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Glass as fine art is now so commonly seen in museums, galleries, and private collections that it's easy to forget how, a century or so ago, most glass was mass-produced and...
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There's something a little unnerving about seeing a show like "Phillip Estlund: Subprime/Subtropics" so close to the beginning of tropical storm season in South Florida. For...
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Talk about prescient. When the good folks at Girls' Club gallery opened "Re-Framing the Feminine" last November, little did they know that within months, presidential politics...
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A pervasive aura of calm seems to emanate from the paintings of Jim Bobick. Fifteen of them are now on display at Gallery 101, in the increasingly artsy Fort Lauderdale...
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A general air of "it's good for you and you'll like it" hangs over "Surfing Florida," which is just a step or two away from a dental-hygiene documentary from your childhood or...
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Beth Lipman's One and Others sits in the center of a medium-sized gallery on the third floor of the Norton Museum's southwest wing. At first, it seems thoughtlessly hidden...
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Visions of Japanese culture danced in my head as I set out to visit the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach to see a new show by artist-in-residence Mariko Kusumoto: haiku poetry,...
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When Rossetti Fine Art in Pompano Beach presented a show called "Best of the Best" last year, it smacked of hubris. Granted, gallery owner Tom Rossetti is a veteran judge with...
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For centuries, the history of human portraiture in Western art was all about likeness. Subjects sat for their portraits, and artists were expected to deliver respectable...
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Solid is the best word to characterize "D.B.A. 2012," the latest group exhibition featuring graduates of Broward County's Artists as Entrepreneur Institute. The show's title...
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In the small brochure that accompanies "The Return of the Magenta," German artist Henning Haupt calls his latest body of work "a color-space construction in which the...
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Like a skater gliding across an icy pond, or someone skipping stones across the waters of a placid lake, "American Treasures" revels in surfaces. It's an exhibition that...
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I dare you not to be impressed by Jenny Saville. If nothing else, the scale of her monumental paintings demands that you pay attention. At 103 inches tall by 192 inches wide,...
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There's something borderline psychedelic about Freddy Jouwayed's current body of work at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. It's almost as if the artist has taken of hit...
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A brief artist statement at the beginning of the Art Institute's Byron Keith Byrd retrospective includes this declaration: "I am inspired by numerology, rhythmic, primitive...
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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa (1864-1901), better known simply as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was exactly the kind of person your mother might have warned you...
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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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Three years ago, a couple of ambitious artists named Oliver Wasow and John D. Monteith began communicating by way of Facebook. Wasow, a New York-based teacher and...
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In a few days, South Florida takes off its dunce cap, trades its oversized reflector shades for a pair of sturdy bifocals, and flees the thumping club beats for the quietest...
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The Boca Raton Museum of Art has a long and noble tradition of showcasing works from the private collections of its board members and benefactors. "Outsider Visions" continues...
