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2011 Stories by Michael Mills

• "Offering of the Angels" at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale: Bring a Long Attention Span

  published December 8, 2011

  The Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale's new exhibition of paintings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, will make you long for a... More >>

• "The Art of Caring" Doesn't Help Define the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale's Mission

  published August 11, 2011

  The Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale's current big exhibition, "The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography," seems to trend backward... More >>

• "Tools in Motion" at the Coral Springs Museum of Art Reminds Us of the Artistic Primacy of Tools

  published July 21, 2011

  In museum parlance, a canned show is one that comes to a venue prepackaged, either from another institution or from a company that specializes... More >>

• Biker Boys, Skateboarders, and Surfers at the Art and Culture Center

  published July 7, 2011

  The initial visceral impact of "Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward" is considerable: You walk into the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and the... More >>

• Galerie Jenner Survives -- and Thrives -- After a Year in Sailboat Bend

  published June 23, 2011

  You'd think photographer Jeremiah Jenner had just won an Academy Award — he's that excited, caught up in the peculiar blend of humility... More >>

• Four Artists Turn the Norton Into a "Psychedelic Shack"

  published June 23, 2011

  The Norton's "Altered States" is a relatively small show that traffics in big art. There are just over two dozen works by four contemporary... More >>

• A Tinker McCauley Retrospective at the Broward Main Library Unearths a Lifetime of Transforming Objects

  published June 9, 2011

  When Katherine Helmers McCauley passed away last fall, she left behind a body of work that was vast and varied. That conclusion is based on the... More >>

• Bi-Curious: The Art & Culture Center's Biennial Show Includes Some Surprises

  published May 26, 2011

  Juried art shows are sort of like the O.J. Simpson trial — half the fun is in arguing about the verdict. "You thought that was Best in... More >>

• Studio 18 in Pembroke Pines: Artists' Studios Are a Gem

  published May 12, 2011

  What do you do with a building that was last used as a laundry facility for a state hospital in the 1950s? If you're the City of Pembroke... More >>

• "A to Z" at the Norton Museum Gets Back to Basics

  published April 28, 2011

  If you're going to hang an exhibition on a gimmick, make it a really good one. Fortunately, that's the case with "A to Z: 26 Great Photographs... More >>

• "Cultural Collisions" at Broward College Mixes Art That Doesn't Mingle Well

  published April 28, 2011

  One of the ideas behind "Cultural Collisions," now at Broward College in downtown Fort Lauderdale, was to bring together four artists from... More >>

• "Vatican Splendors" at the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale Feels Reconstituted

  published April 7, 2011

  Father, I confess: I dragged my heels before going to see "Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art," the latest religious... More >>

• "F**ck Wall Street" at Gallery 101 Chronicles Artist Keith Clark's Struggles With the Economy

  published March 31, 2011

  Don't talk to Keith Clark about subtlety these days. There's nothing subtle about three years of losing good jobs and working at near minimum... More >>

• Three Nervy New Shows Shake Up the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

  published March 24, 2011

  "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all." So proclaimed André Breton, the great theoretician of surrealism, in the closing... More >>

• Bonnet House's "Impressions of Florida" Show Delivers Much More Than "Old-Lady Art"

  published March 10, 2011

  When I mentioned to a handful of artists my plans to check out the "Impressions of Florida" show at Bonnet House recently, one reaction was a... More >>

• "CUT! Costume" Can't Compete With "California Impressionism" at the Boca Museum

  published February 17, 2011

  Of the two new exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, one appears to be a sure-fire crowd pleaser, while the other yields unexpected... More >>

• Miles Batt Retrospective at the Coral Springs Museum Prompts Reconsideration

  published January 27, 2011

  If you think you have contemporary watercolor painting pegged — it's a nice medium, for nice Sunday-afternoon painters who... More >>

• Main Library Showcases "Artist Entrepreneurs Art Exhibition"

  published January 27, 2011

  The 11 artists in this noteworthy group exhibition have one thing in common: All have completed a four-week course offered by the Artist as... More >>

• Trompe L'oeil "Paintings" by Frances Trombly at Girls' Club Fool the Mind and the Eye

  published January 20, 2011

  If you wander off the street into "Frances Trombly: Paintings," one of two heady new shows on view at Girls' Club in downtown Fort Lauderdale,... More >>