Robin Wright as Mary Surratt in The Conspirator.Film: Sure, he won an Oscar 30 years ago for making Ordinary People, but Robert Redford remains an underrated director. To see how he can bring history alive, involving and even a little instructive, check out The Conspirator, his take on the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as seen through the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 28-30
Bust of an Angel (c. 1304), by Giotto di Bondone.(Courtesy The Reverenda Fabbrica of St. Peter, Vatican City State)Art: As it did a few years back, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art is host this weekend to a major show of Catholic artwork, this one called Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art. Fort Lauderdale is one of only three cities … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in Broward-Miami art
Poster No. 4 (2010), from the Miami Poster Project, by Philip Brooker. By Emma TrellesEach fall, it is the labor of arts writers everywhere to forge connections between the many exhibits about to snap open and clamor for the eye’s attention. There is much excitement after many hot and slow months of student art shows and sweetly presented orchid photos at … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 22-24
/Sledding in Central Park (1912), by William Glackens. Art: The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale received a major bequest almost 20 years ago from Ira Glackens, who at his death in 1991 left the estate of his father, William Glackens, to the museum. This has formed the basis of a major collection of work by a group of American painters known as The … [Read more...]
Art review: Steichen show offers too much of a pretty thing
Actress Mary Heberden (1935), by Edward Steichen.(Courtesy Condé Nast Archive, New York© 1935 Condé Nast Publications) By Emma TrellesThe faces of both the famed and the forgotten share equal stature in the more than 200 celebrity and couture-focused photographs on display at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale.The collection unwinds across all of the museum’s first-floor … [Read more...]
Art review: Rockwell’s art a gift in difficult times
Girl at Mirror (1954), by Norman Rockwell. By Gretel SarmientoLittle girls with ribbons. Smiles hidden behind melting ice cream. Summer trips. Family quality time.Nobody remembers an America like this, devoid of sadness, depression and poverty. Whose America is this? Without hesitation, some would say Norman Rockwell's. They wouldn't have been wrong, but they would have missed … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2009-10: The season in Broward-Miami art
Art Critic (1955), by Norman Rockwell, part of an exhibit opening Nov. 14 at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. By Emma Trelles The season is upon us, and this is not a nod to the torrent of plastic snow and holiday jingles that will soon appear wherever we go: the mall, the gas station, the corner coffee shop hawking its pricey pumpkin lattes.In many ways, the visual arts … [Read more...]
Art review: Locksley-Shea collection explores urgency, vitality of contemporary art
With You I Want to Live (2007), by Tracey Emin.By Emma TrellesFORT LAUDERDALE -- With You I Want To Live, a pink neon sculpture by British artist Tracey Emin, is a bit of a triple-threat. In its own right, the work reflects Emin’s millennial-tinged obsessions with ardor - its pleasures, its unavoidable pratfalls. She is, after all, also the author of Everyone I Have Ever Slept … [Read more...]