Art

Upcoming James exhibit spotlights gay rodeo photography

It was 1988 when Seattle-born photographer Blake Little attended his first gay rodeo. “The sport, camaraderie, and atmosphere of this first rodeo experience transformed me,” he said. “I was completely drawn to it and I had to be a part of it. I wanted to be a cowboy.” And so he did, learning the craft […]

Your weekend arts forecast: Blindfolded glassblowing

  Sunday’s multi-disciplinary performance bringing together giganto-origami folders Erik and Martin Demaine and pianist John C. O’Leary is sold out (it’s part of the Museum of Fine Arts’ Marly Music Series). During Saturday’s ArtWalk, however, the father-and-son dynamic duo – both of who happen to be MIT mathematicians as well as artists and, well, scientific […]

Your Weekend Arts Forecast: Who’ll blow the best glass?

Will watching glass blowers at work translate into boffo TV ratings? Netflix hopes so. Photo: Marblemedia. Game on! Just when you thought TV couldn’t possibly come up with another reality competition series, Netflix pulls one out of the furnace. Premiering Friday, the Canadian production Blown Away isn’t likely to rival Project Runway or Top Chef […]

New exhibitions – and a visit from Monet – at the Museum of Fine Arts

St. Pete Catalyst By Bill DeYoung Two new exhibitions, both opening May 5 at St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts, couldn’t be more different. While one consists of abstract art in a colorful myriad of media, the other offers up a tight focus on stark black and white photography. Yet there’s a powerful thread running […]

The James Museum – St. Pete’s Newest Art Attraction

Just off Beach Drive, resting on the corner of Central Avenue and First Avenue South, is a well-known landmark. This towering pink structure is not a location you would historically expect to find a cultural hotspot. In fact, the top floors are a city parking garage, and the bottom were the former offices of an […]