CULTURAL COUNTDOWN
1 “EYE TO I” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
Long before the selfie, there was the self-portrait. The Boca Raton Museum of Art will showcase some of the genre’s most intriguing examples from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in “Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery,” on view March 23 to June 14. The visiting exhibition will feature more than 75 works—drawn primarily from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery—that capture the various perspectives and media that exist within the singular classification of self-portrait. Beginning with a circa-1901 painting by Everett Shinn and continuing through 2018 with Evan Roth’s Internet Cache Portrait, this show also synthesizes how technology has impacted the art form and provided artists with even more resources for self-examination. (bocamuseum.org)
2 Company Premieres for MIAMI CITY BALLET
Miami City Ballet is in the midst of a very eclectic season—one packed with modern works, classic ballets, and theatrical favorites. You can catch it all at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, including four company premieres across two programs. From January 17-19, MCB will dance This Bitter Earth from contemporary choreography Christopher Wheeldon, as well as I’m Old Fashioned, Jerome Robbins’ dreamy ode to dancers Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, complete with footage from the pair’s 1942 film, You Were Never Lovelier. In the following program, scheduled for February 21-23, MCB’s male dancers command attention in Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, featuring choreography by Justin Peck, music by Aaron Copland, and an intriguing cast composition of 15 men and one woman. This production will also allow MCB to demonstrate its Balanchine prowess in Firebird, set to a circa-1910 score by Igor Stravinsky. (miamicityballet.org)
3 MODERN MASTERS AT THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART
FRESH OFF A RENOVATION, THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART HAS RECOMMITTED ITSELF TO HOSTING AND CURATING WORLD-CLASS EXHIBITIONS. WITHIN ITS DENSE SCHEDULE, THE NORTON WILL PRESENT SUPER-NOTEWORTHY SOLO PRESENTATIONS ON TWO OF THE MOST COMPELLING ARTISTS IN RECENT HISTORY.
FROM NOVEMBER 22 TO FEBRUARY 2, THE NORTON WILL MOUNT “GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: LIVING MODERN,” WHICH INVESTIGATES THE WOMAN BEHIND THE FORMIDABLE PUBLIC PERSONA. ORGANIZED BY THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, THE SHOW INCLUDES A SELECTION OF O’KEEFFE’S PAINTINGS AS WELL AS ITEMS OF HER CLOTHING AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ARTIST AND HER HOMES BY THE LIKES OF ALFRED STIEGLITZ, ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, AND ANDY WARHOL, TO NAME A FEW
THEN, FROM FEBRUARY 21 TO JUNE 28, A TEXAS-BORN MASTER WITH FLORIDA ROOTS TAKES CENTER STAGE. “ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: FIVE DECADES FROM THE WHITNEY’S COLLECTION” PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF THE ARTIST’S OEUVRE, STARTING WITH HIS VISIONARY “COMBINE” COMPOSITIONS—A TERM HE RELIED ON TO DESCRIBE HIS MERGING OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE—AND CONTINUING THROUGH HIS LUMINOUS WORKS ON PAPER OF THE 1990S. ALTHOUGH HE LOST THE USE OF HIS RIGHT HAND FOLLOWING A STROKE IN 2002, RAUSCHENBERG WORKED UP UNTIL HIS DEATH ON CAPTIVA ISLAND IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IN 2008. (NORTON.ORG)
4 Beethoven’s Big Birthday
The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach is going all out for Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Beethoven-centric highlights from the organization’s seventh season in the Palm Beaches include December 15, when Orion Weiss, Yura Lee, and Clive Greensmith will join together for sonatas for violin, piano, and cello, and Beethoven’s Opus 97, lovingly referred to as the “Archduke Trio.” On January 29, the Ehnes)
