The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is now located in an 83,000-square-foot (7,700 m2)[1] modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) wing added in 2001. The main exhibition area comprises 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2); a sculpture terrace on the second floor adds an additional 2,800 square feet (260 m2) of space.[2] The museum, unlike major museums in nearby Miami, Florida and Palm Beach, Florida, emphasizes contemporary (20th century) projects,[3] although the collection includes works from the 19th through to the 21st century.
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Former name | Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale |
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| Established | 1958 |
| Location | Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| Coordinates | 26°07′11″N 80°08′34″W / 26.11963°N 80.14288°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | 7,500+ |
| Director | Bonnie Clearwater |
| Website | nsuartmuseum |
Among its collection of more than 7,500 pieces[1] are a large collection of ceramics and prints by Pablo Picasso, a collection of Latin American and Cuban art representing the contributions of more than 125 artists promised to the museum by Stanley and Pearl Goodman,[4] and North America's largest exhibition of work from the Northern European CoBrA avant-garde movement.[5] Also included in the permanent collection is a significant amount of African and Oceanic Tribal Arts and art of the Americas.[4] The museum's collections are strong in the cultures of South Florida and the Caribbean.[6]
The museum partnered with Nova Southeastern University in 2008.[7]
Glackens Wing
editIn 2001, the museum expanded, adding the Glackens wing to house a collection of over 500 works from American realist painter William Glackens. The 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) exhibit[8] is the largest collection of his work in existence, and includes both his oldest known (Philadelphia Landscape, 1893) and last completed (White Rose and Other Flowers, 1937) paintings.
Tutankhamun exhibit
editIn December 2005, a traveling exhibit of relics from the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun opened at the Museum of Art. The museum was one of only four venues for this exhibit, touring the United States for the first time in over 25 years. During its four-month run in Fort Lauderdale, over 700,000 tickets were sold.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "About the Museum – NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale". Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "About the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale". Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale. Archived from the original on 2007-05-02. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ^ Gleuck, Grace (23 June 1985). "The art boom sets off a building spree". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ^ a b "About the Collection – NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale". Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ "History of the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale". Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ^ "About MOAFL". Archived from the original on June 5, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
- ^ "Museum of Art, NSU form alliance". Sun Sentinel. 25 May 2008. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ Trelles, Emma (4 February 2007). "Step into his parlor". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ^ "King Tut exhibition at greater Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art proves destination's cultural clout" (Press release). Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau. 30 May 2006. Archived from the original on 12 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-22.