ON VIEW
April 27 - August 31, 2008
 Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art
Unbroken Ties, as the title suggests, focuses on the survival and perpetuity of Cuban values and the Cuban character beyond the island. The thesis is put forward by way of pointed comparisons and contrasts between works of art created by immigrants and works by nationals. The visual dialogues established herein often break generational, gender, and ideological barriers. More...
April 26, 2008 – January 26, 2009
 Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli (1913-2000), a member of the first generation Abstract Expressionists, is recognized for raising the collage medium to the scale and complexity of monumental painting. A selection of eight works from the Museum’s collection, trace the artist’s development from Abstract Expressionism to Post Painterly Abstraction. Organized by the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale.
April 26, 2008 – January 26, 2009
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Selections from the Museum’s Contemporary Collection
Drawn mostly from the Museum’s Pop art collection and other works from the 1960s and 1970s, this multimedia installation includes paintings by Larry Rivers, Tom Wesselmann, and Frank Stella; prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, and Andy Warhol; and photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. The Rauschenberg works on view celebrate his move in the early 1970s to his Gulf Coast home in Captiva, Florida. They were printed in series at his own studio and the newly founded Graphicstudio U.S.F. (University of South Florida) in Tampa. |
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February 3 - June 23, 2008
 In The Pink: Dorothy Draper, America’s Most Fabulous Decorator
Once in a while there comes along a woman, so absolutely certain in her sense of style, that it makes every other person around her invisible by comparison. The High Style of Dorothy Draper examines the life and career of one of America’s best known interior designers, whose outsized personality, extravagant designs and down-to-earth business sense combined to make her one of the most interesting celebrities, influential tastemakers and powerful design magnates of the mid-twentieth century. This retrospective features rarely seen drawings, sample books, vintage photographs, furnishings, and products from some of her most famous projects, including the Carlyle, Drake and Greenbrier. Items are displayed in galleries that evoke “The Draper Touch," a theatrical amalgam of baroque ornamentation, over-scaled stripes, cabbage rose prints, black-and-white checked floors and high-voltage color. More...
February 3 - June 23, 2008
 The Great Age of American Automobiles
The American automobile has long been an emblem of personality and an icon of fantasy. This exhibition focuses on the height of American automobile design as it flourished in the decades following WWII, when cars became not just vehicles of transportation but vehicles of the imagination. One hundred skillfully and elegantly rendered works, including images of cars actually produced, exotic concept cars, advertising artwork, and sculpted car models, will be displayed alongside a select group of classic vintage automobiles as well as Detroit’s latest concept cars. More...
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