By Sandra Schulman The gallery scene along Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach is always a treasure hunt. There are gems to be found among the car dealerships and funky diners. Here are three I visited this week, each filled with some of the more unusual sights than the tourist trail usually leads to. Ink & Pistons For the punk and piercing set, this hardcore “artist driven” … [Read more...]
Dover Quartet makes brilliant opening at Kravis Young Artists
It is almost as though the members of the Dover Quartet, all in their early 20s, holed themselves up with 1960s-era recordings by the Guarneri Quartet, so seamless, elegant and perfect is their playing. But there should be some room for wider variety and contrast amid all that, and so while one could make the case for this young foursome already being one of the finest … [Read more...]
Powerful ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ a thinking person’s thriller
Hollywood’s view on the U.S. intelligence organizations’ “enhanced interrogation techniques” that have been violating Geneva conventions since 9-11 is pretty clear. Rendition, Taxi to the Dark Side, Standard Operating Procedure -- these features and documentaries all take the correct liberal position on the issue: that torture is shameful and ineffective, a moral blight on this … [Read more...]