WXEL radio becomes WPBI with close of sale to APMFORT LAUDERDALE – Classical South Florida, the American Public Media radio subsidiary, said it has completed the purchase of WXEL-90.7 FM.The Boynton Beach-based radio station’s new call letters are WPBI. The Minneapolis-based company bought WXEL radio last year from Barry University in Miami Shores for about $4 … [Read more...]
Art review: Vickrey’s world too fragile for the real one
Lacy’s Sparkler (2008), by Robert Vickrey. By Jenifer M. VogtWhimsy and wonder dominate in the world that Robert Vickrey creates in his painting. On first glance, there’s not much that is dark or foreboding. In fact, within moments of entering the exhibit, Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism, now on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art until June 19, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 29-May 1
Street Surfer (1986), by Robert Vickrey.Art: The technique of egg tempera painting, perhaps most memorably wielded by artists such as Giotto, was eclipsed by oil painting in the 15th century.But egg tempera still draws creators, and the acknowledged modern master of this technique was the American artist Robert Vickrey, whose paintings of nuns, children, … [Read more...]
Art review: Two small shows at Boca Museum reveal deep riches
La Parade (1935), by Georges Rouault. By Gretel SarmientoTwo of the current shows at the Boca Raton Museum of Art are easy to miss. But you don’t want to.One gives us the dramatic touch of Goya, the playful Miró and the erotic side of Picasso. The other is a good bite of Latin American art. And I’m not talking Diego Rivera, Amelia Pelaez or Frida Kahlo. … [Read more...]
Art review: California Impressionists captured optimistic moment in time
Red and Green, by Joseph Kleitsch.By Jenifer M. VogtGlancing at the viewer, a woman shields her face from the sun. She stands in a garden resplendent with color. Red geraniums dance at her feet alongside the stone pathway where she stands. Alongside her, a woman kneels and tends to the garden.Throughout the painting, titled Red and Green, by Joseph … [Read more...]
Art review: For Adami, everything is allegory
La Nuvola (The Cloud), (1991) by Valerio Adami By Jenifer M. VogtThey may look like comic book art, but there is a perturbing sadness to the world that Valerio Adami creates in his large-scale paintings, 23 of which are currently on view until Jan. 9 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in a retrospective exhibit that spans four decades of the Italian … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in Palm Beach art
A soundsuit by Nick Cave, at the Norton Museum of Art.(Photo by James Prinz)By Gretel SarmientoThis coming art season is to art lovers what the 24-hour gym is to procrastinators: the end of the Excuse. If you typically shy away from museums out of fear of being bored to death, don’t.There’s plenty to choose from, which means something is bound to delight … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 8-11
John Leonard Thompson and Kim Cozort in Candida.Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new season by continuing to take the high road, giving its audience “theater to think about,” the triangular comedy Candida by the all-too-rarely produced in South Florida George Bernard Shaw. Kim Cozort stars in the title role, the wife of a “moralist and windbag” … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 9-12
Noomi Rapace in The Girl Who Played With Fire.Film: Those who clamored about The Twilight Saga last week can now take in a far better, darker trilogy, now that they have that out of their system. It is the Swedish mystery novels by the late Stieg Larsson, whose introduction on film was the riveting The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, about a Goth computer … [Read more...]
Art review: All Florida show at Boca museum is rich and rewarding
The bed (2010), by Carolyn Schlam.By Gretel SarmientoI have never been a fan of having artists explain their work with their own words, but with a show as diverse as the 59th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition it might just prove useful.The competition, the oldest of its kind, gives new and established artists residing in the state a chance to … [Read more...]