Last year, the Boca Raton Museum of Art opened in its new location with “Picasso: Passion and Creation — The Last Thirty Years.” Now, almost a year later, the museum presents two retrospectives focusing on another 20th-century giant: “Chagall: From Russia to Paris — Drawings and Watercolors 1906-1967,” displayed in…

“If you build it, they will come.” That line from the Kevin Costner flick Field of Dreams could easily serve as the motto of artist Max Schacknow, whose privately owned Schacknow Museum of Fine Art opened in Plantation not quite two years ago. Anyone who has followed the local cultural…

I went to the Museum of Art (MoA) in Fort Lauderdale expecting to see “Fashion: The Greatest Show on Earth,” a multimedia exhibition purporting to examine fashion shows as an art form. Just about every South Florida newspaper, including this one, had the exhibition in its listings, as did the…

My, how times have changed. About two years ago, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood gave us a wonderfully outrageous group show called “Lowbrow Art: Up From the Underground.” Among the many potentially controversial pieces included was Anthony Ausgang’s Why Walk When You Can Drive? I described the painting…

The look and feel of Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings have become so deeply ingrained in our culture that it may seem irrelevant to take another, closer look at this quintessentially American painter’s work. Or is it? That’s one of the questions addressed by “Roy Lichtenstein: Inside/Outside,” now at the Museum of…

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Jasper Johns uttered that famously to-the-point statement of aesthetics, but it could just as easily apply to the work of French-born artist Arman, who’s the subject of the sweeping retrospective “Arman: The Passage of Objects,” now at the…

If, like me, you find yourself laid up with one of the many nasty bugs that seem to be in constant circulation this season, you needn’t be deprived of art — that is, not if you have a computer. Just about any art organization worth its endowment has a Website…

The works of four very different female artists are on display in four concurrent exhibitions now at the Coral Springs Museum of Art; in one case, the shows overlap in a surprisingly successful collaboration between two of the women. The least satisfying of the four is “Ximena Pérez-Ayala: Magic Encounter,”…

The title of one of the exhibitions currently at the Museum of Art (MoA) in Fort Lauderdale, “Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car,” holds out hope that the show might be as refreshingly quirky as MoA’s “American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life” two years ago. “American Lawn” was a sweeping…

About halfway through the first-floor segment of “Brooklyn!” — now on display at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) in Lake Worth — lurks an uncanny reminder of how art and life sometimes occupy the same territory. It’s a two-part 1999 video installation called Crash by Christoph Draeger,…

Artist and gallery owner William Bock has reason to be happy. He’s celebrating the Bock Gallery’s third anniversary at its location in the Fountains Shoppes of Distinction in Plantation, where he moved after surviving a financially challenging stint as part of the revival of downtown Hollywood. The Fountains complex is…

Many things grabbed my attention on a visit to Las Olas Fine Arts in Fort Lauderdale; the first were several sculptures by Niso Maman. What caught my eye was not the subject matter, which is conventional, even conservative by the standards of most contemporary sculpture: the headless human torso, its…

For a space junkie like me who came of age during NASA’s glory days, news that “2001: Kyle Barnette’s Space Odyssey” would be staged at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood generated great expectations. I approached it hoping for something as stirring as, say, For All Mankind, Al Reinert’s…

Not long ago I complained that a Museum of Art (MoA) summer show — “Coming out of the Dark: Seldom-Seen Selections from the MoA’s Permanent Collection” — was a dreary little assemblage of mostly unimpressive works that seemed designed to take up empty space. Now, only two months or so…

As an east-of-I-95 kind of South Floridian, I’ve always felt the impulse to pack a travel kit stocked with essentials when I head into the far-west suburban sprawl of, say, Coral Springs. One thing that regularly prompts me to keep my canteen and compass handy is the Coral Springs Museum…

Both executive director George S. Bolge and curator of exhibitions Courtney P. Curtiss of the Boca Raton Museum of Art have made something of a fuss over the “50th Annual All Florida Invitational,” which marks a half-century of such group shows. And yet the exhibition itself doesn’t feel like much…

Once again the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)right way to do an off-season show: put it together with care and insight, rather than throw something together just to take up space. “Selections from the Permanent Collection” not only gives us a good, well-conceived sampling of MoCA’s stockpile of more than…

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When I heard that a new gallery called Moonflowers was exhibiting blotter acid paper art, I decided to investigate. I’d heard about such art and seen it in reproduction but never firsthand; I was also curious to see what Moonflowers was all about. It turns out that the exotic-sounding Moonflowers,…