs like Meet a Master, Create a Masterpiece give students an opportunity to discover, understand and create art. Family programs - ARTful Adventure Sundays and Family Days - are designed to captivate the imagination of visitors of all ages. Special events feature live performances by musicians, dancers and visual artists which enable visitors to better understand and appreciate their art experience.
Educators and Students: The Museum supplements the vital classroom learning experience by providing docent-led tours of our Permanent Collection and temporary exhibitions. Supporting the Sunshine State Standards, Museum tours engage and challenge students to achieve a greater awareness and understanding of the visul arts, language arts, social studies, science and math. Professional development provided by teacher in-service and schoolwide workshops.
Outreach Program: The Museum coordinates outreach programs as a service to those who do not have the opportunity to visit the Museum. For established after-care centers, the Meet a Master, Create a Masterpiece Roadshow assists students (grades 3-5) in learning how to look at art and create their own masterpieces.
The Art School
Walking through the doors of The Art School, they want you to leave the world behind and allow your creativity to flow and flourish! Whether you are a beginner or a professional, they invite you to explore their inspiring catalogue, which offers more than 100 weekly classes and lectures, and 40 weekend workshops for all ages - adults, teens and children. Register for any class, lecture series or workshop by phone using any major credit card. Call today and schedule your Art class now! 561.392.2503.
The Museum Store
Want to get a special memento of your visit to The Boca Raton Museum of Art? Looking for a unique gift for a special someone? Look no further! The Boca Raton Museum of Art Store is known as one of the finest "gift shops" in Boca Raton and in the region. The Art Store offers one-of-a-kind gift items in a variety of price ranges. With exhibition catalogues, artisan jewelry, home and holiday decor, posters, children's books and more. There is something to suit all ages and tastes. Don't Forget; Museum Members enjoy the extra advantage of a 10% savings on all purchases.
Gift Certificates are always available, and you never need an admission ticket to access the Museum Store. All proceeds of online and in-store sales help support the programs of the Boca Raton Museum of Art. They look forward to seeing you soon!
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432
T: 561.392.2500 F: 561.391.6410
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday - Friday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 12 PM - 5 PM
PAST EXHIBITIONS AT
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
April 20 - June 13, 2010 Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer
In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable career. Up-and-coming photographer Alfred Wertheimer (American, 1929- ) was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the "Hillbilly Cat" rising star from Mississippi. Wertheimer traveled with Elvis Presley, capturing the unguarded moments in Elvis's life during that crucial year, a year that took him from Tupelo, Mississippi to the silver screen, and to the verge of international stardom and his crowning as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll." These Wertheimer classic images represent the only candid photos of Elvis ever taken. Shortly after, "the Colonel" restricted access to the young singer. From backstage to onstage, from piano benches to Harleys, from on-the-road to screaming fans, Elvis at 21 presents forty large-format photographs that chronicle with cinematic luminosity, a remarkable time when Elvis could sit alone at a drugstore lunch counter.
April 20 - June 13, 2010 Rememberingstanleyboxer: A Retrospective 1946-2000
New York native Stanley Boxer (1926-2000) is best known for his large scale abstract paintings which have a rich sculptural quality produced by thick, impasto brushwork. This retrospective exhibition features 50 paintings and 13 sculptures dating from 1946 through 2000. Boxer's paintings were championed by American modernist critic Clement Greenberg (1906-1994), famous for his insistence that painters should eliminate subject matter in their work, aiming instead for the purity of abstraction. Boxer studied at the Art Students League and began exhibiting in New York in 1953. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975, and elected to the National Academy of Design in 1993, Boxer became one of America's most eminent mid-century abstract painters, with works now held by every major museum in America including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.
WORLDLY SCULPTURES
CAPTURING MOVEMENT AT
MUSEUM OF ART
Bronze ballerinas and basking bathers decorate the southwest corner of Mizner Park in celebration of Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures, was on display from Jan. 25 through April 27 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
As a French painter and sculptor in the 19th century, Edgar Degas found himself fascinated with ballerinas, racehorses and bathers, and studied their movement which he captured in his pieces. The works remained hidden with the exception of one statue that was shown during his lifetime. After his death in 1917, the wax and clay sculptures were discovered and Degas’ family made the decision to preserve the sculptures in bronze.
“The exhibition Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures is an extremely rare opportunity to view bronze casts made from all 73 sculptures by the great French impressionist master, Edgar Degas, in a single exhibition,” said Wendy Blazier, Senior Curator at the museum. “Only four complete sets of these bronzes exist in the world: in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Musée d'Orsay in Paris; the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen; and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil.”
The artwork shows Degas’ ability to capture gestures, the twist of a figure, and the gallop of a horse.
“Finally, the experience of seeing even just one of these sculptures – the bronze cast of Degas’ Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen from 1881 – the centerpiece of the Impressionist galleries in only a handful of world museums, it is a rare opportunity for any museum to borrow and exhibit this sculpture,” said Blazier. “It is a profoundly beautiful sculpture – modern before its time, shocking in 1881, and is today one of the most beloved works of the Impressionists.”
Because the works are three-dimensional, Degas used the physics of form, mass, balance and movement in his creations. The exhibit is further expanded with the correlating artist's better-known paintings and pastels, on display from museums and private collections.
Boca Raton Museum of Art has an ongoing mission to bring major international exhibitions to the area while cultivating long-range exchanges of the visual arts with museums around the world, she said.
“The museum is committed to bringing major international exhibitions to its galleries, while developing long-range exchanges of the visual arts with museums in other countries. Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures is just such an exhibition,” she said. “Degas in Bronze at the Boca Raton Museum of Art affords us the rare opportunity to bring this masterpiece to South Florida, accompanied by 72 other posthumously cast Degas bronzes.”
Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures was on display January 25 - April 27. Boca Raton Museum of Art, In Mizner Park, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Hours: Sun., Mon. noon – 5 p.m.; Tues., Thurs., Sat. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Wed., Fri., 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., closed holidays. www.BocaMuseum.org
