Art: High fashion is on display at the Boca Museum of Art with Impact: 50 Years of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The exhibition, which was spearheaded by Diane von Furstenberg, is the first museum exhibition to celebrate the artistry of American fashion designers on the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Almost 600 designers have been members of the council … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 6-7
Art: Continuum, an exhibition in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University’s master of fine arts in visual arts program that features the artwork of 10 current graduate candidates and 10 alumni, is on display at the main gallery space of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in Lake Worth. The exhibition, which includes paintings, ceramics and photography as well as … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 15-16
The durable Oklahoma oil hand-turned country singer Toby Keith is in town tonight at the Cruzan Amphitheatre, with the rising Brantley Gilbert as his opener. Keith’s Live in Overdrive tour should be extra-charged this week because of the ongoing attacks on the various U.S. embassies in Middle East hotspots after the Sept. 11 anniversary, one of which claimed the life of the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 1-2
Theater: Making an impressive debut is the new Island City Stage, which has arrived at Fort Lauderdale’s Empire Stage with the smart and twisty new play, The Twentieth Century Way by nimble wordsmith Tom Jacobson. The play is based on an actual incident from Long Beach, Calif., circa 1914, when out-of-work actors were employed in an elaborate sting operation to entrap local … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 10-12
Film: If there is a better actor working today than Meryl Streep, I cannot imagine who it would be. Sure, she can transform herself with accents and makeup, but take a look at how terrific she is without much of either in Hope Springs, the tale of a long-married housewife who wants to rekindle the romance in her relationship with a cynical tightwad accountant (Tommy Lee Jones). … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 12-13
Art: Today marks the last day of the Florida Atlantic University’s exhibit on the history of surfing in Florida (here’s a YouTube promo). The University Galleries won a grant of almost $17,000 in late 2009 to research and mount the exhibit, which has been on display since March 17, and will head to Pensacola Museum of Art this summer. The show, Surfing Florida: A Photographic … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 17-19
Film: There have been plenty of fact-based boxing movies and most get trapped on the ropes with sports clichés. But David O. Russell’s The Fighter is as much about “Irish” Micky Ward’s wildly dysfunctional family as it is about the fight game. Mark Wahlberg plays Ward well enough and it certainly isn’t his fault that he is outclassed by the brilliant Christian Bale as his … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 5-7
Film: Among the many atrocities attributable to the Nazis is the masterful way they churned out propaganda films during World War II. A new inside look at their disinformation machine is found in A Film Unfinished, a documentary by Yael Hersonski that sifts through existing footage of the Third Reich’s depiction of the Jewish ghetto, contrasting the well-off and the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 2-5
Film: There is an alternative to the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the sci-fi fantasy of The Last Airbender. It’s I Am Love, a sensuous film from debuting Italian director Luca Guadagnino with a starring performance by Oscar winner Tilda Swinton that is her best work yet on celluloid. She plays the Russian-born wife of a Milanese businessman who has … [Read more...]