By Sandra Schulman South Florida native Amanda Valdes is having a major moment with her art of creepy darling Goth girls, all doe eyes and angles and cartoonish allure. Her art focuses on the wildly embellished Girl, and how costuming, identity and myth play into female perceptions. Mermaids, Day of the Dead dames, courtesans and other coquettes parade and pose in her alpha … [Read more...]
West Palm to transform into outdoor museum in November
By Sandra Schulman Murals and public art are making big waves in Palm Beach County, with paintings stretching up to 10 stories high on buildings in and around town. Glamorous gallerist Nicole Henry of Nicole Henry Fine Art in West Palm Beach is ready to unveil a big project to bring attention to the enormous possibilities here in town. She has announced an ambitious exhibit … [Read more...]
West Delray gets a cineplex with a lot of extras
It can’t really promise that the movies will be any good, but Frank Theatres has thought of every other way to make your evening out at its new CineBowl & Grille at Delray Marketplace a peak entertainment experience. “West is best,” offers corporate CEO Bruce Frank in response to why he is betting that South Florida moviegoers will trek west of the turnpike, at Lyons Road and … [Read more...]
Writer recounts her mission to the homeless
Danielle Steel is one of today’s best-known fiction authors, having written 85 novels that have sold more than 590 million copies. But hardly anyone knew that for more than a decade Steel and a small band of supporters were quietly and anonymously giving sleeping bags and winter jackets to homeless people in San Francisco. The program began after Steel’s 19-year-old son … [Read more...]
West Palm library exhibit explores censorship and the Holocaust
By Tara Farquhar James Bachner can attest to the destructive and redemptive power of books. Born and raised in Berlin, Bachner remembers the book burnings in the German capital in May 1933 vividly. “I was only 11 years old at the time, but I was very aware of what was going on,” he said. “Even though I didn’t go down there to see the book burning at the time, we were only … [Read more...]
For 25 years, Duncan Theatre has been cutting-edge
If you lived in Palm Beach County 25 years ago, to get your culture fix you went to the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth or the “leaky teepee,” the familiar name for the West Palm Beach Auditorium, which earned that name from its pointy roof and less-than-watertight conditions. The leaky teepee lives on in lore and memory, but the county’s cutting-edge performing arts house, the … [Read more...]
Photo artist Moore takes her cues from nature
Melinda Moore arrived at a monthly roundtable of photo artists in West Palm Beach and pulled from a shoulder bag four or five new travel-photo scenic prints she had quickly matted that afternoon. They were rich, gallery-quality black-and-whites of London street life, but no biggie: Moore — who comes across as everyone’s favorite aunt who has been around the world more times … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 12-16
Art: From capturing firework-like sprays of red lava in Hawaii to the cool icebergs of Iceland, Lewis Kemper’s masterful photographs are some of the best that can be captured of the natural world. An exhibit of his dramatic landscape photographs, Capturing the Light, opens Saturday night (5:30-7 p.m.) at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre and runs through June 5. The show’s … [Read more...]
West Palm artist makes a fashion statement of his own
When he slipped into the white-lace wedding dress and adjusted the veil on his balding head, a diminutive Raymond P. Neubert stepped into another dimension of his life. Seventeen more of his friends and acquaintances followed suit while Neubert photographed the experience and evolving personas, taking more than 100 pictures of each person. Although the small-framed Neubert … [Read more...]