Norton Museum: Art After Dark

Thursday, February 23rd from 5-9pm enjoy Art After Dark/Masterpiece and Movies at the Norton Museum of Art. The Norton’s popular weekly program Art After Dark – Where Culture and Entertainment Meet! The evening presents an eclectic and fascinating mix of art, music, film, and more, including docent-led tours exploring a particular theme in the Museum Collection or a special exhibition, and Curators’ Conversations focusing on exhibitions they’ve organized. Art workshops and demonstrations are also part of the fun. 

Free Admission         

5:30-6 PM / Spotlight Talks: Celebrating Abstraction
5:30 PM / Hans Hoffman’s Smoky / Nessel Gallery
5:45 PM / Morris Louis’s Autumnal / Nessel Gallery   

5-6:30 PM / Music: Karrie Griffiths & Jose Lezcano
Enjoy classical flute and guitar music from Spanish and South American composers. / Central Courtyard

6 PM / Curator’s Conversation: Second Chances First Impressions
Cheryl Brutvan, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Contemporary Art, illuminates Svenja Deininger’s work in the RAW exhibition. / King Gallery

6:30-8:30 PM / Film: Hamptons International Film Festival 25th Anniversary
Join us for the kick-off event of the 25th anniversary of the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF), which was founded to celebrate independent film, and attracts over 25,000 visitors to theaters across the New York communities of East Hampton, Southampton, Montauk, and Sag Harbor. HIFF has screened the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner in seven of the last eight years and is the only Festival on the East Coast with such a distinction. There will be a showing of the film Black Swan, for which Natalie Portman won a Best Actress Academy Award. Followed by a Q&A with Thérèse DePrez, production designer for Black Swan,  who won the Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award for Contemporary Film and was nominated by BAFTA for Best Production Design for her work in the film. / Fisher Gallery

7 -7:30 PM / Spotlight Talks: Celebrating Abstraction
7 PM / Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled / Fiterman Gallery
7:15 PM / Bill Jenson, Luohan IV (Blue for Joan Mitchell), / Fiterman Gallery
Until 8:30 PM / Bar by Potions in Motion / Central Courtyard

Schedule is subject to change.

This program is made possible in part through the generosity of The Addison Hines Charitable Trust.