The Society of the Four Arts

The Society of the Four Arts A cultural institution in Palm Beach dedicated to presenting art exhibitions, concerts, lectures, films, and educational programs.
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Situated on a campus with gardens and libraries, we foster lifelong engagement with the arts, humanities, and ideas. The Society of the Four Arts is a celebrated destination for art, music, drama and literature. We offer hundreds of cultural programs, including children's programs, films, workshops, concerts, exhibitions, lectures and more. The Four Arts campus includes a library and children's li

brary, an exhibition gallery, 700-seat auditorium, botanical and sculpture gardens, and a state-of-art lifelong learning facility for classes on painting, opera, cooking and living well. Learn more about the events offered at The Society of the Four Arts by visiting us at www.fourarts.org.

To close our founders series: the story of how a shared belief in the arts took root and became an institution. Take a c...
08/20/2026

To close our founders series: the story of how a shared belief in the arts took root and became an institution. Take a closer look!

Art pictured: Albert Herter's Asters, ca. 1930s, oil on canvas, a gift of Mrs. Lorenzo E. Woodhouse.

08/05/2026

Perfect weather for getting lost in a good book. What's on your rainy day reading list? 📖🕯️🕰️

Meet the artist among our founders. Before she helped build The Society of the Four Arts, Mary MacKinnon was already a ...
07/30/2026

Meet the artist among our founders.

Before she helped build The Society of the Four Arts, Mary MacKinnon was already a name in the art world. She trained at New York's Art Students League, where she went on to become a sought-after society portraitist and a fashion illustrator for Harper's Bazaar, then still spelled Bazar, keeping a studio just off Peruvian Avenue and painting the faces of Palm Beach and Newport society alike.

Known to us as Mrs. Frederick Johnson, she was among the small circle who formed the Civic Arts Association in 1934, the effort that would become the Four Arts two years later. As chairman of the art committee, she helped shape the institution's artistic vision from the very beginning.

07/27/2026

Step behind the scenes of our historic campus renovation with Sofia Maduro, Chief Operating Officer of the Four Arts, and Nathaniel Rogers, a partner at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners, the firm renowned for its stewardship of landmark spaces.

Together they walk through the renderings, the process, and the thinking behind reimagining the O'Keeffe and Rovensky buildings for a new century. It is a chapter written with equal parts preservation and progress: an expanded auditorium, new gallery spaces, and a beautiful new home for our Children's Library, all in harmony with the timeless Addison Mizner architecture that makes the Four Arts what it is.

Watch the full conversation to see where we have been, and where we are going.

07/13/2026

What looks like a lucky moment is usually a patient one 📸

We're continuing the conversation with National Geographic photographers and on the patience, and the years, behind a single wildlife image. Both came to photography by way of the field, and it shows in the work. Knowing an animal, its habits and its family, is what lets you recognize the moment worth waiting for.

What draws you to a great wildlife photograph, the animal, the light, or the story behind it?

A rare look inside the mind of Addison Mizner. His personal scrapbooks and sketchbook were the private working record of...
07/08/2026

A rare look inside the mind of Addison Mizner.

His personal scrapbooks and sketchbook were the private working record of the man who gave Palm Beach much of its visual identity. Arriving in the years after the First World War, Mizner brought with him a lifetime of travel, through Spain, Guatemala, China, and beyond, and you can trace that influence as the arches, loggias, and courtyards began to take shape. The Mediterranean style he imagined set the visual tone for the town itself, and nearly a century later that influence still stands.

📙At the Four Arts, that history is close at hand. His scrapbooks are part of the Mizner collection in the King Library, an intimate look at how the architect saw the world he was busy reshaping.

📚Younger readers can meet him too. The Children's Library holds a copy of Robert L. Forbes's Addison Mizner: Visionary Architect, a warm introduction to the man behind the buildings.

06/29/2026

The Four Arts Demonstration Gardens are OPEN and as beautiful as ever, even while the Sculpture Garden is closed for now. ☀️

Come stroll among vibrant blooms and lush greenery, and take in garden design made to inspire. Open daily from 10am to 5pm (weather permitting), the gardens are the perfect place to slow down and reconnect with something beautiful.

We'd love to see you there!

The Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden occupies a distinctive place within the campus of The Society of the Four Arts. 🌅Cen...
06/27/2026

The Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden occupies a distinctive place within the campus of The Society of the Four Arts. 🌅

Centered on the Pannill Pavilion and its octagonal fountain, the garden brings together architecture, landscape design, and sculpture in a setting intended for both contemplation and public enjoyment.

This photograph captures a familiar view of the campus at dusk, when changing light reveals the careful balance between built and natural forms that has shaped the garden for decades.

Meet the woman who believed Palm Beach deserved a true cultural home. 🌴 🏛️In the early 1930s, Maud Howe Elliott joined f...
06/25/2026

Meet the woman who believed Palm Beach deserved a true cultural home. 🌴 🏛️

In the early 1930s, Maud Howe Elliott joined forces with co-founders Mary Woodhouse and Mary Johnson to create something extraordinary: an organization dedicated to bringing music, art, drama, and literature to the heart of our community.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author with a lifelong love of the arts, Elliott founded the Newport Artists Society in 1912 and later championed the fundraising that gave the Four Arts its permanent home.

Her passion for literature led her to establish the organization's very first library, a space that quickly became the soul of the campus. She served as honorary president until her passing in 1948.

Her belief still rings true today: art, music, drama, and literature don't just enrich life. They make it worth living.

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100 Four Arts Plaza
Palm Beach, FL
33480

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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+15616557227

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