The Boys With the Big Beaks Play All Night, by Suzette Urs. Art: You’d never know that it is still summer, as the local art community appears to be in full swing from Northwood in West Palm Beach to downtown Lake Worth and on south to Boynton Beach.This photomontage by Sue Stevens is offered in an edition of five.At the EG2 Northwood gallery, three “under 30” artists -- Carolyn … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 25-28
The Flower Is Always in the Almond (After Bachelard),by Justin Rabideau.Art: Opening Friday at the Pine Jog Environmental Education Center in West Palm Beach is Native Offerings III, an exhibit in which four South Florida artists interpret their surroundings. Curated by Talya Lerman, the show demonstrates how Isabel Gouveia, Brigid Howard, Justin Rabideau and Carolyn Sickles … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 19-21
Golf Pants, a photograph by Wheaton Mahoney.Art: It’s encouraging to see Mulry Fine Art reopen in Palm Beach's Paramount building after closing its gallery space in West Palm Beach last fall. Fecia Mulry has been in the gallery business for 18 years. The focus of her galley, she says, is to "exhibit the works of emerging artists working in all media.” Opening Saturday is Summer … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 5-7
Whatever, by Karla Walter.Art: The Educational Gallery Group, better known as Eg², is usually dedicated to showcasing the work of students in visual and performing arts, but for the month of June, it is featuring the work of seven local art educators who create art with clay.Revolve: ceramic interpretations, which opens with a reception Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., was … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 21-25
Freedom of the Stallions, by Purvis Young.Art: Opening this Saturday at Exor Galleries in Boca Raton is Purvis Young: Raw, which features 20 works by the 65-year old artist from Miami’s Overtown. Young, who has painted on just about anything that he finds, from discarded political signs, doors and plywood scraps to metal sheets and carpet remnants, may be considered the … [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...]
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...]