Tag: Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg

From Margins to Mainstays

By 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 [...]

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From Chaos to Order

From 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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Radical Pleasures

by 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 [...]

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ANCIENT THEATER AND THE CINEMA

By 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 [...]

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We Must Go…

By 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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My Camera My Self(ie)

My 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 [...]

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We can selfie if we want to

The 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 [...]

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