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A Busy Month At The Kravis Center For The Performing Arts The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has a full slate of entertainment taking place now through the end of April. The following are some of the events planned: • March 25-26, Peppino D’Agostino — This Italian-born virtuoso acoustic guitarist has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a poet… among the best talents around,” voted “Best Acoustic Guitarist” in Guitar Player magazine’ s 2007 Readers’ Choice Awards, applauded by the San Diego Times as “potentially a giant of the acoustic guitar,” and touted by Jazziz as a “phenomenon
Smokey Robinson will perform April 14 in Dreyfoos Hall.
in the same league with John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Doc Watson and John Renbourn.” The show starts at 8 p.m. in Persson Hall. Tickets cost $30. • March 29, African-American Film Festival — The sixth season of the African-American Film Festival kicks off with selected episodes of Amos ’n’ Andy (1951-1953). Producer James Drayton teams up with the Kravis Center to bring another series of films to audiences this spring. The series continues April 5 and 12. The show starts at 7 p.m. in Persson Hall. Tickets cost $10 per night or $25 for the entire festival. • March 29, Kathy Griffin — Griffin is perhaps best known for her stint on the sitcom Suddenly Susan and her popular reality show, My Life On The D-List . Despite her multiple specials on HBO and Bravo, Griffin is more likely to be found on Hollywood Squares rather than the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The show starts at 8 p.m. in Dreyfoos Hall. Tickets start at $20. • April 7, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks — Although firmly rooted in the American folk music tradition, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks deftly blend elements of swing, jazz, country and rock to create a sound they call “folk jazz.” Performances take place at 6:30 and 9 p.m. in the Rinker Playhouse. Tickets cost $38. • April 8-10, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up — Adapted from their hilarious and often-moving memoir of the same title, comedians and
real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch (Dinner and a Movie) and Jeff Kahn (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) take a humorous look back at their 13 years together as a couple. Performances take place in the Rinker Playhouse. Tickets cost $34. • April 13, Boz Scaggs — Scaggs, owner of one of the most distinctive voices in popular music, is probably best known for his landmark 1976 album Silk Degrees, which spawned several hit singles including “Lowdown,” “Lido Shuffle,” “Georgia,” “We’re All Alone” and “It’s Over.” The show starts at 8 p.m. in Dreyfoos Hall. Tickets start at $20. • April 14-16, Koresh Dance Company — Under the dynamic wing of Israeli-born choreographer and artistic director Ronen Koresh, Philadelphia’s Koresh Dance Company is critically acclaimed for its exuberant, athletic and eclectic repertoire. Performances will take place in the Rinker Playhouse. Tickets cost $35. • April 14, Smokey Robinson — His roster of hits with the Miracles and as a solo performer include “I Second That Emotion,” “The Tears Of A Clown,” “Cruisin’” and “Being With You.” The show starts at 8 p.m. in Dreyfoos Hall. Tickets start at $25. • April 17, The Beach Boys — Known for rich vocal harmonies and songs about cars, dating and surfing in the California sun, the Beach Boys sound helped define a
The Beach Boys will perform April 17 in the Dreyfoos Concert Hall. style known as surf music. Come hear all your favorite Beach Boys songs including “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and “Kokomo.” The show starts at 8 p.m. in Dreyfoos Hall. Tickets start at $20. • April 20-24, Cirque Dreams Illumination — Urban acrobatics, dazzling choreography and brilliant illusions are ignited by 27 worldclass artists and special effects performed to a stylish original score of jazz, salsa, ballroom, pop and trendy beats from the streets. Performances take place in Dreyfoos Hall. Tickets start at $25. • April 22-23, Seth Rudetsky’s Big Fat Broadway Show — Pre-
pare for the most hysterical and fascinating “backstage pass” to Broadway’s biggest hits, flops and everything in between with Sirius/XM Radio’s Seth Rudetsky. Rudetsky will bring his own private video and audio collection to show you how to differentiate between what’s vocally amazing (Patti LuPone in Evita) and what’s a vocal travesty (Madonna singing the same material). The show starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Rinker Playhouse. Tickets cost $32. The Kravis Center is located at 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. For more information, call (561) 832-7469 or visit www. kravis.org.
Norton Museum Features Top Photographs From Its Collection When the Norton Museum’s curator of photography, Charles Stainback, began organizing the museum’s next exhibition “From A to Z: 26 Great Photographs from the Norton Collection,” he had a couple of problems, namely “X” and “Z.” Without a photographer for every letter in the alphabet, the premise of the exhibition, to alphabetically arrange a selection of photographs based on the first letter of the photographer’s last name, wouldn’t work. But the problem was solved, and the exhibition, on view now through June 19, includes photographs by such seminal figures as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. “We really wanted show off the depth and breadth of the museum’s collection, and thought alphabetizing the artists would be an interesting way to create an exhibition that would accomplish that,” said Stainback, the museum’s William & Sarah Ross Soter curator of photography. “It gave us a clear direction on how to select 25 to 30 photos from a collection of 3,000.” According to Stainback, an in-
tern’s meticulous research helped to identify outstanding candidates for photographer “X” and photographer “Z.” The Norton purchased a work by Xiaoze Xie, a Chineseborn photographer living in California, and one by 82-year-old documentary photographer George S. Zimbel. The pieces had to be purchased rather than borrowed, since the exhibition was only featuring works from the museum’s own collection. The addition of the two photographs not only rounded out the alphabet, but also added contrasting textural elements to the exhibition — and some exciting cinematic history. Zimbel’s photograph is of a dazzling Marilyn Monroe standing over a New York City subway grate with the iconic white dress swirling around her thighs. “Having such a well-known person who has been so widely photographed portrayed in the exhibition added a layer of flash to it,” said Stainback, who contacted Zimbel himself to inquire about purchasing the photograph. Not only was the Montreal-based
Zimbel delighted about being included in the exhibition, he joined Stainback for a talk about the exhibition on March 17. The photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken in 1954 while she was shooting The Seven Year Itch, brings up an important question about photography’s evolution as an art form. “Sixty years ago, what’s considered photojournalism, or pictures that appeared in fashion magazines, wouldn’t have been shown in most museums,” Stainback said. “But in hindsight, we have a better appreciation of the artistic talent that was required to take that particular photograph. In general, I would say it has taken a while to accept photography as worthy of being exhibited in museums, and even longer to accept all photos.” In addition to America’s growing obsession with Hollywood and the cult of celebrity as depicted in the photograph of Marilyn Monroe, the exhibition also includes several photographs that document significant events and defining movements in 20th-century American history. Born in Fort Scott, Kan. in
A print by Valérie Belin from the series “Black Women I.”
A photograph by Graciela Iturbide.
1912, African-American photographer Gordon Parks realized he could fight the small-mindedness and hate he encountered by becoming a photographer. Parks’ portrait of Farm Security Administration Chairwoman Ella Watson included in the exhibition “American Gothic (1942)” is widely considered to be an icon of American culture, representative
of its centuries-old struggle with racism and bigotry. The Norton Museum is located at 1451 S. Olive Avenue in West Palm Beach. General admission is $12 for adults, $5 for visitors ages 13-21, and free for members and children under 13. For additional information, call (561) 832-5196 or visit www.norton.org.