Michael McKenzie, Brett Fleisher and Wynn Harmon in Dangerous.Theater: Prolific South Florida playwright Michael McKeever has noticed that his work has grown darker over the years, but never more so than his latest, titled simply Dangerous, a “deconstruction” of the classic French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which has spawned several film versions.McKeever sets his version … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 20-24
Lorin Maazel and his band.Music: Lorin Maazel is wrapping up his tenure as director of the New York Philharmonic this year, and Sunday night he brings the band back to West Palm Beach with a non-controversial program that should show this great orchestra to good advantage.The concert, set for 8 p.m. Sunday at the Kravis Center, includes the Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture of … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Juno show celebrates work of artist Conway
The Rites of Spring (acrylic on canvas, 36 inches by 48 inches), by Norma Conway.By Katie DeitsJUNO BEACH -- Norma Conway understands that when it comes to ages past, we rely on artists to tell us what the times were really like."The Brueghels showed the games and life in Brussels and the Netherlands, prehistoric cave people did beautiful illustrations of animals they hunted, … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Big early turnout bodes well for jewelry and art show
Alan and Penny Greenberg Murphy of Pioneer Linensin West Palm Beach were among the 6,000 peopleattending opening night at the Palm Beach Jewelry,Art and Antique Show.(Photo by Katie Deits)By Katie DeitsOrganizers of the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show are expecting plenty of visitors through the President's Day weekend, and they've got good reasons for doing so.Despite … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 12-15
Jake Ehrenreich.Theater: The multi-talented, ingratiating Jake Ehrenreich has returned to West Palm Beach’s Cuillo Centre for another winter season of his nostalgic one-man show, A Jew Grows in Brooklyn. He draws on his memories of his East Flatbush neighborhood in the 1960s in an evening that is part stand-up comedy, part musical and part tribute to his family — both … [Read more...]
ArtBuzz: Fine art fair offers art, antiques — and even some laughs
Aphrodite (Roman, 1st-2nd century A.D.),for sale at the Numisart booth at the fine art fair.(Photo by Katie Deits)By Katie DeitsWEST PALM BEACH -- David and Lee Ann Lester have resumed ownership of the arts-and-antiques fair they founded in 1997, and the duly renamed American International Fine Art Fair opened this week.Tuesday was a $1,000-per-person benefit for the Norton … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks, Jan. 30-Feb. 2
Clarence Measelle, a painting and drawing instructorat Palm Beach Community College, stands withmodel Nieves Lopez, over whom he drapeda raw canvas and airbrushed paint to make Resonance.(Photo by Katie Deits) Sherry Stephens, a photography teacher at PBCC,and her husband Wayne, who teaches painting and drawingat PBCC. They're posing by New Look Salon Inside,an archival pigment … [Read more...]
Art review: O’Keeffe-Adams show epic look at two artists of the West
Georgia O’Keeffe, The Black Iris (1926) Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, N.M.By Katie DeitsWEST PALM BEACH -- Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams were friends who shared a passion for the natural beauty of the American West.On Saturday, an exhibit chronicling that passion -- Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities -- opened at the Norton Museum of Art. The show runs … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks, Jan. 22-25
Antelope Canyon, a 30- x 36-incharchival photograph taken by Kevin Boldenowin May 2008 at Page, Ariz.Photographer benefits Cancer Alliance: From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Mos’Art Gallery at 700 Park Ave. in Lake Park presents Visual Poetry, a show to benefit The Cancer Alliance. The show features the infrared landscape photography of Kevin Boldenow, recipient of the 2004 South … [Read more...]
ArtBuzz: Photographer’s work at palmbeach3 intrigues
Nathalia Edenmont with her large photograph, Lost.(Photos by Katie Deits)By Katie DeitsWEST PALM BEACH -- The fine-art world on both sides of the Atlantic is making a fuss over Nathalia Edenmont.The Ukranian-born artist's photographs have a dreamlike feeling, full of symbolism and metaphor. She creates a sense of intimacy with the viewer, as if you have been invited to step … [Read more...]