Former first lady Laura Bush will be in Boca Raton on Saturday for a talk on Florida Atlantic University’s 2023 Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency. Bush will be joined for the talk by one of her daughters, Barbara Pierce Bush. The lecture, which will be moderated by Timothy Naftali, CNN presidential historian and associate professor at New … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2023
Curator found ‘Contemplating Character’ images on ‘scholar’s salary’
By Sharon Geltner The man behind the exhibit Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud, which opened Saturday at The Society of the Four Arts, has led as an interesting a life as many of the artists who created the fascinating 81 portraits in his collection dating back 250 years. And with R. Crumb and Lucian Freud in … [Read more...]
Traveling Holocaust exhibit comes to three Palm Beach County sites
Since the beginning of the year, a number of anti-Semitic incidents have occurred in Palm Beach County, including the distribution of anti-Semitic flyers in the driveways and front yards of Boca Raton, Atlantis and Palm Beach residents, and the projection of anti-Semitic images and messages onto the sides of buildings in downtown West Palm Beach by known far-right … [Read more...]
‘The Science of Leaving Omaha’: Downward mobility on the prairie
It is one thing to recognize the dramatic potential in a New York Times article about the disintegration of working-class communities and its devastating toll from one generation to the next, as playwright Carter W. Lewis did. It is quite another thing to make the imaginative leap and turn that material into The Science of Leaving Omaha, about a teenage dropout working in a … [Read more...]