Don’t stay away from the Coral Springs Museum of Art these days just because it’s showcasing the work of the execrable Romero Britto. No, just take a sharp right when you enter the museum and make a beeline into the smaller side galleries, where you’ll find the uneven but worthwhile…

When the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach announced at the end of March that its CEO and director, Christina Orr-Cahall, would be leaving in May, I was as stunned as everybody else. I have a close friend who works at the Norton, and there had been none…

A new gallery is always cause for rejoicing, especially in these uncertain times. And so it was with great pleasure that, after a series of miscommunications about my impending visit, I finally discovered Exor Galleries, which just celebrated its first birthday in Boca Raton’s Royal Palm Place. Exor is really…

A famous anecdote has it that Abraham Lincoln, asked for his reaction to a book, responded with what must be one of the most succinct reviews in the history of literature: “People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.” That’s also…

There are only three dozen or so paintings in “Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism,” now at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, but it’s a fine little show, a sort of encapsulated history of its subject. Just over half of the works, all from the collection…

Dangerous, written by Michael McKeever. Directed by Clove Cholerton. Run time, approximately 90 minutes. Presented through March 29 at the Caldwell Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Visit caldwelltheatre.com, or call 561-241-7432. For his first adaptation, SoFla playwright Michael McKeever reimagines an 18th-century classic, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les…

“While this exhibition may look playful and inviting, in reality it addresses many complex societal issues.” So proclaims the news release for “John Zoller: Color & Learn,” now winding down in the Project Room at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Heck, they had us at “playful and inviting.”…

Mea culpa. I confess. For years, I didn’t “get” Duane Hanson. Oh, sure, I got that he was probably both the best and the best-known American realist sculptor of the human figure, certainly the best at his particular brand of all-out, trompe l’oeil realism. I got that nobody else prompts…

There is something wonderful in the dancing cadences of Sarah Ruhl’s The Dead Man’s Cell Phone: the way its madcap scenes chase each other like bits of the author’s associative thought process. The tale follows Jean, a shy and needy woman who one day finds herself seated next to a…

“Shock of the Real” is a lavish look at a movement that more or less came and went nearly half a century ago. Of the roughly 18 artists generally considered to make up the first generation of the movement — including Robert Cottingham, Richard Estes, and Ralph Goings — nearly…

OK, class. Today we examine the work of those two great visual poets of the American Southwest, painter Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Ansel Adams. Compare and contrast among yourselves. No such academic exercise is needed, fortunately. The work — or most of it anyway — has already been done for…

“Small is beautiful” might serve as the motto of artist Timothy Leistner’s Artist’s Eye Fine Art Gallery, a postage-stamp-sized space tucked away in the shops of Canterbury Square in Dania Beach. But what he lacks in square footage he makes up for in artistic vision and ambition. Leistner continues to…

“Doing Business As…,” now at the Broward County Main Library’s Gallery Six, might as well be called “Business as Usual…” That’s how tame much of the art is. Fortunately, there are some exceptions. Included in this uneven mix are nearly a dozen South Florida artists identified as graduates of the…

The exhibit “Designing Intelligence? Continuing the Intelligent Design Project” actually begins before you get to the Schmidt Center Gallery. It starts in the long corridor that leads from the building entrance. You’ll find a 120-foot-long banner mounted on the wall, blanketed with splashy, seemingly disconnected imagery, with dozens of phrases…

Leave it to Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery, the funky little lowbrow display space upstairs at Tate’s Comics in Lauderhill, to come up with an exhibition theme as clever as it is gimmicky. For “Three of a Kind,” two dozen or so artists, most based locally, were invited to…

The trouble with too many watercolor exhibitions is that they’re so, well, nice. You know — oh-so-tasteful florals, kids and kittens, quaint landscapes. It’s all so… expected. “Florida Focus: Gold Coast Watercolor Society,” now on view in the gallery at ArtServe, has its share of the expected, especially in the…

Coming upon “Leo Stitsky: Arte Facts,” a small installation tucked away in a back corner of the Coral Springs Museum of Art, is sort of like stumbling unexpectedly across a natural-history exhibit. The items on display have the fascinating feel of ancient objects retrieved from an archaeological dig. The Miami-born…

Culturally speaking, “Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited” is so 15 minutes ago. It’s a lavish look at photorealism, a movement that more or less came and went nearly half a century ago. Influential critic and historian Edward Lucie-Smith called it “a briefly fashionable movement” that “has lost nearly all…

Don’t make the mistake of wandering dismissively through “Susan Maguire: Asian Echo” as if it’s just so much crockery. This collection of nearly three dozen ceramics dotting the spacious main gallery of the Coral Springs Museum of Art is more properly looked at as a sculpture show. Such is Maguire’s…

If you’ve ever been on Sistrunk Boulevard (AKA NW Sixth Street) just west of where it meets Andrews Avenue, you’ve probably seen the art of Charles Mills, in the form of a sprawling mural on the south side of the street. That’s Mills’ Sistrunk Entryway and Historical Wall, dedicated in…

Milton Avery: The Kaufman Collection,” now at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, is so modest that it’s best approached with minimal expectations, or maybe even no expectations at all. There are only 21 pieces in the exhibition, and three of them are greeting cards from Avery to the Kaufmans,…

Ever since “Diana: A Celebration” and “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” brought it back from the brink, the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale has struggled against the perception that it has become an institution of artifacts. Even an exhibition of paintings as electrifying as those in “Chicano Visions:…