Theater: It is not easy getting attention for a play when the mainstream media will not even print the title, but Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat (C’mon, Wheel of Fortune fans, you can figure it out) managed to eke out a respectable run on Broadway last season and be nominated for Best Play. It is described as a high-octane verbal cage match about love, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 24-25
Film: American remakes of foreign films rarely improve on the original version, but that is exactly the feat that director David Fincher has pulled off with his take on Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. There were reasons to worry about what the maker of Fight Club and Se7en would do to this dark, dense cold case mystery, but he has been extremely faithful to the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 16-18
Art: The Norton Museum of Art is currently showing a major exhibit of works by one of the most highly regarded British artists of our day, Jenny Saville. She’s best known for her work featuring female nudes, but many of her works are drawn from her studies of plastic surgery, generating pictures whose painterly strokes remind the viewer of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. The … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 9-11
Art: This coming Tuesday, the Boca Raton Museum of Art offers a view of American painting when it brings in 36 works from the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. These are pictures by some of the most celebrated American artists – Robert Henri, Andy Warhol, George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, among others – but it’s still true that many of their names and works … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 2-6
Art: This weekend, the Society of the Four Arts opens its first art exhibits of the season, both paying tribute to the illustration genre. Some of the most iconic American artists, such as Norman Rockwell, were primarily illustrators for some of the big-circulation magazines of the early to mid-20th century, and two of the others, J.C. Leyendecker and Howard Chandler Christy, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 25-30
Film: Yes, it does sound like an oxymoron -- “A Martin Scorsese family film” -- particularly when the family is not the Mafia. But put Hugo on your viewing list and you are likely to enjoy the many pleasures of the great director, more versatile than he is usually given credit for, taking his first foray into adapting children’s lit for the screen. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 18-20
Art: This is the first weekend for three art exhibits that opened Thursday at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta. The shows – Landscapes 2011; Fong Choo: The Artful Teapot Invitational; and the annual faculty exhibition – will run through the end of the year at the center. Choo, a master of the miniature teapot, is a Louisville, Ky.-based potter whose works emulate the Yixing … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 11-13
Theater: The numbers 11-11-11 have been drummed into us for most of the past year by Palm Beach Dramaworks, and now it is here -- the day the company unveils its substantially renovated new digs at Clematis and Narcissus in downtown West Palm Beach. The auditorium of the former Cuillo Centre for the Arts has been leveled and rebuilt, removing the stadium seating that so many … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 4-6
Theater: John Logan’s 2010 Tony Award-winning play Red is going to be produced a great deal this season, and not just because it needs only two actors and one set. This brawny script about abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, wrestling with a commission to create a series of murals for New York’s famed power lunch Four Seasons Restaurant and also wrestling with his … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct.28-30
Film: Director-screenwriter Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories) has made an involving yet disturbing new film about one man’s gradual drift into mental illness, Take Shelter. Michael Shannon (Bug, Reservation Road) again plays a guy who may not be playing with a full deck, a construction worker whose life becomes unraveled when he begins having nightmares about a coming apocalyptic … [Read more...]