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Art After Dark Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of The Hamptons International Film Festival

Art After Dark Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Hamptons International Film Festival

The Festival, which has a knack for picking best-picture Oscar winners, will screen
The Black Swan; film's Production Designer will discuss the movie

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (Feb. 9, 2017) – The Norton Museum of Art hosts the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) during Art After Dark on Feb. 23 as the festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with the screening of the 2010 film, The Black Swan. The festival has selected 25 cities across the country to screen 25 films that it championed during the past quarter century. It has screened the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner in seven of the last eight years. A discussion with Swan production designer Thérèse DePrez follows the screening, which begins at 6:30 p.m. and is free.

DePrez won the Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award for the film, and also was nominated for Best Production Design for the film by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The film, which was directed by Darren Aronofsky, also won Natalie Portman a Best Actress Oscar. (Portman is nominated again for the film Jackie.. DePrez has worked on numerous films, including High Fidelity (2000), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007), and Howl (2010).

The HIFF was founded to celebrate independent films, and now attracts more than 25,000 visitors to theaters across the New York communities of East Hampton, Southampton, Montauk, and Sag Harbor.

The evening’s Art After Dark schedule is as follows:

5:30-6pm / 15-minute SPOTLIGHT TALKS Celebrating Abstract Art

5:30 p.m. - Hans Hoffman's Smoky

5:45  p.m.  Morris Louis's Autumnal

5-6:30 p.m. / Music: Karrie Griffiths & Jose Lezcano
The duo performs classical flute and guitar music from Spanish and South American composers.

6-8 p.m. / Sketchbook Thursday: Life Drawing | Dance
Led by teaching artist Sammi McLean, and with a professional dancer as live model, learn to the methodology used to draw bodies and faces.

6 p.m. / Curator's Conversation: Svenja Deininger Second Chances First Impressions Cheryl Brutvan, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Contemporary Art, illuminates Svenja Deininger’s work in the RAW (Recognition of Art by Women) exhibition. / Davis

6:30-8:45p.m. / Film: The Black Swan
Hamptons International Film Festival 25th Anniversary film screening and discussion

7-7:30 p.m. / SPOTLIGHT TALKS: Celebrating Abstraction

7 pm Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled / Fiterman

Until 8:30 p.m. / Beverages and snacks by Potions in Motion

About the Norton Museum of Art

Founded in 1941, the Norton Museum of Art is recognized for its distinguished holdings in American, European, and Chinese art, and a continually expanding presence for Photography and Contemporary art. Its masterpieces of 19th century and 20th century European painting and sculpture include works by Brancusi, Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso, and American works by Stuart Davis, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Pollock, and Sheeler.

The Norton presents special exhibitions, lectures, tours, and programs for adults and children throughout the year. In 2011, the Norton launched RAW (Recognition of Art by Women), featuring the work of a living female painter or sculptor and funded by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund/MLDauray Arts Initiative. In 2012, the Norton established the biennial, international Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers in partnership with Beth Rudin DeWoody, named in honor of her late father, Lewis Rudin.

In 2016, the Norton broke ground for a visionary expansion designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners, under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster. The project reorients the Norton’s entrance to the main thoroughfare of South Dixie Highway, restoring the symmetry of the museum’s original 1941 design, and includes a new 42,000-square-foot West Wing that doubles education space, and increases gallery space for the Norton’s renowned collection. The transformation of the Museum’s 6.3-acre campus will create a museum in a garden, featuring new, verdant spaces and a sculpture garden.

The Norton is located at 1451 S. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach, FL., and during construction through December 2018 is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday, noon to 9 p.m., and is free to the public. The Museum is closed on Mondays and major holidays. For additional information, please call (561) 832-5196, or visit www.norton.org.