A scene from Every Little Step.Film: A documentary about any Broadway show’s auditions would be an interesting look at the lives of performers and what they have to put themselves through to gain a job, but James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo apply that notion to the ultimate backstage musical, A Chorus Line, in their must-see film, Every Little Step. The subject is ostensibly the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 1-May 3
Ranchos Church 1 (1929), by Georgia O'Keeffe. As the season evaporates, several important shows are closing this weekend or in the next few days:Art: Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. An important show of paintings and photographs by two leading American landscape artists, which ArtsPaper's Katie Deits said in … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Student art at PBCC-Eissey well worth a visit
Justin Maxwell Charlton, left, poses with Scott MacLachlan, interim provost and dean of student services at Palm Beach Community College, Palm Beach Gardens. Charlton's drawing, Raphael's Fighting Men,won Best of Show in the school's sudent art exhibition.(Photo by Katie Deits)By Katie DeitsPALM BEACH GARDENS -- Art lovers have a few more days to see the annual student … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Sculpture Gardens features Strosberg paintings
Full Bloom, by Serge Strosberg.By Jan EngorenIn the art of Serge Strosberg, men and women from all walks of life embody the timeless concepts of love, lust and hope.And they often do so accompanied by flowers.The Belgian-born artist’s works are currently on view at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in an exhibit of 15 paintings titled Of Men and Flowers. The showing lasts … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Four emerging artists featured at Armory
A ceramic sculpture by Bethany Krull. By Katie DeitsEvery year the Armory Art Center hosts resident artists who use the studios to develop and expand their work, as well as teach classes to the Armory’s students.This year, the Armory welcomes four outstanding artists whose work is diverse and cutting-edge contemporary. The show -- Emergence: The Resident Artist Exhibition -- … [Read more...]
Art review: Gray, Stevovich offer different abstract realities
Eating Hair (1992), by Andrew Stevovich.By Jenifer A. VogtBOCA RATON — What do Cleve Gray and Andrew Stevovich have in common? At first glance, nothing. Yet look closer and you’ll uncover similarities not immediately apparent in the two painters’ disparate styles.Exhibits of both artists are appearing back-to-back through May 31 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. One of them, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 16-23
Music: The Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died of tuberculosis at the age of only 26 in 1736, but one of his last completed works, a Stabat Mater, is perhaps his greatest. The fine Miami chamber choir Seraphic Fire performs this beautiful work this afternoon at the Harriet Himmel Theater in CityPlace in the first of four concerts it will give over the weekend. … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: A Rosie perspective at Boca’s Wentworth Gallery
Godot, by Rosie O'Donnell.By Marya SummersBOCA RATON -- Even in a non-verbal medium, Rosie O’Donnell manages to be big, loud and confrontational.The 13-time Emmy Award-winning American comedienne, television personality, celebrity blogger, philanthropist, gay-rights activist, author and actress also adds “artist” to her resume. Her intense, abstract paintings are currently on … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 9-15
A model wears a Laurance Rassin design.Art: Artist, innovator, entertainer and fashion designer Laurance Rassin will be in town Saturday evening at the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach for an exhibit, fashion show and entertainment evening dedicated to his work.Based in New York, Rassin creates paintings by hand and then digitally prints them onto high-end fabrics to … [Read more...]
Art review: Flagler’s ‘Mother’s Pearls’ a fascinating look at childhood
Little Miss Hone (1824), by Samuel F.B. Morse.By Katie DeitsPALM BEACH -- A current exhibition at the Flagler Museum offers visitors an opportunity to see exquisitely executed paintings of children and also to learn something about the changing nature of the American family over the past centuries.A Mother’s Pearls: Children in American Paintings, which runs through April 19, … [Read more...]