By Robin O’Dell. Dance photography is a difficult and dynamic practice requiring precise timing, knowledge of the medium – and the ability and willingness to collaborate with performers. One of the greats, who also just happened to live in St. Petersburg, was the late Thomas Kramer (1934-2022). … Read More
SAGES Theater in Tarpon Springs presents three Plays with Purpose this year, all with free admission. Each event entertains, educates and empowers seniors to meet the challenges of aging with humor and wisdom…. Read More
By Jennifer Ring. Feeling uninspired? Consider visiting the Museum of Fine Arts. That’s what I did when the MFA hosted Maira Kalman in Conversation with Bob Morris – launching an exciting slate of programming designed to make you think, feel and discuss. And if Kalman and Morris’s conversation is any indication of what’s to come, it’s going to be awesome…. Read More
By Kurt Loft. If you had a front-row seat for Joyce Yang’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Florida Orchestra last Sunday at the Straz Center, you witnessed a bit of magic. Or, more accurately, you were swept up by an artist’s ability to concentrate on a magical level…. Read More
By Emily Lee Stehle. This remarkable exhibit at the MFA showcases Auguste Rodin’s best-known sculptures alongside other Impressionist masterworks from artists of his time. Drawn from the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the show offers a comprehensive look at Rodin’s influential and revolutionary life as an artist…. Read More
By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. Visiting the Leepa-Rattner’s ARTS ALIVE! exhibit and seeing Thomas dancing with the photos, Madeline’s movements and William’s topsy-turvy viewing made me realize exactly what the entire exhibition was showcasing – how the human body and its movement through space is an important form of creative expression. … Read More
By Tony Wong Palms. It is fitting that the Dalí Museum is hosting a dream exhibition as the Surrealists bring forth dreamscapes of the unconscious. The works, spanning the 16th to the 20th centuries of Western art history, bring together the public and the private, exploring a bit more of who or what we are through the intimacy of dreams…. Read More
By Letisia Cruz. Many of the poems in “Migrations & Other Exiles” began as a way of revisiting and acknowledging the violence of my youth without fear or judgment. They explore minority women’s issues, immigration and exile, my father’s murder, my mother’s experience with domestic violence, and the relationships of my youth…. Read More
By Laura Kepner. Tommy Bell is a musician, teacher, stand-up-comedian – and he can’t remember a time when he wasn’t a visual artist. “It’s been all kinds of art on and off since I was born, really.” Bell teaches at the Morean Arts Center and believes foundation must be the initial focus in any creative endeavor…. Read More
By Margo Hammond. Edward Hopper’s name is instantly recognizable while Guy Pène du Bois is virtually unknown. Why do some artists stand the test of time while others fall into obscurity? The Polk Museum of Art tries to answer that question in its current exhibit of works by these two lifelong friends who came to fame together in the 1920s – and have never been exhibited together before. … Read More
