After a string of recent successes, Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre has stumbled badly with its current production, Chemical Imbalance, a spoof of Victorian theater conventions in general and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde specifically. Artistic director Clive Cholerton’s introductory remarks make it clear that there is nothing serious going on in the show and its only reason for … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 8-13
Art: This month at the Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park, the featured artist is Judy Flescher, an accomplished abstract painter and collage artist who has received many awards for her unique style and imaginative material. She works primarily in mixed media, including acrylic with collage on canvas, paper and copper, mono prints with collage, and watercolors with ink and oil stick. … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Dec. 18-20
Theater: Opening tonight is Palm Beach Dramaworks’ much-anticipated production of Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning Copenhagen, a cerebral look back at a mysterious 1941 meeting between two nuclear physicists that may have changed the course of World War II. Based on fact, but then stretched into supposition, it concerns Germany’s Werner Heisenberg, his Danish mentor Niels … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 27-29
Art: Sculptor Bethany Krull's technical expertise is matched by the strength of her intellectual concepts, which focus on the relationship of humans to the natural world. This Saturday evening, Mulry Fine Art in Palm Beach hosts the opening of a solo show by Krull called Dominance and Affection. "It seems that the most intimate connection we have with nature is with those … [Read more...]
Segal sculpted with compassionate eye, Norton exhibit shows
Four tractor-trailers hauled thousands of pounds of George Segal’s sculptures from Dallas to West Palm Beach. This is worth noting because an exhibition of his work, now at the Norton Museum of Art, presents 16 installations in a modest corner gallery of the museum’s first floor. For all of its physical weight, George Segal: Street Scenes is not a sprawling sort of show, the … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 9-13
Art: Beatle John Lennon would have turned 69 today, and at Old School Square in Delray Beach, artist and author Sharon Koskoff has been creating several large-scale murals to coincide with the Cornell Museum's exhibit of Gerry Deiter photographs from Lennon and wife Yoko Ono's legendary bed-in for peace in Montreal in 1969. Koskoff's 42-inch-by-120-inch painting, I Love Lennon, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 23-26
Brian Kovachik with his best-of-show vase. (Photo by Katie Deits) Art: The Gallery at Palm Beach Community College’s Eissey Campus in Palm Beach Gardens currently is featuring Earthly Delights, a multimedia exhibition of art by members of The Palm Beach County Art Teachers Association. The exhibition is composed of recent paintings, sculpture, photography, and mixed media works … [Read more...]