By Sandra Schulman Artists make art in a search for self. Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, a stunning show at the Boca Museum of Art, now being exhibited through June 14 on online and digital programs, brings solo works together of major artists of the 20th and 21st centuries and dating from 1901 to 2015. There are treasures large and small … [Read more...]
Forget your troubles at NSU Museum’s ‘Happy!’
If you are happy and you know it, you won’t mind putting that feeling to the test of an exhibition parking balloons, cartoons, and smiles right next to depression, trauma and loss. The subject of many onward and inward expeditions has everyone looking for universal driving directions. There’s one location we are likely to find it – at least temporarily. The relentless … [Read more...]
Norton opens a fresh look at Rauschenberg
By Sandra Schulman Bicycles, T-shirts, tin cans – everything was fodder for art materials for Robert Rauschenberg, the radical 1950s artist who used the beauty and detritus of the world as his aesthetic. For the next major show in its newly expanded gallery space, the Norton Museum of Art is presenting a large survey of the work of Rauschenberg (1925-2008), tracing the … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Show offers floors full of riches
By Myles Ludwig The shiny story is at the Convention Center, where the Palm Beach Show of glittering jewelry, particularly fine antiques, interesting artifacts and wonderful paintings is on display. Opening night was a grand affair with an invitation-only VIP vernissage benefitting the Cancer Alliance of Help and Hope followed by a special preview opening party. The … [Read more...]
Kips Bay house showcases brilliant interior design
Decorator Show House – a staple in New York City since 1973, has returned to Palm Beach for its third iteration. This year’s plantation-style home, nicknamed “Bamboo Hill,” situated at 260 Palmetto Lane in the South End neighborhood of West Palm Beach, a block from the Intracoastal Waterway, is owned by renowned Swedish interior designer Lars Bolander. “The Kips Bay … [Read more...]
ArtPalmBeach offers variety, but unifying theme elusive
By Myles Ludwig Transparency, in terms of glass and ceramic works, seemed the most salient curatorial thinking behind the ArtPalmBeach 2020 exhibition at the Convention Center which runs through today. This fair has often presented surprising and even clever work in past iterations, but I felt the organizing principle behind the current edition of the show was elusive, … [Read more...]
At Modern + Contemporary, looking for subtlety amid the anger
By Myles Ludwig If you’re looking for art that fits the temper of the times, you’d find it under the tent at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair in West Palm Beach. The collection of some 70 galleries there are, for the most part, are presenting work that is angry, confrontational, prickly, howling, assaulting, bristling with non-directional outrage to the point … [Read more...]
In small ink strokes, humanity writ large: Rembrandt at the Four Arts
A striking candlelight effect may be the loudest marking of one of the greatest artists in the history of art, but a new exhibit extinguishes it in favor of his other theatrical — and humane — sensibilities. Detail-soaked biblical passages, scenes of street life and portraits of the distinguished and the marginalized have aligned at the Society of the Four Arts to … [Read more...]
Miami Art Week 3: Proof of city’s growth as hub for art
By Sandra Schulman If you were feeling some fair-tigue earlier this month during Miami Art Week, the shows at the city’s museums give breathing room and stellar installations to their artists. Miami saw three new museums open in December, and new exhibits at longtime spaces dug deep. The Rubell family, Mera, Don, and son Jason, have been at the forefront of art collecting … [Read more...]
Hart’s art draws boomers, Dead fans to Boca gallery
Wentworth Gallery in the Boca Raton Town Center Mall bears little resemblance to the venues where San Francisco-launched act the Grateful Dead cultivated its following of Deadheads, a throng that grew between formation of the band in 1965 and the death of founding guitarist/vocalist Jerry Garcia in 1995. But former Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s forays into visual art … [Read more...]