A Meaningful Guide to the Scientific Authentication of Asian Antiquities, by Michael C. Teller IV. By Myles Ludwig Art is the visual narrative of history and there is a lot to learn at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show now running at the Convention Center in West Palm Beach. There are exhibitors who are not only displaying the finest examples of the moments on the … [Read more...]
At 92, artist Harwood still has a passion for creation
By Lucy Lazarony At 92, artist Bernice Harwood of Boynton Beach can do it all. She’s a painter, a sculptor, a printmaker and a writer, and has spent the past year writing stories from her life. “You have to laugh,” Harwood says. “You can’t let anything get to you.” In her teens, Harwood attended Girls Commercial High School in Brooklyn, where along with her academic … [Read more...]
At the Festival of the Arts Boca: Michael Grunwald on the unfinished business of the Everglades
Almost 10 years have passed since the publication of Michael Grunwald’s groundbreaking first book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, which was greeted as the most important — and readable — book on the subject since Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s classic, River of Grass. But today Grunwald has one regret: Climate change. “There is climate change … [Read more...]
Evocative new movements make successful fresh take on Mozart Requiem
It took a serious amount of artistic nerve for Seraphic Fire to commission a new completion for the Mozart Requiem, some 18 minutes of freshly composed music the choir unveiled last week at three different concerts. Instead of going with another academic examination of the music Franz Süssmayr composed, or perhaps drew from some now-missing Mozart sketches, for the Sanctus, … [Read more...]
‘Contagion’ and ‘Warrior’: Strong films of viral, and human, conflict
For those who have been stressing lately over deadly earthquakes and hurricanes, worry instead about tiny viruses that travel with unexpected speed around the globe transported by a cough or a handshake. Oh, to have the surgical mask concession at movie theaters showing Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, a star-packed exercise in medical paranoia told with a muted style instead of … [Read more...]