From left: Steven Strait, Dominik García-Lorido,Andy Garcia, Julianna Marguliesand Ezra Miller in City Island. Film: Fresh from the Miami International Film Festival comes City Island, an amiable look at a dysfunctional Bronx family, each of whom is harboring a secret. Cuban-born, South Florida-raised Andy Garcia gets a rare opportunity to flex his comic muscles as the prison … [Read more...]
Art feature: Artists to transform small hotel in Showtel exhibit
A performance artist creates an installationfrom butter wrappers in the 2005 Showtel.(Photo by Katie Deits) By Katie DeitsFor the past eight years, a small hotel in West Palm Beach has been transformed for a short time into a home of art installations.It’s called Showtel, and it’s one of the most unusual local events in contemporary art. It begins tonight at Hotel Biba on … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 3-7
Dennis Creaghan and John Leonard Thompson in American Buffalo.Theater: This weekend is your last opportunity to see Palm Beach Dramaworks’ impressive production of David Mamet’s early scam drama, American Buffalo, the tale of three Chicago bumblers who plan to break in and steal a valuable coin collection. Director William Hayes and his cast harness the fragmented rhythms of … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Norton’s new chief aims her museum for the top
Norton Museum director Hope Alswang.(Illustration by Pat Crowley) By Gretel SarmientoA couple of weeks separate the Norton Museum from its new chief: Hope Alswang, a New York City native with a first name that sounds like a promise. This is who the museum's board of trustees chose as director and chief executive officer after conducting a national search that begun soon after … [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...]
Weekend arts picks: March 26-31
Pianist Ingrid Fliter.Music: The Cleveland Orchestra wraps up its third and final week of residency in Miami with two performances by the fine Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, who will perform the Chopin Concerto No. 2 (in F minor, Op. 21) with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Also on the program is the Romeo and Juliet suite from Prokofiev’s ballet score. 8 p.m. tonight and … [Read more...]
Art review: ‘Reclaimed’ story gripping, the art less so
Landscape With an Episode From the Conquest of America,by Jan Mostaert (1474-1552/53).By Gretel SarmientoDark walls and low lights set up the mood for Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a traveling show now at the Norton Museum of Art through May 9.The pieces shown here have been through a lot. They are part of one of the largest restitutions of … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Lynn opens new concert hall; venues set 2010-11 classical series
The inside of the center.(Photo by Greg Stepanich)Lynn University on Thursday opened its new $14.9 million concert hall, adding a much-needed venue for theater and music in south Palm Beach County.The Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, which took about 18 months to build, features a 752-seat hall with adjustable acoustic panels, a video studio, plus scene … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 19-21
Untitled, by Anthony Calicchio.Art: You don’t have to go to art school to be an artist, or even be working at it all the time. Such is the case with Anthony Calicchio, who finds his inspiration in his culinary education and background as a second-generation restaurateur. In Café Frankie, he fashions masterful dishes with his basting brush, and the bistro’s walls are adorned … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 12-16
Iceland Lagoon, by Lewis Kemper.Art: From capturing firework-like sprays of red lava in Hawaii to the cool icebergs of Iceland, Lewis Kemper’s masterful photographs are some of the best that can be captured of the natural world. An exhibit of his dramatic landscape photographs, Capturing the Light, opens Saturday night (5:30-7 p.m.) at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre and … [Read more...]