Dina Weinstein

A new exhibit at NSU Art Museum explores making connections — one individual to another and one culture to another. "The African traditional art collection complements the museum's large collection of post-World War II Cobra," says Bonnie Clearwater, director and chief curator of the museum. "[Cobra was] a radical group...

In a refreshing departure from art that's political, disturbing, or oh-so-serious, three new shows at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood focus on "expressing small-scale emotions." Take, for instance, Kenton Parker's work. The Los Angeles-based artist's show, "Everything Counts in Small Amounts," consists of small life-size structures where people...

When artist Daniel Pontet paints, he really feels his materials. In fact, his feet function as his paintbrushes. "As an artist, I found something I couldn't do with brushes," says the Uruguay-born Pontet, who is based in Hallandale. He calls his technique "impulse painting" and likens it to the action-painting...

A Fort Lauderdale man says Broward's coastal cities should ban smoking on public beaches.  Bobby Lieberman says that he has spoken to numerous city officials in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Beach in an effort to get smoking banned — and when he does, he brings along a clear, coffin-shaped container filled...

Every morning at sunrise, artist Susie Q. Wood walks the coastline outside her ocean-facing Galt Mile Beach condo and cleans up after other people. She collects stomped cigarette butts, misplaced shoes, discarded plastic, and forgotten dolls. Much of it she trashes. Some she recycles. A lot, she washes and uses...