Immersing 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 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 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 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 [...]
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 MoreBy Dr. Bob Bianchi You may not realize it, but if you’re a movie buff you may be surprised to learn about just how indebted Hollywood is to the civilizations of Greece and Rome. I’m not just talking about the obvious, like Gladiator (2000) or 300 (2006), but about films like the eleven in [...]
Read MoreTongue and Groove - Exploring a Common Visual LanguageCreative Pinellas, Largo, FLJuly 11 - July 28, 2019Opening reception: Thursday, July 11, 6 - 9 pmThe curator and the artists will do a gallery walkthrough at 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public Traditionally, the creative process is [...]
Read MoreBy Sabrina Hughes The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg’s newest exhibition is Theo Wujcik: Cantos, a series of works based on Dante’s Inferno. The exhibition is in turns lyrical, poetic, and dark in keeping with Wujcik’s literary inspiration for the paintings. If, like me, it’s been decades since thinking about Dante [...]
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