By Sandra Schulman The gallery scene along Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach is always a treasure hunt. There are gems to be found among the car dealerships and funky diners. Here are three I visited this week, each filled with some of the more unusual sights than the tourist trail usually leads to. Ink & Pistons For the punk and piercing set, this hardcore “artist driven” … [Read more...]
Chamber fest’s Schoenberg falls short of transfiguration
As one of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s performers rightly said in her remarks from the stage, the name of Arnold Schoenberg is “box office poison” for a lot of people, but that really shouldn’t apply to his early string sextet, Verklärte Nacht. This important, beautiful work was one of the major events of the programs in the first weekend of concerts presented in … [Read more...]
Too late, ‘Unknown’ leaves thriller re-treads in search of meaning
As far as studio actioners go, Unknown has its share of well-crafted set-pieces and steely suspense, but well-versed viewers of modern thrillers won’t help but feel an almost immediate sense of déjà vu. The most obvious reference point is Taken, whose star, Liam Neeson, Unknown shares, and whose color palette of dark blues and antiseptic off-whites are mimicked here by … [Read more...]