steven locke: the color of remembering On view through March 7th at Hillsborough Community College’s Gallery 221 as part of an annual exhibition celebrating African American heritage and presented in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival. steve locke: the color of remembering is on view at HHC's Gallery 221 though [...]
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 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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