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2009 Stories by Michael Mills

• Cool Customers

  published April 23, 2009

  The people portrayed in the paintings of Andrew Stevovich tend to be social creatures. They congregate in places like an internet café,... More >>

• Art Beat

  published April 16, 2009

  A decade or so ago, I used to run across the work of David Maxwell in group shows on a fairly regular basis. I always said nice things about... More >>

• Artbeat

  published April 9, 2009

  Don't stay away from the Coral Springs Museum of Art these days just because it's showcasing the work of the execrable Romero Britto. No, just... More >>

• Exor Galleries in Boca Raton Proves There Is Local Gallery Life

  published April 2, 2009

  A new gallery is always cause for rejoicing, especially in these uncertain times. And so it was with great pleasure that, after a series of... More >>

• End of an Era

  published April 2, 2009

  When the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach announced at the end of March that its CEO and director, Christina Orr-Cahall, would be... More >>

• Artbeat

  published March 26, 2009

  A famous anecdote has it that Abraham Lincoln, asked for his reaction to a book, responded with what must be one of the most succinct reviews in... More >>

• Culturebeat

  published March 26, 2009

  Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism Through May 10 at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Call... More >>

• Artbeat

  published March 19, 2009

  There are only three dozen or so paintings in "Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism," now at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm... More >>

• Culturebeat

  published March 19, 2009

  Dangerous, written by Michael McKeever. Directed by Clove Cholerton. Run time, approximately 90 minutes. Presented through March 29 at... More >>

• Artbeat

  published March 12, 2009

  "While this exhibition may look playful and inviting, in reality it addresses many complex societal issues." So proclaims the news release for... More >>

• Culturebeat

  published March 12, 2009

  There is something wonderful in the dancing cadences of Sarah Ruhl's The Dead Man's Cell Phone: the way its madcap scenes chase each... More >>

• A Duane Hanson Show at the Boca Raton Museum of Art Prompts a Reevaluation

  published March 12, 2009

  Mea culpa. I confess. For years, I didn't "get" Duane Hanson. Oh, sure, I got that he was probably both the best and the best-known... More >>

• Culturebeat

  published March 5, 2009

  As the title of this crowd-pleasing exhibition indicates, the pairing is a natural. But this is the first time the work of these two... More >>

• Master Class

  published February 26, 2009

  OK, class. Today we examine the work of those two great visual poets of the American Southwest, painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Ansel... More >>

• Culturebeat

  published February 26, 2009

  "Shock of the Real" is a lavish look at a movement that more or less came and went nearly half a century ago. Of the roughly 18 artists... More >>

• Culture Beat

  published February 19, 2009

  "Small is beautiful" might serve as the motto of artist Timothy Leistner's Artist's Eye Fine Art Gallery, a postage-stamp-sized space... More >>

• Whither Meaning?

  published February 12, 2009

  The exhibit "Designing Intelligence? Continuing the Intelligent Design Project" actually begins before you get to the Schmidt Center... More >>

• Artbeat

  published February 12, 2009

  "Doing Business As...," now at the Broward County Main Library's Gallery Six, might as well be called "Business as Usual..." That's how tame... More >>

• Artbeat

  published January 29, 2009

  Leave it to Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery, the funky little lowbrow display space upstairs at Tate's Comics in Lauderhill, to come up with an... More >>

• Artbeat

  published January 22, 2009

  The trouble with too many watercolor exhibitions is that they're so, well, nice. You know — oh-so-tasteful florals, kids and kittens,... More >>

• Shock of the Passé

  published January 15, 2009

  Culturally speaking, "Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited" is so 15 minutes ago. It's a lavish look at photorealism, a... More >>

• "Leo Stitsky: Arte Facts"

  published January 15, 2009

  Coming upon "Leo Stitsky: Arte Facts," a small installation tucked away in a back corner of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, is sort of... More >>

• Artbeat

  published January 1, 2009

  Don't make the mistake of wandering dismissively through "Susan Maguire: Asian Echo" as if it's just so much crockery. This collection of... More >>