The winter exhibition coming to the Flagler Museum this January is a rescue mission of an obscure classically trained artist with no direct ties to Henry Flagler – although he would have loved the works. Masterfully Human: The Art of Gaugengigl examines the highly evocative body of work of Boston painter and etcher Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl through 75 pieces that include … [Read more...]
Monad Studios brings music to 3-D printing at Jewish Museum
By Sandra Schulman Fusing wildly disparate worlds, a new exhibit at The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU in Miami Beach shows the vivid imagination of the husband-and-wife couple who run Monad Studios. 3-D printing has been evolving in a myriad of directions. Give this tool to an award-winning architecture, art and design practice founded by husband and wife Eric Goldemberg … [Read more...]
Bold art project gives CityPlace fresh life
By Sandra Schulman In what could have been an urban disaster, the mad scientists at owner company Related Group have conjured up an international art-infused delight, turning the former anchor store Macy’s space into a cavernous experimental gallery. They are calling it Culture Lab – a multi-installation, malleable space retrofitted with visual and aural artworks. I took … [Read more...]
Small-scale works at Norton, Boca give mixed results
Two local museums are closing the year and welcoming the new one with an old question: does size matter? Small is in, at least at the Norton Museum of Art, which currently has on view a series of miniature paintings and bronze sculptures adorning the walls and rooms of dollhouses. This is no kids’ play, though. The artworks are by Julian Schnabel, Michele Zalopany and Cy … [Read more...]
Revamped Bass part of Miami Art Week’s draws
By Sandra Schulman At this time in December, Miami becomes the world center of the contemporary art world, with Art Basel holding center court in the newly expanded Miami Beach Convention Center, while the Art Miami and Context Fairs move to an impressive new location on Biscayne Bay where The Miami Herald once stood. The new location is so fresh the concrete foundation … [Read more...]
Rocker Newsted channels power, energy onto canvas in Cultural Council show
By Sandra Schulman When I first see Jason Newsted, six-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and now artist with a powerful solo show at the Palm Beach Cultural Council, he is dropping little self-designed enamel pins that say “Rawk” into dozens of goody bags. “It’s what I do,” he says with a straight face. The last time I saw him was 21 years ago at … [Read more...]
Four Arts to offer overview of paintings by Winston Churchill
In 1947, Winston Churchill, then age 73, wrote about his dead father appearing to him and the imaginary conversation that unfolded between the two. When his father asks him what he is doing, Churchill answers him he is trying to copy an old portrait of his. Later on, the father inquiries how the son makes a living. “Not, surely, by these,” he says, pointing at several … [Read more...]
Can’t-miss Stella show stuns in Fort Lauderdale
By Sandra Schulman As the last of his generation of art history-defining artists left alive, 81-year-old Frank Stella zipped around the opening of his eye-popping mind- and line-blowing show at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale like a kid in a candy store. Except this candy store holds seven decades’ worth of work that challenged, chastened, chug-a-lugged and ultimately … [Read more...]
Flagler exhibit shows romance, peril of World War I combat in the air
Before it became a battle skill, flying was first a question and a plane was a toy piloted by an eccentric character with lots of free time. World War I changed all of that. When it came knocking and looking for heroes, aviation had to hurry up and grow real fast. The subjects of Flagler Museum’s fall exhibition are no stranger to the spotlight and under no pressure to … [Read more...]
‘Requiems for dying things’: Artist Guariglia chronicles man’s inhumanity to Earth
The digital technology explosion has turned everyone into a photographer, and the mushrooming of social media means the world is awash in an infinity of images. That’s why the photographer and artist Justin Brice Guariglia wanted to do more to than simply document the effect of man’s activities on the Earth, and climate change in particular, than simply present the kinds of … [Read more...]