This show opens Friday, Nov. 30, with a reception from 6-9 p.m.

Matthew Lindhardt
Father and son artists Matthew and Patrick Lindhardt share an obsession with exploring places that are paradoxically mundane and fantastical at the same time. (They just reach their destinations in very different ways.)
Patrick, a master printer and professor at Ringling College of Art [...]

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You can tell Shane Hoffman is a poet (and an artist) by the evocative title of his exhibit…

I’ve shortened it for headline purposes, though. Scroll down to read the whole thing, which becomes more (ironically?) mysterious with each word.
Lovable weirdness is big part of Hoffman’s work, which consists—as far as I’ve seen—mainly of stuffed felt [...]

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According to the website of the Ringling Museum of Art, this tiny show ought to have come down at the beginning of November, so for the moment I have no idea how much longer it will be up. I drove down to see Goya’s Los Caprichos (about which I’ll post some thoughts shortly) but was [...]

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Two area artists have won prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants announced earlier this month. They are (drum roll, please…)
Elisabeth Condon, a USF professor represented by Bleu Acier in Tampa

Twisting Fireball Tree, 2006. Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 in.
and
Brian Haverlock, represented by Greene Contemporary in Sarasota

Mother of Ichthys (detail), 2007. Graphite and oil paint in [...]

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The fine ladies—and maybe even a crafty gent or two—of Crafting Out Loud will descend upon St. Pete’s Museum of Fine Arts Sunday to transform part of the museum into one of their trademark fun-and-funky urban craft fairs. If you haven’t been to a COL before, don’t miss this opportunity to cash in on free [...]

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Did anyone read this editorial in yesterday’s Trib?
Dark Hallway No Place For Sassy Photos
The Tampa Tribune, published: November 20, 2007
Things are winding down at the Tampa Museum of Art as it prepares for a temporary move to Centro Espanol de West Tampa, pending construction of its new home in Curtis Hixon Park.
But the impending [...]

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If you haven’t been up to North Franklin Street in downtown Tampa recently, I think you’d be surprised—a small restaurant-office-residential resurgence is taking place on a couple of blocks up at the northern end of downtown. There’s Fly Bar, which has delicious small plates, good draught beers, and the requisite attractive staff (not to be [...]

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Cast(e) 2 by Julie Weitz, gouache on paper
Julie Weitz: Hidden or Missing
November 17-December 15, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17, 6-9pm
[5]art West Tampa
1906 N. Armenia Ave, #211
Tampa, FL 33607
www.five-art.com
art.five@gmail.com
813-340-9056
Don’t miss this opening Saturday at [5]art’s West Tampa outpost inside the former Santaella cigar factory on North Armenia where the West Tampa Center for the [...]

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I ran into a friend at the reception for Identity In Process Friday night, and we both noticed the same thing– just we were getting ready to leave around 8:30 or 9 p.m., the opening picked up. I couldn’t attend the reception Wednesday night hosted by Mayor Pam for DEC delegates, but I’m told it [...]

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Urban Charrette’s next exercise in community building and urban design takes place Saturday at the University of South Florida’s Alumni Center. The daylong event (8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.) features a handful of speakers on the topic, an interactive design exercise (no academic training required), and lunch. As always, UC would like to attract a diverse group [...]

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See ya next year?
Inquiring minds want to know: Does the Sarasota International Design Summit (SIDS) have the attendee base to support becoming an annual event? (The conference launched in 2006 and debuted v2.0 this week; its organizers wonder if it should be a biennial affair instead.) At a keynote luncheon on SIDS’ third and final [...]

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This weekend marks the last chance to take in a trifecta of Cuba-themed photography portfolios at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. There’s Clyde Butcher’s sweeping rural landscapes captured in luxurious detail with a wide-format camera, David Audet’s hand-held street photography shot in urban Havana and Afro-Cuban Santiago, and Maria Martinez Cañas’s elaborate, abstract photo [...]

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