FORT MYERS LCSO offering youth boxing program The Lee County Sheriff’s Office youth boxing program is your kid’s golden ticket to mastering the art of self-defense.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral man speaks on helping apprehend armed 13-year-old The man who helped apprehend an armed 13-year-old spoke on the incident.
NAPLES Naples Cars on Fifth event fuels $2M for local charity efforts For over two decades, car enthusiasts in Southwest Florida have gathered on Fifth Avenue in Naples.
MARCO ISLAND Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island set to reopen Collier County announced the reopening of the Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral Animal Shelter to host Puppy Bowl 3 ahead of big game Ahead of the big game on Sunday, Cape Coral Animal Shelter will be featuring its very own Puppy Bowl III.
FORT MYERS From the ballpark to the beach: the Minnesota Twins are back for Spring Training 1700 miles later the Twins truck is here and the team from Minnesota is ready to spend the next six weeks here in Fort Myers.
the weather authority Warm stretch continues throughout this weekend The Weather Authority says if you are a fan of the warmer weather, you are going to love this weekend.
SANIBEL Sanibel’s red tide raises health alerts and wildlife concerns With great weather in the forecast, it’s shaping up to be a perfect beach weekend. However, visitors to the barrier islands should exercise caution.
NAPLES Naples Automotive Experience raises funds for St. Matthew’s House The Naples Automotive Experience brought excitement and philanthropy to the community, raising money for St. Matthew’s House.
MATLACHA Little Pine Island bridge work causes delays, FDOT promises progress Construction on the Little Pine Island Bridge has narrowed traffic to one lane, causing significant delays for drivers.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Support women’s heart health on National Wear Red Day The first Friday in February marks National Wear Red Day!
Ongoing repairs following Naples plane crash A deadly plane crash that occurred one year ago in Naples, Florida continues to impact lives in Southwest Florida. The tragic event involved two pilots who lost their lives on Interstate 75.
Naples jet crash, one year later: new details on emergency response Sunday marks one year since a jet crashed after its pilots attempted an emergency landing on I-75 just outside of Naples. “Your mind goes back to everything that happened that day,” said Heather Mazurkiewicz, public information officer with the North Collier Fire Rescue. “I think about the fact that there weren’t more lives lost.” At […]
LCSO cutting down law enforcement response times The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is gearing up to implement “Prepared 9-1-1,” a new tool designed to enhance emergency response times.
FORT MYERS LCSO offering youth boxing program The Lee County Sheriff’s Office youth boxing program is your kid’s golden ticket to mastering the art of self-defense.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral man speaks on helping apprehend armed 13-year-old The man who helped apprehend an armed 13-year-old spoke on the incident.
NAPLES Naples Cars on Fifth event fuels $2M for local charity efforts For over two decades, car enthusiasts in Southwest Florida have gathered on Fifth Avenue in Naples.
MARCO ISLAND Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island set to reopen Collier County announced the reopening of the Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral Animal Shelter to host Puppy Bowl 3 ahead of big game Ahead of the big game on Sunday, Cape Coral Animal Shelter will be featuring its very own Puppy Bowl III.
FORT MYERS From the ballpark to the beach: the Minnesota Twins are back for Spring Training 1700 miles later the Twins truck is here and the team from Minnesota is ready to spend the next six weeks here in Fort Myers.
the weather authority Warm stretch continues throughout this weekend The Weather Authority says if you are a fan of the warmer weather, you are going to love this weekend.
SANIBEL Sanibel’s red tide raises health alerts and wildlife concerns With great weather in the forecast, it’s shaping up to be a perfect beach weekend. However, visitors to the barrier islands should exercise caution.
NAPLES Naples Automotive Experience raises funds for St. Matthew’s House The Naples Automotive Experience brought excitement and philanthropy to the community, raising money for St. Matthew’s House.
MATLACHA Little Pine Island bridge work causes delays, FDOT promises progress Construction on the Little Pine Island Bridge has narrowed traffic to one lane, causing significant delays for drivers.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Support women’s heart health on National Wear Red Day The first Friday in February marks National Wear Red Day!
Ongoing repairs following Naples plane crash A deadly plane crash that occurred one year ago in Naples, Florida continues to impact lives in Southwest Florida. The tragic event involved two pilots who lost their lives on Interstate 75.
Naples jet crash, one year later: new details on emergency response Sunday marks one year since a jet crashed after its pilots attempted an emergency landing on I-75 just outside of Naples. “Your mind goes back to everything that happened that day,” said Heather Mazurkiewicz, public information officer with the North Collier Fire Rescue. “I think about the fact that there weren’t more lives lost.” At […]
LCSO cutting down law enforcement response times The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is gearing up to implement “Prepared 9-1-1,” a new tool designed to enhance emergency response times.
“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.