Vero Beach Museum of Art presents annual Antiques Show and Sale
More than three dozen dealers from as far away as England and the Netherlands will be on hand Friday through Sunday for the Vero Beach Museum of Art?s 17th annual Antiques Show and Sale.
Author of glassblowing series to speak at McKee
Author and artist will meet ? figuratively ? on Tuesday, when Sheila Connelly discusses her book, under the pen name Sarah Atwell, ?Through a Glass, Deadly? at McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach, site of Hans Frabel?s continuing exhibit, ?Reflections of Glass on Water.?
?Looped? looks at Bankhead?s drug-fueled recording session
The looping session that forms the basis of the play ?Looped? should have taken Tallulah Bankhead perhaps five minutes. ?But under the influence of drugs and alcohol? ? she was literally ?looped? ? ?she got increasingly erratic and the session took eight hours,? said Valerie Harper, the show?s star. ?This is true.?
Valerie Harper plays Tallulah Bankhead in new show
The 68-year-old actress probably always will be most closely associated with Rhoda Morgenstern, the sharp-tongued upstairs neighbor of Mary Tyler Moore, will play in "Looped" at West Palm Beach?s Cuillo Centre for the Arts.
Learn about the real Barnum at lecture Sunday
As a preface to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre?s production of ?Barnum,? learn about the real Phineas T. Barnum at a special lecture at 3 p.m. Sunday, at the Flagler Museum, Coconut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach.
University professors to speak at Vero museum's lecture series
Eight award-winning professors from prestigious U.S. colleges and universities will offer insights into their arts and humanities research in the Vero Beach Museum of Art?s 2009 Distinguished Professor Lecture Series.
Martin County festivals announce a call to artists
The Hobe Sound Festival of the Arts and Downtown Stuart Art Festival announce a call to artists for its juried fine art fairs taking place Feb. 7-8 and Feb. 28-March 1 respectively.
Norton exhibit challenges viewers' perceptions
The familiar visage of Princess Diana looks down from a gallery wall at West Palm Beach?s Norton Museum of Art, in a striking black-and-white photographic print, almost 6 feet by 4 feet tall. But there is a smirk on her face, as if the late Princess of Wales were in on a playful secret.
16th-century art inspires video exhibit
A 16th-century painting was the inspiration for pioneer video artist Bill Viola?s ?The Greeting.? But it was three 20th-century women who provided the impetus to complete the video installation, on display through Dec. 28 at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.
Mom drags suspect in sculpture theft to Stuart museum to apologize
?One of them came in with his mother to apologize,? said Chris Sawicki, Stuart Heritage president. She said she is certain that no matter what Dennis Lopez,23, received from the judicial system, what he is getting from his mother is worse.
Jeane von Oppenheim's role is the focus of Norton photo exhibit
In honor of the 10th anniversary of her donation of 760 photographs to the Norton Museum of Art, curator Charles Stainback has selected 65 images representing most of the major movements of the 20th century for ?Coming into Focus: Jeane von Oppenheim and Photography at the Norton, 1998-2008.?
Art tours on tap along Treasure Coast this weekend
Art lovers will be making house calls Saturday, when artists and art patrons on the Treasure Coast welcome visitors to their homes.
Area artist breathes new life into stations of the cross
The Rev. Aidan Hynes, St. Christopher?s pastor, joined the congregation in 1999 and was disappointed to see the stations? decay. A chance meeting at Banbury Cross Bakery soon after led to new life for the sculptures, thanks to local artist H. Bruce Carr.
Local artist Julia Whorf Kelly to sign copies of memoir
This lovely memoir, illustrated with paintings by Kelly, her grandfather and her mother is a paean to love, family and optimism. The book was begun ?as a life jacket? as Kelly?s mother underwent treatment for a series of illnesses. Kelly would sit with her mother, moving back through time to her beloved Provincetown and remembering just how it was.
