Prior to June 3, Israel-born, Manhattan-based jazz/fusion guitarist Oz Noy's last appearance at the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton was barely more than two-and-a-half years ago. Yet those two shows in November of 2019, with bassist Hadrien Feraud and drummer Dave Weckl, appear further back in time because they occurred in a seemingly distant era -- pre-COVID-19. Noy's … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2022
Haring-Alechinsky ‘confrontation’ at NSU Fort Lauderdale more of a friendly get-together
There would be blood – we thought – in the duel of two titans from the art world. We imagined brushes piercing the skin, intense stares exchanged by their canvasses, a snarky gesture hidden like a pentimento in plain sight. But visitors showing up to Confrontation: Keith Haring and Pierre Alechinsky don’t need to broker a peace deal after all. The renowned artists appear … [Read more...]
Norton deepens collection with absorbing Dürer, Rembrandt and Picasso exhibit
There are some times when a celebrated turn of phrase from literature perfectly sums up an experience, and for a current exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art, the magic words come from Christopher Marlowe, writing in 1589: Infinite riches in a little room. The West Palm Beach museum has been promised prints by three supreme masters of the genre — Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt … [Read more...]
‘Jurassic World Dominion’: Franchise’s ‘final’ film overstuffed and clunky, but still has some teeth
Nostalgia, as they say, never goes out of style. And in a pop-culture space increasingly populated by aging Gen-Xers and millennials with time on their hands, affection for the more sanguine 1990s has reached its pinnacle of saturation. The X-Files, Sex and the City, Friends, Scream — and we might as well throw the box office-crushing Top Gun in there because it’s close enough … [Read more...]
Record review: Bright, vigorous Telemann from violinist Cotik
Tomás Cotik is a violinist, a professor at Portland State University, and perhaps most important, a scholar whose projects for the Centaur Records label have included complete surveys of the Mozart violin sonatas and Schubert violin-and piano works, as well as the Bach sonatas and partitas. Each of these recordings was accompanied by deeply learned program notes by Cotik, who … [Read more...]