By Dale King It took no small act of courage for Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Theatre and Dance to kick off Festival Rep 2014 with the attention-demanding black comedy, August: Osage County. It’s also courageous for university dramatists to present the Tracy Letts play so soon after the 2013 release of the film version that starred Meryl Streep and Julia … [Read more...]
Art and life blur in memorable Bedia retrospective at MAM
The idea to open José Bedia’s major career retrospective, now showing at the Miami Art Museum, with a painting of Coballende is a brilliant one. In the Afro-Cuban religion of Palo Monte, this god is the patron of the sick, the disabled and the homeless and wandering; his equivalent in Catholicism is St. Lazarus, and in Bedia’s sprawling acrylic on canvas, Coballende, like … [Read more...]