Not one to shy away from large topics, award-winning journalist and author Charles Fishman will bring a whopper to the Festival of the Arts Boca this month. Fishman's talk, which will take place March 9 at the festival as part of the Authors and Ideas programs, focuses on one of his favorite subjects: Water. “Water has achieved an invisibility in our lives that is only … [Read more...]
At the Morikami, artists reimagine use of traditional washi paper
The work of nine Japanese contemporary paper artists (seven women and two men) is currently on display at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in an exhibit titled Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper, running through April 2. A traveling exhibit curated by Los Angeles-based historian of Japanese art Meher McArthur, it features more than 30 highly … [Read more...]
Former first lady Laura Bush to speak at FAU presidential forum
Former first lady Laura Bush will be in Boca Raton on Saturday for a talk on Florida Atlantic University’s 2023 Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency. Bush will be joined for the talk by one of her daughters, Barbara Pierce Bush. The lecture, which will be moderated by Timothy Naftali, CNN presidential historian and associate professor at New … [Read more...]
Traveling Holocaust exhibit comes to three Palm Beach County sites
Since the beginning of the year, a number of anti-Semitic incidents have occurred in Palm Beach County, including the distribution of anti-Semitic flyers in the driveways and front yards of Boca Raton, Atlantis and Palm Beach residents, and the projection of anti-Semitic images and messages onto the sides of buildings in downtown West Palm Beach by known far-right … [Read more...]
New Palm Beach Film Festival looks to be inclusive
Live film festivals are back, and a new one, The Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Film Festival, makes its debut Jan. 26 with the opening night film, the U.S. premiere of the French comedy Two Tickets to Greece at the Kravis Center Cohen Pavilion. Directed by Marc Fitoussi, who is scheduled to attend the screening, the film stars Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin … [Read more...]
TCM host Mankiewicz visits Boca Museum to discuss Hollywood exhibit
For Turner Classic Movies primetime host, Ben Mankiewicz, his appearance at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on December 10 was a full circle moment. Mankiewicz was invited to the museum and a fundraiser at the Boca Raton Resort to talk about the museum’s exhibit, The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop: Cinema’s Creative Legacy, which is finishing up its nine-month run on Jan. … [Read more...]
West Palm Beach’s Peach Artist Collective celebrates 1-year anniversary
At one year, we can’t quite say The Peach Artist Collective (named for its location at 3950 Georgia Ave.) is fully ripe, but the newest art destination in West Palm Beach, which celebrated its one-year anniversary Sept. 24, is well on its way to flourishing. The former auto body shop deteriorating under the overpass at Southern Boulevard east of Interstate 95 was waiting … [Read more...]
Fiber artist Drummond opens Cultural Council’s arts season with ‘Systems’
Jamaican-born mixed-media fiber artist Michelle Drummond has kicked off the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s season with a solo show running through Dec. 3. Michelle Drummond: Systems can be seen at the Cultural Council's headquarters on Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach. Selected through a competitive application process, Drummond is one of six Palm Beach County … [Read more...]
Exhibit shows local artists’ love of plein-air painting
This month, Palm Beach County plein air artists have come inside to the Palm Beach Art, Antique & Design Showroom in Lake Worth Beach to kick off the fall season with a group exhibition titled Travel en Plein Air, curated by Debby Coles-Dobay, founder of Art Moves You. Collaborating with the showroom directors, Angelica Sua and Paola Sanchez, the exhibit highlights a diverse … [Read more...]
Boca Museum documents dignity of historic Pearl City neighborhood
Black Pearls, which opened this month at exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art for a four-month run, features work by Washington, D.C.-based photographer Reginald Cunningham that highlights the historically Black community of Pearl City, founded in 1915 in east Boca Raton. Featuring photographs and first-person accounts by current residents and the descendants of the … [Read more...]