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: ‘southXeast’ artists mix genres with whimsy, skill
Postmodern Gardening, by Carl Knickerbocker. By Emma TrellesThere's something to be said for the sort of tradition that manages to intrigue upon each arrival, and when it does so in the guises of filigreed robots, childhood make-believe, or the lipsticked grit of a Bayou starlet -- all the better, I say.So unfolds this year’s southXeast: Contemporary … [Read more...]
Art review: ‘Extraordinary’ apt word for Flagler’s Urban retrospective
The Ziegfeld Theatre (1926-27), designed by Joseph Urban. Demolished in 1966.By Gretel SarmientoCertain media, subjects and sizes benefit an artist more than others. And something in the creation process usually gets lost, while going from one to another. Some highlight skill while others harm it. Some encourage innovation while others enforce limits.It is … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: FAU concert, exhibit spotlight Russian music publisher’s legacy
The front page of the score for Rimsky-Korsakov’sopera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, as published by V. Bessel & Co.BOCA RATON -- The Bessel publishing house, founded in St. Petersburg in 1869, grew from a music shop into a concern that was at the center of Russian musical life, printing works by the nation’s leading composers from Tchaikovsky to … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 18-20
Daniela Mack. (Photo by Dario Acosta) Music: The music of Spain has long been a favorite of the conductor Philippe Entremont, and for this weekend’s concert by the Boca Symphonia, he’s commissioned new arrangements of familiar and not-so-familiar masterworks from the land of Cervantes. The Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack is the guest soloist for Manuel … [Read more...]
Art review: God of ‘Cassadaga’ is in photographer’s details
Spiritual Piano (2008), by Christiaan Lopez-Miro.By Emma TrellesThe interstate is really the one road that leads to Cassadaga, I-4 to be exact, and it takes travelers from both the east and west coasts of central Florida to this small hamlet of spiritualists, mediums, psychics, and healers.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this … [Read more...]
Art feature: Fine art fair draws different kind of crowd to Convention Center
Patrons of the American International Fine Art Fairgather near the bar.(Photo by Jenifer M. Vogt)By Jenifer M. VogtIt’s remarkable.In a few short weeks, International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) has transformed the Palm Beach County Convention Center from an über-cool, contemporary art warehouse that housed their Art Palm Beach fair into a refined country-manor … [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...]
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...]
Art review: Art Palm Beach offers trip down rabbit hole into art Wonderland
Art Palm Beach gets under way with a preview Thursdayat the Palm Beach County Convention Center.(Photo by Jenifer M. Vogt) By Jenifer M. Vogt“I chose the hammerhead because they’re on the red list and in danger of extinction,” said the artist Marc Hubert D’Ge— who looked like remarkably like a young Gregg Allman — in a charming Aix-en-Provence … [Read more...]