Art: This is the first weekend for three art exhibits that opened Thursday at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta. The shows – Landscapes 2011; Fong Choo: The Artful Teapot Invitational; and the annual faculty exhibition – will run through the end of the year at the center. Choo, a master of the miniature teapot, is a Louisville, Ky.-based potter whose works emulate the Yixing … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 5-7
Theater: Sharr White’s Six Years looks at the ups and downs of the second half of the 20th century, as seen through the struggles of Phil and Meredith Granger (Todd Allen Durkin and Margery Lowe), a married couple separated by World War II, who are challenged to re-establish a normal life when he returns from combat suffering from a trauma that is dismissively diagnosed as … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 15-21
Film: Fans of director Michael Winterbottom’s Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story are likely to get a kick out of the ad lib road comedy The Trip, for he has again enlisted the duo of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in a sly verbal romp. As in the earlier film, the two British actors play themselves, or at least a comic exaggeration of themselves, on assignment to find and review … [Read more...]
Art Palm Beach offers trip down rabbit hole into art Wonderland
“I chose the hammerhead because they’re on the red list and in danger of extinction,” said the artist Marc Hubert D’Ge— who looked like remarkably like a young Gregg Allman — in a charming Aix-en-Provence accent of his installation piece, Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves. He stood beneath a 10-foot, taxidermied shark mounted on an exhibition wall with a video running … [Read more...]
Art fairs bring aesthetics, learning to Palm Beach
Art fair season is upon us. And, for art lovers in Palm Beach, it’s the most wonderful time of the year because, beginning this week, the Palm Beach County Convention Center will be the home of two fairs that showcase galleries and works of fine art from around the world. They’ll also provide an unparalleled opportunity to attend lectures by leading artists, experts and … [Read more...]
Art world converges on Miami Beach for Art Basel ‘party’
Beginning Thursday, the contemporary art world will be in Miami Beach and its environs for the second largest art fair in the world: Art Basel Miami Beach. This includes artists, art critics, private dealers, advisers, galleries, curators, collectors, celebrities – and yes, mere lovers of art. The known, the not-so-known, the conservative and the bizarre — all will preen, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 16: New releases on DVD
Everyone Else (Cinema Guild) Release date: Oct. 26 SLP: $20.49 If “mainstream cinema” is shorthand for grounded, explicable, coherent story arcs told with logic and closure, then art cinema – the yin to Hollywood’s yang – is the terrain of the unknown, the inexplicable, the frustratingly open-ended. Its filmmakers are fully aware that, as in life, they don’t have all the … [Read more...]
Art review: Steichen show offers too much of a pretty thing
The 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 galleries, yet the images found in Edward Steichen: In High Fashion – the Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937, which runs through April 11, … [Read more...]
Art fair to expand; FAU sets second Jewish fest
Art fair does booming business, will be 10 days long in 2011 The recession may be dragging on, but the 2010 American International Art Fair enjoyed 15 percent higher participation over 2009 and a significant improvement in sales, according to founders David and Lee Ann Lester. Based on the strength of this year’s fair, organizers plan to return to a 10-day length in 2011, … [Read more...]
Fine art fair has strong work, brisk sales
The recession "is a distant memory for art collectors," says David Lester, organizer of the 14th annual American International Fine Art Fair now taking place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. "The 14th edition of AIFAF is shaping up to be the best yet," he said. The convention center has been transformed into an array of architecturally interesting rooms in which … [Read more...]