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 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 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 MoreRecent Acquisitions from The Ringling Photography Collection by Robin O'Dell “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly.” ― Laura Mulvey, Visual And Other Pleasures The above quote was written [...]
Read Moreby Sabrina Hughes “I didn’t know that that work was even radical in the way that I see it as being radical now until I started to have a conversation with people—even black people—who thought that my work was “positive.” Derrick Adams, Artnet News, February 5, 2020. Derrick Adams: Buoyant is on [...]
Read MoreFALL 2020 AT THE DUNEDIN FINE ART CENTER R. Lynn Whitelaw Over the past 15 years Catherine Bergmann has served as the Curatorial Director at the Dunedin Fine Art Center where she has organized over 300 thoughtful and thematic exhibitions for the Center’s seven galleries. Last year she was recognized by Creative Loafing [...]
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