Beginning Thursday, the contemporary art world will be in Miami Beach and its environs for the second largest art fair in the world: Art Basel Miami Beach. This includes artists, art critics, private dealers, advisers, galleries, curators, collectors, celebrities – and yes, mere lovers of art. The known, the not-so-known, the conservative and the bizarre — all will preen, … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: A fine ‘Candida,’ an incomplete ‘Desire’
Candida Palm Beach Dramaworks, which recently announced plans to move into the vacant Cuillo Centre space a block away from its Banyan Blvd. playhouse, continues to take the high road of offering up the towering writers for the stage that other South Florida troupe shy away from. Think O’Neill, Ibsen and now George Bernard Shaw, whose early work Candida is the young socialist … [Read more...]
Violinist Numata shows power, wide range in Duncan recital
If eclecticism is the name of the game for today's younger virtuosi, then to be successful these days requires that you play all those different kinds of pieces equally well. It won't do, in other words, to have a middling Mozart but an incandescent Shostakovich. Too much is expected, but that doesn't mean you can't shine a little brighter in some things more than in others. … [Read more...]