Installation view of the exhibition "Patricia Cronin, Aphrodite, and the Lure of Antiquity: Conversations with the Collection" at the Tampa Museum of Art. Photo: Eleanor Eichenbaum Artist Patricia Cronin’s “Aphrodite and the Lure of Antiquity” is the inaugural exhibition in the Tampa Museum’s Conversations with the Collection, which puts contemporary art [...]
Read MoreMuseums please don’t stay still and keep on moving. So it is with Patricia Cronin, Aphrodite, and the Lure of Antiquity: Conversations with the Collection at the Tampa Museum of Art on view through January 6, 2019. This is the inaugural exhibition of a biennial series of commissioned contemporary art [...]
Read MoreFaces in the Crowd By Sabrina Hughes Miki Kratsman’s exhibition People I Met at the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) is a challenging exhibition, but maybe not for the reasons you would think. Though it deals with the emotionally and politically charged subject matter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, [...]
Read MoreConversation with a Curator: Really! This is (So) Not a Selfie Thursday, October 25th, 7-8 pm at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. FREE with Museum admission, $10 on Thursdays after 5 pm. The current exhibition This is Not a Selfie is drawn from a single collection, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection at the Los [...]
Read MoreMy Camera My Self(ie) by Sabrina Hughes In my History of Photography course, there is a class meeting on the syllabus dedicated to discussing selfies. I’m sure my undergraduate students roll their eyes when they see this and wait for me to deliver a punchline that never arrives. Discussing selfies, even uttering [...]
Read MoreDormant by Caitlin Albritton, 2018 Suggesting something alive yet perhaps not actively developing, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas’s solo exhibition Dormant aims to question our internalized bigotry—the sleeping beasts within us—concerning colorism, racism, and identity. Converting statements Cumbas has overheard people make about race or color and turning them into titles, these bits of poetic [...]
Read MoreThe upcoming essay by St. Petersburg photo historian Sabrina Hughes, My Camera My Self(ie), which will post on Bay Art Files next week, examines the complex relationship between photographic self-portraiture and the selfie. That such a relationship might exist and be scrutinized is explicitly suggested by the title of the current [...]
Read MoreComing soon - An essay by Sabrina Hughes on the exhibition 'This Is Not a Selfie' currently showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida.
Read MoreDisturbed by Delight by Caitlin Albritton “Woman dressed as a turkey arrested for shoplifting,” “Someone donated a loaded grenade launcher to Goodwill,” “Man claims wife was kidnapped by holograms”—please, don’t let this be a headline from Florida, a local might plead. I can’t begin to imagine how non-Floridians make sense of the Sunshine [...]
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