By Tom Winchester. Joe Fig and Samo Davis create new worlds with their art – a return to figuration founded upon the principles of modernism…. Read More
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
New Florida Highwaymen Exhibit
By Tony Wong Palms. The automobile is the essence of the Florida Highwaymen’s story, with paintings now on view in Selby Gardens’ Museum of Botany & the Arts…. Read More
Beyond Couch Art
By Margo Hammond. This obviously was not your parents’ real estate open house. But do real estate and art really have anything in common?… Read More
Wearable Art – No Rules Just WOW!
By Carlene Cobb. “Wearable Art is fashion on steroids because there are no rules,” says Designer and Clearwater City Councilwoman Lina Teixeira…. Read More
The Dalí Staff Art Show
Talent Within: The Dalí Staff Art Show celebrates the creative work of the creative staff at the Salvador Dalí Museum…. Read More
A Flourishing Vision
By Antonio Permuy. Flora & Fauna at the Gallery at Creative Pinellas is a clear high point of the 2024 art calendar. … Read More
Conversation with Elizabeth Barenis
By Tom Winchester. Tropical Splendor is a collection of paintings by Elizabeth Barenis that are both abstract and representational…. Read More
Everything’s Coming Up Floral
By Margo Hammond. Two new exhibits take an unusual — and highly imaginative — approach to botanical art… Read More
A New Perspective on the Hit Musical “Gypsy”
By Doug DeVita. “There’s not one bit of truth in that show, not one shred!” Fable. A Fable About A Musical Fable, was born out of that conversation about the hit musical Gypsy…. Read More
Escaping the Heat at the Leepa-Rattner
By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. On a Friday in July, my three children and I escaped the heat by visiting the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs… Read More