Retailer Spotlight: The Ballet Boutique Company
By Ronni Sandroff | Apr. 2017 | Dance Retailer News “Elegance and class without the high prices!” That’s the selling point of the newest Ballet Boutique in a spanking new shopping center in downtown Doral, FL, a fast-growing city near Miami. Entering the spacious...
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Art Basel Miami Side Fairs Provide Surprise and Color
Art fairs, petite and tall, accompany Art Basel and Art Miami like a very long train of bridesmaids and ushers. Whether they’re at grand hotels or displayed in rooms emptied of beds in small ones, the galleries work their hearts out to showcase the works, and the...
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The Art of Provocation, Art Basel Miami 2016
By Ronni Sandroff | Dec. 2016 | Letagemagazine.com While 20th-century art seemed to dominate the showings at Art Basel Miami this year, a work that was only a month old attracted the most attention. Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija seized the moment and used the November...
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Interview: Artist Chuck Close Decodes His Compelling Portraits
By Ronni Sandroff | Mar. 2016 | Letagemagazine.com The faces, looming larger-than-life, often staring straight at you, are unguardedly and unglamorously human. They seem so real that you can sense the rumble of the person’s thoughts. Yes, the paintings and...
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Pop Artist Rosalyn Drexler breaks barriers at Art Basel Miami
By Ronni Sandroff | Dec. 2015 | Letagemagazine.com “If you want a message, get a fortune cookie,” veteran pop artist Rosalyn Drexler laughingly told L’Etage Magazine when she was asked what she thought the many women artists displayed at this year’s Art Basel...
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Off the Wall Art at Art Boca Raton
By Ronni Sandroff | Mar. 2016 | Letagemagazine.com Some of my favorite pieces in the 42 galleries exhibiting at the first annual Art Boca Raton were both on and off the wall, which produced a dynamic energy. Among the most striking was Helen Lopez “Alone in My...
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Two Don’t-Miss Exhibits at Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
By Ronni Sandroff | Mar. 2016 | Letagemagazine.com “Who is going to buy a nine-foot painting of someone they don’t know?” a gallery owner asked painter Chuck Close at the start of his career. “Don’t worry,” Close replied, “They’ll all go to museums.” This story...
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Javier Martin Opening
By Ronni Sandroff | Feb. 2016 | Letagemagazine.com Alternately glitzy, stark and enigmatic, the works in Javier Martin’s new show, “War, Consumption, And Other Human Hobbies,” at Valli Art Gallery in Wynwood until October 18, are designed to shake up our vision of...
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ArtPalmBeach Displays Both Congenial and Challenging Works of Art
By Ronni Sandroff | Jan. 2016 | Letagemagazine.com Many exhibitors at ArtPalmBeach seemed to have your living room in mind. Unlike the haute wares at ArtBaselMiami, the 85 international galleries at ArtPalmBeach displayed an array of less expensive work by both...
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The Magic in Everyday Things, at Art Basel Miami 2015
By Ronni Sandroff | Dec. 2015 | Letagemagazine.com Although the use of everyday objects in works of art was so persistent at Art Basel Miami that it bordered on cliche, there was an exciting number of sensibility-shifting works of art built from very humble...
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