LCSO: Lehigh Acres shooting investigation underwayRock for Equality: SWFL non-profit hosts benefit concert for Palestine
lehigh acres LCSO: Lehigh Acres shooting investigation underway The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting in Lehigh Acres early Saturday morning.
Rock for Equality: SWFL non-profit hosts benefit concert for Palestine A Southwest Florida non-profit hosted a benefit concert on Friday night to help with humanitarian aid in Palestine.
Warm, breezy Saturday with a few showers possible The Weather Authority is forecasting a breezy, warm weekend in store across Southwest Florida, with the chance of a few showers, particularly on Saturday.
CAPE CORAL Active investigation underway in South Cape Coral Cape Coral police are investigating at a home on Southwest 49th Terrace in South Cape Coral early Saturday morning.
16 transported after 2 airboats crash in Collier County According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, two airboats crashed south of U.S. 41 east between mile markers 74 and 75, leaving well over a dozen people injured.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA New bill filed: Auto shop and law enforcement must work together to solve hit-and-run crashes There could be new detectives on the block, located in your nearest auto shop. A new state bill aims at trying to stop hit-and-run drivers from getting away.
CAPE CORAL New leash on life; Cape Coral shelter dog beats cancer with drug being tested for humans A drug now being studied in human trials to kill cancerous tumors, is already approved and helping animals.
CAPE CORAL City of Cape Coral planning a new interchange with I-75 The city of Cape Coral is in the early stages of planning a new interchange with I-75, an idea that has been discussed for more than a decade.
Tracking invasive species after hurricanes Hurricanes Helene and Milton didn’t just bring wind and rain, they brought new threats to southwest Florida’s ecosystem.
PUNTA GORDA Woman in Punta Gorda shooting charged with 2nd degree murder A woman in a homicide investigation on Nasturtium Drive in Punta Gorda has been charged with 2nd-degree murder.
Lee County mother continuing fight to get children a bus stop The school district already told her she lives too close to the school to qualify for a bus route but she has not given up.
NORTH NAPLES Grant Thornton Invitational returns to Tiburon Golf Club Stars on the PGA and LPGA Tours are back in Southwest Florida for the Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Club.
FORT MYERS Black Flag brings classic punk energy to The Ranch in Fort Myers Legendary punk band Black Flag made their mark in Southwest Florida during the Fort Myers stop of their “First Four Years” tour.
Charlotte Technical College breaks ground on aviation facility The Charlotte County School District is flying high and keeping its “Space Academy” designation with a new aviation training facility for students.
CAPE CORAL Man arrested in connection with Cape Coral home invasion The Cape Coral Police Department has announced the arrest of one of three men suspected in a home invasion that took place earlier this month.
lehigh acres LCSO: Lehigh Acres shooting investigation underway The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting in Lehigh Acres early Saturday morning.
Rock for Equality: SWFL non-profit hosts benefit concert for Palestine A Southwest Florida non-profit hosted a benefit concert on Friday night to help with humanitarian aid in Palestine.
Warm, breezy Saturday with a few showers possible The Weather Authority is forecasting a breezy, warm weekend in store across Southwest Florida, with the chance of a few showers, particularly on Saturday.
CAPE CORAL Active investigation underway in South Cape Coral Cape Coral police are investigating at a home on Southwest 49th Terrace in South Cape Coral early Saturday morning.
16 transported after 2 airboats crash in Collier County According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, two airboats crashed south of U.S. 41 east between mile markers 74 and 75, leaving well over a dozen people injured.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA New bill filed: Auto shop and law enforcement must work together to solve hit-and-run crashes There could be new detectives on the block, located in your nearest auto shop. A new state bill aims at trying to stop hit-and-run drivers from getting away.
CAPE CORAL New leash on life; Cape Coral shelter dog beats cancer with drug being tested for humans A drug now being studied in human trials to kill cancerous tumors, is already approved and helping animals.
CAPE CORAL City of Cape Coral planning a new interchange with I-75 The city of Cape Coral is in the early stages of planning a new interchange with I-75, an idea that has been discussed for more than a decade.
Tracking invasive species after hurricanes Hurricanes Helene and Milton didn’t just bring wind and rain, they brought new threats to southwest Florida’s ecosystem.
PUNTA GORDA Woman in Punta Gorda shooting charged with 2nd degree murder A woman in a homicide investigation on Nasturtium Drive in Punta Gorda has been charged with 2nd-degree murder.
Lee County mother continuing fight to get children a bus stop The school district already told her she lives too close to the school to qualify for a bus route but she has not given up.
NORTH NAPLES Grant Thornton Invitational returns to Tiburon Golf Club Stars on the PGA and LPGA Tours are back in Southwest Florida for the Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Club.
FORT MYERS Black Flag brings classic punk energy to The Ranch in Fort Myers Legendary punk band Black Flag made their mark in Southwest Florida during the Fort Myers stop of their “First Four Years” tour.
Charlotte Technical College breaks ground on aviation facility The Charlotte County School District is flying high and keeping its “Space Academy” designation with a new aviation training facility for students.
CAPE CORAL Man arrested in connection with Cape Coral home invasion The Cape Coral Police Department has announced the arrest of one of three men suspected in a home invasion that took place earlier this month.
“View of Bozen with a Painter” (1837) by Jules Coignet. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART In lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic? Closed museums offer art lovers virtual opportunities to explore works from among the world’s leading collections online. Here’s a look. Exhibitions online With the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., closed, visitors at home can take in the beauty of the outdoors with its stunning online exhibition, “True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870,” featuring works by Coignet, Constable, Giroux and others; and the NGA’s exploration of Edgar Degas’ works depicting the Paris Opéra. Images from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art‘s current exhibition, “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists,” can be viewed online, along with audio commentary of selected works and video interviews of artists. Explore Diego Rivera’s murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts‘ online exhibit, “Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry.” At the website of New York City’s Whitney Museum, the online exhibition “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945” features companion videos, essays, audio guides and installation photography. Large-scale installations of sculptures and mixed-media pieces are featured with commentary on the website of the Dia Art Foundation, including works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois. On the MASS MoCA website, the immersive exhibit “James Turrell: Into the Light” may lose a bit on a laptop, but set it to full screen, and immerse yourself in its enveloping colored light. From “James Turrell: Into the Light.” MASS MOCA Virtual museum tours The website of the Louvre Museum in Paris offers visitors a chance to stroll its galleries virtually, including its Egyptian antiquities. London’s National Gallery offers a virtual 360° tour of rooms. Likewise, Google Street View takes you right inside the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Google Arts & Culture offers virtual tours of many world museums, as well as the non-museum Chauvet Cave, which displays 36,000-year-old paintings. Art History The Guggenheim Museum in New York has released scores of PDFs of catalogues and art history books, from retrospectives of Klee, Rauschenberg, Kandinsky, Calder, Rothko and Miró, to treatises on surrealism, the structure of modern painting, and the art of the motorcycle, available for free on the Internet Archive. The Museum of Modern Art has on its website images from every exhibition held at the museum since its founding in 1929. The Rijks Studio features in-depth analysis of works in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, including paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer. Lectures The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has on its YouTube channel a series of lectures and panel discussions featuring curators, conservators, authors and critics, on such topics as the Dutch Golden Age, Impressionism, female artists, and Hollywood films produced during the Red Scare. The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia offers daily video art talks on major pieces in its collection. The Pérez Art Museum Miami offers videos of art talks. Demonstrations The YouTube channel of the Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York, offers videos of glass-blowers creating beautiful works of art. Artist Kong Pak-yu demonstrates brushpainting on the site of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. The Seattle Art Museum has launched “Stay Home With SAM,” sharing education lessons and storytime suggestions for children, as well as art-making activities. Photography The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, has several online exhibitions, including one featuring the evocative documentary-style images of photographer Victor Jorgensen (an acolyte of Edward Steichen’s), who served with the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during World War II. “Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling” is the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles’ retrospective of the magazine’s celebrity photos, with audio annotation by exhibit curator and Vanity Fair creative development editor David Friend. “Out of the Shadows: Contemporary Chinese Photography” is an online offering from the tantalizing exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. Virtual experiences One of the premier art collections in the world, the British Museum in London makes its historical and artistic artifacts — from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles — accessible online. You can also trace a timeline of historical and cultural holdings and their place in mankind’s development through the millennia with their “Museum of the World” project (a partnership with Google Cultural Institute). The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is extending its education about the life and work of the Dutch painter online, including study lessons for students. Visitors can also read his biography and letters, and view hundreds of works by the artist and his contemporaries. Google’s online gallery of the Musée d’Orsay offers a history of the Paris museum’s origins as a train station. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offers in-depth looks at its collected works, conservatorship and children’s programs. The museum also features “82nd & Fifth,” in which curators discuss a single work of art that, they say, changed the world. And while this year’s Met Gala has been postponed, you can watch videos from the Costume Institute‘s past exhibitions, from “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” and “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” to “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.” “The Kimbell at Home” showcases the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, with virtual tours, audio commentaries, video lectures and children’s activities. Serendipity While you’re not able to physically stroll through galleries for the foreseeable future, many museum websites allow you to stroll through their databases; type in an artist’s name, and scores of images — some unfamiliar, some iconic — will come up. Or, wander virtually through their collections and discover remarkable treasures. Among the collections to be explored are: Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth Art Institute of Chicago Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina Baltimore Museum of Art The Broad in Los Angeles Cleveland Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art de Young Museum, San Francisco Denver Art Museum The Frick Collection, New York Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Philadelphia Museum of Art Saint Louis Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Uffizi in Florence, Italy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis And as always, be sure to exit through the gift shop.