Marisol Escobar. Dinner Date, 1963. Yale University Art Gallery. Marisol in Miami By Kathy Gibson Two figures sharing a meal together, Dinner Date from 1963, was my introduction to Marisol's work. I gravitated to it right away when scrolling sculpture images several years ago. I was not familiar with the artist [...]
Read MoreImmersing Tampa Bay By Jessica Todd Over the past decade, immersive art has grown from niche market to mainstream popularity, much to the delight or disgust of many in the art world. From rotating projections of Starry Night to Meow Wolf’s growing repertoire, an increasing number of mainstream audiences are engaging with this [...]
Read MoreThe Constant Curator: The Important Work of Nellie Mae Rowe by Katherine Gibson The exhibition REALLY FREE: THE RADICAL ART OF NELLIE MAE ROWE was on view at the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, Georgia, from September 3, 2021 - January 9, 2022, and was organized by Katherine Jentleson, the Merrie and [...]
Read Moreby Sabrina Hughes Lee Miller is a fascinating figure in the history of photography, and it is refreshing to experience a retrospective of her work of this size and scope, more than 130 images spanning her decades-long career. The Woman who Broke Boundaries was curated by Dr. William Jeffett, chief curator of [...]
Read MoreBy Jonathan Talit Installation shot of Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott with 1919 (1980) on the left. All photographs courtesy of the author unless otherwise noted. Establishing the Sarasota Art Museum was a lengthy process that began back in 2003. After two years of speaking with community [...]
Read MoreBy Sabrina Hughes From Margins to Mainstays: Highlights from the Photography Collection is a small but impactful survey exhibition highlighting the work of photographers who may have experienced marginalization in their life because of part of their identity. The photos included are largely from the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg's [...]
Read Moreby Katherine Gibson Prelude Before venturing to Nashville, there was a road trip to Durham, North Carolina, for my first 21c experience. Currently, there are nine 21c Museum Hotels, with plans for more, sprinkled across a few select states in mostly mid-sized cities. Each location exhibits museum-quality 21st-century art (21c) [...]
Read MoreBy Selina Roman In late February 2020, a colleague from the college where I teach asked me how I felt about the virus as it raged in China but had yet to get a foothold stateside. I shrugged my shoulders in response and indifferently said, “Hopefully it won’t come our way.” [...]
Read MoreAn exhibition of works by Ry McCullough by Tony Wong Palms Pausing at the entrance, taking in what is in front of me, many things come to mind when walking into Gallery114@HCC at the School of Visual and Performing Arts on the Ybor City campus and encountering the works of Ry McCullough. Ry [...]
Read MoreFrom Chaos to Order: Greek Geometric Art from the Sol Rabin Collection By Dr. Bob Bianchi Some of us, I suppose, might initially be reluctant to attend an exhibition featuring 57 relatively small objects from the obscure Geometric period (about 900-700 BCE) of ancient Greek art placed within the context of ancient Greek [...]
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