Santeria reference? Check. Dual-language panels? Check. Diego Rivera? Check. A new art exhibition courts Latin America with good intentions and ends up feeling like a promising blind date. Romancing the unknown is a daunting undertaking, particularly when sensitivity is trending upward and the risk of offending is super high. By all accounts, The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta: … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2019-20: O’Keeffe, Rembrandt shows highlights of PB County’s season
By Sandra Schulman Women in the arts is the season’s theme in Palm Beach County. The stylish life of Georgia O’Keeffe gets the museum treatment at the Norton, and women’s undergarments are the focus of the Flagler Museum’s new Season of Style exhibit. Meanwhile, tattoo art bares all in Tequesta and FAU shows off political embroidery. The Norton Museum of Art A … [Read more...]
Lighthouse ArtCenter takes a close look at the ink
By Myles Ludwig Deep in the heart of Tequesta, in the land of Lettuce Ware lovers and the birthplace of B-list movie star Burt Reynolds, I came upon an attractive tribe of tattooed ladies. These were not the circus sideshow freaks of my childhood or the longhouse Dyaks with whom I bunked deep in the tropical jungles of Borneo, fierce former headhunters whose multiple … [Read more...]
The well-mannered beauty of ‘Expanding Horizons,’ at Ann Norton
In case you have not heard, photography is done cloning pieces of reality. It signed a clause reading until atrocity, cruelty and ugliness do us part and they have all arrived. This breach of contract has rendered the camera free to roam and invent an alternative universe. More specifically, to birth the works on view at Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens. Aside from its … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2019-20: In Broward, art venues explore the lighthearted
By Sandra Schulman The art season in Broward County looks to be heavy with lighthearted art, from the big name laden Happy! show at NSU to the merry visual mischief of Mr. Brainwash. Artist studios get the artists point of view treatment at Art and Culture Center, while Fort Lauderdale’s ArtServe celebrates 30 years. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Get your upside on … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2019-20: Solo woman shows standouts in Miami-Dade art season
By Sandra Schulman In Miami-Dade County, the return of Art Basel Miami Beach and dozens of satellite fairs dominates December, but strong shows by female artists Teresita Fernandez and Mickalene Thomas are star attractions at the museums. Art After Stonewall brings major names to the theme, while regional art stars shine at MOCA. Art Basel Miami Beach: The biggest art … [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...]
In St. Petersburg: AI tech brings Dalí’s boast, and himself, to life
Salvador Dalí once said, “I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.” Now we know he was right. The eccentric surrealist master personally greets us with his trademark mustache at the entrance of his museum in St. Petersburg. He is in high spirits and great shape – considering it’s been 30 years since his death. The START button on a human-size screen is all it takes … [Read more...]
Norton’s movie poster show a summer must-see
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...]