Art: Two photographers – Alan Winslow and Morrigan McCarthy – traveled 11,000 miles by bicycle across the United States beginning in 2008 to gather opinions about the environment, get to know their fellow Americans, and, of course, take pictures of them. They put together a show of this work (Project Tandem) that’s now touring the country, and through June 18, their … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 13-15
Music: The instruments most musicians work with today are survivors or variations of the sonic armaments they had in other eras. Gone, for the most part, are the ophicleide, the serpent, the sarrusophone. Most of the viol family, with the exception of the double bass (and its modern derivative the bass guitar), also is gone, heard today only in specialist concerts. But then … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 15-17
Film: Sure, he won an Oscar 30 years ago for making Ordinary People, but Robert Redford remains an underrated director. To see how he can bring history alive, involving and even a little instructive, check out The Conspirator, his take on the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as seen through the conspiracy trial of Mary Surratt. The luminous Robin Wright plays the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 11-13
Film: It is a complaint have heard so often I can anticipate it returning every Oscar season: “Where can I go to see the short subjects, both animated and live action, that are nominated for an Academy Award?” The answer used to be a big shrug, but now you can head to Emerging Cinemas. This week, at the funky art cinema called Mos’Art in Lake Park, you can see all five … [Read more...]
Fine art fair draws a different crowd to Convention Center
It’s remarkable. In a few short weeks, International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) has transformed the Palm Beach County Convention Center from an über-cool, contemporary art warehouse that housed their Art Palm Beach fair into a refined country-manor home for the current American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF). At the entrance, a four-spout fountain sits, surrounded by … [Read more...]
Pianist Graffman offers left-hand music at Lynn
Sitting down at the Steinway on the stage of the Wold Center, Gary Graffman demonstrates how he tests pianos for the Curtis Institute, which has asked its former director to help choose a new batch of 20 for the Philadelphia arts school. Graffman’s test piece is a slow solo passage from the middle of second movement of the Brahms Second Concerto. And he is playing it with two … [Read more...]
Hopes high for world premiere ‘Academy’ at Maltz
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s artistic director, Andrew Kato, has had some major successes in his five years in the job, assembling impressive talent -- onstage and off -- for such well-received existing musicals as The Boy Friend, Barnum and Anything Goes. But what he really wants to become known for is directing and producing new work. “When I started here as artistic … [Read more...]
For Adami, everything is allegory
They may look like comic book art, but there is a perturbing sadness to the world that Valerio Adami creates in his large-scale paintings, 23 of which are currently on view until Jan. 9 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in a retrospective exhibit that spans four decades of the Italian artist’s work. The exhibit is merely a glimpse into Adami’s vast oeuvre, which has been shaped … [Read more...]
Caldwell’s ‘Follies’ another gift for Sondheim fans
For the third time in a year, the Caldwell Theatre has put the words and music of Stephen Sondheim onstage, emphasizing his intricate way with a song and his emotionally complex storytelling in its musical concert series. If the Boca Raton company’s current offering, 1971’s Follies, is not quite up to the delirious level of its Sunday in the Park With George or Into the … [Read more...]
The View From Home 12: New releases on DVD
Appointment With Danger, Dark City and Union Station (Olive Films) Standard list price: $19.99 Release date: July 27 Apparently, DVD labels distributed the memo well: 2010 is the year for classic film noir. Last month Columbia released its Film Noir Classics Vol. 2 collection (SLP $44.99), an essential five-disc set that included Fritz Lang’s Human Desire, Phil Karlson’s The … [Read more...]