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Sun-Sentinel, Sunday, August 4, 1991 3F SOUND JUDGMENT ARTS AGENDA fV if -1' 1 1 POP German group mixes it up KRAFTWERK: The Mix (Elektra Records). During the late '70s and early '80s, dance music broke away from the tiresome 44 time of disco and moved into the mechanical rhythms of technopop. Among the groups at the fore of the technopop movement was Kraftwerk, a German group whose music is frequently sampled by today's hip-hop artists. According to Ralf Hutter, one of the group's founders, Kraftwerk is dedicated to what the Germans call Gesamtkunstwerk, art that incorporates all of the senses. The Mix is a "retrospective that goes forward," and contains re-mixes and new versions of Kraftwerk classics: Trans Europe Express (1977), Computer Love (1981) and Musique Non Stop (1986).

'j "Our work is not just music," Ralf said in a press release. "If you are friendly with the machines, they are friendly with you. It's all part of the universe." TRACY E. HOPKINS Color this debut album bad THEATER THE CARDIGANS At Off Broad-' way On E. 26th Street, 1444 NE 26th Wilton Manors.

Curtain 8 p.m.. Wednesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday. Tickets $18, $20. Call 566-0554.

HELL'S BROKE LOOSE Cabaret burlesque comedy. At the Theatre at the Harbour, Harbour Shops, PGA i Blvd. and Prosperity Farms Palm Beach Gardens. Curtain 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

$10. Call 627-8462. LADIES, PLEASEI Through Oct. 13 at Jan's Upstairs Cabaret at the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, Royal Palm Plaza, 315 SE Mizner Boca Raton. Dinner 6:30 p.m., curtain 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday; dinner 4:30 p.m., curtain 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets $38 (dinner and show), $18 (show only), $13 (Sat. matinee, show only); group rates available. Call 832-0262 (Palm Beach), 392-3755 (Boca Raton), 426-2211 (Broward), 1-800-841-6765.

THE ODD COUPLE Female version. 2 p.m. Sun. at Broward County: Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Fort Lauderdale.

(Artistic Underground Actors presentation) $10 advance, $12 at the door. 475-3000. to. 's p. A 'v MUSIC COLOR ME BADD: C.M.B.

(Giant Records). How seriously can you take a group that consists of look-alikes for Vanilla Ice, Kenny George Michael (well, that's what he was aiming for) and well, the last guy is either just thrown in for some actual color or is a reject from Milli Vanilli? STANLEY TURRENTINE 8:30. 11 p.m. Friday at Musicians Exchange, 729 W. Sunrise Fort Lauderdale.

Tickets $13, $15. 764-1912 (Broward), 944-2627 (Dade) or Ticketmaster, 523-3309 (Brow Constant's oil on canvas Two Birds (1949) sold through Christie's for $359,024, a record for a work by the Dutch artist. Lv. ard), 358-5885 Turrentine (Dade). AMERICA 8 p.m.

Wed. at Care-' free Theatre, 2000 S. Dixie West Palm Beach. Tickets $18.50, $33.50. Call Ticketmaster, 523-3309 (Broward), 358-5885 (Dade).

GOSPEL GALA With Janice Robinson and The Florida East Coast Choir of the Church of God by Faith, The Voices of Inspiration and Patricia Adams-Johnson. 8 p.m. Saturday at the Duncan Theatre, Palm Beach Community College, 4200 Congress Lake Worth. Tickets $10 to $20. Call 439-8141.

Rising auction prices put stock in importance of CoBrA works Color Me Badd must have been taken seriously enough to have spawned the hit 7 Wanna Sex You Up from the New Jack City soundtrack. But now comes its debut album, complete with biographical sketches of the four members. In those sketches we discover that lead singer Bryan Adams (the Vanilla Ice clone), is a Scorpio who "loves a woman with sensitivity, romance in her heart and the ability to understand the depth of a good man." Give me a break. Actually, that information is more interesting than most of the unimaginative, imitative music on C.M.B. On Heartbreaker, the group rips off beats from BBD's Poison and That Girl Is Dope.

The few redeemable songs are the pverplayed I Wanna Sex You Up, the catchy Roll the Dice and the slow-tempoed Thinkin' Back. T.E.II. Image can't overcome album The image of the man with a yellow ROGER HURLBURT Art Writer Marks The JS.C jyi EX-GIRLFRIEND: Marks the Spot (Reprise Records). Likable personalities, cute clothes and sporty haircuts will only get you so far in the music business. Finding a catchy name and the right image is only half the battle, unless you are Vanilla Ice.

Ex-Girlfriend, a new female market." 1 Great Danes What is the appeal of CoBrA? See for yourself. Last season, the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, began a series of exhibitions emphasizing the national origin of CoBrA artists. The first installment featured members who were either born or had roots in Amsterdam, Holland. The so-called innovators included Appel, Brands, Lucebert and Corneille. Through January 1992, the the spotlight in the upstairs CoBrA gallery shifts to those artists associated with "Co" Copenhagen, Denmark.

Like their Dutch and Belgian brethren, these Danish artists who were living in Paris in 1948. They, too, followed a creative manifesto that exalted abstract freedom, brilliant colors and spontaneous images associated with children's art and Nordic mythology. A gestural approach to painting and a love of gnomes, goblins and monsters originated with the Danes Egill Jacobsen and Carl-Henning Pedersen as early as the late 1930s. In fact, they are considered the first CoBrA artists. And by defying any decorative sense or need to be "pretty," their work also remains the most aesthetically difficult.

"The Danes of CoBrA" show is composed of 65 works. Artists represented include Jacobsen and Pedersen, as well as Else Alfelt, Mogens Balle, Ejler Bille, Asger Jorn, Erik Ortvad and Serge Vandercam. In general, the Danish CoBrA works reveal rich impastos of swirling pigments and a love of dense, rapidly applied paints. And pay careful attention to the works of Jorn; his range and expressiveness is unmatched within the ranks of CoBrA art. cap and blue coat, his hand resting on his cheek, possesses a world-weary expression.

On a table, sprigs of foxglove blossoms protrude from a tumbler of water. That's the Portrait ol Dr. Gachet painted by Vincent van Gogh. Last year, the picture sold in auction at Christie's for $82.5 million a world record price for any work of art." Small wonder Christie's, the venerable auction house that began back in the 18th century, chose the acclaimed Van Gogh for the cover of its sumptuous auction-year roundup volume Christie's Review of the Season 1990. The book brims with color photographs and sale notices.

Consider the $9.9 million canvas by Marc Chagall, the $12.98 million Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the $14.3 million Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the $14.67 million Fernand Leger, not to mention the extraordinary Badminton Cabinet, which fetched $15.17 million at Christie's in London, making it the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold. Heady stuff. But what especially caught my eye in the Christie 's Review of the Season 1990 was a chapter by Matthijs Erdman titled "The CoBrA Movement." CoBrA, as many South Florida art aficionados know by now, is an acronym for the movement of post-World War II expressionist artists working in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. CoBrA also is a term linked to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, which houses one of the world's finest and most comprehensive holdings of paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics by this dynamic and colorful contingent. Virtually all of the works in the museum's permanent collection were donat- ART ART AND CULTURE CENTER OF HOLLYWOOD 1301 S.

Ocean Dr. Through Sept. 8, "Eszter Gyory: The American Flag Series," and "Selections from the Center Collection and Recent Gifts." 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m.

Sunday. Admission $2, $3. Call 921-3274 or 921-3275. BASS MUSEUM OF ART 2121 Park Miami Beach. Through Aug.

18, "Buckminster Fuller: Harmonizing Nature, Humanity and Technology." Through Sept. 1, "A Collection Expanded: Oriental Art from the Bass Collection." 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 1-5 p.m. Sun. Admission $5 adults, $2 children; group rates available.

Call 673-7533. BROWARD ART GUILD GALLERY 713 E. Broward Fort Lauderdale. Closing today, "Budding Tender Blooming Imagination Exhibition." Opening Thursday "Chiaroscuro1 The Black and White Show." 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 764-2005. MUSEUM OF ART 1 E. Las Olas Fort Lauderdale.

Closing today, "Dualities and Dichotomies: The Works of John "South Florida Invitational: George Bolge Selects." Through Oct. 27, "Jasper Cropsey Through Jan. 12, "The Danes of Through Aug. 18, "High School Art Majors Strut Their and "Tom Fertig: High Tech On permanent display, "African Art from the Permanent Collection" and "Art Amaze." Admission $3.25 non-members, seniors $2.75, students $1.25. 11 a.m.

to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Call 763-6464. ed by Meyer and Golda Marks of Miami more than 5,000 pieces. And, historical significance aside, there is little doubt that CoBrA also has "arrived" on the international art scene. Read on in that big Christie's season wrap up. Sold through Christie's was Constant's (Dutch, b.

1920) oil on canvas Two Birds (1949) for $359,024, a record for a work by the artist. A breathtaking blue-and-white ensemble in oils, Le Grands Transparents (1958) by Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, b. 1927), brought $480,835. And a swirling red canvas by Karel Appel (Dutch, b. 1921), titled Smiling Grasshopper (1960), was knocked down at Christie's for $192,332.

At Christie's May 22, 1990, auction of CoBrA art in Amsterdam, lots totaled more than $59 million. Impressive. As writer Erdman commented in his Review of the Seaon 1990 article: "Although works by CoBrA artists are sold all around the world, this sale confirmed that Amsterdam is a vital and probably the most important marketplace for this movement. The decision to bring together so many CoBrA works showed clearly the enormous appeal CoBrA has for a wide audience and gave extra stimulus to an already strong quartet, will learn that the hard way. Produced by Full Force, Ex-Girlfriend consists of Julia Ex, Monica Ex, Stacy Ex and Tisha Ex (cute The group's debut single, Why Can't You Come Home, does show off their ability to harmonize, but the rest of the album is forgettable.

T.E.H. CRITIC'S CHOICE jComedy goes 'Hollywood' The charming romantic comedy Doc Hollywood takes little time to perk. Michael J. Fox has his best role ever as a frustrated, cocky young doctor, who has to Special brings laughter to prison, shows reality i jt i contend with an unexpected '-f stay in a small South 1 i Carolina town en route to ON TV 4 i LAI I I ritzy Beverly Hills to practice plastic surgery. Fox is back where he fox urn Program: Paul Rodriguez: Behind Bars Subject: Popular comedian goes to San Quentin State Prison for a documentary and comedy special Airs: tonight, 10, WFLX-Ch.

29; midnight, WSVN-Ch. 7 1 like me. Rodriguez' hope: that the cons will convince some young viewers that crime isn't the only possibility, that San Quentin is Loser City, not the test of manhood. He'd intended the show as a variety special, sprinkled with some bantering with inmates. Rodriguez' track record includes 10 films, four series (all short-runs, alas), a slew of specials, and now a weekly talk show on the Spanish-language Univision network seen in the U.S.

and Latin America. Although he gives the impression of a guy born sunny side up, he didn't start with much. His parents were migrant farm workers a happy family, but strangers to decent wages. He didn't get bitter, though. He credits four Air Force years and travel as a C-130 crewman with opening his eyes.

"I try to tell kids in my community that yes, there's prejudice. Yes, it's hard to have opportunities. But you can't sit around and blame things, feel 'Oh, I'm Chicano, I'm black, I'm brown, I'm never going to make I think jobs come to those who are persistfwt." By JAY SHARBUTT The Associated Press NEW YORK Paul Rodriguez conducts the interview in an exercise yard at San Quentin prison. "Who do you blame for being in here?" he asks. The immediate reply from the convict: "Myself." Rodriguez: "Not society? Not 'cause you're black? Not 'cause the world is run by whites?" No, the convict says, smiling: "I mean, if I'm into crime, I'm into crime.

If I'm into a peaceful life, that's how I'm going to live." A documentary? Sort of. But few prison documentaries include a stage show in which the program's maker Rodriguez, in this case gets a roar of knowing laughter by telling a crowd of cons: "You miss it out there, right? Well, they don't miss you." But then, Paul Rodriguez: Behind Bars, a one-hour special airing on Sunday night, is a different kind of show, a hybrid that Fox Broadcasting calls a "docu-comedy." Rodriguez is a comedian by trade, and one with a little more humanity and social commentary than tiSually emit- fcelongs, playing self-effacing comedy and allowing his boyish style to frame a Characterization. Inside, Dr. Stone is an amicable fellow. He just needs to learn how to show it.

ROGER HURLBURT ll Doc Hollywood. Playing at various theaters. See movie times this Issue. Cultural ways explored 'The film version of Mister Johnson is an outstanding adaptation of a Joyce Cary novel, set in West Africa in 1923. Focusing on the sneaky maneuverings of an ambitious clerk (Maynard Eziashi) caught between two cultures, director Bruce Beresford shows this likable character's difficulty in developing moral rectitude.

Pierce Brosnan co-stars as a Britisher commissioned to build a road, CANDICE RUSSELL Mister Johnson. Broward Mall theater, behind Broward Mall, University Drive and Broward Boulevard, Plantation. Call 1-305-472-8202. i ted by those touring TV's standup comedy circuit. Barrio humor is an integral part of his act.

It helped him land his first starring role in Norman Lear's short-lived a.k.a. Pablo. His routine included these thoughts after a neighbor was shot by Los Angeles cops: "The only white people in my neighborhood are Jesus and the police department. If you see either of the two, you're in trouble." In Sunday's show, he interviews white, black and Latino cons, one a Mexican-American mob boss, a bright, articulate man doing 10 life sentences. Rodriguez gently elicits from him a warning for kids: Stay in school, don't be Paul Rodriguez's hybrid speck being called docu-comedy..