Stepping into the Vatican Splendors exhibit is like stepping back in time as it leads you on down a cobblestone pathway toward an illustration of what St. Peter’s tomb must have looked like.
Celtic Woman, a smash hit around the globe, comes to Broward Center for the Performing Arts with their newest live show, Sunday, February 6 at 2:00pm. The awe-inspiring vocalists Lisa Kelly, Chloë Agnew and our newest member Lisa Lambe along with the mesmerizing Celtic violinist Máiréad Nesbitt continue to capture the hearts of fans across [...]
The Museum is hosting a Books & Books grand opening weekend Jan. 13-16, which includes free Museum admission, special events, author appearances and $2 off Vatican Splendors exhibition pre-sale tickets, which opens January 29th. Events include:
WHAT: Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art, one of the largest collections of art, documents and historically significant objects from the Vatican to ever tour North America, will be on view at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, from Jan. 29-April 24, 2011. Group tickets (for groups of 15 [...]
The Las Olas Art Fair kicks off the season with the very first art show of 2011. This South Florida tradition, regarded as one of the top events in America, has attracted locals and tourists alike for the past 23 years because of the wide variety of fine art on display and for sale. Only [...]
Remember the beloved Holiday pop-up books of your childhood? Remember how with each turn of the page a world of three-dimensional beauty would fill your eyes with warmth, color and delight? Share that experience again with your children or grandchildren for FREE with paid Museum admission on Saturday, December 12, 2010 at 2 pm at the [...]
The first Skolnick Jazz and Arts Festival is scheduled for Sunday, November 14th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Herb Skolnick Community Center which is located at 800 SW 36th Street. Come and enjoy relaxing jazz performed by the South Florida Harmonica Band, Jazz Delight and Nostalgia. Seating is available, but people are [...]
The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale will showcase 3-D Pop Artist Charles Fazzino’s exhibition entitled “Faces of Fort Lauderdale” from Dec. 9, 2010-Jan. 9, 2011 (Lobby Section of the Museum). The exhibition celebrates the 2011 City of Fort Lauderdale Centennial Celebration and Charles Fazzino’s role as the Official Centennial Artist. Charles Fazzino has become [...]
The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale will host an exhibition of drawings by Pop Art star Tom Wesselmann, which was originally conceived by Wesselmann and his wife, Claire, before the artist’s untimely death in December, 2004. Last year, Claire Wesselmann revisited the project with Emilio Steinberger, Senior Director of Haunch of Venison gallery, to [...]
Museum of Discovery and Science is making community waves… Walmart partners with Museum of Discovery and Science to offer “$5 Days” admission on select days in 2010 and 2011. Visitors can explore hundreds of hands-on exhibits at the Museum for just $5 per person on Saturday, January 8 and June 4, 2011. From October 2, [...]
Recently, Studio 18 in the Pines opened their artist working spaces to a huge crowd complete with a ribbon-cutting and lots of pomp and circumstance. If you have the opportunity to visit the location at 1101 Poinciana Drive in Pembroke Pines, you will see the amazing transformation of a former hospital laundry facility that is [...]
The Fourth Annual Bonnet House Orchid Fair will bring a burst of color to the historic Bonnet House Fruit Grove on December 4th and 5th from 10am to 5pm with brilliant blooms in a natural setting! Over 30 local vendors will participate in this unique plant sale featuring a colorful collection of flora as well [...]
Bonnet House Museum & Gardens and St. Lawrence Gallery inaugurate the fourth installment of the annual Best of the Artists Series Thursday, Sept. 9 at the St. Lawrence Gallery. This show runs through October 2 and includes works by Mary Belle Cordell, Marilyn Johansen, Joan Keirstead and Nia Nakis. These exhibitions at the St. Lawrence Gallery [...]
The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, continues its delectable wine and food pairings with exquisite art during its “Art of Wine and Food” tasting series. The once-a-month series gives attendees a social, fun and educational opportunity to learn about delicious wines and foods, as well as the chance to enjoy the [...]
The Old Davie School Historical Museum will be holding its 8th Annual Juried Art Exhibit from June 18, through July 31, 2010. An Opening reception will be held on Friday, June 18, from 7 to 9 p.m. Works in the exhibit include
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale’s Mark K. Wheeler Gallery will be hosting a guest artist solo exhibition featuring the work of Stanford Slutsky. “The Shape of Things” exhibition commences with the opening reception Tuesday, June 8 and runs through Thursday, July 29, 2010.
The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation—the leading advocacy group for the preservation of Florida’s historic sites—has kept Bonnet House Museum & Gardens on its list of the state’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Sites for the third straight year. The Trust took this step due to the continued threat to Bonnet House posed by the possibility [...]
Everyone is invited to the exhibition, Natural Forces: Broward County Public Art & Design, which will run from May 10 – June 30, 2010, at the Broward County Governmental Center, in downtown Fort Lauderdale. This traveling exhibition has visited the length and breadth of Broward County—at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood in the [...]
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. –– The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, is encouraging budding artists to attend its 2010 Creative Summer Art Academy (CSAA) by holding a Merit Scholarship Competition. The competition, open to students entering grades 1-12 and interested in the Creative Summer Art Academy, will take place on Saturday, April [...]
The World’s Favorite Mischievous Monkey Arrives in West Palm Beach on June 17 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Curious George®, the irrepressible little monkey who has captured children’s hearts for generations, jumps into action when he takes the stage in the inaugural tour of Curious George Live! Curious George swings onto the stage at Kravis [...]
Editor’s note: Video is a Lou Lautin Production (www.lewlautinphotographer.com) It was all about the arts Tuesday afternoon as art teachers and their supporters gathered on Las Olas, near the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, to protest planned budget cuts to arts, music, library and PE programs, primarily in the elementary schools.
If you email, you’ve most likely seen Julian Beever’s amazing optical-defying sidewalk chalk illustrations that have been circulating on the Internet since 2004. The fascinating art projection is called “anamorphosis”. Beever’s colorful drawings appear to defy the laws of perspective by appearing to be three dimensional (http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm).
Everyone in Broward County is invited to the exhibition, Natural Forces: Broward County Public Art & Design, which will run from March 4 – April 24, 2010 at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, 2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33065. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 4, from 6:00 – [...]
Journey with fascination into the depths of a city that ignites with light, color and flights of fancy when Cirque Dreams Illumination brightens up Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, March 10 -14. Tickets on sale now.
The City of Tamarac invites the public to join the Mayor and Commission for the official dedication of “Under the Shadow of a Big Tree”, by Ilan Averbuch, at Tephford Park (10003 Southgate Boulevard). The dedication will take place on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at
