By Lucy Lazarony Aesop’s Tables, hand-painted picnic tables on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach, are set to be auctioned off Aug. 31 in support of more than two dozen local charities. The live auction starts at 7:30 p.m. and is part of Clematis by Night from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The 6-foot tables, which support 25 different local charities and depict … [Read more...]
At The Box: The dreamscapes of Rosemary Otto
By Myles Ludwig To enter Rosemary Otto’s world is to enter a universe of metaphor and fantasy where deer/dear people sprout antlers, fly through surrealist landscapes and find themselves as naked as Adam and Eve entwined in the bare branches of trees. Pieces of it are currently on display at the new Box Gallery on Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach through Aug. … [Read more...]
Photos: France old and new, and fresh insight with Polaroids
Those of us who missed this year’s Bastille Day fireworks celebration at the Eiffel Tower, had a couple of options: looping Charlez Aznavour songs, watching Alain Delon films or seeing Norton Museum’s French Connections. Nothing wrong with the first two, but the third option can’t be found on YouTube. The bite-size exhibit is drawn from the museum’s photography … [Read more...]
Cultural Council’s exhibit lets the pictures do the talking
Whoever said that a picture was worth one or 10,000 words didn’t count on the picture itself containing any. We won’t do the math but, by that rationale, a new series of works from 16 local artists are worth a lot more. Text is the main attraction and inspiration of Mark My Words, a new exhibition running through May 27 at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. We don’t … [Read more...]
The art of the epistle: Meta-text at the Norton
By Myles Ludwig Handwritten letters are like fossils of an earlier age, docubones from a world B.M. (before Microsoft), and Pen to Paper at the Norton is an exhibition of more than 30 letters from well-known artists dating from the late 18th century to the early 1980s. They are addressed to each other, friends, family, dealers and critics. A midden of text. Few … [Read more...]
Svenja Deininger’s elusive art, at the Norton
By Myles Ludwig The young Austrian artist Svenja Deininger paints shadows and phantoms in textured layers of subdued tones and vibrant colors that sometimes hide and sometimes reveal themselves. Her exhibition of 20 paintings spanning some 11 years is currently marching in carefully ordered formation along the walls at the Norton Museum of Art. Deininger was selected … [Read more...]
At the Cornell, ‘Fabricated’ gives us more fiber for our art diet
By Christina Wood You could say that the exhibition currently on display at the Cornell Museum of Art at Old School Square in Delray Beach is held together by a thread. Fabricated, which has been extended through May 7, is a delightful showcase for contemporary artists who wield needles and scissors rather than paint and canvas to create highly collectable fiber art. The … [Read more...]
Salvatore Meo: Finding poetry in the everyday and the every thing
One will never find Salvatore Meo’s name listed among the leading artists of any art movement and yet, his body of work looks very familiar. That’s because it consists of everyday objects commonly found flattened on the streets. Having exhibited along Roberto Matta, Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, the Philadelphia native born in 1914 to Italian immigrants surely must have … [Read more...]
Art Boca Raton finds good groove in its second year
By Sandra Schulman Gliding into its second year, Art Boca Raton has found a groove, mixing the high-end blue chip art of Picasso and Chagall with the best of the regional art and artists like Cheryl Maeder and Rolando Chang Barrero. The 35,000-square-foot exhibition venue on the grounds of the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University is well laid-out and well-curated. … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Contemporary showcased artistic transformation
By Myles Ludwig The well-curated Palm Beach Contemporary show in the cavernous Expo Center at the Florida Fairgrounds was a compact exhibition of mostly fine crafts. It was a diverse representation of work and if there was a unifying theme to be found in this tidy collection, it was one of transformation. Here the unexpected achieved form and the unpolished achieved a … [Read more...]