2011-12 season preview: Pop music | Theater | Dance

SEASON UPSIDE: A refurbished Norton Museum of Art, with new colors on the walls and expanded galleries.

SEASON DOWNSIDE: We know the economy’s tight, but is there a danger in too many shows culled from the permanent collections of area museums?

Andy Warhol's early magazine work will be on display at the Society of the Four Arts.

JENNY SAVILLE
Nov. 30-March 18, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
A potentially fascinating exhibition of the controversial young English painter whose large-scale portraits of invariably naked women have been compared to Lucian Freud and Rubens.

FIRST TRAIN TO PARADISE: THE RAILROAD THAT WENT TO THE SEA
Oct. 18-Jan. 8, Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
The Flagler does local history very well, and this exhibit on the 100th anniversary of Henry Flagler’s construction of the railroad to Key West should be fascinating.

ANDY WARHOL,
THE BAZAAR YEARS
1951-1964
Dec. 3-Jan. 15, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach

The show looks at Warhol’s early career as a magazine illustrator.

A Flagler Museum exhibit will focus on the builder's construction of the railroad to Key West.

AMERICAN TREASURES: MASTERWORKS FROM THE BUTLER INSTITUTE
Dec. 13-March 18, Boca Raton Museum of Art

The Butler is in Youngstown, Ohio, and features a very strong collection of classical American paintings, from Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper.