Art: Surrealist art hasn’t been a current style for some time, but there are still practitioners out there, one of them being Jacques de Beaufort, who teaches at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth. Last night, a retrospective of his work opened at the new Box Gallery on Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, within shouting distance of the interstate and Dixie Highway. The Box … [Read more...]
‘Nocturnal Animals’: Thriller hemmed in by rich, airless bubble
In the best scene in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, a holiday drive on a sleepy West Texas thoroughfare becomes an auto-terrorist nightmare straight out of Spielberg’s Duel. When three accelerator-revving rednecks force suburban husband Tony Hastings (Jake Gyllenhaal), his wife Laura (Isla Fisher) and their daughter India (Ellie Bamber) off the road in the coffin-black night, it … [Read more...]