Art: If there’s a more important art exhibit in the area than Justin Brice Guariglia’s Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, now at the Norton, we’d be hard-pressed to tell you what it is. Guariglia is a photographer who is accredited to NASA, which in 2015 and 2016 investigated the shrinking glaciers of Greenland. Guariglia turned his photos of what he saw into artworks that, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 12-14
Dance: Tonight at the Kravis Center, two local dance leaders, Maria Konrad and Jerry Opdenaker, will be joined by the Koresh Dance Company of Philadelphia for an evening of new work called Inside Out. Two Florida premieres by Roni Koresh, and world premieres from Konrad (who runs Reach Dance Co.) and Opdenaker (who runs O Dance), teaming here with Sarah Walston of Florida Dance … [Read more...]
When she was bad: Frears’ sweet, pointed ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’
If the cinema has Ed Wood and his legions of B-movie acolytes, the operatic canon has Florence Foster Jenkins — a cultural figure beloved because of her lack of talent, not despite it. The New York City arts doyenne turned amateur soprano is arguably the strangest footnote in music history. In the early ’40s, Jenkins warbled off-key coloratura at select private performances … [Read more...]