Art+ Member VIRTUAL Exhibition Preview & Curator's Chat Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s - 1980s Wednesday, September 29th | Zoom Webinar |5pm-6pm In this Virtual Exhibition Preview, Art+ Members are invited to join TMA's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Joanna Robotham in conversation with Grey Art Gallery NYU Director, Lynn Gumpert […]
Art+ Member Exhibition Preview: Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s Wednesday, September 29th | Museum Terrace | 6pm-8pm Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s explores mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora—a vast geographic expanse encompassing diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. Comprising nearly 90 […]
Visit the Tampa Museum of Art for an afternoon of performances by Skyway artists Cassia Kite, Jaime Aelavanthara and Amanda Sieradzki, and Wendy Babcox. Kite’s “Soundstitching” portrait of avant-garde composer Francis Schwartz will be performed by Homegrown New Music Ensemble. Kite will accompany the performance and will Soundstitch alongside the musicians. Dance accompanies Aelavanthara and […]
As of late, the news cycle is often dominated by stories of hate, prejudice, and violent racially driven attacks on members of our communities. There seems to be an unprecedented rise of anti-Semitism, attacks on the Asia American Pacific Islander communities, and violence towards Black and African American individuals. But has it been truly unprecedented? […]
In this talk, Suheyla Takesh addresses the process and challenges of curating modern art from North Africa and West Asia. She discusses the curatorial strategies, pitfalls, and questions that arise while studying modernism in the non-West and developments that conceptually preside outside established art-historical frameworks. Using examples from the exhibition, she offers an expanded view […]
An Irresistible Urge to Create: Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection Art+ Member Virtual Exhibition Preview and Collectors' Chat Wednesday, November 3rd | Zoom Webinar | 5pm-6pm Art+ Members and Patrons are invited to join us for a Virtual Exhibition Preview & Collectors' Chat with Gary Monroe in conversation with Joanna Robotham, Curator […]
An Irresistible Urge to Create: Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection Art+ Member In-Person Exhibition Preview Wednesday, November 3rd | Maureen and Doug Cohn Terrace | 6pm-8pm An Irresistible Urge to Create: Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection - During the last several decades, the work of the Outsider artists has […]
The Tampa Museum of Art’s popular midday program continues online. Join Sheramy Bundrick, Professor of Art History for a brief discussion of an object from the Museum's permanent collection. Through their distinctive imagery and function as funerary vessels, Athenian white-ground lekythoi (oil pitchers) of the fifth century BCE grant important insight into treatment of the […]