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• 3rd Annual Summer Jazz Series

  Written by Connie Langhorst No Comments
  Last Updated: July 6, 2010

  

  Jazz: the Art of Music will feature some of the best local jazz in the Tampa Bay area every Friday from 6-9 p.m.  from June 4th
  through August 28th, 2010.

  Admission is $10 for members and $15 for non-members and will include admission to galleries in the Hazel Hough wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL.

  This is an ideal way to celebrate the beginning of the weekend in one of the most spectacular settings in the area!

  Groups will perform in the glass Conservatory and listeners can mingle on the terrace overlooking the Bay.

  For the Friday, July 10th, performance:

  O Som Do Jazz recaptures the lively spirit of 1960s Brazilian Bossa Nova, samba-jazz and MPB. Based in St. Petersburg, the band features Rio de Janeiro singer Andrea Moraes Manson. 

Andrea moved to the Tampa Bay area from Rio in 2000. Trained as an architect, she began performing, with the encouragement of her jazz musician husband David, in 2004. Andrea has a natural understanding of Brazilian music and a full voice in the style of Elis Regina. In her debut recording (Infinita Bossa), Andrea has caught the attention of bossa nova lovers worldwide. 

The group also includes members from São Paulo, Brasil and Columbia. O Som Do Jazz has performed at the Pensacola JazzFest, Jazz Brasil, the Historic Asolo Theatre, Dali Fest, First Night, Brasil Arts Fest, Lights On Tampa, First Night, Safety Harbor Wine Festival and more.

  The art of music, indeed . . . in Paradise Found!

  EVENTS PARTICULARS:
  

  Reservations are recommended.  The cost of admission is $10 per person for MFA members/$15 for non-members.  Ticket price includes:

  • Admission to the Hazel Hough wing galleries
  • MFA Café will be open with an evening menu
  • Beer and wine cash bar

  For more information about the event, contact Ellen Rivera, (727) 896-2667 ext. 221.

  ABOUT THE MUSEUM:

  Located at 255 Beach Dr. N.E. in St. Petersburg, FL 33701, the Museum of Fine Arts has the only comprehensive art collection, extending from antiquity to the present, on the Florida west coast. See outstanding works of art in galleries designed for leisurely reflection.

  The Museum of Fine Arts is one of the most beautiful museums in the Southeast. The collection has over 14,000 objects extending from antiquity to the present day and features stellar French Impressionist paintings. Galleries of Steuben glass, decorative arts, and pre-Columbian objects are especially dramatic. Two interior gardens, one devoted to sculpture, encourage reflection. An intimate second-floor gallery, in the new wing, displays works on paper and photographs. The Museum’s photography collection of over 10,000 images is one of Florida’s most respected. The MFA has been repeatedly named the best art museum in the Tampa Bay area by regional media.

  Additional features include music, education and family events, movies, lectures and gallery talks.  For more information about the Museum of Fine Arts, please contact their Visitor Services Department at (727) 896-2667.

  CREDITS: The event logo and information contained in this post are provided courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.  www.fine-arts.org.

• Go For Baroque at Museum of Fine Arts in St. Pete

  Written by Bob Horn No Comments
  Last Updated: March 4, 2010

   The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is the current featured exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg.  The exhibition runs from January 9th through April 4th, and it includes 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from Botero’s private collection.  Many of the works have not been exhibited publicly before.  In addition to all of the work on exhibit inside the museum, there are two extraordinary pieces that have been strategically placed on the front and rear lawns of the museum.

  Botero, a world-renowned Colombian born painter and sculptor, is known for creating works of art that are united by their proportionally exaggerated, or “fat” figures, as he once referred to them.  Botero graduated from Medellin University in Colombia in 1950, and in following years, studied in Madrid, Florence, New York, and Paris, where he moved in 1973 and where he lives today.

  As one can see from the two sculptures that are in temporary residence outside the museum, Botero appears to have fun with his craft, and this theme can be seen throughout much of his work.  If you’d like to get a little of the ‘flavor’ of Botero’s work, you can check out this link at Google Images.  And if you’d like to see either of the images below in its full-screen splendor, just click on the photo.

  For information about the Museum of Fine Arts, including location, direction, hours of operation, and more, check out their website.

  

   

• Andy Warhol in Downtown St Petersburg!

  Written by Bob Horn No Comments
  Last Updated: June 30, 2009

  No, not the person. Andy passed away back in 1987. But some of his excellent art works are here! Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends is being presented now at the Museum of Fine Arts, and the show will continue until August 16th. It’s a great exhibition that features over 70 prints of some of Warhol’s best known works, including his famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe, the iconic Campbell’s soup can, the Flowers series, and Muhammad Ali, to name a few. There are also prints from the Andy Mouse series, a tribute to Warhol by an artist/friend of his, Keith Haring. And there’s a portrait of Warhol himself, done by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

  For those too young to know him and for those who might have forgotten, Andy Warhol, aside from being perhaps the most important force in the American Pop Art movement, also foresaw the current state of our media-based-short-span-of-attention culture with his 1968 quote, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

  I went to the museum two
  weeks ago, and it was just great fun to see these works. And it was especially nice that we were able to see them in St. Petersburg, instead of having to travel to museums in New York or DC or to the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh. In addition to the museum’s many permanent collections, the Museum of Fine Arts always has traveling, temporary exhibitions of artwork from a wide range of artists. Now that the museum opened its new wing, there’s a lot more space for exhibits, so give yourself plenty of time when you go. And don’t worry if you get hungry – there’s an excellent cafe in the museum, where you can grab a drink, have a treat (like the triple fudge cake that I had!), or get a delicious lunch, all while looking out of the huge windows facing the waters of the Vinoy Basin.

  For more information about the Museum of Fine Arts, visit their website. (And for a look at some of Andy Warhol’s works, check out this page.)

  Special Deal Alert: During the months of July and August, anyone who enters the Museum between 10:00 AM and noon on weekdays gets in for half price – that means that adults get in for 6 bucks, which is a great deal!

  

   

  
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