All Blog Posts Tagged 'arts' (11)

By Greg Stepanich

   The American painter Mary Cassatt is best-known for her paintings of women and children, but this month at the Norton Museum, patrons have the opportunity to see four of the Impressionist artist’s works on paper.

    The…

Jazz fusion band Oriente will perform at the Arts Garage on May 11. Photo provided

By Greg Stepanich

    Although the arts center she has run for two years was in danger last month of going the way of the…

Mary-Kate Eriksen of Hypoluxo Island is one of five seniors from The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts to have been nominated for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Award. Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, now in its 49th year, is one of the highest honors…

Alan Jacobson in his new home, The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. He has opened the theater with a series of revues. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

By Greg…

Another season is upon us, and that’s cause for celebration.

As writer Hap Erstein underscores in his report on the state of the arts in eastern Boca Raton and Highland Beach, our cultural leaders are cautiously optimistic in these times of economic strife.…

Upbeat, but not without concern.

That is the way professional arts institutions describe their view of the season ahead, which they certainly hope will be the last for a while that is riddled with economic challenges.

“The verbal reports that I’m getting from our…

As I walk into my home I’m greeted with an original encaustic painting of a palm. I love the textures and colors. It puts my mind instantly at ease after a hectic day at the office.

Encaustic (or hot-wax painting) is an ancient art form, but the artist who created my painting was not old. She was 66.…

By Greg Stepanich

Beginning with this coming season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art will mark its 10th anniversary at its lovely building in Mizner Park.

It moved there in January 2001 after having been in a small space on Palmetto Park Road since 1950, now home to the museum’s art…

By Greg Stepanich

Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chamber music series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory,

and this month, the annual four-week series returns to provide an…

By Greg Stepanich

It was controversial when it first hit the stage back in 1967, but today it stands as a landmark of the American theater, and the first truly successful rock

musical.

I speak, of course, of Hair, which…

By Greg Stepanich

The arts season for 2009-10 is in the books, but that doesn’t mean we’re all going to be reduced to flipping on the A/C and watching videos of cats playing piano

apps on an iPad (cute as that is).

Longtime…