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Boca Happenings

Boca Raton Public Library Launches

New Mobile Library Services Van

Thanks to funding from Friends of the Boca Raton Public to digital materials, deliver library materials to residents
Library, a new Mobile Library Services van will soon bring the with access challenges in a route focused on residential
Library to more residents of the Boca Raton community. With facilities and high-density residential areas, and participate
the van, the Library’s Events and Community Engagement in community and City events with mobile library activities.
Team will provide materials, resources and services to The Friends of the Library, a non-profit, volunteer
residents without access to traditional library buildings due to organization dedicated to supporting the Boca Raton Public
mobility, transportation, and/or socio-economic limitations, Library, donated $77,075 toward the purchase of the van
investing in the future of the community by removing barriers in celebration of their 30th Anniversary in 2020, but the
and providing equity of access for all citizens. van’s delivery was delayed due to the pandemic. Friends’
The Mobile Library Services van will be present at funding is provided through memberships to the Friends
local events to help build partnerships with residents and organization, grants, and book sales at the bookstore in the
community organizations, while also increasing awareness Downtown Library. The attractive design on the vehicle is
of the Boca Raton Public Library’s amazing collections, based on the Friends’ logo consisting of a Royal Poinciana
programs and classes. Library team members will use the new tree, a common sight in South Florida. For more information
vehicle to sign up residents for library cards with full access about the Friends, visit www.bocalibraryfriends.org.

Boca Raton Museum of Art’s “Glasstress 2021” from page 1 around the chandelier. rationalism is evident
The installation Rosemarie’s Divorce, by Renate in his work. The artist’s
“In the past, its place in the art world might have seemed Bertlmann, unites aspects from Rosemarie’s Baby (1983), long trajectory includes
uncertain. But now, in this latest edition of Glasstress, the her multi-part installation about the ambivalent relationship his work during the civil
first after a global pandemic, one thing we know for certain: between mother and child, and Discordo Ergo Sum, a field of rights movement and
glass endures. Life is fragile, just as glass is fragile, yet knife-roses she exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2019. The as a political organizer
in this fragility there is also strength.” It is in this spirit of monstrously enlarged glass pacifier is an image she has used for the American Indian
experimentation that Glasstress Boca Raton 2021 explores since the mid-1970s referencing sexuality and motherhood. Movement. In 2019,
the limitless potential of glassblowing. “We realize how It is flanked by two knife-roses made of deep black glass. Durham was the recipient
far we have come as we approach the 60th anniversary The Italian artist Monica Bonvicini’s deeply psychological of the Golden Lion for
of the American studio glass movement that launched in work addresses themes of sexuality, power, and relationships in Lifetime Achievement
1962 through the efforts of Harvey Littleton and Dominick male-oriented domains. Her visits to sadomasochist nightclubs award at the 58th Venice
Labino,” adds Irvin Lippman. “This presentation of with Gay male friends are the inspiration for Bonded. She won Biennale.
Glasstress is also a tribute to them.” the prestigious Golden Lion award at the 1999 Venice Biennale. In the Museum’s
This show also unveils the Museum’s new acquisition DNA Has No Color is a new statement from Nancy Burson exhibition catalogue,
for its collection, created in the Berengo Studio: Glass Big that is a powerful work about the illegitimacy of racism. This curator Kathleen
Brother, a sculpture by Song Dong, one of contemporary is a continuation of the project that Zaha Hadid commissioned Goncharov describes
Chinese art’s leading figures. Burson to develop for the London Millennium Dome. Burson Prune Nourry as no
“Certainly, this chandelier sculpture by Song Dong with is known for biology-related work, including her use of stranger to illness . . . her River Woman, by Kathleen
its glass-blown surveillance cameras, is both poetic and cutting-edge facial morphing technology for art that shows work always dealing with Goncharov
poignant,” says Irvin Lippman. “It was commissioned by what individuals would look like as a different race. As an science and bioethics
the Museum to hang in our new Wolgin Education Center HIV-positive man, he lived through the worst of the AIDS from a feminist perspective, a focus that has intensified since
front windows that face pedestrians walking across Mizner epidemic during the 1980s and 1990s, and now through the her breast cancer diagnosis in 2018. At the Berengo Studio,
Park.” The large-scale ceiling installation is 11 feet long and current pandemic. In the Museum’s exhibition catalogue, she created River Woman, a transparent skeletal sculpture
reaches all the way to the floor. Thirty surveillance cameras the artist states that Pandemic Oculus also honors the many based on an anatomical drawing of the human vascular
are ensconced from top to bottom, looking out at all directions unsung heroes around the world: nurses, teachers, essential system. While its form may be human, the arteries resemble
employees, grandparents caring for children so that parents rivers, streams and trees that suffer in their own way, too,
can work, and so many more. from human abuse rather than disease.
Voters’ Guide for March 9th from page 3 Tate is the co-founder of the Washington Glass Studio Ugo Rondinone represented his home country in the Swiss
in Washington, DC. He is also the co-moderator, along Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007).
difference you should step up to make change happen. I am with William Warmus, of the 21st Century Glass group In this work, the twelve glass horses cast in beautiful shades
active in my neighborhood association and with the Federation on Facebook, which has shared and discussed over 10,000 of blue all face different directions, creating delicate light games
of Boca Raton Homeowner Associations, where I speak up images of sculptural glass from around the world. with their reflections and shadows in continuous motion. In the
on neighborhood issues. When the community needed to Erwin Wurm’s wry sense of humor permeates his most context of this installation, the reappearing motif of a horse
organize to implement traffic calming measures, or save famous works and has served him well in creating a poignant (which has a long tradition in the history of art), evokes alienation
their neighborhood school, I stepped up to lead the charge. cultural commentary throughout his career. Wurm produced and a subversive twist emblematic of Rondinone’s works.
I am running for Boca City Council to ensure City Hall is a triad in cold hard glass at the Berengo Studio. They are About Adriano Berengo. A true Venetian, Adriano Berengo
focusing on neighborhood priorities, finding common-sense smaller versions of the massive bronze sculpture of a hot lives and works in Venice. He holds a foreign languages
solutions to the issues that matter most to our community and water bottle with legs, Big Mutter, that he created for the degree from Ca’ Foscari University (Venice) and specialized
addressing our essential needs. Venice Biennale in 2020. In the exhibition catalog, the show’s in comparative literature in a state university in New York.
curator, Kathleen Goncharov, describes these “mothers” as Adriano Berengo is the visionary behind Fondazione
Ballot Measures—Proposed Charter neither warm nor comforting . . . their stubby little legs imply Berengo, Glasstress, and the glass factory Berengo Studio
Amendments flight when called upon to be caregivers. 1989, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Following in
Amending the Residency Requirements for City At the Berengo Studio, Jimmie Durham created a series the footsteps of Egidio Costantini and Peggy Guggenheim,
Council Candidates (including Candidates for Mayor). of eight giant cougar heads suspended on metal armatures. who introduced outstanding artists such as Pablo Picasso
The City Charter currently provides that a person seeking to Caught in suspension as they gaze at one another, their and Marc Chagall to Murano glass, Berengo has been
qualify as a candidate for Mayor, must be a city resident for collective roar remains frozen between them. The cougar championing the innovative use of glass as a medium in
at least 30 days before the first day of the qualifying period. is one of the most sacred animals in Cherokee mythology, contemporary art for 30 years by inviting more than 300
The proposed amendment regarding residency (to be effective and the influence of Native-American culture vs. Western artists to work with the glass masters in Murano.
April 1, 2021), lengthens the residency period to one year,
disqualifies persons with a non-City homestead exemption,
and provides that proof of residency will be established by
ordinance.
Shall the Charter be Amended?
Yes____
No____
Requiring Signatures of 200 Electors to Qualify as a
Candidate for City Council and Mayor. The City Charter
currently provides that a person seeking to qualify as a
candidate for City Council, including candidates for Mayor,
must pay a qualifying fee. The proposed amendment (to
be effective April 1, 2021), eliminates the fee, and instead
requires candidates to submit a petition with signatures of 200
or more registered city voters, and provides that procedures
relating to petition signatures will be adopted by ordinance.
Shall the Charter be Amended?
Yes____
No____