An ongoing exhibition at the Society of the Four Arts tells the story of how the golden era of Charleston, S.C., came and left, while its fruits went everywhere. An Eye for Opulence: Charleston through the Lens of the Rivers Collection consists of more than 200 mahogany furniture pieces, silver objects and fine art representing the city’s enviable prosperity during the … [Read more...]
Natacha Koblova: Multilingual Society founder helps them speak in tongues
A year in business has not given Natacha Koblova all the answers she would like to have, although she did learn another language. The Russian-born 39-year-old polyglot (more on this later) has been in this business of teaching languages for many years. Now she faces the ups and downs of owning an infant language school/business that mixes traditional and unconventional … [Read more...]
Miloš holds inaugural Chamber Society audience spellbound
The Troubadour, with his slung guitar and singsong voice, came to Palm Beach last Thursday to the Crystal Room of Mar-a-Lago. This time it was the handsome 30-year-old guitarist Miloš Karadaglić who gave the inaugural concert of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach’s Great Performers series, a newly formed cultural venture led by Michael Finn, formerly the executive … [Read more...]
In ‘The Attack,’ a gritty look at depth of Middle East divide
How’s this for a premise most filmmakers wouldn’t touch with a pole the size of the Gaza Strip: An Arab surgeon who has become fully acclimated in Israeli society receives a career-crowning award from the nation’s medical establishment. The very next day, a bomb explodes in an Israeli café, killing 17 people and maiming many others, including children. The suicide bomber who … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 2-6
Art: This weekend, the Society of the Four Arts opens its first art exhibits of the season, both paying tribute to the illustration genre. Some of the most iconic American artists, such as Norman Rockwell, were primarily illustrators for some of the big-circulation magazines of the early to mid-20th century, and two of the others, J.C. Leyendecker and Howard Chandler Christy, … [Read more...]