Come visit the Boca Raton Museum of Art free on Wednesday, November 7, between 5:30 and 9:00 PM for a special Meet Me at the Museum event. Cash bar will be available in the Sculpture Garden.
See the groundbreaking exhibition, The Art of Video Games from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, enjoy the topsy-turvy works of Michael Zansky: Dance of the Cuckoos, and learn how quilting is a unique artistic medium for social advocacy with Politics NOT as Usual: Quilts with Something to Say.
5:30 PM – Explore The Art of Video Games
6:00 PM – Docent-guided tour of Politics NOT as Usual: Quilts with Something to Say on the 2nd floor
6:30 PM – Museum Curator, Kathleen Goncharov, tours Michael Zansky: Dance of the Cuckoos
7:00 PM – Docent-guided tour of the Museum’s Permanent Collection on the 2nd floor
Parallel Universes Explored in Dance of the Cuckoos
Boca Raton, FL – Paired with The Art of Video Games, the Boca Raton Museum of Art presents the topsy-turvy world of acclaimed American artist, Michael Zansky from October 24, 2012 to January 13, 2013.
Calling upon his long career as master set painter for film and television, Zansky’s exhibition, Dance of the Cuckoos, features fantastic scenarios and landscapes inhabited by an absurd menagerie of slapstick comedians, giants of music and sports, pharaohs, mythological creatures, human-animal hybrids, and theoreticians of Western civilization.
“Michael Zansky: Dance of the Cuckoos considers the inscrutability of an unpredictable cosmos and questions the belief that we can control our world,” said Museum curator, Kathleen Goncharov.
Einstein famously proclaimed that “God does not play dice with the universe,” but in Zansky’s world, cosmic games of chance are constantly played and reality very strange indeed. Dinosaurs and vaudevillians gaze longingly at the horizon looking for the edge of the universe, often perilously perched on rickety boats on the high seas. His three-dimensional works literally spin. Objects and characters from his paintings gyrate on turntables and are magnified by funhouse-style Fresnel lenses, mounted on grip stands ubiquitous of the film industry. Like a video game designer, Zansky’s works challenge his audiences with puzzles, science, and storytelling.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
The Boca Raton Museum of Art is one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida, achieving international recognition as a world-class visual arts institution for its dynamic, changing exhibitions from acclaimed artists and distinguished permanent collection. The Museum’s many public programs include artist presentations, family activities, art films, the Annual Art Festival, and more than 100 classes per week at its studio Art School. Museum Auxiliaries include The Artists’ Guild, Friends Auxiliary, and Collectors’ Forum. For more information call 561.392.2500 or visit www.bocamuseum.org.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432
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