Oliver Stone’s Snowden is not Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour, even if at first it’s hard to tell them apart. If you’ve seen Poitras’ Oscar-winning documentary about her and Glenn Greenwald’s clandestine interview with the game-changing whistleblower, the déjà vu is inescapable. Within minutes of Stone’s biopic, we’re back in the Hong Kong hotel room, and Stone’s actors — … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Ming dragon tiles good addition to Norton’s Chinese collection
Move aside, blue-and-white Chinese ceramics. The new highlight at the Norton Museum of Art is centuries old and once guarded a Chinese temple from the natural elements. On view through Oct. 2 are glazed dragon tiles dating back to the Ming Dynasty acquired by the museum earlier this year. Known as sancai or three-color tiles, the pieces are thought to have adorned the … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: News briefs from the local arts
Four Arts announces its largest season PALM BEACH – The Society of the Four Arts has announced the largest season in its 80-year history, offering more than 500 arts and cultural programs in 2016-2017. From November through April, the Four Arts will offer two art exhibitions, a new lecture series with noted historians, 20 live music performances from the likes of Sir … [Read more...]
‘Sully’ hymns the hero of the Hudson landing
One definition of a good director is his ability to wrench blood, sweat and tears from scenarios that should be free of suspense. Every American knows about Captain Chesley Sullenberger’s 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson,” but this cinematic disadvantage makes its dramatic re-enactment, in Clint Eastwood’s Sully, no less palpable. It’s a nerve-rattling, heart-in-throat depiction of … [Read more...]
The View From Home 81: British New Wave, Hanks abroad, a towering dystopia, and Preminger
A Taste of Honey: One unwed mother begets another in Tony Richardson’s British New Wave classic, but A Taste of Honey (Criterion, $27.99 Blu-ray, $29.95 DVD) is more than a social-problem film. It is, at various times, a pungent comedy, a touching romance, a shattering indictment of postwar malaise and, above, all, a meditation on motherhood’s failings. If London was just … [Read more...]
Kravis Center celebrating 25th anniversary this season
On Nov. 28, 1992, the Kravis Center opened for the first time with a gala and a star-studded two-act program featuring Isaac Stern, Leontyne Price, Ella Fitzgerald, Lily Tomlin and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Burt Reynolds was the master of ceremonies. Since that date 24 years ago, thousands of top-name national and international performers have graced its … [Read more...]
FAU exhibit to feature art of the Florida Highwaymen, their teacher
By April Klimley The Florida Highwaymen are coming back to Boca Raton this fall with their vivid sunsets and sweeping coastal panoramas of Florida at Florida Atlantic University, accompanied by works of A.E. “Beanie” Backus, the landscape artist who inspired this influential group of African-American painters. The original works on display by Backus are owned by FAU and … [Read more...]
Mixed messages at Boca Museum’s All Florida Invitational
It seemed the greatest thing since sliced bread when the Boca Raton Museum’s annual All Florida show went from “calling all artists” to “you are invited.” Having artists extend an invitation to other artists made sense, not to mention it set a good precedent of camaraderie and reciprocity in a highly competitive world. But after seeing this year’s All Florida Invitational, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 3-5
Film: Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti was making his 2011 comedy Habemus Papam when his mother became seriously ill, and now the filmmaker returns with one of the best films to be released here this year, Mia Madre, that draws on that experience. Margherita Buy plays a filmmaker trying to make a movie about a strike who has to deal with a number of crises including the hack … [Read more...]
All-acoustic String Assassins see listener base grow
It’s a hot summer night outside in mid-July, but the temperature inside the air-conditioned Brewhouse Gallery in Lake Park is also uncommonly high during a performance by the genre-defying String Assassins (www.thestringassassins.com). That’s because a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd is swaying to the sounds of the quartet (acoustic guitarists Mark Shubert, Matt Gill and Dr. Jay … [Read more...]