The Norton Museum of Art will close from Sept. 12 to Sept. 30 while it reinstalls several of its galleries, museum officials said earlier this month. The goal for this project is to provide a more engaging experience for visitors, officials with the West Palm Beach museum said in a news release. Normal operating hours will resume Saturday, Oct. 1. Palm Beach County residents … [Read more...]
Kravis’ 2011-12 season features fare for low, high brows
You’ve heard of the three Bs -- Bach, Brahms and Beethoven? Well, the Kravis Center has announced that next season it will present the three Ls -- Larry the Cable Guy, Larry King and a tribute show called Elvis Lives. Uh, didn’t the Kravis used to be a center for the performing arts? The West Palm Beach complex will be celebrating its 20th anniversary season beginning this … [Read more...]
Lighthouse ArtCenter looks to emerging artists
When Nicholas Whipple was looking for a venue to showcase his light sculptures, he put out feelers to galleries in the Wynwood section of Miami. Luckily for Whipple, 28, of Hobe Sound, a set designer and master carpenter at the Maltz Theatre in Jupiter, he found a space closer to home. In an exhibit opening Friday, Next Wave: Emerging Young Artists, the Lighthouse ArtCenter … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 10-15
Film: Writer-director John Gray (credited with creating TV’s Ghost Whisperer) grew up in Brooklyn and his latest feature film, White Irish Drinkers, feels like it has autobiographical elements in its coming-of-age tale of a young, sensitive artist trying hard not to sucked into the world of crime of his older, desperate brother. Nick Thurston impresses as Brian, who chooses … [Read more...]
Delray’s new Arts Garage a regular home for jazz
If you've parked your car in the Old School Square parking garage recently to go to one of Delray Beach's multiple clubs, theaters, galleries or restaurants, you were in close proximity of a major new downtown arts venue whether you knew it or not. The Arts Garage (www.delraybeacharts.org) was opened in the spring by the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and the … [Read more...]
Seraphic Fire’s wonderful ‘St. John Passion’ sets landmark
It’s true that the Miami-based concert choir Seraphic Fire is a national organization that draws many of its singing members, as well as the personnel for its Firebird Chamber Orchestra, from across the country. But it is also nevertheless true that on Saturday night in a church in Fort Lauderdale, a large audience saw a South Florida musical organization that was able to … [Read more...]
PB Opera’s ‘Cosi’ well-sung, craftily staged
The Palm Beach Opera is closing its three-year survey of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas with a somewhat minimalist but well-staged and ably sung production of Così fan Tutte. Friday night found a cast of young, handsome singers working inside a Stephen Lawless reading of the opera that was easy to understand, almost plausible, and full of smart, interesting stage business that … [Read more...]
Boca arts fest to return March 4-12
By Skip Sheffield The Festival of the Arts Boca is going lean and green for its fifth season March 4-12 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton. That’s “green” as in “young.” One of the headliners in the concert finale March 12, operatic soprano Jackie Evancho, is just 10 years old. “We tried to calm the pace a little this year,” Charles Siemon, chairman and co-founder of the … [Read more...]
Morikami’s Kyoto show impresses through its quietness
With its simple harmony and elegant lines, much classic Asian art has been easy to digest but not to remember. This is its -- or rather, our -- struggle. And so it is with the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens’ current exhibit, Kyoto: A Place in Art. As soon as we leave the exhibit, we’re in fear of forgetting what we’ve seen. It doesn’t help that Kyoto: A Place in Art is … [Read more...]
Sometimes brilliant, sometimes silly, FGO’s ‘Carmen’ still bold, colorful
The Florida Grand Opera closed its 69th season Saturday night in Fort Lauderdale with a production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen that was sometimes brilliant, sometimes risible, but that also offered reliably good singing and enough dramatic punch to give it real entertainment value. In their bid to reinterpret this greatest of French operas, the Franco-Canadian team of André … [Read more...]