Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in The Lobster. Film: Summer movies are supposed to be a vacation from challenging fare, but The Lobster challenges that assumption. It is a satirical slice of science fiction with as loopy a premise as you could ask for. Set in the near future, it offers a society where marriage is compulsory and the unattached have 45 days to find a life mate. … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 7-8
Film: Uruguay’s official submission for the foreign-language Oscar this year and an audience favorite at the recent Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Mr. Kaplan, has returned for a commercial run at Boca Raton’s Living Room Theaters and other venues in the area. It is that tricky commodity — a dark comedy with a Holocaust theme — but it works, largely because of the assured work … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 3-5
Art: See the culmination of years of study in the art work of four Masters of Fine Art students in Thesis Exhibition 2013 at the Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University. The exhibition, which runs through May 24, showcases the large, charcoal drawings of Jill Lavetsky, the abstract paintings and drawings of Eduardo Rosas and the functional pottery of Alexandra … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 1-3
Film: The vote totals for the Academy Awards are never released, but it is safe to say that Michael Haneke’s Amour from Austria won the foreign language film category by a landslide, nominated as it was for best picture as well. And the movie is now out in area theaters, a rare opportunity to see the winner on a big screen. It is a tough film to sit through, especially for … [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...]
Weekend arts picks: March 4-6
Art: If you’ve got a hankering for hitting the links but can’t get to it right now, perhaps an ongoing exhibit at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta will help slake your fairway thirst. Gary Wiren’s nonpareil collection of golf memorabilia is on display along with paintings, photographs and sculptures from the Academy of Golf Art. Included are paintings by David Coolidge, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 1-3, 2010
Art: If you haven’t bought your 2010 calendar yet, consider buying one that supports local artists. Twelve local artists bared all to artist/photographer Durga Garcia in her first annual Palm Beach Artists Uncovered calendar. The artists, who range in age from their mid-thirties to mid-eighties, are all members of the Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery in downtown Lake Worth. … [Read more...]
Weekend Arts Picks: August 7-9
Art: Watching artists create their work can be fascinating, as it allows one to enter into their world, watch their processes, and then see the images emerge from a blank canvas. This Friday night, starting at 7 p.m., 20 artists will start with a 16-inch-by-20-inch canvas and for the next 90 minutes will create their work in a variety of mediums on site at the Organic Music … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 2-5
Art: If you’re up for some laid-back fun while viewing (and perhaps buying) art at the same time, the weekly Thursday night art show at the Rum Bar next to Panama Hattie's in North Palm Beach is the latest, hottest hangout for the artsy crowd. About a dozen artists show their work, and tonight, well-known local artist and Armory Art Center teacher Bill Perry will have … [Read more...]