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The art installation features audio of Lucian Ferster reading his father's letters. For decades, the letters had been kept in a sealed banker's box, placed there by Lucian "Luke" Ferster's mother. Last spring, 79-year-old Ferster broke the seal, spilled the contents out on the floor, put them in chronological order and read them all. There were hundreds of letters written during World War II by his father — an Army officer — to his mother. Or "Sugar Plum," as his Dad called her. WLRN is committed to providing South Florida with trusted news and information. Your support makes it possible....

Simone Leigh Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s “Summer Series: Featured Artists and Conversations” program returns with a full lineup of live, in-person events this summer, according to a news release. “The Summer Series: Featured Artists and Conversations speakers at Anderson Ranch are dynamic and diverse,” Anderson Ranch President and CEO Peter Waanders said in a news release. “The 2021 series will bring a wide variety of voices and dialog to the campus throughout the summer. We look forward to a great season of big ideas and stimulating dialog here at the Ranch.” The lineup includ...

April Dobbins April Dobbins is a writer and filmmaker based in Miami. Her work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, ITVS, Oolite Arts, WaveMaker, International Documentary Association, Southern Documentary Fund, and Fork Films. Browse by: FREE Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our terms of use, our cookies policy, and our privacy policy The New Times Broward-Palm Beach may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. ©2021 New Times BPB, LLC. All rights reserved.

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami opens retrospective of artist Michael Richard Michael Richard, A Loss of Faith Brings Vertigo, 1994. Installed at Château Shatto Gallery, overlooking Downtown Los Angeles. Courtesy of the Michael Richards Estate and Château Shatto. MIAMI, FLA .-The Museum of Contemporary, Art North Miami is presenting the exhibition “Michael Richards: Are You Down?” ― the first museum retrospective of the work of Michael Richards, exhibiting both his extensive sculpture and drawing practice. Of Jamaican and Costa Rican lineage, Michael Richards was born in Brookly...

“When I was young I wanted to be a policeman,” reads the inscription under a bust of a man’s head and neck. Look closer at the face of the bust, and the images of police officers in full riot gear, weapons raised, come into view. Now, take in the third bust in this row of five. Like a bullet wound between the eyes or a sight seared into one’s memory, the image of Rodney King’s swollen, beaten face is photo-transferred onto the figure’s forehead. The entire head and neck rotate endlessly — never pausing, never resting — on a motorized metal arm affixed to a pedestal that reads,...