Art: Few forms of art are as cheeky and yet communicative as Pop Art, and this weekend, the Boca Museum of Art opens a three-month exhibition of works by artists who not only have come to define the movement but are well-known by non-specialists as well: Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, among others. They made careers out of adopting the styles and sometimes the actual elements of popular commercial graphics, including comic strips and soup cans, and while then it was considered embarrassingly kitsch, today, 60 years on, it seems like a natural, fresh exploration of the culture of the second half of the 20th century. More than 100 works are included in the exhibition, which comes from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation of Los Angeles. The exhibit opens Sunday and runs through April 23. Call 561-392-2500 or visit www.bocamuseum.org for more information.
Film: Where would we be without tales of dysfunctional families? From the theater comes the saga of a clawing, nasty, but oddly entertaining Oklahoma family, the Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County, adapted to the big screen by its author, Tracy Letts. The Westons, led by its drug-addicted, cancer-ravaged matriarch (the ever-brilliant Meryl Streep), reunite when her husband goes missing and is discovered dead. Hostilities bubble just beneath the surface, until a dinner scene where emotions boil over with dark comic force. The movie belongs to Streep, but Julia Roberts is quite good as her eldest daughter who learns to take charge, and the impressive supporting cast includes Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Abigail Breslin. Look for the film to figure in this year’s Oscar races. Opening this weekend at area theaters.
Theater: If a theater is judged by the company it keeps, Coral Gables’ GableStage has just zoomed into national prominence. It has just opened a production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, co-produced by New York’s Public Theatre and England’s Royal Shakespeare Company. What these three troupes have in common is adapter-director Tarell Alvin McCraney, a Miami native whose past works include a Hamlet adaptation that jolted GableStage audiences two seasons ago. McCraney moves the tragedy of love and power plays from Egypt to Haiti, which allows for some voodoo and island music, but the cultural overlay does not get in the way of the story, chiefly because of the well-spoken cast. Playing through Feb. 9 at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach. Call (305) 445-1119 for tickets.
Music: When he ran what is now called The Symphonia in Boca Raton, Alexander Platt earned a reputation for fresh, innovative programming, such as an early symphony by Dvořák and a clever instrumental-only version of the Mendlessohn Second Symphony. This weekend, Platt makes a guest appearance at the head of his old orchestra to open the Symphonia’s new season, which includes its first appearance at the Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens on Monday night. He’s joined by pianist William Wolfram and the Symphonia’s artistic director, Jeffrey Kaye, for the Piano Concerto No. 1 (in C minor, Op. 35) of Shostakovich on a program that also includes the La Scala di Seta overture of Rossini and the Sixth Symphony (in C, D. 589) of Schubert. The two concerts are set for 3 p.m. Sunday at the Roberts Theatre at St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, and at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Eissey. Tickets range from $35-$55; call 1-866-687-4201 or visit www.bocasymphonia.org.