Welcome to the new arts season for 2018-19! In this special collection of stories at Palm Beach ArtsPaper you’ll find previews by our staff of what’s to come in the visual arts in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties; in classical, jazz and pop music; opera, dance and theater; film and books. It’s a packed season, and what we’ve written here is only part of … [Read more...]
Delray’s Spady Museum celebrates Harlem Renaissance, poet Hughes
What’s it like to hear “Stormy Weather” performed by Ethel Waters at the Cotton Club in 1920s Harlem or Cab Calloway belt out his classic “Minnie the Moocher”? Or perhaps listen to Billie Holiday as she sings at the Hot Shot Club? Or, how about swinging the night away at the Savoy Ballroom, the largest dance hall in Harlem, known for its rootin’-tootin’ root beers and best … [Read more...]
Arts briefs: Alswang to retire from Norton; Danis departs at FGO
WEST PALM BEACH — Hope Alswang, who has led the Norton Museum of Art since April 2010, will retire in March after it reopens following its massive expansion and renovation by the eminent British architect Norman Foster. Alswang, who led a $100 million capital campaign called The New Norton, has overseen an expansion of the institution’s collections, receiving donations of … [Read more...]
At Max Planck, investigating the mystery of memory
By Myles Ludwig As a writer, I depend upon my memory a great deal, not so much for facts and figures so easily abundant by click, but certainly for flavor. For making something out of nothing, so to speak, which may be how the expression, “spinning a good yarn” came about. I also coach embryonic memoirists at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach and the Mid-County … [Read more...]
Arts news: ‘Tattoo’ dedicated; a gift for the Symphonia; Kravis salutes high school thespians
WEST PALM BEACH — The newest mural in town is also the world’s longest, as artist Steed Taylor’s mile-long “road tattoo” was dedicated at a ceremony May 1 at the block along Rosemary Avenue that borders the police station. In attendance were some of the people who make public art happen in West Palm Beach, including Mayor Jeri Muoio, Art in Public Places’s Sybille Welter, … [Read more...]
Miami’s M Ensemble wins big at Carbonells
A low-budget African-American theater company in Miami was the big winner at the 42nd annual Carbonell Awards ceremony Monday night at the Broward Center. Although M Ensemble has been producing plays for 47 years, it had barely been recognized by the South Florida awards for theater excellence until that night. Its mounting of Kings of Harlem, about the struggles of a black … [Read more...]
Arts news: 2nd Oliveira contest dates announced; PGB venue closes
BOCA RATON — The second Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition will take place Jan. 12-26, 2020, at Lynn University, its founder said in a press conference Feb. 12. The celebrated American composer Christopher Theofanidis has been commissioned to compose a work for solo violin to be played by contestants in the competition. He is a member of the Yale University … [Read more...]
One-time live music promoter branches out into beer
Bands and beers are practically the twin engines that drive the clubs and restaurants in any live music scene. And North Palm Beach-based James Noble has blended performers and brews for more than a decade in Palm Beach County, in both traditional and his current not-so-customary ways. From 2005 to 2012, the 59-year-old Noble was the proprietor of the Orange Door in Lake … [Read more...]
Festival of the Arts Boca offers Battle, Perlman, Tinti, Haass, ‘E.T.’ — and Bill Murray
With its starting dates moved up a couple weeks this season, the 12th annual Festival of the Arts Boca opens Feb. 23 with a renowned American operatic singer and closes March 4 with a classic Steven Spielberg movie accompanied by a live orchestra. Opening the festival at the Mizner Park Amphitheater will be soprano Kathleen Battle, a five-time Grammy Award winner who will … [Read more...]
Music and science shake hands in Max Planck series
By Myles Ludwig Neurons were abuzz and synapses atwitch Dec. 11 when the circuits of science and music connected at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience in Jupiter on FAU’s John D. MacArthur campus as the prestigious global scientific organization presented the latest in its series of public programs marked by the interaction of the two disciplines. Too … [Read more...]