PB Art Scene

PB Art Scene

Palm Beach continues to present a strong art front. “Street Smarts” by Deborah Brown opened to the public on in December with many women attending to support this female artist including Sarah Gavlak, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Arden Sherman of The Norton Museum, and Irene...
Ann Norton Was Ahead of Her Time

Ann Norton Was Ahead of Her Time

An excerpt from PALMER, Vol 4, Ch. 2, Ahead of her Time by Alexa Brazilian… There is a faded photograph of the sculptor Ann Weaver Norton, working in her lush garden in Florida in 1962. Her tiny, barely five-foot frame, dressed in a skirt suit, pearls, and a...
Nicola Erni

Nicola Erni

Nicola Erni – the extremely private collector of contemporary art and photography now on view at The Norton Musuem; married to billionaire Marcel Erni – cofounder of Partners Group, a Swiss private equity firm with more than $127 billion in assets under...
Changing of the Guard

Changing of the Guard

At 74, J. Tomilson “Tom” Hill didn’t have to head up the board of trustees at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He could have continued collecting his favorite blue-chip contemporary artists—Christopher Wool, Andy Warhol, and Cy Twombly among them—perhaps added...