Art: This weekend, the Wimberley Library at Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus welcomes Alaskan artist and bookbinder Susan Share for the opening of an exhibit featuring her work that will be on view until Jan. 19. Last night, Share gave a performance featuring her art, which incorporates movement, costumes and experimental books, all of it as a way of invigorating how we think about the book in our culture. Today and Sunday, Share is leading a two-day workshop at FAU’s Jaffe Center for the Book Arts, and she’ll give a free talk at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jaffe Center about her work. If you can’t make any of that, do try to see the exhibit, Animated Library: the Artists’ Books of Susan Joy Share, which is on public display on two floors in the library and the third floor at the Jaffe Center. For more information, will be in the first floor lobby atrium, the second floor adjacent to the administrative office and the third floor at the Jaffe Center. For more information on the exhibition, call John Cutrone at 561-297-0455, or visit www.jaffecollection.org or www.facebook.com/jaffecenterforbookarts.
Film: The fall season will see plenty of biographical movies, but probably no subject will be as enigmatic as Julian Assange, the founder of corporate and governmental whistle-blower WikiLeaks. He is portrayed in a film called The Fifth Estate, which chronicles the albino-like egotist in his efforts to plaster the Internet with classified documents, and legalities be damned. The film, directed by Bill Condon with a frenzied camera, leaves it to us to decide whether Assange is a hero or traitor, offering evidence of both. What is undeniable, though, is the superb central performance of Benedict Cumberbatch (one of TV’s latest Sherlock Holmes) as the mercurial Assange. Opening at area theaters this weekend.
Theater: John Steinbeck wrote many novels about the hardscrabble lives of the common men who endured life during the Depression, but he only adapted one of them, Of Mice and Men, to the stage. In it, he focuses on a pair of inseparable migrant workers, wiry, parental George and his dependent, hulking, but feeble-minded pal, Lennie. Tragic consequences are in the air from the play’s beginnings, but everything goes very right in director J. Barry Lewis’s detailed production, thanks to John Leonard Thompson and Brendan Titley as the odd couple buddies and a pitch-perfect ensemble. Continuing through Sunday, Nov. 10. Tickets: $60. Call: (561) 514-4042.
Music: The Argentine violinist Tomas Cotik and the Chinese-born pianist Tao Lin have teamed up impressively for a disc of Schubert violin works, and on Nov. 1, the two will release a recording for Naxos of music for violin and piano by Astor Piazzolla. This Sunday afternoon, you can hear the two play Piazzolla, Schubert, Bach and Poulenc in a concert on the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church series in Delray Beach. The two musicians, long familiar faces in multiple ensembles throughout South Florida, make a very fine team. The St. Paul’s concert begins at 3 p.m.; tickets are $15-$20. Call 278-6003 or visit www.stpaulsdelray.org.
Earlier this week, the Miami concert choir Seraphic Fire opened its new season with a concert of Renaissance music associated with the Sistine Chapel. Two more performances of this program, tonight at Fort Lauderdale’s All Saints Episcopal Church (8 p.m.) and Sunday afternoon (4 p.m.) at All Souls Episcopal in Miami Beach, are still available. The concert includes plenty of plainchant and works by luminaries such as Ockeghem, Dufay, Palestrina and Victoria. Patrick Dupré Quigley’s group this year already has sold more than 1,000 subscriptions for this season, so if you haven’t heard this remarkable collection of singers yet, this would be the year to do so. Tickets are $38; call 305-285-9060 or visit www.seraphicfire.org.