Join Jonathan Fineberg, PhD, art historian, and author of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, and NSU Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater, for a discussion on Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands.
This paid ticket includes day-of museum admission.
Bookplate-signing of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates follows in the Museum Store. Must pre-purchase book to receive bookplate.
Jonathan Fineberg is Professor and founding Director of The Ph.D. in Creativity at Rowan University. He is also William Edward and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois and Trustee Emeritus of The Phillips Collection in Washington, where he was founding Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art. He is the author of The Innocent Eye: Children’s Art and the Modern Artist; Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being; Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain; monographs on Robert Arneson, Zhang Xiaogang, and Alice Aycock, among more than thirty other books and exhibition catalogues, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On The Way To The Gates, 20th Anniversary Edition which Yale is publishing in March. He also co-created Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art (an award-winning PBS television documentary and a Yale University Press book).
When: Sunday, February 23, 2025
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: NSU Art Museum – One East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Price: Free for Members | $16 for Non-members
NSU students, faculty and staff can activate their free individual membership HERE.
Link: https://nsuartmuseum.org/event/fineberg/
Contact: 954-525-5500 | moareservations@moafl.org
Image credits: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83
Photo: Wolfgang Volz. Copyright: 2024 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation
Collection NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale: Gift of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation