The Palm Beach Opera’s Young Artists troupe wrapped its One Opera in One Hour season Friday night with an abridged version of Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas. And it showed that this is an opera that really should be on the mainstage here. That’s not because Catán’s score is a great one: Even cut to an hour, it never goes anywhere. It just sits and … [Read more...]
Illustration show at Four Arts also chronicles shift in American identity
Two adjacent exhibits, now on view at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach until Jan. 15, demonstrate why illustration should be given due consideration within the context of the history of art in America. Yet also, as the complement to the journalism of their day, the works on view provide a visual thumbprint for our nation’s ideology during different times in our … [Read more...]