Jeppe Hein
Smoking Bench, 2003
Fog machine, bench (stainless steel and leather), mirror
Courtesy Johann König, Berlin
For most folks, Sarasota’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is synonymous with Old Master style: ginormous Rubens tapestries, Italian canvases in dramatic chiaroscuro, twisting Baroque columns. In comparison, the Ringling’s current exhibit of modern art from the mid- to late-20th [...]

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Steven Katzman. Flowers for Gretchen. 1997, 47″ x 38″, Pigment print, ed. 1/5. Image courtesy Greene Contemporary.
Here’s another opening reception I neglected to mention:
Tonight, 6-9 p.m. – Reception for Steven Katzman: Obsessed with the Found at Greene Contemporary, Sarasota
Earlier this week, owner Jonathan Greene announced via email that his Sarasota gallery, Greene Contemporary, is [...]

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A Non Grata performance in Boston last year. Courtesy nongrata.ee
Is it just me—or is the number of art events taking place this weekend insane?
On Friday, it’s a tough call. If you stop by [5]art at the West Tampa Center for the Arts for their Polaroid Show, you can also see the FLOCAS show of [...]

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Image from tomnakashima.com
Tomorrow is the last chance to check out two shows at Ringling College of Art and Design’s Selby Gallery (on the RCAD campus, one-half block east of 2700 N. Tamiami Trail on Dr. Martin Luther King, Sarasota; 941.359.7563).
Tom Nakashima, an internationally-exhibited artist who also happens to be a professor at Augusta State [...]

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Ain Cocke
In the French Forest (2007)
5 1/2″ x 4 1/2″
Oil on birch panel
Sarasota gallerist Jonathan Greene has posted an extensive preview of the works he’ll be taking to Bridge Art Fair and Art Miami during Miami Basel next week. (Go to Greene Contemporary and click on upcoming shows, then on each fair.) I noticed that [...]

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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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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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