James Hazen Hyde (1901), by Theobald Chartran. Art: Two fine exhibitions are closing this weekend at Palm Beach venues, and this weekend might be the perfect chance to catch them. The Flagler Museum has Beauty’s Legacy, a collection of portraits of the grandees of America’s Gilded Age as captured in portraits by some of the finest artists of the era, including John Singer … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 9-12
Film: Those who clamored about The Twilight Saga last week can now take in a far better, darker trilogy, now that they have that out of their system. It is the Swedish mystery novels by the late Stieg Larsson, whose introduction on film was the riveting The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, about a Goth computer hacker named Lisbeth (the terrific, deadpan Noomi Rapace), who teams up … [Read more...]