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Museum showcases Judaic art
A painting created more than 200 years ago and inspired by Chapter 27 in the book of Genesis from the Torah, hangs on a wall at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. "Jacob Stealing Isaac's Blessing," by Gaetano Gandolfi is one of many of the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Artists, Painting, Arts
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At the Norton, five easy pieces
Starting Thursday, the folks behind the Norton Museum of Art will bulk up the dry summer arts season ahead by showing off at least one masterpiece a month through October. Called the "Masterpiece of the Month" series, the clutch of five works come on...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums
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Photographing the original 99 percent
These were typical days for the keen shutterbugs behind the New York Photo League: Hit the five boroughs and train a lens on shoeshine boys, immigrant fathers with children in freezing weather and the working-class commuting in subway cars. During the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Ansel Adams, Judaism, Manhattan (New York City)
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Martin Hoffman, painter with Central Florida connections, dies
Painter Martin Joseph Hoffman, a Florida native, died last month in Vero Beach at age 77. Hoffman, who died Feb. 5, was both an illustrator and fine artist. In his varied career, he created many illustrations for Playboy magazine and devised the stylish...
Tags: Arts and Culture, NASA, Arts, Fine Arts, Museums
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Ringling showcases 'L.A. Style' in Sarasota
It's a fine time to be a photography fan in Florida. Less than a month ago, I reported on a terrific exhibit of Annie Leibovitz portraits on display through June 9 at the Norton Museum of Art (nortonmuseum.org) in West Palm Beach. Now, there's an...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Periodicals, Michael Jackson, Richard Gere, Arts
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Jewelry sale at Norton Museum in West Palm Beach
Staff WriterThe best thing about the jewelry at The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach? It ain't no display honey; you can buy these baubles, bangles and bright shiny things. Once again the oh-so-chic Museum will present "BIJOUX!," which is a five-day...Tags: Ball State University, Arts and Culture, Palm Beach County, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Artists
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Mix history, art in Palm Beach at the Flagler Museum
If ever a room was aptly named, it's the Grand Hall of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. The 5,000 square-foot reception hall is adorned with almost every conceivable trapping of Gilded Age splendor: A bust of Caesar Augustus atop a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Delphi Corp, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Florida East Coast Railway
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WPBT launches new 'Art Loft' series
South Florida's visual artists, performers and musicians have a new TV canvas to showcase their work. That's "Art Loft," a new weekly art series that launches at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on WPBT-Ch. 2 (airing from the Keys to Palm Beach). The show will also...
Tags: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Arts and Culture, Delray Beach, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Fine Artists
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The Go Guide Weekend Preview: Pitbull talks, King Mango struts
When your goal is worldwide domination, you gotta do what you gotta do. For Pitbull, hardcore Miami Heat fan, that means getting in bed (figuratively speaking) with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “Yeah, we don’t talk about that,”...
Tags: Concerts, Arts and Culture, American Idol (tv program), PBS (tv network), Pink Floyd (music group)
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Close up with Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz, the 63-year-old photographer responsible for four decades of iconic magazine covers, found herself a bit puzzled a year ago. The woman who had shot a nude and pregnant Demi Moore, John Lennon five hours before he was murdered and other...
Tags: Arts and Culture, David Byrne, Demi Moore, John Belushi, Arts
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They're black and they're proud
Photographer Gordon Parks' "Ethel Shariff in Chicago" depicts the daughter of religious activist Elijah Muhammad in a nun's habit, standing at the fore of rows of black women in the same attire. In Parks' "American Gothic," the late lensman who documented...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Otis Redding, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Fine Artists
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Best Bets: Art
The Art of Video Games, Oct. 24-Jan. 13, 2013: Can the virtual worlds summoned by video game designers be considered art? Unless you’re Roger Ebert, the answer’s yes, as the new show, “The Art of Video Games,” will argue when it...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Gaming, Demi Moore, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Arts
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