Comments from the Museum's Executive Director Irvin Lippman and Curator of Contemporary Art Kathy Goncharov on History Becomes Memory:

Introduction

This fall, the Boca Raton Museum of Art joins a worldwide conversation on anti-Semitism by organizing the powerful exhibition History Becomes Memory, featuring four installations by major contemporary artists. Presented here together, Terry Berkowitz, Shimon Attie, Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock...

The oldest juried art competition in Florida is being revamped.

The Annual All Florida, which has been presented at the Boca Raton Museum of Art since 1951, has long been a hallmark exhibition for the state’s local artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and film and multi-media artists eagerly await the opening of the show’s submission period year after year. Now they can look forward to an invitation. Participants in the 65th Annual All Florida...

For some, the idea of serenity brings to mind a blank space, uniform and serene. For Delray Beach-based artist Brenda Hope Zappitell, meditation conjures a different image: a vision of broad color, sweeping lines and gestures, and deeply resonate emotions. In her upcoming solo exhibition, Brenda Zappitell: A Journey of Gestures showing July 25 through August 23, 2015 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the painter shares abstract expressionist works inspired by her travels, life...

Shannon Plumb is a woman of many identities.

In her own life, Plumb is an artist, actress, director, mother, and wife; on screen she’s a bored stewardess, an unexpected Olympic athlete, a would-be pin-up, a bustling businessman, and dozens more characters.  The native New Yorker explores each role with low-tech props and a perfect sense of comedic timing in her ongoing series of short vignettes in Shannon Plumb: What A Character, on view beginning April 21, 2015 at the Boca...