By Chloe Elder Ah, Paris! (Cue the Edith Piaf.) The City of Lights! The City of Love! The City of Americans? Mais, oui! Many of those chic Parisians strolling around this famous city are, in fact, just Americans who happen to live in Paris. I, too, am just another clichéd example of the American in Paris: an expatriate from Florida who has come looking for life, liberty, … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
Sundays: We really should look under the hood
By Myles Ludwig These are the days of lasers in the jungle/Lasers in the jungle somewhere/ Staccato signals of constant information/ A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires/ And baby, these are the days of miracle and wonder /This is the long-distance call Paul Simon’s lyrics are prophetic. Apparently, no one answered that call. It went straight to voicemail. … [Read more...]
Sarah Trigg: Exploring the rituals of artistic creation
By Colleen Dougher ● A giant stuffed polar bear wearing a tutu and blue cone-shaped hat serves as the studio mascot for California sculptor, filmmaker and performance artist Marnie Weber. ● When making marionettes, Miami puppeteer Pablo Cano uses many donated items, including cigarette pack foils collected by Myra “Yo Momma” Wexler, and contributions from an elderly … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 26-27
Film: British director Steve McQueen is known for making films of brutality and excess, but now he has chosen a subject that matches his style. It is 12 Years a Slave, the fact-based saga of Solomon Northup, an African-American free man who lives with his family in upstate New York until he is lured to the nation’s capital, tricked into bondage and sold as a slave. The … [Read more...]
A radiant evening of Renaissance music
As intriguing as the upcoming Seraphic Fire concerts with the Firebird Chamber Orchestra are likely to be, there’s still something so purely beautiful about unaccompanied Renaissance polyphony that the listener feels he is in the presence of a rare and endangered animal, one content to be radiant, beautiful and unexampled. The Miami chamber choir opened its 12th season last … [Read more...]
Anything but deep, ‘Counselor’ is a fun, trashy ride
The Counselor is really, really, really good trash. It’s trash elevated to a fine art, which has been the goal of B-movie muck-divers since the Poverty Row noirs of the ’40s. Prudes and humorless folk may linger on the trashiness and question the movie’s artistic purpose, and if that’s the case, the film provides plenty of ripe opportunities to walk out. The rest of us will … [Read more...]
At home in the Southwest: Boca Museum show gets there beautifully
A mountain can be round and painted in warm, earthy tones or triangular, in dark blues and greens, or malleable, sporting a rosy fleshy hue or stiff in teal and gray. The unexplored isolated region of Santa Fe turned out to be many different things to a group of artists looking for new inspiration away from the city lights. Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art … [Read more...]
Sundays: One tall skim latte, hold the brains
By Myles Ludwig Never met a zombie. Not likely to, either. So far, I’ve managed to ease over those gruesome speed bumps of immortality for most of my life, but now I’m surrounded by them. They’re everywhere. They’re after us, stalking our channels, our movies, even our TV commercial with their awkward stomps, leprous peeling flesh, grasping outstretched hands and an … [Read more...]
‘Menopause’ writer takes on drama of relationships
As playwright Robert Anderson once put it about writing for the theater, “You cannot make a living, but you can make a killing.” It seems unlikely that he ever met Jeanie Linders, who penned the international phenomenon Menopause the Musical, but he inadvertently described her mega-success with the “girls-night-out” revue about the female life passage of middle age. The show, … [Read more...]
News briefs: Poster contest has a winner; sculpture gets a helping hand
Lake Worth ArtFest names winner of poster contest A Memorable Night, an acrylic painting by Lake Worth artist Tiffany Beasi, has won the inaugural commemorative-poster contest for the Lake Worth Beach ArtFest. "My inspiration for the painting came from the newly renovated historical Lake Worth Casino and by the city's effort to unify the arts community," Beasi said. "This … [Read more...]