Delray Beach will take a couple more months to decide how to satisfy the needs of the Arts Garage and that of a personal-injury law firm that wants to expand. The City Commission voted Tuesday night to table discussion about what will happen to the building now occupied by the Arts Garage until April 16. In Solomon-like fashion, Mayor Tom Carney suggested dividing the … [Read more...]
Comment: Arts Garage successful, so of course, it’s threatened
Perhaps only a conspiracy theorist could come up with a scenario where a fledgling arts center revives and enhances a region's jazz, blues, Latin, hip-hop, musical education and theater scenes, only to literally be sold out. But this is South Florida. And the Arts Garage (http://artsgarage.org) ― the 18-month-old Delray Beach venue that's distinguished itself by presenting … [Read more...]
The View From Home 45: New releases on DVD and Blu-ray
Movies such as Found Memories (Film Movement, $22.46) are the reason the cinematic arts exist, accumulating its poetry, power and poignancy the way no other medium can. Borrowing from the structuralist playbook of Chantal Akerman, Brazilian director Julia Murat depicts every banal movement of Madalena (Sonia Guedes), an elderly widow whose primary purpose in life is to bake the … [Read more...]
A lurid, explosive premiere for Arts Garage
Florida Stage had one of its biggest successes in its penultimate season with Israel Horovitz’s gritty drama, Sins of the Mother. And it seemed headed for another hit with the playwright’s Fighting Over Beverly, set to feature two-time Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen, but the company closed its doors before that could happen. Still, as artistic director Louis Tyrrell says … [Read more...]
Arts Garage wins Knight grants; Rudin prizewinner named
The Arts Garage has won two grants from the Knight Foundation of Miami totaling $50,000, including the foundation’s first-ever People’s Choice Award, which was won on the basis of texts. In a ceremony last month at the New World Center in Miami Beach, the Delray Beach arts engine, which has become a notable South Florida venue for jazz concerts, received a Knight Arts … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 27-30
The story could easily be a crude Fox sitcom or a schmaltzy reality series: An Israeli newborn and a Palestinian newborn are switched during a bomb scare in Haifa, Israel, a fact that neither discovers until their 18th birthdays. Instead, in The Other Son, this programmatic, easily exploitable story is played with tender care, cultural awareness and fabled resonance by … [Read more...]
Kreisberg electrifies at Arts Garage
Jazz guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg has slowly and steadily increased his profile since graduating from the University of Miami’s acclaimed music program in the mid-1990s ― including moving back to his native New York City in 1997 and, stereotypically, becoming a bigger jazz star overseas than in the United States. Kreisberg’s quartet recently returned from a 10-show stint in … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 25-26
Still in Olympics withdrawal? Googling “Sochi, Russia” to think idly about your coverage-watching plans for the winter of 2014? The folks at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre understand. Friday night, the center opened an exhibit of hot-off-the-presses pictures from the just-concluded games by Adam Stoltman, a center instructor and professional photographer who’s covered no … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 13-15
Theater: As its name implies, Palm Beach Dramaworks usually sticks to plays of dramatic substance, but the company goes lighter in the summertime, usually with a musical. This season it is at least continuing its pre-occupation with classics by reviving The Fantasticks, that off-Broadway Energizer Bunny, which ran for 42 years originally, with its simple, allegorical tale of … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 22-24
Music: It’s not too early to get into the holiday spirit for Independence Day. This Sunday, the Klezmer Company Orchestra at Florida Atlantic University mounts a concert of American music (mostly) under the baton of its leader, Aaron Kula. The concert also serves as an advertisement for the Spirit Of America Collection at FAU’s Wimberly Library, which contains 13,000 books, … [Read more...]