Archive for September 25th, 2011
Art Notes from Monaco 2011
ArtBY DAVID SHILLING Visit Monaco and you expect to see glimpses of a Royal court of Europe in action, but this year Monaco offers the opportunity to see highlights from 20 Royal Courts of Europe in an exhibition which is the first of its kind. ” Fastes et Grandeur des [...]
City and Country: The Art of Lisa Breslow
ArtIn oils, watercolors and monotypes, this artist conveys her unique vision of the world. By Sara Evans There is a profound mystery at the heart of Lisa Breslow’s work, an uncanny ability to draw the viewer into her visual world. I first saw her paintings in a Tonalist retrospective at the Spanierman Gallery, “In [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Exhibition Schedule 2011-2012
Museum ShowMuseum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Exhibition Schedule 2011-2012 Knight Exhibition Series September 23 – November 13, 2011 The artists in this exhibition use playful tactics to confront, alter and inhabit existing societal structures. By shifting their artistic practices, the artists operate as active agents, employing curatorial, administrative, and educational strategies and aesthetics to [...]
The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art
Museum ShowThe Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art celebrates its 12th season in 2011-12 with a spectacular, wide-ranging line-up featuring work by Edgar Degas, Louise Nevelson, Steve Tobin and many others. The museum opens for the season on Saturday, October 1. 2011-12 SEASON EXHIBITIONS The monumental nature-based sculpture of iconoclastic artist Steve [...]
Star Power
OperaNo less than seven new productions highlight the new season at the Metropolitan Opera BY SARA EVANS F or us New Yorkers, regardless of what the calendar says, the New Year actually starts in September. School starts. People flock back to the city from the Hamptons and the Berkshires. The air turns crisp and [...]
MIAMI CITY BALLET Florida’s Internationally Acclaimed Company 2011-2012 SEASON
DanceA CELEBRATION OF DANCE FEATURING ONE WORLD PREMIERE AND TWO FULL-LENGTH CLASSICS! THE OPUS ONE LIVE ORCHESTRA RETURNS! The season runs October 2011 through April 2012 at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Program I opens the season with four compelling ballets [...]
Flagler’s Last Stand
TravelThe Casa Marina, Key West’s Grand Hotel, is a gorgeous reminder of a bygone era. BY SARA EVANS here is an incredible romance to places the lie at land’s end, Down East Maine, the Cape of Good Hope, Norway’s North Cape, Cap Finistere. And none of them is more special or more romantic than Key [...]
MARIANNE HUNTER
JewelryJewelry designed by an artist with a painters eye and a poet’s sensitivity! A rt permeates the life and work of jeweler Marianne Hunter of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It imbues her one-of-a-kind creations with a depth that transcends mere ornamentation. Throughout her acclaimed career, Hunter has brought a painter’s eye and a poet’s [...]
Degas and the Nude
Art, Museum ShowA gorgeous exhibition devoted to the artist’s nudes is on view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The first museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the extraordinary range of nudes by Edgar Degas—tracing their evolution from the artist’s early years, through the private and public images of brothels and bathers in the 1870s and [...]
Grand Hotels— A Tale of Two Cities
TravelThe Paris Le Grand and the Carleton in Cannes personify glitz, history and comfort. BY SARA EVANS Paris in the mid-19th century was not the Paris we know today. It was for the most part a series of slums, a city without paved roads, street lighting, running water or a sewerage system. It was [...]
LA FIGA
BooksVisions of Food and Form To Envision New Art Form Fusion of Food and Form Give Life to La Figa F or Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman, two of the most beautiful things in the world are food and the human body – not necessarily in that order. “Food is not just [...]
His Baltimore Ladies
Museum ShowA terrific exhibition at the Jewish Museum shows what daring taste, adventurous minds and truly deep pockets can do. BY SARA EVANS Matisse called them his “Baltimore ladies,” the Cone sisters, whose unerring eye for the next big thing, along with their endless enthusiasm and enormous wealth, enabled them to amass one of the [...]
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Museum ShowThis cultural paradise by the Bay is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the circus king John Ringling (one of five brothers who created the Ringling Bros. circus) and his wife Mable purchasing property, which today is the Ringling Museum, in Sarasota. The museum features 15,000 objects in its international art collection and a year-round performing [...]
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
Art ShowsArt Basel Miami Beach 2011: Celebrating the 10th Edition From December 1 through 4, Miami Beach, Florida, will host the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the most prestigious art show in the Americas. More than 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showcasing works by [...]
