Kathryn Andrews

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present Happy!, a new exhibition of contemporary works produced by artists who aim to engage the viewer emotionally. As in life, sorrow and happiness are intertwined in their works

March Madness is the second of two exhibitions that focus on the cultural of sport as represented in the visual arts. Curated by the duo, Hank Willis Thomas and Adam Shopkorn, this year's exhibition centers on the realm of athleticism from the perspective of women. The show features a roster of 30 artists, all women, whose artwork subvert masculine archetypes, and challenge more docile notions of femininity by highlighting the qualities of strength, fitness and agility that are characteristic of physical skill and capability. These aesthetic observations of the physical form become metaphors by which to consider broader issues about empowerment, gender roles, beauty, politics, labor, popular-culture - as well as ethnic and racial histories.

American Modern Ensemble, the critically-acclaimed new music group praised by The New York Times as "simply first-rate," opens its 2016-17 season joined by the harp duo Duo Scorpio at The Cell in Chelsea on Friday, November 18: a concert of harp-centric music ranging from a 1949 piece by the maverick Lou Harrison to three works written in the past five years by two young leading-edge composers, Robert Paterson and Andy Akiho. The concert is AME's annual fundraising event, featuring an open bar and hors d'oeuvres.

Tickets for the September 22 symposium are $12 adults; $8 students/seniors; and $5 staff of other museums and Jewish Museum members. Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served. For further information, the public may call 212.423.3337 or visitTheJewishMuseum.org/goldsteinprograms. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York City.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Jack Goldstein x 10,000, on view May 10 to September 29, 2013, The Jewish Museum is presenting a diverse series of programs, The What, Where, How and Who of Jack Goldstein. Artists such as John Baldessari, Morgan Fisher, James Welling and Robert Longo will be featured.