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COVID-19 certainly made Palm Beach the place to be for gallery owners.
Wanting to be near customers who were not traveling because of the pandemic, gallery owners came to where the action is to open up satellite spaces here. Along with the cancellation of major fairs such as Art Basel in Miami, the travel restrictions have limited galleries’ in-person contact with their clients, many of whom have stayed put in places far from New York.
A tempting share of these clients are spending the winter within driving distance of Palm Beach. Among the town’s attractions: a booming real estate market, numerous billionaires on the most recent Forbes 400 list, and several major collectors who live here.
The Gathering Place and Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will host artworks from the Kinsey collection, beginning May 22 through June 2021 in the ONEOK Boathouse. The collection then travels to Tacoma Art Museum in Washington this summer. The widely acclaimed exhibition, The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present times. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African .
Daily News staff report
The Palm Beach Opera will celebrate its 60th anniversary this coming season with a three-opera lineup of well-known works, including two comedies and one of the world’s most-admired tragedies.
The operas will be presented at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, the troupe’s usual home. In February, the company hosted a three-opera outdoor festival at the South Florida Fairgrounds, in what was a rare national return to staged opera amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The season will open Jan. 28-30 with one of the most popular operas in the repertoire, French composer Georges Bizet’s 1875 melodrama Carmen, the story of the tragic love of Don José, a Spanish soldier, for Carmen, a tempestuous Roma woman who refuses to be bound to conventional ways. The opera, the last major work of its short-lived composer, contains some of the best-known melodies in opera, such as Carmen s “Habanera” and the “Toreador So