February 2012 at the Museum

Wednesday, February 8
7:00-8:30 pm
Private Viewing and Reception
For members at the Director’s Circle ($2,500) level and above    
Join us for a private viewing of Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery and special reception with Countess Maria Vittoria Rimbotti and Dr. Manuel Guerra, President and Vice President, respectively, of the Amici degli Uffizi, Florence.  This event is presented in conjunction with the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery.  Reservations required by February 3 to Camile Moseley at camile.moseley@moafl.org or (954) 262-0296.
Image Credit: Pietro Liberi (Padua 1614-Venice 1687).  Annunciation, circa 1670. Oil on canvas.  Collection of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.

Thursday, February 9
7:30pm-10:00pm
All Together Now and Twilight Notes present Dialect: Movement A Night of Art and Music
Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
One East Las Olas Blvd., Peck Sculpture Terrace
This edition of Dialect is a one-night-only happening, exploring movement through music, dance, performance art, and video. Open and free to the public. Cash bar on the Terrace.
All Together Now is the Museum’s dynamic gathering of young adults.

Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00 – 3:00pm
Story Time for Families
Medieval and Renaissance stories are featured in this presentation presented in conjunction with the exhibition Offering of the Angels: Old Master Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Enjoy a family story time in the galleries and leave with a sweet treat! Story time is presented at no charge. Families who want to view the exhibition are admitted at the group rate of $15 adults, and $10 children. To RSVP and for more information, please contact Holly Giuliano at 954-262-0241 or hgiuliano@moafl.org

Monday, February 13
2:30 p.m.

Friends Afternoon Tea & Fashion Show

Riverside Hotel
$55 per person
The Friends of the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale hosts afternoon tea and fashion at the Riverside Hotel.  Reservations are required by February 9.  To RSVP and for more information contact Lynda O’Brien at (954) 493-6313.

Thursday, February 16
6:00 – 7:00pm
The conservation of Old Master paintings
Museum Members $5 ; non members $10
Paintings Conservator Claire Barry, Director of Conservation for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, discusses the conservation of Old Master paintings, including the Titian Madonna on view in Offering of the Angels. To RSVP and for more information , please contact Shelley Edwards at 954-262-0221 or shelley.edwards@moafl.org.

Sunday, February 19
3:00 – 4:00pm
The paintings in Offering of the Angels
Museum Members $5 ; non members $10
Eric Zafran, Curator of European art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, speaks on the iconography of the paintings in Offering of the Angels in his lecture, Sin to Salvation: The Cycle of Christian Art. To RSVP and for more information , please contact Shelley Edwards at 954-262-0221 or shelley.edwards@moafl.org

Thursday, February 23
6:00-7:30 pm
The Art of Wine and Food Series
$35 per person.  RSVP is required.  
Host Stephanie Miskew, a Certified Sommelier and author of the stylist food blog The Glamorous Gourmet, takes us on a delicious and exciting tour of fine wines and tasty foods that go with them.

Tuesday, February 28
7:30 pm
Pianist Xuerong Zhao in the Horvitz Auditorium
Free to Museum members; $20 for non-members.
A superb evening of classical music by Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy and Brahms performed by a young pianist from Beijing.

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