A lecture with Jon Underwood Bell, Hallstrom Planetarium Director at Indian River State College Wednesday, August 8th @ 10:30 am Leonhardt Auditorium Members: $5 / Non-members: $10 w/admission When we view an image of something in space, most marvel at the beauty of it all. In addition to the artistic merit found in the photographs […]
VBMA Executive Director Brady Roberts will provide an exciting overview of the exhibition Made in Germany: Art Since 1980 from the Rubell Family Collection. Roberts first spent time in Berlin before the fall of the Wall and has been back many times since, meeting contemporary artists and organizing exhibitions. He will combine his affinity for […]
Simulcast Presentation - New York Times bestselling novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter THE LEGACY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Since his first appearance in 1887, Sherlock Holmes has become arguably the most enduring fictional character of the past two centuries. Why? What about Arthur Conan Doyle's creation caused him to outlast his peers in the popular imagination, […]
Simulcast Presentation in Leonhardt Auditorium - Award-winning stage director and choreographer A Life of Opening Nights Rob Ashford is an award-winning American stage director and choreographer. He is a Tony Award© , Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner. He has worked extensively on Broadway productions, on television and […]
Simulcast Presentation in Leonhardt Auditorium - Renowned English novelist and television producer Victoria’s Secrets Queen Victoria is most often memorialized as a stern, black-clad matriarch, but the reality, as Daisy Goodwin, the novelist and creator of the PBS series Victoria, reveals could not be more different. From her close reading of Victoria’s diaries, all 62 […]
Take a tour of Victorian England and the Pre-Raphaelite movement with the “Historian of the Victorian” Kirsty Stonell Walker! Go beyond the Brotherhood artists who created the magnificent artworks of the era, to the women behind the movement, including Elizabeth Siddal, Jane Morris, and Fanny Cornforth. During her presentation, Kirsty will bring these women and […]
Simulcast Presentation in Leonhardt Auditorium - International Fashion Historian Life with the Pre-Raphaelites: Art, Dress & Beauty The Pre-Raphaelites, a secret society founded in 1848 (the year of revolutions in Europe), were a group of young artists whose startling paintings attacked prevailing artistic theories, and whose liberated lifestyles shocked conventional society. While this may now […]
Presented by Taliesin Thomas, Founding Director of AW Asia Ai Weiwei is one of the most provocative and celebrated figures working in the spheres of international art and political activism. His extraordinary range of activities is unparalleled among his artistic peers—from large-scale museum exhibitions that reference traditional Chinese art forms to candid Instagram posts at […]
Karen J. Leader, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, Florida Atlantic University Saturday, October 26, 2019, 2PM Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril, 1899, color lithograph, photograph by John Faier, © 2015, courtesy of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum Visibility in the growing urban populations of the late nineteenth century was shaped by both art and […]
Leslie Amper, Concert Pianist Concert pianist Leslie Amper will present a unique, multi-media piano recital that connects French artists, musicians, and their work during fin-de-siècle Paris. Amper will feature the music of Claude Debussy and Yvette Guilbert; the short silent films of Alice Guy Blaché (with piano accompaniment); and artworks by a variety of artists, […]
The premier Vero Beach lecture program, now in its 38th year, brings the finest arts and humanities scholars to our community. In 2020, the Museum will present four high-profile speakers. Live seating has SOLD OUT! REGISTER NOW for Simulcast seating in the Leonhardt Auditorium. Individual simulcast presentation tickets are also available.
Michael Lasser, Music Scholar Cindy Miller and Alan Jones, Musicians The songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway borrowed from ragtime and jazz to make a new, distinctively American popular music. Irving Berlin, raised in poverty on the Lower East Side, was working as a singing waiter in a tough joint in Chinatown when he […]