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...]
Season Preview 2024-25: Books events show printed word still a strong draw
We may live in an increasingly digital age, one now further complicated by the rise of AI. But the printed word in books still exerts a powerful draw, as these festivals show: Miami Book Fair International The 41st Miami Book Fair — Nov. 17-24 — will feature a wide variety of authors in both fiction and nonfiction genres and celebrate the love of reading and love of … [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...]
Kravis invites you to visit Space Station, courtesy of VR
Imagine yourself as an avatar of pulsating lights, sporting a virtual reality (VR) headset and joining an international crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). You can do just that at the 3-D immersive experience, Space Explorers: The Infinite, now at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts through September 2. The state-of-the-art, … [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...]
Book arts specialist opens artisan-goods store in Lake Worth Beach
After years of searching for a space and as a way to organize his treasure-trove of unique artisan goods and ephemera, John Cutrone, the director of the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at FAU Libraries and his husband, Seth Thompson, an IT support specialist, have decided to pull the trigger and open a retail outlet: Convivio Bookworks. The store, at 1110 North G St. in Lake … [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...]
At the Norton: Simpson’s ceramics link to generations of Indigenous female creators
Hailing from a long-line of female ceramicists, Rose B. Simpson grew up in northern Arizona in the Santa Clara Pueblo, (also known as Kha-‘Po Owingeh, or the “Singing Water Village”), a town with a population of fewer than 1,000 residents. The daughter of renowned sculptor Roxanne Swentzell and metal artist Patrick Simpson, Simpson, 41, is an in-demand contemporary mixed … [Read more...]
Kips Bay 2024 house is a knockout of color
Set foot into the foyer of this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House at 230 Miramar Way in the “SoSo” neighborhood of West Palm Beach, and be greeted by a kaleidoscope of color. Nadia Watts Interior Design created the “Lively Loggia and Jeweled Gallery,” a jewel-toned foyer accented with hand-painted turquoise Porter Teleo wallpaper, a mix of antique and contemporary styles … [Read more...]
At Cornell, artist Strosberg reimagines Palm Beach
Sometimes it takes an outsider with a new set of eyes to see what others don’t. The result of that perspective is Belgian-born artist Serge Strosberg’s newest exhibit, Reimagining Palm Beach – Past, Present and Future, on display through May at the Cornell Art Museum in Old School Square, in the main downstairs gallery. Featuring 12 allegorical paintings reimagined for … [Read more...]