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If you've spent much time at South Florida's art museums this summer, you've probably come to the grim conclusion that, for these institutions, art is all about sharks (Museum...
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The Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale's new exhibition of paintings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, will make you long for a Christianity for Dummies guide or at least...
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The Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale's current big exhibition, "The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography," seems to trend backward for the museum. It's not a bad...
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In museum parlance, a canned show is one that comes to a venue prepackaged, either from another institution or from a company that specializes in assembling and touring...
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The initial visceral impact of "Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward" is considerable: You walk into the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and the main gallery has seemingly been...
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You'd think photographer Jeremiah Jenner had just won an Academy Award — he's that excited, caught up in the peculiar blend of humility and disbelief, exhilaration and...
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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 artists, but the scale of the...
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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 sprawling and generous...
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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 Show? You're kidding."
In the...
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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 Pines, you turn it into an artists'...
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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 From the Norton Collection," a...
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One of the ideas behind "Cultural Collisions," now at Broward College in downtown Fort Lauderdale, was to bring together four artists from different cultural backgrounds and...
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Father, I confess: I dragged my heels before going to see "Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art," the latest religious extravaganza at the Museum of Art|Fort...
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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 wage just to get by. Nothing...
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all." So proclaimed André Breton, the great theoretician of surrealism, in the closing words of the 1928 novel Nadja. But...
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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 dismissive "Oh, old-lady art."...
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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 pleasures that prove ultimately more...
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If you think you have contemporary watercolor painting pegged — it's a nice medium, for nice Sunday-afternoon painters who make nice, safe, boring art — then...
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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 Entrepreneur Institute, a training...
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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, you may well think you've...
