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2002 Stories by Michael Mills

• Lord of the Dancers

  published December 26, 2002

  How can we know the dancer from the dance?" Irish writer William Butler Yeats wondered in a 1927 poem. And indeed, there's a sense in which dance... More >>

• Keep on Horttin'

  published December 12, 2002

  Two years ago, Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art (MoA) shocked South Florida's art community when it unceremoniously dumped the 41-year-old Hortt... More >>

• Yoko? Oh, Yes.

  published November 28, 2002

  When I arrived at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in North Miami to see "YES YOKO ONO," there was already a contingent of security... More >>

• Heavy Duty

  published November 14, 2002

  Let's begin at the end: "Fat Painting," the small but excellent show now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, culminates in a short... More >>

• Go FLIFF Yourself

  published November 7, 2002

  As the 17th-annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival nears its end -- oh, wait a minute! Just because the "closing-night film"... More >>

• Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Part 2

  published October 31, 2002

  Now that the Boca Mini Fest and the Asian Film Festival are out of the way, the main body of the 17th-annual Fort Lauderdale International Film... More >>

• Ghost of a Chance

  published October 31, 2002

  Not long ago, this paper did a cover story on the plight of three Broward County art galleries that had closed after a relatively short time in... More >>

• Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

  published October 24, 2002

  I'll start with a disclaimer: The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has grown so gargantuan -- more than a hundred movies and... More >>

• Identity Crisis

  published October 17, 2002

  An air of melancholy hangs over much of the work in "Reality and Figuration: The Contemporary Latin American Presence," one of two... More >>

• Sea Changes

  published October 3, 2002

  It's not unusual for the Coral Springs Museum of Art to run three very different shows simultaneously. What is unusual is the way museum... More >>

• Mixed Without Match

  published September 19, 2002

  No doubt, Oscar Wilde would have hated Harmony Isle Gallery. The man who so famously declared that "all art is quite useless" would find... More >>

• Leave It to the Penis Gallery

  published September 5, 2002

  "Hot enough for you?" The next time some smart-ass tosses that tired one your way, direct him or her to Gallery 421 in downtown Fort... More >>

• Bowowow --yippyoyippyay!

  published August 22, 2002

  If you haven't been to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach in awhile (mea culpa), brace yourself. The museum, which underwent a... More >>

• Off the Mark in the Off-Season

  published August 8, 2002

  Summer is the off-season in South Florida, so museums often take advantage of the lull to showcase works from their permanent collections. A few... More >>

• Carving a Niche

  published July 25, 2002

  I've often cited Gertrude Stein's complaint that the problem with sculpture is that one can walk around it. It's a somewhat bizarre assertion, but... More >>

• The Jury Is In

  published July 11, 2002

  The first floor of the Boca Raton Museum of Art this summer is sort of like the South Florida weather lately: When it rains, it pours. I spent... More >>

• No Piss Christ here

  published June 27, 2002

  Art has always had the potential to shock. Some artists shock inadvertently, while others shock by design. Pretty much the whole point of Dada --... More >>

• Shutter to Think

  published June 13, 2002

  Don't go into "María Martínez-Cañas: A Retrospective," now at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, expecting anything... More >>

• Paintings from the Edge

  published May 30, 2002

  Two older couples -- fairly typical South Floridians -- were making their way through "Richard Pousette-Dart: The Living Edge" at the Boca... More >>

• What's a Matta?

  published May 16, 2002

  Normally, my jurisdiction as art critic for New Times Broward-Palm Beach extends no farther south than North Miami's Museum of Contemporary... More >>

• Blog and Pony Show

  published May 2, 2002

  Several months ago, I surveyed the Websites of nearly a dozen South Florida museums, only to find... not much of interest. The sites provide such... More >>

• Something Old, Something New

  published April 18, 2002

  The last time I visited New River Gallery, in the heart of the busy Las Olas Boulevard area in Fort Lauderdale, the gallery was showcasing... More >>

• Re-installing Dalí

  published April 4, 2002

  Somehow, it's not surprising that Salvador Dalí was one of the pioneers of an art form that didn't even have a name until near the end of... More >>

• Picture Imperfect

  published March 14, 2002

  The introduction posted at the beginning of "Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives," now at... More >>

• Different Strokes

  published February 28, 2002

  Last year, the Boca Raton Museum of Art opened in its new location with "Picasso: Passion and Creation -- The Last Thirty Years." Now, almost a... More >>