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Above, a candid moment from Marilyn Monroe in 1952.
Remember when almost anything that emanated from Hollywood – movies, TV shows, even Saturday-morning cartoons –...
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Calling an exhibition "Best of the Best" is all but asking for trouble, but a new show by that name, now at Rossetti Fine Art in Pompano Beach, delivers what it promises....
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Like the Supreme Court justice who knew pornography when he saw it, I know punk when I see it, and punk in all its messy glory is at the dark heart of "Raymond Pettibon: The...
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Put aside your preconceptions about drawing when you approach "Tom Wesselmann Draws," now at the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale. The artist had his own distinct ideas about...
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Sure, it's satisfying when a local venue gets a crack at, say, a major Picasso show. But one of the great pleasures of going to museums is getting exposed to artists we know...
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What's most striking about the fall exhibitions at the Coral Springs Museum of Art is the uniformly high level of craftsmanship. So much contemporary art favors concept over...
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If there's any doubt that patriarchy is alive and well — in some cultures more than in others — consider this wrenching drama exhibit A. It's a remarkably assured...
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When was the last time you grooved on the work of a Croatian artist? If your answer, like mine, is "Never, that I can recall," you can remedy the situation by visiting the Art...
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Many artists long to have their own galleries. Broward-based photographer Jeremiah Jenner made it happen. First he applied for a space at the Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts, on...
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What is it about photorealism that pushes people's buttons, eliciting oohs and ahhs about as reliably as fine chocolate? I can't explain the phenomenon, but I'm just as...
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Alfred Phillips is feeling rejected — not dejected, exactly, but a little passed over. The judge for an art show at an area gallery just turned down a canvas from his...
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It seemed especially fitting that on the same day I visited "Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, I also stumbled...
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Summer has long been the Season of the Sequel in Hollywood. Just look at this year, which has already seen the release of Iron Man 2, Shrek 4, Sex and the City 2, Toy Story 3,...
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There's not much middle ground with op art. Either you're exhilarated by the mathematical precision of its lines and shapes and the illusion of movement generated by its...
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Coral Springs has a museum?!" I have heard that refrain almost every time I've mentioned the Coral Springs Museum of Art over the course of at least a dozen years, and it...
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The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is typically a pretty quiet place. There are no security guards patrolling the four downstairs galleries, just a volunteer staffing the...
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As the cheeky title indicates, this small group show replaces pomp with POP with mixed but mostly pleasing results. Perhaps inspired by his own latest series, gallery owner...
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Latin American art is more important over the long haul for the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale than even Princess Diana and King Tut. Those royal visitors were just that...
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It's hard to imagine an exhibition that could even begin to compete with the Boca Raton Museum of Art's current "Elvis at 21" photography show. The museum, smartly, doesn't...
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A new art gallery in the area is always cause for celebration, and the Painted Easel is no exception – even if it is on the far side of the known world, Broward County...
