Making Strides
Arts Organizations Are Celebrating Milestones, Changing Executives and Planning Expansions. By Randy Noles At the risk of stating the obvious, it has been a busy year for local arts groups. Not only are most bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels of support and attendance, many are also celebrating anniversaries, welcoming new leaders and planning major moves. The downside: […]
Defiant Requiem
Verdi’s masterwork was life itself at Terezín. Now the world needs it again. By Catherine Hinman First performed in 1874, Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is today one of the most widely performed choral masterworks anywhere. The very aspect of this Catholic funeral mass that made it controversial among clergy in the latter part of the 19th […]
Spooky Nights
Looking for a ghoul time? Get your fear factor Fluttering with these haunted happenings. By G.K. Sharman Make no bones about it! Halloween has shocked and slashed its way to cultural celebratory superiority. Candy and costumes help. But events—those bonding experiences that we share with family, friends and perfect (or perfectly creepy) strangers—help make the […]
From Common Clay
Raheleh Filsoofi (left) and Eric André (right) use clay to express a sense of common humanity and to convey provocative ideas about identity and freedom. Filsoofi is originally from Tehran, Iran, while André is originally from Ashanti Region, Ghana. Courtesy Amir Aghareb (Filsoofi) And Laurie Hasan (André). Two Artists Express Ideas of Identity and Freedom. […]
Let’s Venture Inside a Liminal Space
Sculptor Bobby Aiosa (left), an assistant professor of studio art at UCF, and painter Anthony Mancuso (right), an art instructor at Valencia College, met when Mancuso was a guest lecturer at UCF. Although their work is different, they view the world through a similar artistic lens. Courtesy Casselberry Arts Center. Exhibition explores impact of the […]
Golden Legacy
Take a trip down memory lane with the Poky Little Puppy. By Richard Reep In the canon of beloved children’s literature, few equal the evocative illustrated stories of Little Golden Books. Since their first releases in the early 1940s, the series has continued to delight with new titles and reissues of such classics as The […]
Man and Machine
Do Something (left) and Discus on Display (right) by Mauro Weiser are among the works that explore male identity and the multilevel relationships that men have with the tools of their trades. Weiser created these works and others at the Maitland Art Center, where he has studio space as part of the Artists-in-Action program. Courtesy […]
Abstracting Tonalism
Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism will feature works by an artist who has come to be more fully appreciated only recently. Among the works on display will be Single Palm (below left), Untitled (below right) and Bill and Friends (above). Michel happily sublimated her own artistic career to help support that of her husband, proto-modernist Milton […]
After the Fair
Tiffany’s chapel made a long, strange trip to Winter Park. By Randy Noles The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago—also known as the Chicago World’s Fair—saw the debut of the Ferris wheel. Less over-the-top (but not by much) was a small jewel-box of a chapel interior designed by an artist named Louis Comfort Tiffany. The […]
