Page 12 - Boca Club News - December '23

Page 12, Boca Club News

CP Group’s 8th Annual Tree Lighting from page 9

“Trying to raise the bar each year, we are proud that we
were also able to exceed donation goals,” said Giana Pacinelli,
Director of Communications for CP Group, which fosters
a vibrant and engaged ecosystem at BRiC that hosts and
supports nonprofit fundraisers, cultural events, and community
programming throughout the year.
Owned and operated by CP Group, the state’s largest office
landlord, BRiC is the largest single-facility office building in
Florida at 1.7 million square feet. Designed by iconic Brutalist
architect Marcel Breuer, the campus was originally built in “The reason for the season” was a big part of the evening that
1969 for IBM and is home to the invention of the first personal benefited Spirit of Giving and Junior League of Boca Raton.
computer. CP Group acquired the campus in 2018 with the vision
of transforming BRiC into a technology and life sciences hub autonomous grab-and-go, art exhibitions, and more. Tenants
for the Southeastern United States with unparalleled amenities, include Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Kroger, Modernizing Always a fan favorite at CP Group’s Tree Lighting and
including two coffee shops, event space seating up to 1,000, an Medicine, and Canon. To learn more, visit workatbric.com. Holiday Extravaganza…Santa’s live reindeer.
Boca Museum of Art’s New Exhibit, “Smoke and Mirrors:

Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art,” a World Premiere

As South Florida’s museums from Palm Beach to Miami gain before our very eyes. spurring belief and fascination with the paranormal.
present their highly anticipated offerings for Art Basel Season, Today’s hoaxes, and the An explosive increase in supernatural characters in popular
the Boca Raton Museum of Art is especially poised to lead the blatant lies posted on social culture, and dangerous hoaxes that are proving difficult to
pack with a one-two-punch this year: the world premiere of the media, are often fabricated discredit, are rampant again now. “Our city is honored by this
Teiger Award-winning exhibition, “Smoke and Mirrors: Magical with new technology, yet national acclaim, and that this museum exhibition is the only
Thinking in Contemporary Art,” and the sleek new high-speed have earlier precedents one in the entire Southeastern U.S. selected by the Teiger
rail station just blocks from the Museum’s front door. in America’s history. The Foundation 2023 Grant Award for Curator-Led Projects in the
The new group show was originated by Kathleen Goncharov, exhibition’s temporal single exhibition category,” says Scott Singer, Mayor of the
the Museum’s Senior Curator, and features 30 contemporary twist juxtaposes parallels City of Boca Raton. “We are proud of the stellar team at the
artists. This is the only exhibition in South Florida (and in the between our current Boca Raton Museum of Art for shining the national spotlight
entire Southeast U.S.) to win the prestigious Teiger Foundation struggles and the same on South Florida’s museum scene.”
2023 Grant Award for Curator-Led Projects (among only 13 peculiar fascinations with The exhibition is anchored by an entire gallery of
museum shows selected nationwide in the Single Exhibition magical thinking during phantasmagorical installations by the globally acclaimed
category), recognizing boundary-pushing curatorial work. the late 1800s and early artist Tony Oursler, celebrated for asking the pressing
The works in this exhibition crack through the looking glass 1900s, when the deadly question: What happens when the occult is confronted by its
of illusion and beliefs. While performative magic is certainly flu pandemic and World The Exhibition, by Stephen mirror image of technology?
celebrated here, many of these artists are acclaimed for tackling War I created an epidemic Berkman, Zohar Studios. “The caliber of the 30 contemporary artists in this exhibition
the thorny issues of disinformation, hoaxes, cults, conspiracy of fake mediums, seances, Albumen print. is earning major attention for the new season at the Boca Raton
theories, “alternative facts,” and the rise of deceptive artificial and the golden age of stage Museum of Art,” says Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of
technologies in our culture. magic. Fast-forward to today, and these artists investigate how the Museum. “The correlation between magic and artmaking
This timely exploration pulls back the curtain on modern- the trauma of our own pandemic, climate change, political
day deceptions, often perpetrated for political or financial extremism, violence, and the disruption of societal norms are Boca Museum of Art’s New Exhibit on page 13

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