On View

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, Works from the Bank of America Collection

May 11 - September 15, 2013

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El Prisonero, circa 1932. Alfredo Ramos Martinez. Tempera and charcoal on paper. ©The Alfredo Ramos Martinez Research Project, reproduced by permission. On loan from the Bank of America Collection.

The exhibition examines and celebrates work by artists on both sides of the border —Mexican and Mexican American— to reveal a variety of cultural aspects as they emerged in the years after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) to the present day.  The works include artists such as  Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Graham, Judithe Hernandez, Luis Jimenez, Roberto Juarez, Graciela Iturbide, Rufino Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Read more.

Faded Elegance: Photographs of Havana by Michael Eastman

May 11 - September 15, 2013

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Portrait, Havana, 2010.
Digital C-Print. Collection of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
©Michael Eastman/Photograph courtesy of Barry Friedman Ltd.

Faded Elegance: Photographs of Havana by Michael Eastman consists of twenty-nine, 6 x 7 1/2 ft. photographs taken by the artist between 1999 and 2010. Eastman explores Havana’s changing cultural landscape in his images of the city’s architecture and lush interiors, ravaged by the effects of time. Read more.

National Sculpture Society Annual Awards Exhibition

May 18 - July 27,2013

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The Annual Awards Exhibition is National Sculpture Society’s (NSS) most popular show. The sculpture on display ranges from classical to contemporary, and is composed of portrait busts, bas-reliefs and figures ranging in all sizes and dimensions.  Read more.

Utility and Aesthetics in Ancient Art

March 10, 2012 - July 14, 2013

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Red-Figure Calyx Krater (Mixing Vessel),
attributed to the Menelaos Painter, Greek, Attic,
ca. 440 B.C., ceramic.

The Tampa Museum of Art houses an important permanent collection of classical antiquities—well over 500 ancient artworks and artifacts spanning several millennia (ca. 3000 B.C.-A.D. 500) and a range of cultures and media, from marble Cycladic figurines of the Early Bronze Age to terracottas of the late Roman empire. Read more.

Sky (Tampa)

Ongoing

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Leo Villareal (American, born 1967)
Sky (Tampa)
2010
Light-emitting diodes, Mac Mini, circuitry, custom software, and aluminum

The exterior of the Tampa Museum of Art features programmable LED lights, 45 feet high and 300 feet long, embedded within two-layers of perforated aluminum panels. In daylight, the museum’s façade creates a moiré-like pattern, and in darkness the LED light installation glows with Villarreal’s signature light-coded and hypnotic dance. Read more.