By Myles Ludwig The movie poster is a metaphor in design, albeit with a specific purpose: A kind of Coming Attractions on paper. Coming Soon, the new show at the Norton (it opened Friday and runs through Oct. 19), is a marvelous view of design as metaphor. Some 215 movie posters from the U.S. and other countries have been curated from the 3,000-plus collection of Dwight … [Read more...]
Astronaut’s images at Photo Centre paint our world in cosmic colors
By Myles Ludwig The vivid colors of the cosmos are on display at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, which is currently exhibiting a wondrous series of pictures captured by retired astronaut Scott Kelly during his long sojourn in the International Space Station. They are abstractions of course, shapes often as foreign as their hues. Because if people look like ants from … [Read more...]
‘Seven Solos’ dazzles at the Cornell
By April Klimley Art lovers will be thrilled with Seven Solos, an exhibition of immersive installations now showing at the Cornell Museum in Old School Square in Delray Beach. The museum’s dynamic curator, Melanie Johanson, has brought together eight artists to create seven fascinating spaces that will transport viewers from celestial awe (Brookhard Jonquil) to soothing … [Read more...]
Comics-influenced art at Boca Museum more about bold heart than bright colors
To widen perceptions of comics and contemporary art has a cost. A new exhibition inspired by superheroes takes the masks off and throws lightweight topics out the window in favor of troubling themes. Among the first facts that becomes blatantly obvious upon entering Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art is that this is not a show for kids. Happy ends go rogue. Flat … [Read more...]
Art: The 2019 Summer Season
By Sandra Schulman It’s sure to be a long hot summer, so the cool quiet of museums and galleries offer a welcome retreat. With more of a year-round population in South Florida, cultural centers are offering up more top-notch shows with a lighter touch. The new Norton Museum in particular, with its shady sculpture garden, gleaming new restaurant and water-inspired art, is a … [Read more...]
Four photo shows, endless questions
By Myles Ludwig Process — the origination of something — pre-exists as form, said Heinrich Schenker, the 19th century Ukrainian-born, Vienna- schooled composer, conductor, performer and theorist, and that appears to be the subject of four photography exhibitions I visited recently. In some cases, it was the act of taking the picture, in others it was the act of making it … [Read more...]
Artechouse: Enter the Matrix on South Beach
By Sandra Schulman As trippy art experiences go, Artechouse rules. They have taken over an entire hotel on South Beach’s Collins Avenue and retrofitted it to house the installation of 10 interactive, retroactive, immersive hands on digital artworks. Like the recent Banksy exhibit in Little River and The Museum of Ice Cream at Faena Arts in mid-Beach, this new moneyed … [Read more...]
The art fair that changed Miami: New doc explores coming of Art Basel
By Sandra Schulman Miami had one main art museum and a few scattered galleries in the 1990s. A scrappy group called Artifacts held court underground, but most artists left town for dealers in New York City or Los Angeles. I should know, as I was the arts writer for the Sun-Sentinel and XS Magazine for a decade during those years. It was a colorful scene but strictly … [Read more...]
West Palm enlivens downtown, CityPlace with Art Affair
By Sandra Schulman As downtown West Palm Beach moves forward, “art experiences,” if not actual “art” in the traditional sense, takes on a leading role. And thus is it is with Art Affair, a week of such experiences now ongoing in West Palm Beach. In addition to the 3-day Downtown West Palm Beach Arts Festival at the end of the week, there will be a 3-day pop-up event with … [Read more...]
Morton Kaish: An eye for nature, color and life
Not even gloomy rainy days can get in the way of radiant butterflies determined to glide over grassy fields in search of the sun. To aid their journey, an artist arms them with multicolor marbleized wings. Spring is the perfect backdrop to the jovial artworks of American painter Morton Kaish, whose solo exhibition is now on view through May 5 at the Ann Norton Sculpture … [Read more...]