Band of Outsiders: Walking the Outsider Art Fair with Katherine Jentleson

The Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, announced that some 80 artworks will be added to the museum's collection via a combination of acquisitions and promised gifts. The new works cover a wide range of mediums and time periods, in step with the museum's focus on European, American, and Chinese art.

Highlights include one of Fred Eversley's parabolic lens sculptures; a 1981 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Mary Cassatt's drawing Mother Jeanne Nursing Her Baby; a trio of works (a film, a painting, and a sculpture) by Rashid Johnson; and three new blue-and-white porcelain objects from the Qing dynasty.

The Norton Museum of Art -- the largest institution in Florida -- reopened in 2019 after an extensive renovation by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster's firm Foster + Partners. The new building added 12,000 square feet of gallery space, along with a sculpture garden. Current exhibitions include "Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection," featuring wearable objects by artists like Picasso, Dali, Jeff Koons, and Alexander Calder, and "Achromatic Scales," featuring photographic installations by Leslie Hewitt.