By Sandra Schulman As downtown West Palm Beach moves forward, “art experiences,” if not actual “art” in the traditional sense, takes on a leading role. And thus is it is with Art Affair, a week of such experiences now ongoing in West Palm Beach. In addition to the 3-day Downtown West Palm Beach Arts Festival at the end of the week, there will be a 3-day pop-up event with … [Read more...]
A fine night of clarinet quintets at CityPlace
The two canonical clarinet quintets, and there are really only two, attain that status at least in part because listening to them, one wonders why such a beautiful combination isn’t regularly attempted by composers everywhere. For now, no one’s done it better than Mozart in 1789 and Brahms in 1891, and it was their respective clarinet quintets that occupied a program of the … [Read more...]
‘Downton Abbey’ settles in at CityPlace for the season
For Anglophiles and fans of the PBS series Downton Abbey, wait no longer – the characters, the costumes, the Old World glamour and melodrama are arriving in South Florida in time for season. Just off a successful New York City run, NBCUniversal International Studios, along with Imagine Exhibitions, is bringing Downton Abbey: The Exhibition to CityPlace in West Palm Beach, … [Read more...]
‘Road tattoo,’ weekend arts fest lead off April culture bonanza in West Palm
By Sandra Schulman During this year’s newly created Art Affair, which opens today and runs through April 15, the action is centered on Rosemary Avenue in West Palm Beach, with a new series of events and an influx of vendors as well as the unveiling of a mile-long “road tattoo” named Genii Loci, stretching from Okechobee Boulevard to Sunset Lounge. There will also be a … [Read more...]
Three artists hosts interactive gallery space at CityPlace
By Sandra Schulman Further expanding the way the arts are seen in West Palm Beach, a new artist-run space has opened in CityPlace that lets gallery goers interact in an up-close insider way. Garala – a combination of the names of the three artists who run it – actually have studios in the elegant space and also exhibit the work is a bright, accessible way. The … [Read more...]
Bold art project gives CityPlace fresh life
By Sandra Schulman In what could have been an urban disaster, the mad scientists at owner company Related Group have conjured up an international art-infused delight, turning the former anchor store Macy’s space into a cavernous experimental gallery. They are calling it Culture Lab – a multi-installation, malleable space retrofitted with visual and aural artworks. I took … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 20-22
Dance: One of the innovations of the Miami-based Knight Foundation has been its Random Acts of Culture, many of which can be seen on YouTube. Don’t be surprised next week if you see something similar here from Ballet Palm Beach, Colleen Smith’s Palm Beach Gardens-based dance troupe. This coming Thursday, the company will do 10-minute “flash ballets” at the Cultural Council of … [Read more...]