Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

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The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

The Museum of ArtFort Lauderdale , today NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale , is an art museum in the city of Fort Lauderdale in the US state of Florida . It has been part of Nova Southeastern University since 2008 .

history

The museum opened in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center . In 1986 it moved into a modern building designed by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes with around 7,000 square meters of floor space. In 2001 a new wing was added with an area of ​​around 930 m². The exhibitions are shown on around 2,000 m² and a terrace of around 260 m².

Glackens Wing

The wing of the museum, which opened in 2001, contains the largest collection of works by the American realistic painter William Glackens with over 500 exhibits .

Museum politics

The approximately 6,200 objects include ceramics by Pablo Picasso , contemporary art from Cuba and the largest collection of works by the CoBrA group in North America, as well as the Indian cultures of southern Florida and the Caribbean . The museum also focuses on the presentation of contemporary art.

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Bunny Yeager : Both Sides of the Camera .
  • 2013: Wari : Pre-Inca Lords of Peru .
  • 2014: Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://nsuartmuseum.org/museum/about-the-museum/

Coordinates: 26 ° 7 '10.7 "  N , 80 ° 8' 34.4"  W.