By Sandra Schulman Inspired by both Greek sculptures from the Hellenistic era and the outrageous fashion forward designs of the late provocateur Alexander McQueen, multimedia artist Rick Lazes has created something new – a series of three-dimensional sculptures of paper dolls. As part of the Art Couture: The Intersection of Art and Fashion exhibit at the newly reopened … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2020
The View From Home: A Dardenne brothers masterpiece and more
When I started writing the View From Home column for this website in 2010, it was single-focused on physical media — the Blu-rays and DVDs that had yet to be usurped by the streaming juggernauts. Times have changed, and while I too have integrated streaming for the majority of home viewing, exciting physical media still drops every week, and for certain titles it remains … [Read more...]
The View From Home: ‘Tommaso’ finds Ferrara, Dafoe through the looking glass
As a work of semi-improvised metafiction set in Rome, Abel Ferrara’s Tommaso (now playing in Virtual Cinemas) is a fragrant cipollini onion inviting us to peel away its layers. Is Willem Dafoe’s titular protagonist, a volatile expat filmmaker with a marriage on the rocks, wrestled from Ferrara’s own troubled biography? Is Dafoe playing a raw version of himself? When he tells … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: Norton director Davis resigns; Morikiami to reopen grounds
WEST PALM BEACH — Elliot Bostwick Davis, CEO and director of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach since March 2019, has resigned. “The events of the past months have impressed upon me the importance of being closer to my family and I’m looking forward to returning to Boston and beginning the next chapter of my life,” she said in a prepared statement. She declined to … [Read more...]
The View From Home: Three free food docs on YouTube
As I discovered recently, YouTube is not only an infinitely populated platform for pay-per-view movies both classic and brand-new. It’s also a generous purveyor of free movies easily stream-able on your smart TV through the basic YouTube app. The bulk of these titles are fairly obscure — what used to be dubbed “straight to video” — but spelunkers of the entire “free movies” … [Read more...]
Arts briefs: Boca Museum reopens; Flagler back open Tuesday
The Boca Raton Museum of Art in Mizner Park reopened its doors to the public today. It was shut down March 16 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials stress the plan complies with guidelines from the state of Florida, Palm Beach County and city of Boca Raton, and is subject to change depending on circumstances. The museum has created an intense sanitizing program and will … [Read more...]