Workers install hexagonal tiles into the sea wall at Snug Harbor Gardens, which will create eco-friendly substrate for oysters to get a start. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Patrick Sherry
Boynton Beach’s Art in Public Places program, whi
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Visitors take advantage of swings that are part of a temporary art install-ation at Wildflower Park in Boca Raton.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hladky
The city’s young public art program has taken a leap forward by showcasing its first major
Motorist rescued from Intracoastal — Boca Raton police and fire rescue rescued a 75-year-old Boca Raton woman from water near Silver Palm Park on Aug. 22 after she called police late at night saying she was lost and her car was filling with water.
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By Mary Hladky
For years, Andrea O’Rourke exhorted fellow City Council members to place art in public spaces and establish a public art program.
Her idea finally gained traction last year when the council made an art in public places program, headed
By Tao Woolfe
Spring is a subtle season in South Florida with scant explosions of flowers and green shoots, but in Boynton Beach this month, pops of color and movement are in bloom everywhere.
The 2023 Kinetic Art Biennial is in full swing, with mova
Gregory Dirr’s sculpture REcycled REef will be installed this month at the entrance to South Beach Pavilion. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Gregory Dirr’s REcycled REef sculpture was a tangle of curved rebar coated with concrete and
By Mary Hladky
With construction of Silver Palm Park in the downtown finally underway and work at the adjacent Wildflower Park slated to start soon, the parks’ art components have been selected.
Two sculptures will be loaned to the city by the Boca
Photographs of firefighters were used as the base for a mural named 'Community Heartbeat' by Boca Raton artist Lynn Doyal. In the mural sample above it can be seen how the face of Deputy Fire Chief Latosha Clemons was obscured. In a different panel (
When Are You Coming to Visit? — which spent eight years on display in Boynton Beach — was designed to have a limited lifespan because it depicted an old woman. Photo provided
Artist Melissa Markowitz holds part of her crumbling work on the night
By Mary Thurwachter
Developers for Water Tower Commons received approval from the Lantana Town Council for several changes to the commercial plan for the 72-acre retail and residential project at the old A.G. Holley State Hospital site. But they’l
