A current exhibit at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum coincides with the city of Boca Raton’s centennial and looks back on the continuing impact of city planner, industrialist and architect Addison Mizner. The multimedia exhibit, Boca Raton 1925-2025: Addison Mizner’s Legacy, features photographs, drawings, maps and videos, and runs through May 30. Highlighting Boca … [Read more...]
Botanical beauty: The floating flowers of Rory McEwen
By Sandra Schulman Adrift in space, purple tulips waft in whiteness, red roses gleam in unseen sunshine, a red pepper shines with ripeness. These exquisitely painted flora by Rory McEwen are the subject of a current show at The Society of the Four Arts, Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature, which runs through March 30 in the Esther B. O’Keeffe Building. Presented … [Read more...]
At the Flagler, a luminous look at artist Maxfield Parrish
Enter a world of lush landscapes, blue skies and billowing clouds all bathed in a luminous light. Graceful, willowy figures, often dressed in flowing, Grecian-like gowns, swing effortlessly and carefree amidst an idyllic, bucolic background. In The Ethereal Worlds of Maxfield Parrish, running through May 25 at The Flagler Museum as part of the museum’s 2025 Winter … [Read more...]
Norton’s ‘Strike Fast’ a lyrical look at the sweet science
Perhaps it’s no surprise that on the 50th anniversary of the iconic Muhammad Ali-George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle,” the historic and memorable boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire, the Norton Museum of Art brings Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, an exhibit showcasing artistic representations of the sport of boxing. The title comes from a poem by Gabriele Tinti … [Read more...]
With love from Spain: Old masters at Boca, a Sorolla retrospective at the Norton
Kicking off its 75th anniversary season and the 100th anniversary of the city, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is showcasing Splendor and Passion: Baroque Spain and Its Empire, a collection of 57 paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries on loan from the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York City. The HSM&L, as it is known, has the most extensive collection of … [Read more...]
Incoming director sees big things ahead for Boca Raton Museum of Art
It’s a changing of the guard at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, as current executive director Irvin Lippman steps down in January after 11 years, turning the leadership over to Ena Heller, who comes to Boca Raton from Winter Park, where she was the Bruce A. Beal Director of the Rollins Museum of Art. Under Lippman’s direction, the museum transformed itself with popular … [Read more...]
Powerful photo exhibit at Boca Museum spurs difficult conversations
Five distinctive photographic voices are now on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in an exhibit called Myths, Secrets, Lies, and Truths: Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection. The show, which opened last month and runs through Oct. 13, features the work of Sheila Pree Bright, Liesa Cole, Karen Graffeo, Spider Martin and Hank Willis Thomas. McCraw is the founder of … [Read more...]
Delray art gallery owners publish major study of Central American modernist art
It was the love of Central American art that brought co-authors Suzanne Brooks Snider and Mark Morgan Ford, of Ford Fine Art, together more than a decade ago. A labor of love and passion project for the two, Snider and Ford spent eight years writing and researching their new book, Central American Modernism/Modernismo en Centroamérica. A large, coffee table-sized 7-lb. … [Read more...]
A buzzy flora and fauna show at the Cultural Council
By Sandra Schulman In a bee-utiful show that would make flower master Georgia O’Keeffe proud, Beyond Blossoms: The Power of Pollinators is open through June 22, and features the work of 43 Palm Beach County-based artists at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach in Lake Worth Beach. Pollinators are, simply put, the birds – but mostly bees — that flock to the sexy … [Read more...]
Flamingo Clay Studio readies for early June eviction in LWB
It’s not good-bye but au revoir for the Flamingo Clay Studio, 15 S. J St., in Lake Worth, which has called that city home for the past two decades. Despite a heroic fight to save their studio and gallery space, the studio has received an eviction notice effective June 7. The nonprofit artists’s cooperative, founded by artist and activist Joyce Brown, 80, also runs the … [Read more...]