By Jan Engoren When the Cannes Film Festival is canceled and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is projected to lose $100 million after closing down because of the coronavirus, the impact on the arts and culture all over the world is significant. And Palm Beach County is no exception. While many sectors are suffering, arts organizations and cultural … [Read more...]
Coronavirus fears shut Four Arts, Book Festival; other venues staying open
The Society of the Four Arts will close until further notice Friday, cutting short its arts and education season, and the Palm Beach Book Festival scheduled for next week has been canceled. Both are casualties of the worldwide COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic. “Coronavirus conference canceled in New York because of coronavirus,” read the headline in New York’s tabloid … [Read more...]
‘This will be the place to be’: Boynton shows off Town Square progress
In its centennial year, transformation is well underway in downtown Boynton Beach after a grass-roots effort to save the old Boynton Beach High School from demolition and turn it into a destination and cultural arts center called Boynton Town Square succeeded in 2018. The project is a public/private partnership between the city of Boynton Beach and E2L Real Estate Solutions … [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...]
McKeever’s ‘fable’ of unexpected love on stage at Levis JCC
The Levis JCC Sandler Center has kicked off its 2019-20 black box theater lineup with local playwright Michael McKeever’s Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors, presented by West Boca Theatre Company and running through Dec. 22. “We’re thrilled to present ‘Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors’ as our stellar season opener,” says Alan Nash, assistant director for the Sandler Center. … [Read more...]
‘Rescuers,’ at Levis JCC, hails those who saved Jews from Holocaust
The Levis JCC Sandler Center in Boca Raton’s fall exhibit, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, brings back a show that first ran in 1996. With updated panels and imagery, the revamped exhibit explores stories of kindness, compassion and heroism and features an interactive component whereby attendees will be able to contribute their own personal stories of … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2019-20: ‘Firebird,’ new local works among dance season highlights
From dancing gauchos to stately ballerinas and innovative tap dancers to body-bending modern movement-makers, South Florida’s 2019-2020 dance season takes off in full swing by early October. With holiday staples such as The Nutcracker, venerated classics such as The Firebird and new programming including Puremovement American Street Dance Theatre in venues from Miami to West … [Read more...]
Artist Prusa maps the infinite through painstaking silverpoint
What if Stephen Hawking had been an artist? What would his theories look like as physical representations of the universe and the cosmos? Carol Prusa, a Boca Raton artist and professor of painting and drawing at FAU, just might have that answer. In her new exhibit for the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Carol Prusa: Dark Light, curated by Kathleen Goncharov, the senior curator … [Read more...]
Teens in summer Maltz program tackle ‘Romeo and Juliet’
By Jan Engoren What do teenagers know about love? Apparently, a lot, as the original Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed teenagers. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, teen students are getting the chance this month to show they know what it’s all about in a youth production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, the plot – if you’ve … [Read more...]
Palm Beach Book Festival, at FAU this weekend, features Albom, Orlean
Everything good that’s ever happened to Mitch Albom happened in Detroit. Or so the best-selling author of books like Tuesdays With Morrie says. He’s likely to talk about that next month at Florida Atlantic University, when he joins the lineup for the fifth annual Palm Beach Books Festival. The one-day festival, set for March 16 at FAU’s University Theatre, will feature … [Read more...]