By Larry Schwingel Expect eclecticism and creative diversity that takes in Modernism, female artists, Latin American flavors and a good bit more in the Broward County art scene for 2017-18. Here’s a look at some of the bigger venues and what they have in store: Nova Southeastern University Art Museum: The downtown Fort Lauderdale museum is mounting a major retrospective … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in classical music
It’s always a source of wonder to look over the classical season each year. Few other parts of the country have such an abundant menu of stellar performers, risk-taking groups and leading international orchestras, all of them stuffed into a relatively short season. And if you don’t have three or four options you’re trying to choose from every weekend in January, February and … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in jazz
A pleasant sense of unpredictability has crept into the 2017-2018 South Florida jazz season, as younger, rising singers and players (Gregory Porter, Jon Batiste) and gifted female vocalists and instrumentalists (Tierney Sutton, Anat Cohen) dot the landscape, especially south of Palm Beach County. And even some of the more recurrent acts, like the Marsalis brothers — … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in theater
Keith Garsson bounces back with a sexy season of Primal Forces, Palm Beach Dramaworks produces two world premieres, Slow Burn serves up its first non-musical and in case you haven’t had enough inclement weather this hurricane season, The Wick promises to make it rain inside its theater. All in all, it looks like a promising 2017-18 at area stages. Here’s a preview, in … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in fall film
Those in search of a thematic thread in this fall’s film releases – always a dubious exercise – will notice a similarity of titles among Wonder, Wonderstruck and Wonder Wheel. May it be a portent of a wonderful awards season at the movies. If the past is any indicator, the major Oscar winners will be hiding in this list of releases arriving in theaters in the final three months … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in pop
The 2017-2018 season in South Florida pop music feels like a changing of the guard, since there aren’t the usual megastar visits from Adele, U2, Madonna or Beyoncé. Sure, there are the occasional predictable senior citizen stars in Ringo Starr, the Zombies, David Crosby, and The Time, all before the close of the year. But for the most part, perhaps as a signal that the … [Read more...]