Art and Jazz returns to Pineapple Grove, a magician blends AI and illusions in Boca, and new Peruvian films screen in Fort Lauderdale. Plus, The Australian Pink Floyd Show and more in your week ahead.
WEDNESDAY
What: Art & Jazz on the Avenue
When: 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Pineapple Grove, Northeast Second Avenue to Northeast Third Street
Cost: Free
Contact: 561/243-1077, downtowndelraybeach.com
One of Delray’s most beloved periodic gatherings continues into the summer, this time lighting up one of the city’s hippest neighborhoods. Expect open-air galleries, vendors, and pop-up artists lining Pineapple Grove, with convenient road closures to accommodate the increased foot traffic and party-in-the-street vibe. Live music will take over two stages simultaneously. Miami-based FM Band, which plays hits spanning decades, will perform at 6 p.m. at the stage near Old School Square Parking Garage, followed by the soulful smooth jazz saxophonist, vocalist, and bandleader Patrick Lamb at 7:45 p.m. The second stage, in front of The Ray hotel, welcomes jazz vocalist Niki Kidd at 6 p.m., followed by Remedy Band, playing ‘90s and classic rock favorites starting at 7:45. The evening’s live mural artists, curated by Glayson Leroy of Galera Collective, will be Nico and Alejandra Jimenez.
THURSDAY
What: The Australian Pink Floyd Show
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach
Cost: $34.51-$109.25
Contact: 561/832-7469, kravis.org
Honing its Pink Floyd chops since 1988, this tribute act from Down Under is known for its immaculate re-creations of the progressive/psych rockers’ dense material, dating all the way back to the Syd Barrett years and all the way beyond Roger Waters’ exodus. As with other Pink Floyd tributes, you can expect no expense spared in terms of video projections and a dazzling light and sound show, to say nothing of a robust band of perfectionists, including two guitarists, a bassist, a keyboardist, a drummer, a saxophonist, and six vocalists. But the Australian Pink Floyd show also integrates animal inflatables into its act, from Pink Floyd’s iconic pig to the group’s original creation, a pink kangaroo. Subtitled “The Happiest Days of Our Lives,” this greatest-hits tour features a refreshed set list of iconic tunes from Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish Were You Here, and more.
FRIDAY
What: James Changefield
When: 7 p.m.
Where: The Studio at Mizner Park, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton
Cost: $32.64
Contact: 954/910-5826, thestudioatmiznerpark.org
To be honest, owing to a dearth of even remotely recent videos of his act, we’re not sure what to expect from this magician and entertainer, the fourth booking in The Studio at Mizner Park’s “Summer of Magic Series.” We know that James Changefield, a Florida-based talent, is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and a recipient of the Order of Merlin, and that his promo photo utilizes now-ubiquitous artificial intelligence to present himself in a dazzling, neon-soaked suit worthy of Studio 54. But in Changefield’s case, the AI usage feels apt. He likes to say that “You can’t spell magic without AI” and that his mix of comedy and “reality-bending,” which he describes as part fringe festival and part TED Talk, will leave audiences questioning their reality. Consider us intrigued.
SATURDAY
What: Opening day of “Ralph Coburn: Land, Sea, Sky”
When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach
Cost: $15-$18 museum admission
Contact: 561/832-5196, norton.org
As opposed to artists with more careerist ambitions, the undervalued abstractionist Ralph Coburn was seemingly content to toil in obscurity. Born in Minnesota in 1923, Coburn achieved his breakthrough as a painter in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s—yet his work was largely unseen for 60 years. By the time he died at 94 in 2018, his rediscovery had finally commenced, thanks to solo exhibitions such as “Arranged By Choice: The Art of Ralph Coburn” (2012), at a Massachusetts museum. A modest and unassuming talent, Coburn leaned into the idea of choice, randomness and even audience participation in his paintings, whose utilitarian titles like “Landscape Distillation” and “Sea Study” belied their creative impulse. At his most radical, he allowed spectators to reorder his grid-based paperboard collages, encouraging viewers to assert their own artistic agency. Coburn spent his formative years in Miami—he died there, too—and found inspiration in the horizontal lines of Florida’s flat topography. This Norton showcase runs through Jan. 3.
SUNDAY
What: Filmed in Peru Festival
When: 3, 5, and 8 p.m.
Where: Savor Cinema, 503 S.E. Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale
Cost: $13-$16 for individual film tickets, $30 for three films and two receptions
Contact: 646/854-6154, filmedinperu.com
Beginning in 2023 in New York and New Jersey, this annual celebration of Peruvian cinema has since expanded its reach to Miami and—for this first time this year—Broward County, with a day full of screenings at Fort Lauderdale’s only dedicated art-house cinema. The afternoon opens at 3 p.m. with 1982, a drama that follows the seismic repercussions after a 12-year-old boy’s father is accused of terrorism; director Garcia JC will introduce the film and take questions from the audience after the screening. Following at 5 p.m., Ramon and Ramon is a pandemic-set drama about a Peruvian man who meets a Spaniard quarantined in Lima while dealing with the remains of his estranged father. The closing film, The Innocents, a coming-of-age drama about a sensitive teenager who falls in with a criminal gang, shows at 8 p.m. Daylong visitors can enjoy receptions featuring Peruvian food, drinks, and cultural experiences on-site.
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