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Deauville, a 45-foot canvas shaped like a racetrack. Stella recalls about the museum's special events and exhibits. She
has said he pictures himself running across a canvas, and has taken in jazz in the auditorium attached to the
the work is meant to show how he finds his inspiration. museum; the show by Jazz at Lincoln Center regular Nicole
Henry show has stuck with Carrara since. And then there's
Howland and S. Donald Sussman are among the
presenting sponsors of the Stella exhibit, and she says the the time Carrara says she became transfixed with
“Nuremberg,” a piece by German painter Anselm Kiefer,
show is indicative of what the museum does well:
showcasing art that needs more attention. “This is one of stark gray and muted browns draw you in to some bigger
meaning, just as good art is intended to do.
the biggest exhibits of Stella’s work ever, and it’s important
for the art world because he is constantly changing and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS AND NEW YORK
improving his work,” Howland says. “When I go to the
museum, I’ve never seen it fuller than it is right now. I think
people are very impressed with this exhibit.”
Speaking to the Times in November about why he chose to
display his work in Fort Lauderdale, Stella said he had
been an admirer of the museum and of curator Bonnie
Clearwater. “When she approached me about this show, it
was a no-brainer for me to say yes because of my
relationship with her and my fondness for the museum,”
Stella said.
With the popularity of the Stella exhibit, the museum has
decided to extend it by two weeks, said Emily McCrater, Installation of Midnight in Paris & New York at NSU Art
Museum Fort Lauderdale showing Hector Guimard and more
communications and public relations manager. It will
continue until July 29. It's easy to think of our world today as constantly changing
from technology. But it was also true at the turn of the 19th
RECURRING EVENTS century, and that's reflected in an exhibit on display now
at the museum.
From children’s events that bring out the mini-muse in every
kid to curator tours spoken in French, the museum has "Midnight in Paris & New York: Scenes from the 1890s –
enough regular events to fill anyone’s calendar. 1930s, William Glackens and His Contemporaries"
features paintings, photographs, and drawings of artists
Regularly scheduled events include the Art of Wine and from America and Europe. The works in the exhibit show
Food Series, which gives attendees the chance to sip and how much New York and Paris began to change in that
eat at tables set up in the gallery. Starry Nights includes era, with skyscrapers and iconic monuments like the Eiffel
free admission on the first Thursday of the month, with two- Tower springing up. Glackens and others became known
for-one beer and wine specials and light bites at the for realistic works that showed those changes, from the
Museum Café. crowded streets to the tenements that housed immigrants.
This year the museum launched a new program called The museum dipped into its archival collection to fill the
Creativity Exploration. The workshops are meant to exhibit. It also features four recent gifts, including art
promote the benefits of creative exploration, which nouveau posters by Alphonse Mucha dating from the
research has sown can reduce stress and improve mental 1890s to 1908 and “Glackens’s Patriots in the Making”
clarity. Workshops were scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. from 1907.
on May 12 and June 9.
In the end, the show is meant to get visitors thinking about
The workshop on May 12 offered a guided visualization how technology influences the world, Clearwater says.
and exploration of Dada artist Marcel Duchamp’s “La Boîte- That’s evident in the way some paintings in the show
en-valise” (Box in a suitcase). On June 9, workshop depict city scenes at night with gas lanterns, and then later
participants can spark their creativity by exploring Surrealist with electric lights. The paintings show vast differences on
movement objects like Salvador Dali’s “Lobster Telephone.” the way the light is cast, changing the very look of the
Members pay $10 for the workshops, non-members pay world around us.
$15. Call the museum at 954-262-0258 to register.
In a similar way, Clearwater says, a museum can help
For Carrara, she says there are many little moments she influence the city around it.

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