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The summer still sizzles with music and the arts, from blues to drama to rock and roll.
T. J. Miller
“Years of Glass” exhibit
Simone Brown
T.J. Miller
“Years of Glass: The Norton Collection 1982-2022”
What: Simone Browne
WHERE: Palm Beach Improv, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach WHEN: Aug. 12-13 COST: $30 CONTACT: 561/833-1812, palmbeachimprov.com With his beard and leonine locks, T.J. Miller looks like he could have walked off a hippie commune in 1968, and can step straight out of central casting to play any number of countercultural freethinkers, slackers and ne’er-do-wells. He also has been gifted with a distinctive voice, which works as well in stoner comedy as it does in animated cinema: His vocal cords have helped the “How to Train Your Dragon” series and “The Emoji Movie,” and the rest of him has appeared on films from “Ready Player One” to “Deadpool” to “Get Him to the Greek;” he also spent three memorable years on HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” But as he says, standup remains his first love, and probably his most essential skill. Like the late, great Norm Macdonald, he can establish an absurd premise and riff on it for 15 minutes, layering and spiking the material with inspired extensions and diversions. He also shares Macdonald’s capacity for pregnant beats, allowing silence to work its own magic—and providing audiences the time to glom onto his wavelength. 24
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WHERE: Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach WHEN: Now-Sept. 4 COST: $15-$18 museum admission CONTACT: 561/832-5196, norton.org Last year, the United Nations declared that 2022 would be the International Year of Glass, in celebration of “the essential role glass has in society.” Indeed, if anything can keep our nations united, it’s that we all appreciate being able to see the world through spectacles, protect our windows from inclement weather and enjoy our wine in proper goblets. Glass has also had a fundamental role in art making dating back to Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt. For decades, it’s been a key material in contemporary art, and it’s this genre that takes center stage in “Years of Glass.” Organized by the Norton Museum, the exhibition showcases four decades of work from the museum’s collection, from large-scale sculptures to functional objects, modernist cubes and even a starry-eyed view of the cosmos. Exploring how glass art fits into the broader spectrum of contemporary art, the exhibit includes work by Dale Chihuly, Olafur Eliasson, Beth Lipman and many more.
WHERE: Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach WHEN: June 16, 7 p.m. COST: Free CONTACT: 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org For the last five years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was lucky to carve out even a scintilla of privacy. In efforts to discredit King, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tapped his phones, bugged his hotel rooms and placed informants among his closest confidants. For an author like Simone Browne, King fits into a continuum of the clandestine persecution of Black individuals, from the branding and policing of slaves to post-9/11 airport security practices and beyond. Browne, an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, is arguably the nation’s foremost expert on the surveillance of Black individuals. In fact, in 2015, she wrote the book on it, the award-winning Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. In this appearance, the last of Arts Garage’s “Authors Speak” series in conjunction with the Spady Museum and the Delray Beach CRA, Browne will discuss her revelations and ongoing surveillance research.
summer 2022
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