Each fall, it is the labor of arts writers everywhere to forge connections between the many exhibits about to snap open and clamor for the eye’s attention. There is much excitement after many hot and slow months of student art shows and sweetly presented orchid photos at community centers. September marks the beginning of the real pageant, or so we write, the onslaught of … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 22-24
Art: The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale received a major bequest almost 20 years ago from Ira Glackens, who at his death in 1991 left the estate of his father, William Glackens, to the museum. This has formed the basis of a major collection of work by a group of American painters known as The Eight, who in addition to Glackens includes George Luks, Maurice Prendergast and Robert … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: A fine ‘Candida,’ an incomplete ‘Desire’
Candida Palm Beach Dramaworks, which recently announced plans to move into the vacant Cuillo Centre space a block away from its Banyan Blvd. playhouse, continues to take the high road of offering up the towering writers for the stage that other South Florida troupe shy away from. Think O’Neill, Ibsen and now George Bernard Shaw, whose early work Candida is the young socialist … [Read more...]
The View From Home 14: New releases on DVD
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (First Look) Standard list price: $18.99 Release date: Sept. 14 The Killer Inside Me (MPI) SLP: $13.99 Release date: Sept. 28 Two movies by major filmmakers exploring the minds of killers debuted on DVD recently, and the results are so divergent they might as well be filed under different categories in the video store. The first of … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in opera
South Florida’s two chief opera companies mostly played it safe at the box office last season when it came to repertoire, with dueling productions of Bizet’s Carmen closing both companies’ offerings. But Palm Beach Opera and Florida Grand Opera also took some risks with staging, including a bold vision from Stefano Poda for Palm Beach of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and André Barbe … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 15-18
Film: Moviegoers with a tendency towards high blood pressure are advised to take medical precautions before seeing the first-rate documentary, The Tillman Story, which is bound to make you seething mad. Amir Bar-Lev does a first-rate job sifting through the lies and cover-ups surrounding the death of Arizona Cardinals star Pat Tillman, who put his lucrative football career on … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in theater
After a successful summer debut at the Kravis Center, Florida Stage unveils its first subscription season in the Rinker Playhouse, including several world premieres. Meanwhile, there is a new Miami company with its own troupe of actors, the Caldwell continues to dig out of its money woes with a second look at a Carbonell-winning show it is developing, the Maltz Jupiter cracks … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in Palm Beach art
This coming art season is to art lovers what the 24-hour gym is to procrastinators: the end of the Excuse. If you typically shy away from museums out of fear of being bored to death, don’t. There’s plenty to choose from, which means something is bound to delight you. Museums are keeping the promise to have the usual rotation of shows. Although having diversity in their … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in classical music
With the addition of a new performing arts center in southern Palm Beach County (and a major new hall on Miami Beach), the 2010-11 classical music season in South Florida looks a little stronger than it did last season, and that impression is fortified by the unusual fact of there being two performances each of major Romantic masterworks: The Verdi Requiem, and the Fifth … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in dance
There’s dance in a variety of styles, stars and stripes this season. The mix runs from modern dance to Irish, contemporary ballet to tango, flamenco to Philippine. A dance fan can catch a Russian ballet classic—featuring a cast of Russians to the ballet born—then make tracks for really rad, cutting-edge dance theater. Incoming to South Florida are popular touring companies … [Read more...]