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...]
At the Flagler: When women said ‘me, too’ to jewelry-making
If you are blue and don’t know where to go to, head toward the sparkling jewels on view now at the Flagler Museum. Few times has the extravagant gilded-age Whitehall mansion been upstaged by an exhibit running on the second floor. If it feels like the noise levels go up a fair number of decibels upon entering the upstairs galleries, that’s because there are more than 200 … [Read more...]
Jewelry, Art and Antique Show stuns, overwhelms
By Myles Ludwig Glorious. At some point in the fifth hour of my three-day trip into the enchanted forests of Artlandia, standing in the aisles of great hall, I sensed a shiver of collective Stendhal syndrome, as if a powerful aesthetic spirit might levitate the Convention Center, drawing it up into the cerulean sky above the city of West Palm Beach. The Palm Beach … [Read more...]
Stunningly redone Norton sure to be South Florida cultural landmark
A soft blue light descends upon delicate Chinese artifacts housed inside dark cabinets. Each has a dedicated source of light announcing it. From a distance, the mechanism holding them vanishes, leaves them floating like fragile notes on an invisible music sheet. The room is quiet, ceremonial. The song of hammers and drills can’t touch this sacred space. Nobody dares speak. Not … [Read more...]
Art Palm Beach outdoes itself with marvelous fair
By Myles Ludwig If you see only one art fair in West Palm Beach, this is the one. Art Palm Beach at the Convention Center is sassy, sexy and spicy, with dishes of Latin flavor, Korean “kidult,” spiritual significance, intellectual challenge, irony, inscrutability, installation, process, counterfeit, the best of contemporary art (the art of yesterday) and refined Danish … [Read more...]
Fort Lauderdale Art and Design Week: Boats, mansions and art galore
By Sandra Schulman Cultural crusader Evan Snow looked at the art action in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and wondered why Broward wasn’t getting in on the art fair game. So three years ago he did something about it, fusing the lush waterways of Fort Lauderdale – which give the town its “Venice” nickname – with the many mansions along the water and filling them with … [Read more...]
Amid the glam, much beauty at Modern + Contemporary show
By Myles Ludwig Oh, dear: it appears tough times have hit the Palm Beach art market. No more the free-flowing champagne (now $23 a flute) and nary a canape in sight when I arrived at the VIP-y vernissage at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary show at the city’s oft-traded “tent site” on Thursday night. It was the first pitch of the art show season, traffic was tangled and … [Read more...]
‘Tech Effect’: At Old School Square, Titian meets the terabyte
Want to be my friend? Technology asked Art. Cornell Art Museum answered with augmented reality, emojis and touch screens. On view through March 30, Tech Effect looks at contemporary art’s response to and adoption of technology with the help of 12 artists who marry technology and creativity and understand their relationship’s current status is not that complicated. The new … [Read more...]