Art: This coming week, the Norton Museum of Art, which just opened a retrospective of the work of artist Edward Gorey, new photography curator Tim Wride offers more than 75 images devoted to the crowds and places of popular music. Clubs, Joints and Honky-Tonks brings together work by eminent lens artists such as Jeff Dunas, Lynn Goldsmith, Henry Horenstein, and even the quirky … [Read more...]
Carn opens Arts Garage jazz-blues series with piano dazzle
St. Augustine-raised, St. Augustine-based jazz keyboard master Doug Carn kicked off the nine-concert Jazz Project and Garage Blues series at the Arts Garage in Delray Beach on Saturday night. And the Florida resident’s quartet delivered an understated performance that combined jazz and blues to raise the venue’s temperature a few degrees on a humid June evening. Yet any of … [Read more...]
April 2012 Arts Calendar
Editor’s note: This is the calendar from the print version of Palm Beach ArtsPaper, out today. Through an inadvertent error in the production process, the calendar in the print paper is an incomplete version of the March calendar. The correct April calendar is posted here.) Events are listed through May 4 and were current as of March 30. Please check with the presenting agency … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 24-25
Film: American remakes of foreign films rarely improve on the original version, but that is exactly the feat that director David Fincher has pulled off with his take on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. There were reasons to worry about what the maker of Fight Club and Se7en would do to this dark, dense cold case mystery, but he has been extremely faithful to the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 9-11
Art: This coming Tuesday, the Boca Raton Museum of Art offers a view of American painting when it brings in 36 works from the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. These are pictures by some of the most celebrated American artists – Robert Henri, Andy Warhol, George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, among others – but it’s still true that many of their names and works … [Read more...]
Music roundup: Adventures in new music at Lynn, Arts Garage
New Music Festival: Thomas McKinley (Nov. 10, Lynn University) For six years now, Lynn University’s Lisa Leonard has been running a weeklong fall-season festival devoted to new music and to the work of a featured composer. Past composers have included Gunther Schuller and Kenneth Frazelle, but this year, Leonard stayed close to home by choosing Thomas McKinley, a Lynn … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 11-13
Theater: The numbers 11-11-11 have been drummed into us for most of the past year by Palm Beach Dramaworks, and now it is here -- the day the company unveils its substantially renovated new digs at Clematis and Narcissus in downtown West Palm Beach. The auditorium of the former Cuillo Centre for the Arts has been leveled and rebuilt, removing the stadium seating that so many … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 22-24
Film: The grueling existence of undocumented aliens is captured with dramatic sensitivity in Chris Weitz’s A Better Life, the ironically titled film about a gardener’s helper in Los Angeles, desperately trying to carve out a decent living for himself and his teenage son, while always looking over his shoulder for the law. Veteran Mexican actor Demian Bichir gives a haunting … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 8-10
Theater: Many of Palm Beach County’s professional theaters are idle this summer, but the Maltz Jupiter Theatre has a few special events, like this Saturday night’s talent competition, called -- what else? -- Palm Beach Idols. For the eighth annual event, some 90 locals of all ages who are convinced they have talent auditioned, but only 25 of them have made the cut to perform … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 1-6
Film: The British neurologist Oliver Sacks’ popular case studies have made good fodder for Hollywood (1990’s Awakenings), and in The Music Never Stopped, one of Sacks’ essays (The Last Hippie) is the source of the story. Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), long estranged from his father (J.K. Simmons, taking a break from all those Farmers Insurance commercials), shows up in a hospital … [Read more...]