PALM BEACH GARDENS — The Palm Beach Pops, which has been entertaining South Florida audiences since 1991, is halting its concert series, the orchestra said Monday. “It is my sad duty today to announce that The Palm Beach Pops Board of Directors has decided to cease concert series operations at this time,” said Jon Lappin, president of The Palm Beach Pops, in a prepared … [Read more...]
Boca’s arts festival bets on Bernstein to start, Beethoven for the closer
By Dale King Not all that ago, the Festival of the Arts Boca ended its weekly run with a gala performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, led by violinist Itzhak Perlman. This year, for the ninth version of the performing arts-and-literature gathering that commandeers the west end of Mizner Park, Beethoven’s Ninth will again bring the festival — at least the musical events — … [Read more...]
Sundays: Remembering Marvin Mordes, art patron
When Marvin Mordes died Sept. 18, the 70-year-old neurologist was in Europe pursuing his great passion: Contemporary art. “Art was an extension of the way he liked to live his life,” said Mera Rubell, patron of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. Mordes’s death of a stroke in Berlin deprived the visual art community of a tremendous art advocate on a local and … [Read more...]
Letter from Paris: Après Charlie
By Chloe Elder In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the spirit of solidarity pervades Paris, and the evidence is everywhere. Riding the Métro on the day after the magazine attack, I whipped my head around to see “Je Suis Charlie” written in large spray-painted letters on the walls of the Concorde station. And I continue to see the motto across the city, written on the … [Read more...]
Chamber Society eyes Breakers expansion; unpublished Bernstein piece at Four Arts tonight
If all the stars align correctly, look for the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, which now mounts its programs at Mar-a-Lago, to add The Breakers as a concert venue next season. The executive director of the society, Michael Finn, said wants to add three concerts at the landmark resort for the 2015-16 season if he can get approval from the society’s board to do it. … [Read more...]
News briefs: Rudin winner, WPB initiative, Broadway babies, and PB Symphony
Israel’s Maymon wins Norton’s second Rudin Prize Israeli photographer Rami Maymon has won the second Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers at the Norton Museum of Art. “Rami’s photographs are elegant and complicated, and engage the viewer with their intellectual rigor and stunning visual layers,” said Tim B. Wride, the Norton’s William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of … [Read more...]
Sundays: A shopping list from the catalogs
Editor’s note: To do our bit for the long shopping weekend, we’ve asked our friend Lou Ann Frala to go through the stacks of catalogs she gets at this time of year and find some things we might want to send to kin and kind. By Lou Ann Frala The first catalog I remember poring over was the Sears Wish Book. What a field day I would have had with Post-it Notes. My lists and … [Read more...]
Delray arts center becomes comedy outpost
Catch a Rising Star, the iconic New York City comedy club that gave rise to such household names such as Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Rosie O’Donnell and Chris Rock, has opened in two venues at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. With its Twitter hashtag #RTL (Ready to Laugh), the center’s vintage gymnasium hopes to reach out to younger audiences, those … [Read more...]
Beethoven, Bernstein, bluegrass, plus Ford, Friedman and Franks: 9th Boca fest announces lineup
By Lucy Lazarony The ninth annual Festival of the Arts Boca will feature its own version of the 3 Bs — Beethoven, bluegrass and Bernstein — as well as a lineup of authors that includes four Pulitzer Prize winners. The festival, which will take place March 6-15 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton, will begin with a showing of the film West Side Story with live orchestra and close … [Read more...]
Cultural Council’s SmARTBiz Summit draws eager arts advocates
About 200 culturally connected South Florida residents gathered Oct. 28 for the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County’s fourth annual SmARTBiz Summit. Representatives from distinguished arts organizations — including Katie Deits from the Lighthouse ArtCenter, Cynthia Palmieri from the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Andrew Kato from Maltz Jupiter Theatre and Joe Gillie from the … [Read more...]