By Sandra Schulman It’s been a long hot summer, so the cool breeze of a new art season is a welcome relief. Major collections figure in shows at the Norton, while the Boca Museum conjures up a little mystery. Bicycles, natural flora, fiber art and art fairs all make appearances. Norton Museum of Art With a new director and curators, the Norton has a new energy going … [Read more...]
Artist and WPTV journalist Walters gets solo show at Lighthouse ArtCenter
From the Hall Hardware sign in the shape of a hammer, juxtaposed against the blue-and-white Florida sky, to the Dixie Highway and Dyer Road street signs, to the telephone pole and all its wires, to the red-and-white stop sign, WPTV reporter and artist Ashleigh Walters paints realistic still lifes and landscapes of la vie quotidienne. Now, 50 of Walters’s latest paintings … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2022-23: The season in Palm Beach art
` By Christina Wood Moving forward from the darkest days of the pandemic, the arts in general --- as well as many of the artists and arts organizations specific to Palm Beach County --- seem to be more conscious of the steps they take. This season, you can count on the arts to provide perspective along with inspiration – from the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s … [Read more...]
Early Warhol on view at Tequesta’s Lighthouse ArtCenter
Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta opens the new year this Thursday with a celebration of pop art that includes more than 20 pieces of rarely seen original works by Andy Warhol from the collections of Marshall Field and Beth Rudin DeWoody. “We’re pleased to offer this astonishing exhibition from the world-class collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in our newly renovated gallery,” … [Read more...]
Lighthouse ArtCenter takes a close look at the ink
By Myles Ludwig Deep in the heart of Tequesta, in the land of Lettuce Ware lovers and the birthplace of B-list movie star Burt Reynolds, I came upon an attractive tribe of tattooed ladies. These were not the circus sideshow freaks of my childhood or the longhouse Dyaks with whom I bunked deep in the tropical jungles of Borneo, fierce former headhunters whose multiple … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2018-19: Palm Beach art
By Sandra Schulman After an unusually hot summer, the cooler temps and invigorating new art season are more than welcome. The art offerings are heavy on photographs and Florida history with glamour shots in the spotlight at the Flagler Museum, and Sunshine State history at the Boca Raton Museum. Former President Bush makes a Florida art show bow with portraits of the … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in Palm Beach County art
Art selfies have arrived! And they are welcome to stay, so long as we are mindful of the artworks nearby. Just because cultural institutions are thinking outside-the-box, embracing new technologies and millennial-inspired ideas doesn’t mean the golden rule stopped applying: Look, don’t touch. This is not photography’s year. Then again, Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 9-11
Music: The Mainly Mozart Festival in Coral Gables, which last month introduced audiences to violinist Liana Gourdjia, on Sunday welcomes the Ukrainian-born Canadian pianist Serhiy Salov in a program of two Mozart sonatas and the Fantasy in D minor, along with Debussy’s Des pas sur la neige and Salov’s own arrangement of Nocturnes. If that wasn’t enough, Salov also will perform … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2016-17: Art in Palm Beach County
This season, brace yourselves for an identity crisis. The art and artists being featured are driven by it. Clearly, creativity thrives in the absence of a defined self. In an attempt to come up with something highly personal and unique, artists are pulling deeper than ever from within them. Equipped with more free admissions, night operating hours and themes suited for the … [Read more...]