Art: This coming week, the Norton Museum of Art, which just opened a retrospective of the work of artist Edward Gorey, new photography curator Tim Wride offers more than 75 images devoted to the crowds and places of popular music. Clubs, Joints and Honky-Tonks brings together work by eminent lens artists such as Jeff Dunas, Lynn Goldsmith, Henry Horenstein, and even the quirky … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 9-10
The overhauled former movie palace and museum of contemporary art that is now the Palm Beach Cultural Council building in downtown Lake Worth has a small gallery space inside. This Saturday, the council presents work by two local artists in the space: painter Alyssa di Edwardo and photographic artist Nathan W. Dean. Both artists have exceptional stories. Di Edwardo was a … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 1-3
Film: Before Harvey Weinstein cheapens it with his announced English-language remake, take a look at Untouchables (Intouchables in French), a rich-poor, black-white odd couple tale about a wealthy widower (Francois Cluzot), who becomes a quadriplegic from a hang-gliding accident. Improbably, he selects a black ex-con (Omar Sy) to be his caregiver-aide and, yeah, you guessed it, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 26-29
Film: The airwaves are full of reports of the current presidential campaign, but for an even more momentous election, check out Nanni Meretti’s drily comic film Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope). It begins with the College of Cardinals, assembled within the Sistine chapel, and a paper ballot vote, with most of the cardinals secretly praying they do not get elevated to the right … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 19-20
Editor’s note: Technical difficulties prevented this entry from being posted at the correct time. Theater: One of the most unlikely adaptations is Victor Hugo’s serpentine, 1,200-page novel Les Misérables, which was turned into a surprisingly accessible epic musical almost 27 years ago. To celebrate its longevity, producer Cameron Mackintosh had the show redesigned and … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 12-13
Art: Today marks the last day of the Florida Atlantic University’s exhibit on the history of surfing in Florida (here’s a YouTube promo). The University Galleries won a grant of almost $17,000 in late 2009 to research and mount the exhibit, which has been on display since March 17, and will head to Pensacola Museum of Art this summer. The show, Surfing Florida: A Photographic … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: May 5-6
Theater: Actress-writer-former bartender Terri Girvin uses all those skills in her one-woman show, Last Call, a funny and touching world premiere at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale -- the cozy former Sol Theatre space -- where the play is in its final weekend. As she did each night when she tended bar, served drinks and put up with the tipsy regulars, Girvin gets quite a … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 21-22
Theater: Eighteen years ago, a wordless theatrical event involving a gang of street urchins banging on garbage can lids and oil drums, making unlikely percussive music with brooms, sticks and other found objects opened off-Broadway, where it continues to this day. The show is called Stomp and the touring edition plays West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center this weekend only. Even … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 13-18
Art: The Norton Museum of Art this week announced that it is opening an exhibit of three canvases by two great abstract expressionists, Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell. Officials at the museum point out that the work of these two artists has never been seen at the Norton before. Still’s 1941-A-No. 1 (1949) and PH-1033 (1976) are on display with an untitled work from 1960 by … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: April 7-10
Theater: Fresh from its Carbonell win for the best production of a play in 2011 (All My Sons), Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its first foray into the works of South Africa’s Athol Fugard, Master Harold … and the boys, the first of what producing director William Hayes expects will be an annual exploration of plays on the theme of racial conflict. Written in the midst of his … [Read more...]