By Lucy Lazarony When Boca Raton resident Raheleh T. Filsoofi returned to her homeland of Iran last summer, she went determined to see her country through the eyes of an artist. And she did just that, shooting more than 6,000 photos and videos, seeking out, interviewing, and living with talented ceramic artists and women potters living in villages in western and northern … [Read more...]
Armory Art Center set to celebrate 25th anniversary
It’s not generally known that the Armory Art Center is what it is today — and celebrating its silver anniversary Saturday — thanks to the foresight and vision of the Flamingo Park neighborhood preservation committee, community organizers, and students and teachers from the former Norton Museum Gallery and School of Art. Back before the Kravis Center and the convention center … [Read more...]
The Rilke Project: Repeated encounters with Dali
In the fall of 1907, the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke returned to Paris to continue his work with the sculptor Auguste Rodin. While there, he repeatedly visited a memorial exhibit of works by the painter Paul Cézanne, who had died the year before. Those letters informed his only novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, as well as his subsequent poetic work, and have … [Read more...]
A roomful of beauty at the Four Arts
They say happiness is a state of mind you can command at any time and place. The same thing can be said about beauty. We decide, in a matter of seconds, whether or not something is beautiful. In a room full of porcelain-skin ladies and velvety, satin dresses, this is not a hard decision to make. The Society of the Four Arts has put together such a room for its ongoing … [Read more...]
At the Liman Gallery, Emily Zuch emerges
Ellen Liman has been following the career of the young Emily Zuch since she saw her work during the New York Studio School Masters exhibit. “She’s our featured emerging artist of the season,” said Liman, whose Palm Beach gallery is presenting Emily Zuch: The Land of Fake Nature through March 16. “She’s outstanding.” The exhibit contains more than 40 of Zuch’s paintings, … [Read more...]
Armory combines art and the runway for fundraiser
A standing-room-only crowd navigated its way around the Armory Art Center last week for the Armory’s first-ever wearable art show and fundraiser ―Fashion ARTillery ― as part of the Armory’s 25-year anniversary celebration. Amid works by Dayron González, Omar Rodriguez Lavandero and New York and Palm Beach-based artist Serge Strosberg, the crowds came out Feb. 7 for a fashion … [Read more...]
Walter Gay at the Flagler: Empty rooms, inhabited
In a time calling for simplicity and scaling back, portraits of the complete opposite score well. Only hours into their first day at the Flagler Museum, freshly hanged paintings of European and American extravagant interiors already were having an impact. The first visitors found them gorgeous, informative; even inspirational. Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings … [Read more...]
Boynton celebrates art in motion
Standing 9 feet tall and weighing in at 350 lbs., Ralfonso Gschwend’s Dance With the Wind kinetic sculpture sits in front of downtown Boynton Beach’s Civic Center as part of the first-in-the-nation international “kinetic art” exhibit and symposium. A larger 33-foot version, commissioned by China for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, remains in a permanent installation next to … [Read more...]
New curator to bring fresh eyes to Norton’s American collection
“I like to put things in a historical context. I think like my father,” said Ellen Roberts, the new Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art at the Norton Museum of Art, about why she loves being a curator. “He’s a 20th-century European intellectual historian.” This kind of thinking will help in her new post, where she’ll document and educate the public and … [Read more...]
Painter takes intimate look at the face of Wall Street
Men in dark suits and ties are seen voraciously tackling the phone, their blurry faces fixed on the screens higher up and on their desks. They wear watches, glasses and sport thinning hair. This used to be the image of a respectable man. An exhibition of paintings by Ben Aronson, currently running until Feb. 10 at the Ann Norton Scuplture Gardens, may not be the hottest show … [Read more...]