On Friday, artists Yoko Nogami and Maria Saraceno appeared on JoEllen Schilke’s WMNF program, Art In Your Ear. Here’s a link to the MP3 online. (The interview with Nogami and Saraceno begins just past the half-way point in the program.)
On Friday, the Dunedin Fine Art Center opened Dreams, a group of five exhibits that includes [...]

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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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On Friday night, I paid a visit to Pride & Passion 2008, the Tampa Museum of Art’s annual celebration of gay pride, to check out Equilibrium, a one-night exhibit featuring three Tampa-based GLBT artists: Jen Saavedra, Santiago Echeverry and Kurt Piazza. Wish y’all could see the exhibit, but it’s gone now. Instead, check out this [...]

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Janae Easton
Golden Locks that Moss Grew, 2008
Floral foam, dried plant material, wrapping paper, Mylar, found paper, pen, colored pencil and polymer clay
Courtesy of the artist
If you haven’t been to see the exhibit Drawing Beyond the Plane at the Tampa Museum of Art, I urge you to drop everything and head over today (Saturday) to catch [...]

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Alan Moore has combined two of my favorite things—art books and Airstream trailers—into the Moving Thought Bookmobile. Click here to visit his blog, where you can see photos of the books and read about the project’s development.
The bookmobile is merely one among many attractions beckoning art lovers tonight to Seminole Heights for Neighborhood Watch: Projection [...]

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Peter Sarkisian
Extruded Video Engine II. Vacuum formed thermal plastic and video projection, (unique in series). 2007. Via bernicesteinbaumgallery.com
This morning’s St. Petersburg Times reports that the black tie reception for the new Hazel Hough Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts included the unveiling of a gift of contemporary art to the museum. Folks who visited [...]

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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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Tes One working on the TMA mural. Image courtesy BASK and Tes One.
I thought briefly about headlining this post “Vandals Deface TMA,” and then I thought: Oh, somebody’s not going to think that’s funny…
But for those of us who’ve occasionally entertained fantasies that the area’s talented street artists enjoyed a more prominent role in [...]

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Nicole van Beek
Inquiry
Mixed media
2007
REDUCED, a black-and-white show at the West Tampa Center for the Arts, opens Friday evening from 6-10 p.m. I went by for a preview this afternoon, and there’s quite a bit of good work in this show—particularly considering that the highest price tag you’ll see is $200.
Perhaps the best example is Brooklyn-based [...]

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I really enjoyed this looping program of single channel videos in a small theater outside the Convention Center. Two favorites: Euan Mcdonald’s Where Flamingos Fly and Vanessa Renwick’s Portrait #2: Trojan. The whole program of 19 shorts organized by Michael Darling, a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, is less than two hours long and [...]

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