Art: High fashion is on display at the Boca Museum of Art with Impact: 50 Years of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The exhibition, which was spearheaded by Diane von Furstenberg, is the first museum exhibition to celebrate the artistry of American fashion designers on the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Almost 600 designers have been members of the council over the past five decades. Living designers were asked to select an object or ensemble that best represents his or her impact in the fashion world. Fashion designers featured in the exhibition, which runs through April 21, include Michael Kors, Coach, Donna Karan, Vera Wang, Kenneth Cole, Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene. Admission is $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 students. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. first Wednesday of the month; 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Call 561-392-2500, or visit www.bocamuseum.org.
The Atlantic Classical Orchestra continues its season this afternoon and tonight at Stuart’s Lyric Theatre with violinist Marina Lenau in the Dvorak Violin Concerto (in A minor, Op. 53), which everyone professes to consider a standard work but which almost never gets programmed locally. That’s a tragedy, because it’s one of the very finest of all the Romantic concertos, and a performance of it is long overdue. Also on the program is a premiere, a Sinfonietta by David Conte, a composer at the San Francisco Conservatory who was one of the last people to study with Nadia Boulanger. Conductor Stewart Robertson also will conduct the early Symphony in C, of Georges Bizet, written when he was only 17 and yet one of the best French symphonic works of the 19th century. The ACO plays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. today at the Lyric Theatre. Tickets are $55-$60. Call 772-286-7827 or visit www.atlanticclassicalorchestra.com for more information.
Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, the excellent American violinist Elmar Oliveira plays the Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 (in B minor) with the Lynn Philharmonia under Guillermo Figueroa, who was the founding concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Also on the program are the Le Corsaire overture of Berlioz and the Fifth Symphony (in D minor, Op. 47) of Shostakovich. Concerts are set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday at the Wold Performing Arts Center on the Lynn campus in Boca Raton. Tickets: $35-$50. Call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu./tickets.
The Philadelphia Orchestra emerged from bankruptcy last summer with a smaller roster but a new lease on life, and the venerable ensemble is making its first Florida tour since 2006. The great American pianist André Watts is the guest next week at the Kravis Center in two concerts under the baton of the eminent Spaniard Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Tuesday night, Watts plays the Emperor Concerto (No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73) of Beethoven, and Wednesday afternoon it’s the lone Piano Concerto (in A minor, Op. 16) of Norway’s Edvard Grieg. Tuesday’s concert also features the Brahms Symphony No. 1 (in C minor, Op. 68) and Liszt’s Les Préludes; on Wednesday it’s the Leopold Stokowski arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Wachet auf, and the deathless Symphony No. 5 (in C minor, Op. 67) of Beethoven. Tickets start at $35 for the concerts at 8 p.m. Tuesday and 2 p.m. Wednesday. Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org.
Film: Could Hollywood finally be figuring out that there is money to be made with movies about and for seniors? Last year began this trend with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, followed recently by Quartet and now Stand Up Guys, an amiable comic-action picture about the reunion of three crooks trying for one last crime spree. An irascible, old Al Pacino gets out of prison after 28 years, to find he does not recognize the way the world has changed. He is met by his former partner Christopher Walken and together they spring their one-time getaway car driver, Alan Arkin, out of his nursing home. Of course, complications arise, like the fact that Walken has been coerced into offing Pacino with a 24-hour deadline. One the whole, the flick is more comedy than drama, and well-modulated thanks to director Fisher Stevens. Opening this weekend at area locations.
Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks has announced a desire to produce a play with racial themes each season, and it follows up last year’s Master Harold. . . and the boys with Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, about an African-American family from Chicago’s South Side with big dreams, including bettering their living conditions by moving out to the suburbs. The all-white suburbs. Hansberry herself crossed over a theatrical color line, becoming the first black woman to have a play on Broadway. Dramaworks brings in guest director Seret Scott, along with a talented cast that includes Ethan Henry, Marckenson Charles and Pat Bowie. Opening Fri., Feb. 1, and continuing through March 3. Call (561) 514-4042 for tickets.