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2005 Stories by Michael Mills

• Artbeat

  published May 5, 2005

  When is an art exhibition not an art exhibition? Don't look to Broward Community College for the answer. The school's downtown Fort Lauderdale... More >>

• Funky Chic'n

  published April 21, 2005

  As owner Terry Michael Kost likes to say, his RaZoo Gallery "may be America's only self-service, do-it-yourself art gallery." He's... More >>

• Artbeat

  published April 21, 2005

  If you've ever wondered what an artist of only modest talent does to express himself, look no further than "Pop-ups, Illustrated Books, and... More >>

• Away from the Buzz

  published April 7, 2005

  When Enrique Martínez Celaya talks about relocating last year from Los Angeles to Delray Beach, the phrase "the buzz" crops up again and... More >>

• Artbeat

  published April 7, 2005

  Don't let the name throw you. Project Earth Design isn't a cooperative of environmentalists, nor is it a clever moniker for a home... More >>

• Artbeat

  published March 31, 2005

  Every year, the Broward County-based, nonprofit, all-volunteer group ArtsUnited organizes two exhibitions to showcase local gay and lesbian... More >>

• Mira, Miró

  published March 24, 2005

  South Florida has had a big season for big names from the 20th-century art world: solo shows by Louise Nevelson at the Art and Culture Center of... More >>

• Artbeat

  published March 17, 2005

  How Pocock Fine Art & Antiques escaped Artbeat's notice for so long is a mystery. Maybe it's because this lovely gallery, which is nearing... More >>

• Go West, Art Lover

  published March 10, 2005

  If an expedition into the far reaches of Broward County can be thought of as a safari -- and sometimes I think it can -- then I bagged some big... More >>

• Artbeat

  published March 10, 2005

  Sometimes, exhibitions at the little Mark K. Wheeler Gallery at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale seem almost like an afterthought, as if... More >>

• Poet with a Needle

  published March 3, 2005

  My favorite image of Louise Bourgeois is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe. Tucked neatly under the artist's right arm is what at first glance... More >>

• Artbeat

  published February 17, 2005

  The 18 works that make up "Alan Dayton: Portraits," now at the Broward County Main Library's Gallery Six, can stand on their own merits.... More >>

• Why Wyeth?

  published February 10, 2005

  Andrew Wyeth and I go way back. When his now-notorious Helga Pictures -- a series of drawings and paintings of a neighbor, many of them... More >>

• Artbeat

  published February 3, 2005

  If there are such things as safe bets in the South Florida art world, one of them has to be Clyde Butcher, the grandfatherly photographer whose... More >>

• Coral Springs Potpourri

  published January 27, 2005

  Necessity, so it goes, is the mother of invention. In the case of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the need is to fill about 8,000 square feet of... More >>

• Artbeat

  published January 27, 2005

  If you visit Artists' Haven, a tiny gallery that opened in a Fort Lauderdale strip mall in December, go directly to the sculptures of Miles... More >>

• The Square Root of Louise

  published January 13, 2005

  Think outside the box." By the end of the 20th Century those four simple words had taken on the aura of a mantra -- an irrefutable nudge toward... More >>

• Scratch-Your-Head Mysterious

  published January 6, 2005

  As if the exhibition title isn't enticing enough, the first piece you encounter upon entering "I Feel Mysterious Today," now at the Palm... More >>