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2009 Stories by Michael Mills

• "Time+Temp" at the Art and Culture Center Proves That Painting Is Not Dead

  published December 24, 2009

  As I made my way through "Time+Temp: Surveying the Shifting Climate of Painting in South Florida," now at the Art and Culture Center of... More >>

• Boca Museum Fosters Open-Ended Dialogue With "An Unfinished Conversation: Collecting Enrique Martínez Celaya"

  published December 17, 2009

  "I don't think of myself as a painter," Enrique Martínez Celaya said during a recent lecture appearance at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.... More >>

• The Girls' Club Exhibition "Set to Manual" Celebrates the Human Touch

  published December 10, 2009

  For one of the best group exhibitions of the year, look not to the area's museums and traditional galleries but to the alternative display... More >>

• Meet the Four Artists Who Won $1,000 MasterMind Awards

  published November 19, 2009

  What do origami, giant squid, petri dishes, and a laundromat have in common? If you guessed the first New Times Broward/Palm Beach... More >>

• The Norman Rockwell Exhibit at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale: The Painter Went Beyond Cutesy American Scenes

  published November 12, 2009

  So you think you know Norman Rockwell, eh? I thought I did. Turns out there are multiple Norman Rockwells, not just the one whose hundreds of... More >>

• The Art & Culture Center's Exhibition of Public Art May Piss Off More People Than It Pleases..

  published October 29, 2009

  Perhaps now isn't the best time to be singing the praises of public art, considering that the Broward County Commission recently suspended its... More >>

• Review: Gary T. Erbe, Clyde Butcher, and Stephen Althouse at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

  published October 8, 2009

  Three exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art: one, an expected pleasure; one, a pleasant surprise; the other, a... More >>

• MasterMind Awards — Meet the Judges

  published October 8, 2009

  Michelle Weinberg wears many hats: working artist, gallery director, arts educator — and now, judge for the MasterMind Awards, a contest... More >>

• Sheila Elias and Stan Slutsky at Coral Springs Museum of Art

  published October 1, 2009

  I would be hard-pressed to come up with two artists as diametrically opposed as Sheila Elias and Stan Slutsky, whose work is presented in a... More >>

• Art Beat: Inked Edition

  published October 1, 2009

  It seemed like a cool idea: Invite a bunch of tattoo artists to put down the needle and pick up the paintbrush (or pencil or whatever). That's the... More >>

• Lights On, Nobody Home

  published September 17, 2009

  In the early 1960s, George Segal began producing the sculptures on which he built his reputation: life-sized plaster casts of the human figure,... More >>

• MasterMind Awards — Meet the Judges

  published September 17, 2009

  New Times is excited to announce that we're giving away $1,000 apiece to four local artists as part of our newly established... More >>

• Our Critic Enters — and Lives to Tell the Tale of — a Starving Artist Competition

  published September 3, 2009

  As one character says to another in the 1992 indie film The Living End, "You know what they say: Those who can't do, teach, and those... More >>

• "Recent Works 09: Drawings, Paintings, Digital, Sculpture"

  published August 20, 2009

  The two-man show "Recent Works 09: Drawings, Paintings, Digital, Sculpture," now at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale's Mark K. Wheeler... More >>

• One-Stop Shopping

  published August 6, 2009

  While many of us are feeling draggy and listless during the hot, humid days of a South Florida summer, the seemingly tireless executive... More >>

• Dog Scratch Fever

  published July 16, 2009

  When I tell you the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood's big summer show features the work of a Jack Russell terrier, you'll probably expect a... More >>

• Art Beat: Passages

  published July 16, 2009

  In the one-woman show "Passages," now at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale's Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, Art Institute instructor Jody Thompson... More >>

• Group Dynamics

  published July 2, 2009

  With a group exhibition, as with a party, so much depends on both the guest list and the host. In the case of the "58th Annual All Florida... More >>

• Artbeat

  published July 2, 2009

  For anyone who has been inside the tiny display space that is Artist's Eye Fine Art Gallery in Dania Beach, a continuing source of amazement is... More >>

• Double Whammy

  published June 18, 2009

  Two exhibitions at two venues take a look at the phenomenon of outsider artist Purvis Young. One, titled simply "Purvis," is now winding down... More >>

• Artbeat

  published May 28, 2009

  The title of Vickie Pierre's "If You Win Me, I'm Forever," now in the Project Room at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, rings an... More >>

• Either/Or

  published May 21, 2009

  It's hard to look at the crumpled black form that seems to be crashing toward the bottom of the canvas in Cleve Gray's Death of the... More >>

• Artbeat

  published May 21, 2009

  There are ordinary framers, and then there is the Art & Frame Shop and the Williams Gallery in Davie, where owner William Bock is an artist... More >>

• The Collectors

  published May 7, 2009

  What impulse compels people to buy art and hang it on the walls of their homes? What drives them to share that art — or some of it,... More >>

• Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery Puts Artists' Egos on Display

  published May 7, 2009

  Would it be the teensiest bit ungenerous to suggest that artists, as a group, tend to be self-involved? Of course not. Artistic ego is part of... More >>