Steel sculpture by Dominique Labauvie.
Friday
5-7 p.m. – Opening reception for László Horváth at Gallery 501, Blake High School, 1701 N. Boulevard, Tampa.
7-9 p.m. – Opening reception for Je veux l’art, an exhibit of work by USF undergraduate and graduate students and faculty who traveled to Paris in June 2008, at Centre Gallery, USF [...]

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Passersby in downtown Tampa - or anyone with a view of the waterfront just north of the Platt Street Bridge - may have been wondering about the giant, red steel sculpture sprouting up in MacDill Park this week. It’s part of Chattanooga-based artist John Henry’s Peninsula Project, which brings his monumental sculptures to seven Florida [...]

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Radcliffe Bailey, Tobacco Blues, 2000, Aquatint, etching, drypoint, photogravure, and chine collé, Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay, 2006.56.
I’m gonna drop this week’s roundup early because there are some Thursday events here folks should know about. Text in italics is taken directly from press releases. If I’m missing [...]

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Rendering via tampabayhistorycenter.org
The newly constructed Tampa Bay History Center is now set to open Jan. 17. (Up until last week, I’d heard December, but the History Center’s PR person recently sent me the January date.)
This is not only exciting news for those of us who live in downtown Tampa and are glad to see the [...]

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Late breaking weekend roundup so you can get your art on. Sorry, folks, I’ve been out of town…
Friday
6-10 p.m. – Mind the Gap, a one-night exhibit and fundraiser for the Ellis-VanPelt Santaella Cigar Factory at 1906 N Armenia Ave (home to the West Tampa Center for the Arts, 5[art] and Three04). Additional information [...]

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