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2000 Stories by Michael Mills

• Prints Charming

  published December 28, 2000

  Has any 20th-century artist exerted a more ruthless, relentless hold on the public imagination than Salvador Dalí? I doubt it. Even Picasso... More >>

• Here Endeth the Lesson

  published December 14, 2000

  The five artists represented in "Faculty 2000: A Retrospective," now at the More >>

• Eye Candy

  published November 30, 2000

  The juxtapositions are sometimes jarring: Two Andy Warhols are propped on the floor a few feet from a vintage Norman Rockwell. A quartet of pieces... More >>

• Over the Top

  published November 16, 2000

  The show's title sounds slightly reckless, as if the artists had knocked back a few or taken a couple of hits to jump-start the creative juices.... More >>

• Bride of the Fest That Ate South Florida

  published November 2, 2000

  Depending on how you look at it, the 15th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is more... More >>

• Bodies of Work

  published November 2, 2000

  There are two ways to approach "The Male Form in Contemporary Art," now at the More >>

• The Fest That Ate South Florida

  published October 26, 2000

  It's Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival time again: Time for more than a hundred movies from dozens of countries. Time for... More >>

• Timeless Traveler

  published October 19, 2000

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• Tall 'Toons

  published October 12, 2000

  For decades the ultimate "head movies" included Disney's animated Fantasia and Stanley Kubrick's special effects­laden 2001: A... More >>

• Design of the Times

  published October 5, 2000

  A few months ago, the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) in Lake Worth featured an exhibition called "Against Design," which... More >>

• Hot and Touchy

  published September 14, 2000

  As a child growing up in New York City, artist Anita Giteck Drujon was mesmerized by the mummies in the basement of the... More >>

• The Zen Commandments

  published August 31, 2000

  There may be only three pieces in More >>

• The Traveling Schacknow Show

  published August 17, 2000

  Credit Max Schacknow with persistence, if nothing else. In 1994 the feisty millionaire artist gave Coral Springs $1.5 million to name the museum... More >>

• Home Is Where the Art Is

  published August 3, 2000

  If you wandered off the street into "Against Design," now at the Palm Beach Institute... More >>

• Organized Anarchy

  published July 20, 2000

  It's that time again: the doldrums of the South Florida summer art season, when many of the big museum shows have ended or are winding down. This... More >>

• Curiosity at the Shoppes

  published July 6, 2000

  The Bock Gallery in Plantation doesn't really lend itself to a typical... More >>

• Juris Imprudence

  published June 22, 2000

  Museums and galleries get inexplicably overexcited about the word juried, as if a juried exhibition is somehow more legitimate or worthy... More >>

• A Place in Time

  published June 8, 2000

  It was the Haitian art featured in "Haitian Celebration: South Florida Collects Haitian Art" that lured me to the Coral Springs Museum of... More >>

• Cosmo Color

  published May 25, 2000

  The eerie glow that emanates from so many of the canvases in "Kate Kretz: Fate of a Technicolor Romantic" is the result, according to an... More >>

• MoCA Raises Dada

  published May 18, 2000

  Surrealism has wormed its way so deeply into the fabric of contemporary culture, especially pop culture, that it's easy to forget how dramatically... More >>

• At Work in the Fields of de Kooning

  published April 27, 2000

  One of the most memorable images of Willem de Kooning has to be the 1986 portrait by the notorious Robert Mapplethorpe. It's a straightforward... More >>

• Cut and Taste

  published April 13, 2000

  "Anyone can cut and paste," I overheard a museumgoer mutter while wandering among the pieces that make up "Bruce Helander: Survey of Collage... More >>

• Time Is Its Essence

  published March 30, 2000

  "Making time" is exactly the challenge you'll face if you decide to take in "Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video... More >>

• Lowbrow Raises an Eyebrow

  published March 16, 2000

  Check your sense of seriousness at the door -- and your sense of moral outrage, too, for that matter -- before entering "Lowbrow Art: Up... More >>

• Chew on Art Aesthetics at New Institute

  published March 2, 2000

  For years it has been a South Florida cultural landmark. First it was a movie house called the Lake Theater. Then it was the Lannan Museum, home... More >>