The Armory Art Center is not just a gallery; it’s an artists’ retreat, a sort of West Point for the creative. Last year, two world-renowned artists, Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, joined Armory as the “2-D Artists in Residence” and taught a class on painting with egg tempera — one…
Kim Morrell is Rosie the Riveter on a souped-up motorcycle going 180 mph. The SoFla native is one of the fastest female drag racers in the world, a single mother capable of covering an eighth of a mile in four seconds. (Try doing that in your minivan.) And she’ll be…
The Norton Museum of Art (1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach) has your fix in four of today’s biggest artists. First is Jose Alvarez, one of Florida’s most innovative minds. With the care of an ikebanist (an artist in Japanese floral arrangement), he positions feathers, minerals, and other materials…
Steven Fales was the perfect Mormon, with a six-generation religious lineage, Eagle Scout honors, a BYU degree — that is, until he came out as gay, got excommunicated, moved to New York, and became a methhead manwhore. The award-winning playwright chronicled his transformation in a one-man show, Confessions of a…
Riverwalk Get Downtown is Fort Lauderdale’s largest outdoor cocktail hour. Your public drunkenness will not cost much: $20 donated online or $25 at the door gets you two drink tickets redeemable at YOLO bar, live music from Funkette (a Top 40 band that, oddly enough, played at the 2002 RNC…
Friday, there’s a poet-emceed pelapalooza at Cinema Paradiso — the 16th comedy-themed installment in the venue’s slew of art parties. Four live bands, four artists, and an improv theater troupe are packing into the place for performances and exhibits culminating in five short-film screenings. The best part? Admission costs less…
The Broward Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a big, snazzy spectacle, Cirque Dreams Broadway, which blasts you down memory lane on a rocket. It’s the Cliff’s Notes of Broadway hits, with revivals of songs from The Phantom of the Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, Cats, Hairspray, Chicago, La…
Crazy for You is classic Broadway. The multiple Tony Award-winning musical is young — it debuted in 1992 and ran for more than a thousand shows — but the plot and music hark back to the culture of the 1930s. In the spotlight is a misbehaving, Depression-era playboy, who escapes…
The cat in the hat is going avant-garde at the Lounge in West Palm Beach. Every third Wednesday of the month, the club holds a themed live-art show involving up to 25 local artists, and the theme this week is all things Dr. Seuss. There will be body-painting and glass-blowing…
Are you curious about the history of the cubicle or the lost surfing culture in New York City? Now you are. And the Palm Beach International Film Festival has you covered. The festival’s opening night is Wednesday: There’s a party, seminars, and a screening of Win Win, an acclaimed film…
The ancient Egyptians believed that death could be overcome, but their afterlife was no cakewalk — it demanded rigorous preparation. The Egyptians held that the ka, a spiritual essence, required food and sustenance after death. And that was just the ka essence — the ba and kha essences had their…
Three exciting exhibitions open today at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. “Forever” showcases Cristina Lei Rodriguez, a local artist whose fantastical plastic sculptures can resemble sequined tumbleweeds or Technicolor fauna from an alien planet and comment on the real and fake in consumerism. “Yes, No, and Everything in…
In Dinner With Friends, two married couples form a fragile social molecule that threatens to disintegrate in a chain reaction of divorce. The play begins with one of the wives, Beth, confiding over dinner to her married friends, Gabe and Karen, that she’s splitting with her husband, Tom. When Tom…
In Grey Gardens, The Musical, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale inhabit a tumbledown mansion in the Hamptons filled with raccoons, vermin, fleas, and up to a thousand bags of garbage. But these women aren’t crackhead squatters. The elder Edith is Jackie Kennedy’s aunt, the younger her cousin,…
George Lopez is a successful Mexican-American comedian and actor with his own late-night talk show on TBS. But his most outstanding characteristic is that he understands white people and their sensitivities. “When white people get E. coli, the whole world fucking stops… ‘I have E. coli. I couldn’t go to…
The Bearded Lover is about three sisters, each crippled in a horrendous house fire that devoured their parents. They live together in almost hermetic isolation. Sounds like a downer. But the play, a dark comedy, is not without involving sentiment. It joins the sisters one night at 3 a.m. in…
The ancient Egyptians believed that death could be overcome, but their afterlife was no cakewalk — it demanded rigorous preparation. The Egyptians held that the ka, a spiritual essence, required food and sustenance after death. And that was just the ka essence — the ba and kha essences had their…
More than a century has passed since Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and still his theory is unpopular in the United States. “I came from God, not from a monkey,” insisted Georgia congressman (and primate) Jack Kingston in a recent TV appearance. The Middle Ages may rule the political right, but…
Though we hate to employ hackneyed superlatives and exhortations, there’s no other way to say that “Romanticism to Modernism” is a once-in-a-lifetime, must-see exhibit. When else are you going to see fine prints by Giovanni Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, James McNeil Whistler, and Pablo Picasso together at one location? The…
Next year is the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s ascent to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, where he painted the world’s most celebrated fresco. It’s also the anniversary of the Catholic Church’s establishment of the papal Swiss Guard, the Vatican Museums, and St. Peter’s Basilica. To commemorate the occasion of…
The world’s first sound artist was an Italian futurist, Luigi Russola. In his 1913 manifesto, The Art of Noises, he established six categories of sounds, from roars and explosions to shouts and “death rattles.” Russola believed that the Industrial Revolution rendered melodies irrelevant; modern man would seek out dissonant sounds…
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy sailed into Tokyo Harbor, pointed his cannons at the city, and warned that if he wasn’t allowed ashore, and if the Japanese didn’t sign up for global trade, he’d open fire indiscriminately. It was classic American pirate diplomacy. The Japanese caved,…
