944 Magazine and Supermarket Creative have partnered with the Bass Museum of Art to present "SWANK: A Mad Tea Party...". Join us for a memorable evening of delicious cocktails, savory hors d’oeuvres, music, art, architecture and fashion appreciation. We invite you to fall down Alice’s rabbit hole and join us for an amazing mad tea party --- where the guest of honor is you!

See the stunning cutting-edge video exhibit VOOM Portraits Robert Wilson alongside master paintings of Splendor in the Bass, and experience a unique "mad tea party" installation like no other! Come to Wonderland and get ready for other surprises at the Bass on this special night.

Special Live DJ Performance Presented by Base LIFE PROJECT with DJ Lauren A.

This event is invitation only

Members will receive invitations with time of event and RSVP information via post. If you are not a member SIGN UP NOW by logging onto bassmuseum.org/membership and support. This is an event not to be missed!

During the last quarter of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th century, portrait painting flourished as in no other era. The 18th century English painters were avowed admirers of female beauty, courage, and panache – characteristics shared by the courtesans whom they painted – and left posterity a living testament to these women. But, who were the sitters?

This illustrated presentation will answer this question and give a glimpse into Georgian society by fleshing out the living women behind the exquisite portraits as well as the artists who immortalized them.

Jo Manning, a graduate of Queens College and Syracuse University, was the founder and director of the Reader’s Digest General Books Library in New York City and is the author of novels and short stories set in the 18th century. Among them the award-winning Seducing Mr. Heywood (New American Library) and My Lady Scandalous (Simon & Schuster), that was her first non-fiction work.

Free with museum admission

The program features works by Jewish composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Selections include the astounding "Fairy Tales" composed in 1910 by the 13-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold, possibly the greatest musical prodigy of all time, the enigmatic French virtuoso Charles Valentin Alkan’s "Petites Fantaisies," and the works of two women composers from different centuries: 19th-century composer Fanny Mendelssohn (older sister of Felix Mendelssohn) and contemporary composer Judith Shatin.

Performed by pianist José López, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Florida International University School of Music.

Free with museum admission

A "must-see" exhibition opens at the Bass Museum of Art! Experience the sense of wonder inherent in the art of drawing - its spontaneity and the feeling of speed and fragility that the pencil strokes impart on the sheet of paper. Some of the most important names of 20th century art such as Picasso, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez and Joaquin Torres-Garcia are included in this exhibition of approximately 80 works on paper.

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