{"id":68955,"date":"2025-09-17T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68955\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:55:08","slug":"norton-museum-of-art-adding-works-by-basquiat-eversley-cassatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68955\/","title":{"rendered":"Norton Museum of Art Adding Works by Basquiat, Eversley, Cassatt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, announced that some 80 artworks will be added to the museum\u2019s collection via a combination of acquisitions and promised gifts. The new works cover a wide range of mediums and time periods, in step with the museum\u2019s focus on European, American, and Chinese art.<\/p>\n

Highlights include one of Fred Eversley<\/a>\u2019s parabolic lens sculptures; a 1981 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Mary Cassatt\u2019s drawing Mother Jeanne Nursing Her Baby; a trio of works (a film, a painting, and a sculpture) by Rashid Johnson; and three new blue-and-white porcelain objects from the Qing dynasty.<\/p>\n

The Norton Museum of Art\u2014the largest institution in Florida\u2014reopened in 2019 after an extensive renovation by Pritzker Prize\u2013winning architect Norman Foster\u2019s firm Foster + Partners. The new building added 12,000 square feet of gallery space, along with a sculpture garden. Current exhibitions include \u201cArtists\u2019 Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection,\u201d featuring wearable objects by artists like Picasso, Dali, Jeff Koons, and Alexander Calder, and \u201cAchromatic Scales,\u201d featuring photographic installations by Leslie Hewitt.<\/p>\n