By Sandra Schulman In an art career that spanned 40 years and major cities, Kathleen Goncharov served for 14 of those years as the senior curator at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, where she curated more than 30 exhibitions featuring notable artists of national and international acclaim. Goncharov died Dec. 31 at age 73 at her home in Boca Raton, family members said. … [Read more...]
Bijoux! jewelry show returns to Mizner Park
Jewelry artists from Israel, Italy, Amsterdam, and Argentina will bring their latest wearable works of art to The Studio at Mizner Park for the 12th Annual Bijoux! Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition from Jan. 13 to 17. The event was founded by Donna Schneier, a renowned art consultant and jewelry collector who co-founded the prestigious LOOT show (now MAD About Jewelry) at New … [Read more...]
Boca Museum of Art’s new chief curator sees institution as city’s cultural center
Cecelia “Keffie” Feldman lives up to her nickname. Its roots trace back to Israel, where her parents were living at the time of her birth. They felt “Cecelia Ann Feldman,” a tribute to her great-grandmother, was too weighty for a newborn. Her mother toyed with an anagram of her initials — CAF — until Israeli friends suggested “Kef,” or “Keffie,” Hebrew slang for fun or cool, … [Read more...]
The world in a bead: Canadian Indigenous artist brings unique vision to Gavlak Gallery
By Sandra Schulman Childbirth and quantum physics, the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the most fundamental, subatomic level, have led artist Renée Condo to a remarkable new body of work. Her new show at the Gavlak Gallery in West Palm Beach, Niskamij (Sky World), is a solo exhibition that evokes her Indigenous cosmology through large-scale beaded … [Read more...]
Major exhibition of 17th-century Dutch art enriches Norton
The largest show of privately held Dutch 17th-century paintings in the United States, Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection, an exhibit of more than 70 works of art by Rembrandt and 26 other artists is on display at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach through March 29. The exhibition coincides with the 400th anniversary of the … [Read more...]
The season in Palm Beach art, 2025-26: Rembrandt, Degas, Mucha, and time out for shopping
By Sandra Schulman Big names in classical art dominate this season as the dark drama of Rembrandt, the lyrical graphics of Mucha, and the dancers and racehorses of Degas grace the walls of the major museums. The growing art audience in Palm Beach brings these treasures to the Sunshine State. Other exhibits spotlight the rise of the modern department store and the bracing … [Read more...]
South Florida artists travel to Italian festival, hope for reciprocal visit
FARINDOLA, Italy — A 2015 invitation to the Farindola International Art Festival (FIAF) drew Boynton Beach artist Ralph Papa to a remote town in Italy’s Abruzzo region. Seven years later, the 86-year-old plein air painter continues to return to the city of Farindola, drawn by both the landscape and his ancestral ties. Nestled within the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga … [Read more...]
Morikami’s exhibits on Japanese brides in US is paean to ‘strong women’
What started in 2015 as a passion project by journalists Kathryn Tolbert, Karen Kasmauski and Lucy Craft — all daughters of Japanese war brides — has grown into a touring Smithsonian exhibit. Now on display at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Japanese War Brides: Across A Wide Divide, is accompanied by a companion exhibit titled Women of Yamato. Both run through … [Read more...]
It’s a wrap – Delray artist creates colorful mural for Brightline train
Delray Beach artist Meghan Corrigan’s career is on the right track — literally. Corrigan, a fine artist and graphic designer who once served as assistant art director for American Express’s Departures magazine and as art director of The Knot magazine, has created a summer-themed train wrap for Brightline, the passenger rail service traveling between Miami and Orlando, … [Read more...]
Second-class no more: Norton’s artists’ jewelry makes a case for art, not just ornament
Madame (1960s), by Jean Cocteau. (Greg Favre/Courtesy Norton Museum of Art) Speedy (2007), by Kenny Scharf. (Courtesy Norton Museum of Art) Montre petite cuillère (Small Spoon Watch), 1957, by Salvador Dalí. (Philippe Servent/Courtesy Norton Museum of Art) Jewelry is often viewed as adornment — beautiful, intricate and valuable, but also relegated to the decorative arts … [Read more...]