When Marvin Mordes died Sept. 18, the 70-year-old neurologist was in Europe pursuing his great passion: Contemporary art. “Art was an extension of the way he liked to live his life,” said Mera Rubell, patron of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. Mordes’s death of a stroke in Berlin deprived the visual art community of a tremendous art advocate on a local and … [Read more...]
Ford Fine Art’s Suzanne Snider: Bringing Central American modernism to Delray
Suzanne Snider has been running the hidden treasure that is Ford Fine Art gallery long enough to know its best years are still ahead. Delray Beach is not where one would expect to find the most significant collection of Central American modern masters and established artists in the country. But that’s exactly what the gallery houses, according to Snider, who used to be the … [Read more...]
‘The best of the best’: Art and antique show returns for 12th year
Palm Beach ArtsPaper staff This Presidents Day weekend, more than 160 exhibitors will descend on West Palm Beach, bringing with them the best in art, antiques and jewelry from all over the world, attracting tens of thousands of private collectors, museum curators, investors and interior designers. The 12th annual Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show will assemble from … [Read more...]
Celebration of kinetic art returns to Boynton
Palm Beach ArtsPaper Staff Over the last few months, the downtown area of the Boynton Beach between East Ocean Avenue and North Seacrest Boulevard has undergone a makeover. In preparation for this year’s Boynton Beach Kinetic Art and Symposium, which is set for Friday through Sunday, art installations have been added to the area, including pieces by Singapore artist Edward … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 23-25
Theater: Playwright Lauren Gunderson wrote the redneck comedy Exit, Pursued by a Bear that Theatre at Arts Garage produced a couple of season ago, but try not to hold that against her. She is back with a much smarter script, I and You, about a couple of high school teens who meet over an English class assignment, and as with many formulaic romantic comedies, they banter and … [Read more...]
A.I.M.’s ‘Pavement’ timely, powerful art
By Tara Mitton Catao Kyle Abraham took careful aim at gun violence and suppression in his powerful and intimate portrayal of life in the historically black Pittsburgh neighborhoods of East Liberty, Homewood and the Hill District where he grew up. In a short time, Abraham has established himself as an award-winning choreographer (last year, he received a so-called “genius … [Read more...]
Art, on the edge, in staggering, brilliant ‘Birdman’
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman dares you to look away. And it does so by never cutting. At least, that’s the way it appears — like one long, continuous, two-hour tracking shot somehow encompassing several days in the narrative, if not weeks. Jaws will drop early and often, especially among cinephiles in the audience, but Birdman isn’t Russian Ark: This visual feat was … [Read more...]
At the Norton, a summery look at iconic toys
If there was a heaven for toys, it probably would look and feel like the Norton Museum of Art’s new exhibition. This is what a toy gets for enduring decades and co-existing with digital era’s sharp apps: a show of its own at a major local museum. If such heaven existed, then Matchbox cars, Hot Wheels cars and Barbie dolls arrived at it last week, with the opening of Wheels & … [Read more...]
Art-house patina can’t hide ordinariness of ‘Words and Pictures’
Having been raised in the drudgery of our non-airbrushed public school system and not in the Hollywood fantasy of a freewheeling private school, I couldn’t relate much to the milieu of Words and Pictures, a rival-teachers dramedy set in a mythical world of privileged academia. It’s the kind of environment where syllabi, curricula and sensible grades are jettisoned, if they ever … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 24-26
Music: The jazz singer Kurt Elling famously turned away from a career in academia to reinvent himself as a vocalist, starting out at Chicago’s legendary Green Mill club while a graduate student and collaborating with pianist Laurence Hobgood. Late last year, the two musicians parted company to work on solo projects, and Elling is touring with his 1619 Broadway: The Brill … [Read more...]