Boca Street Fest returns for its second year, a playful Miami modernist exhibits at the Boca Museum, and British funk legends make a rare South Florida appearance. Plus, Brit Floyd and more in your week ahead.
WEDNESDAY
What: Opening day of “Typoe Gran: Anatomy of a Practice”
When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton
Cost: $12-$16 museum admission
Contact: 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org
From the time of his childhood, when he would cut open his teddy bears simply to discover how they worked, Miami artist Typoe Gran has been curious about the process of creation. He remains a seeker, and childhood psychology, when mixed with a certain whimsicality and a bold palette of primary colors, remains a focal point of his art, which is often large and optically confounding and public. His murals have appeared at the Arsht Center, the Andy Warhol Museum, Miami’s Brightline Station and the Orlando Museum of Art, among many other venues. “Anatomy of a Practice” marks Gran’s first solo museum exhibition and will include site-specific murals as well as drawings, sculptures, and lightboxes, immersing viewers in his vibrant, irrepressible oeuvre. Wednesday also marks the opening day of the museum’s “Modernisms: Art from the Manes Collection”—a bespoke survey of modern art, from Picasso to Jasper Johns, from the collection of one of the museum’s most generous donors.
What: Cymande
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Miami Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Ave., Miami Beach
Cost: $42.95
Contact: miamibeachbandshell.com
In the cavernous category of bands that should have made it bigger than they did, British cult act Cymande deserves a place near the top of that heap. Forming in the early 1970s and combining a jazz-funk foundation with reggae, soul, rock, calypso, and African music, Cymande played with a genre slipperiness that was decades ahead of its time. Though the group became the first band of Black artists to play the Apollo, Cymande’s three seminal albums of the 1970s have mostly survived on the enthusiasms of crate-digging record collectors, DJs and hip-hop artists, with the band’s grooves appearing on albums by De La Soul, EPMD, The Fugees and many others. Their moment having finally arrived some 50 years after their formation, Cymande reunited last year to release Renasance, an album that, like its forbears, seeks spiritual and mystical communion through music that defies easy categorization.
SATURDAY
What: Opening day of “Recognition of Art by Women: In Retrospect” and “Danielle Mckinney: Shelter”
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
Established in 2011 to address the still-pervasive inequities in acknowledging, acquiring, and exhibiting work by female artists, the Norton’s ongoing “RAW: Recognition of Art by Women” series has helped to boost the presence of nine emerging or mid-career women artists through solo exhibitions over the past 15 years. In honor of the unveiling of a new exhibition from its 10th “RAW” artist, Danielle Mckinney, the museum is looking back at the artists it has previously heralded through the series, namely Jenny Saville, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Phyllida Barlow, Klara Kristalova, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Svenja Deininger, Nina Chanel Abney, María Berrío, and Rose B. Simpson. Serving as both a reminder and an introduction, this retrospective is paired with Mckinney’s “Shelter,” whose paintings of women in isolated and mostly domestic settings are defined by their subtle combination of intimacy and distance.
What: Boca Street Fest
When: Noon to 4 p.m.
Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, and Mizner Park
Cost: Free
Contact: myboca.us/2445/boca-street-fest
Last year, as part of its centennial celebrations, the City of Boca Raton launched this event to provide audiences an update on the city’s progress and share plans for the future, 100 years after its founding, and surrounded by food, fun, and live music. We’re thrilled the city has decided to revive the gathering for another year, and we hope it continues to be an annual tradition. Make it happen by showing your support for your favorite city and enjoy live sets from Havoc 305, a cover band specializing in rock and top 40 party favorites; and Wolfhawk, the melodic rock band featuring Lynn University President Kevin Ross. Both bands perform at Mizner Park Amphitheater. Activities continue throughout Mizner Park, including nearly 100 food and craft vendors, and performances from the Polynesian dance troupe Aloha Islanders, step dancing from the Emerald Isle courtesy of The Irish Cloggers, Jewish melodies from Miami Klezmer Band, and more.
SUNDAY
What: Brit Floyd
Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton
When: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $78.65-$157
Contact: 561/393-7890, mizneramp.com
It takes a certain amount of confidence to bill yourself as “the world’s greatest Pink Floyd show,” but the professionals in Brit Floyd have had 15 years to build up their dynamic tribute to one of the most exacting and globally convulsive rock bands in music history. In fact, Brit Floyd has amassed such respect from Pink Floyd’s inner circle that many players from the real McCoy have performed with them onstage, including saxophonist Scott Page and backing vocalists Roberta Freeman and Durga McBroom. On this tour, the 11-piece band will focus on “The Moon, The Wall and Beyond,” referring to two of the peaks—The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall—in Floyd’s mountain of music. Expect to be dazzled by the multicolored laser lights and rapturous video projections.
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