From the Hall Hardware sign in the shape of a hammer, juxtaposed against the blue-and-white Florida sky, to the Dixie Highway and Dyer Road street signs, to the telephone pole and all its wires, to the red-and-white stop sign, WPTV reporter and artist Ashleigh Walters paints realistic still lifes and landscapes of la vie quotidienne. Now, 50 of Walters’s latest paintings … [Read more...]
Entertainer Cumming’s love of life, theater keeps his career soaring
Although he grew up in Scotland speaking the King’s English, when actor, singer, dancer, emcee, author, reality show host and all-around performer Alan Cumming first came to the United States at the age of 30, the two most foreign words for him were Tucson and Boca Raton. “I had never heard that name before,” he says. “I thought it was a Mexican dish.” Since then, he’s … [Read more...]
Gallery owner’s book reveals untold story of Florida sculptors
What started as something to keep busy during the COVID-19 quarantine turned into a labor of love for Palm Beach gallery owner Deborah C. Pollack when she decided to research and write Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020. Bored with watching YouTube videos and cutting her husband’s hair, Pollack spent two years researching, writing and contacting the artists’ estates … [Read more...]
New Norton shows expand canon of American modernism
Two new exhibits, From Man Ray to O’Keeffe: American Modernism at the Norton and At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, opened Saturday at the Norton Museum of Art and will run through July 16. The companion exhibits, organized thematically, explore the various ways American artists employed abstract styles to convey their experiences of modern … [Read more...]
Glamour and charity: Kips Bay Show House stuns to help county’s children
When you walk through the designer front door of this year’s Kips Bay Designer Show House at 3240 N. Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach, you are greeted by Philip Thomas Vanderford of Studio Thomas James’s White Lotus-inspired entry, complete with a large-scale sawtooth crocodile rug. Reminiscent of a Sicilian palazzo, complete with Murano-glass chandeliers, the entry … [Read more...]
Festival of the Arts Boca: Author Fishman wants to warn us about our water crisis
Not one to shy away from large topics, award-winning journalist and author Charles Fishman will bring a whopper to the Festival of the Arts Boca this month. Fishman's talk, which will take place March 9 at the festival as part of the Authors and Ideas programs, focuses on one of his favorite subjects: Water. “Water has achieved an invisibility in our lives that is only … [Read more...]
At the Morikami, artists reimagine use of traditional washi paper
The work of nine Japanese contemporary paper artists (seven women and two men) is currently on display at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in an exhibit titled Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper, running through April 2. A traveling exhibit curated by Los Angeles-based historian of Japanese art Meher McArthur, it features more than 30 highly … [Read more...]
Former first lady Laura Bush to speak at FAU presidential forum
Former first lady Laura Bush will be in Boca Raton on Saturday for a talk on Florida Atlantic University’s 2023 Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency. Bush will be joined for the talk by one of her daughters, Barbara Pierce Bush. The lecture, which will be moderated by Timothy Naftali, CNN presidential historian and associate professor at New … [Read more...]
Traveling Holocaust exhibit comes to three Palm Beach County sites
Since the beginning of the year, a number of anti-Semitic incidents have occurred in Palm Beach County, including the distribution of anti-Semitic flyers in the driveways and front yards of Boca Raton, Atlantis and Palm Beach residents, and the projection of anti-Semitic images and messages onto the sides of buildings in downtown West Palm Beach by known far-right … [Read more...]
New Palm Beach Film Festival looks to be inclusive
Live film festivals are back, and a new one, The Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Film Festival, makes its debut Jan. 26 with the opening night film, the U.S. premiere of the French comedy Two Tickets to Greece at the Kravis Center Cohen Pavilion. Directed by Marc Fitoussi, who is scheduled to attend the screening, the film stars Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin … [Read more...]