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  "D.B.A. 2012" at the Main Library Features Artists Who Have One Thing in Common, and It's Not Just Talent

  By Michael Mills

  Solid is the best word to characterize "D.B.A. 2012," the latest group exhibition featuring graduates of Broward County's Artists as Entrepreneur... More >>

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  "Brooklyn Boy" From Parade Productions: A New Company Struggles With an Imperfect Play

  By John Thomason

  Parade Productions, South Florida's newest theater company, premiered its first show in Mizner Park last weekend, but signs indicated that even... More >>

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  Saturday: Check Out Henning Haupt's Spacy Installation During the Third Avenue Artwalk

  By Michael Mills

  In the small brochure that accompanies "The Return of the Magenta," German artist Henning Haupt calls his latest body of work "a color-space... More >>

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  "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" at Caldwell: Lowbrow Meets Highbrow in a Winning Pro-Wrestling Satire

  By John Thomason

  Before The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity begins, two wrestlers for hire go through their motions in a ring onstage, writhing with pseudo-pain... More >>

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  "American Treasures" at the Boca Museum Presents a Smattering of American Greats

  By Michael Mills

  Like a skater gliding across an icy pond, or someone skipping stones across the waters of a placid lake, "American Treasures" revels in surfaces.... More >>

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  "Boeing Boeing" at the Promethean: A Strong Ensemble Carries an Overrated Classic

  By John Thomason

  In the Promethean's spirited revival of this '60s comedy by French playwright Marc Camoletti, a playboy architect named Bernard (Matthew William... More >>

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  "The Effect of Gamma Rays" at Palm Beach Dramaworks: A Great Actress Strikes the Wrong Notes

  By John Thomason

  Legend has it that in the process of filming the 1972 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on... More >>

• "Snow White Trash" at Infinite Abyss: A Grimm Fairy Tale Gets a Tawdry Face-Lift in This Uninspired Comedy

  By John Thomason

  For what it's worth, Infinite Abyss' production of Snow White Trash delivers exactly what you would expect from its title. Problem is, it's not... More >>

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  The Jenny Saville Retrospective at the Norton Museum Examines Human Flesh With Surgical Precision

  By Michael Mills

  I dare you not to be impressed by Jenny Saville. If nothing else, the scale of her monumental paintings demands that you pay attention. At 103... More >>

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  Artists Freddy Jouwayed and Giannina Coppiano Dwin Let us Peek Into Their Psyches

  By Michael Mills

  There's something borderline psychedelic about Freddy Jouwayed's current body of work at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. It's almost as... More >>

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  Byron Keith Byrd's Art Institute Retrospective Reclaims Abstract Expressionism

  By Michael Mills

  A brief artist statement at the beginning of the Art Institute's Byron Keith Byrd retrospective includes this declaration: "I am inspired by... More >>

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  Toulouse-Lautrec and His Mentors at the Coral Springs Museum of Art

  By Michael Mills

  Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa (1864-1901), better known simply as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was exactly the kind of person your... More >>

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  "Offering of the Angels" at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale: Bring a Long Attention Span

  By Michael Mills

  The Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale's new exhibition of paintings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, will make you long for a Christianity... More >>

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  "All My Sons" at Palm Beach Dramaworks: An Arthur Miller Classic Retains Its Relevance in a Glittering New Theater

  By John Thomason

  If there had been an Occupy movement in post-World War II America, the fictional character Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's All My Sons would have... More >>

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  Photos Ripped From the Internet: a Fascinating Exhibit at the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood

  By Mills, Michael

  Three years ago, a couple of ambitious artists named Oliver Wasow and John D. Monteith began communicating by way of Facebook. Wasow, a New... More >>