Two Boca Raton students will be representing Palm Beach County today in the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (the Jimmy Awards) in New York City. Maya Sharma from Saint Andrew’s School and Lucas Brown from West Boca Raton Community High School were the top winners in the fourth annual Kravis Center Dream Awards, competing with 135 other students from 15 Palm Beach … [Read more...]
Comedian Glaser brings truth-talking to salty standup
Not afraid to storm the barricades, whether the topic is sex, men, dating, pop culture, being a single woman or suffering from anxiety and depression, Nikki Glaser says she wants to speak truth from her own perspective. “I don’t mind making people uncomfortable to talk about real issues,” she says. Admitting “it’s hard to make me embarrassed,” Glaser also admits to being … [Read more...]
Out of Africa: Stunning photos of wildlife at Four Arts
Greeting visitors both on their way in and on their way out of the 2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards, now on display at the Society of the Four Arts, is the striking, close-up image of Duke, an orphaned caracal. Shot by South African photographer Jon Warburton at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the image captures the cat … [Read more...]
Cultural Council’s Biennial focuses on Palm Beach County creators
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s latest exhibit, the 2023 Biennial, highlights the diversity and breadth of work created by artists living and working in the Palm Beaches. On display through June 24, the juried show highlights more than 30 artists displaying work that spans various mediums, including video, painting, photography and sculpture. “There’s an … [Read more...]
At the Cornell, ‘World of Water’ conveys urgent environmental message
With Jane Lawton Baldridge’s paintings of storm surges, Kasha McKee’s conceptual photographs of flamingos splashing in the West Palm Beach fountain and Suzanne Barton’s “arctic ice angel” — all surrounded by water sounds created by Fort Lauderdale-based multidisciplinary artist, David Rosenthal — The World of Water exhibition at the Cornell Art Museum has opened with a … [Read more...]
Artist and WPTV journalist Walters gets solo show at Lighthouse ArtCenter
From the Hall Hardware sign in the shape of a hammer, juxtaposed against the blue-and-white Florida sky, to the Dixie Highway and Dyer Road street signs, to the telephone pole and all its wires, to the red-and-white stop sign, WPTV reporter and artist Ashleigh Walters paints realistic still lifes and landscapes of la vie quotidienne. Now, 50 of Walters’s latest paintings … [Read more...]
Entertainer Cumming’s love of life, theater keeps his career soaring
Although he grew up in Scotland speaking the King’s English, when actor, singer, dancer, emcee, author, reality show host and all-around performer Alan Cumming first came to the United States at the age of 30, the two most foreign words for him were Tucson and Boca Raton. “I had never heard that name before,” he says. “I thought it was a Mexican dish.” Since then, he’s … [Read more...]
Gallery owner’s book reveals untold story of Florida sculptors
What started as something to keep busy during the COVID-19 quarantine turned into a labor of love for Palm Beach gallery owner Deborah C. Pollack when she decided to research and write Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020. Bored with watching YouTube videos and cutting her husband’s hair, Pollack spent two years researching, writing and contacting the artists’ estates … [Read more...]
New Norton shows expand canon of American modernism
Two new exhibits, From Man Ray to O’Keeffe: American Modernism at the Norton and At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, opened Saturday at the Norton Museum of Art and will run through July 16. The companion exhibits, organized thematically, explore the various ways American artists employed abstract styles to convey their experiences of modern … [Read more...]
Glamour and charity: Kips Bay Show House stuns to help county’s children
When you walk through the designer front door of this year’s Kips Bay Designer Show House at 3240 N. Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach, you are greeted by Philip Thomas Vanderford of Studio Thomas James’s White Lotus-inspired entry, complete with a large-scale sawtooth crocodile rug. Reminiscent of a Sicilian palazzo, complete with Murano-glass chandeliers, the entry … [Read more...]