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Category: Olda Reviews

Danny Olda provides reviews and articles detailing events and shows around the Tampa Bay area.

“Via” Culture on Tumblr: Forsaking the Creator for the Curator

The line separating novelty and innovation is a thin one.  Whether Tumblr will leave an indelible mark on art remains to be seen.  However, there is a trend that is...

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The Museum of Fine Arts’ Exciting New Acquisition: A Curator

We often think of grants, donations, and endowments providing museums with new art or adding new wings and galleries.  The Hazel and William Hough Curatorial Endowment, though, has generously provided...

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Seeing Things at Roger Chamieh’s Apophenia by Danny Olda

These are not grand existential statements. As people may have once been anxious over soul and salvation, today are likewise of car accidents, peanut allergies, smile lines and crow’s feet...

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“Art is for Anyone. It Just isn’t for Everyone.” by Danny Olda

by Danny Olda When virtually every image encountered is escorted by a ‘like’ button – when each parcel of information parsed demands an immediate impression and invites instant judgement, it...

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Olda Reviews: Melting Metaphors and the RNC

by Danny Olda Sometimes the most contentious relationships can be the most productive ones. Artists’ and politicians’ mutual suspicion (and at times outright disdain) of each other often serves as...

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Organic Inhabitants Reviewed by Danny Olda

by Danny Olda If an apocalypse befell the globe, I reckon the contemporary art world would leave few ruins. Many contemporary pieces conclude their existence at the conclusion of the...

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Take a Seat, A Hundred Years – A Hundred Chairs by Danny Olda

by Danny Olda Through endless episodes of Frasier (thanks Netflix) I find myself fixating on the props. Specifically on a single prop, near the back of the living room, a...

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You Have One New Message by Danny Olda

by Danny Olda It’s a curious road from graffiti to street art. A blank wall sans ownership or permission may be a common canvas to both. Street Art, though, brings...

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The Farther South You Go the Further North You Are

by Danny Olda “The farther South you go the further North you are” – a sentiment you’ve probably heard referring to the geography and soul of Florida. While reading a...

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Olda Reviews: Andy Warhol and (Facebook) Friends

by Danny Olda Dial-up internet had just sprouted legs and began to crawl out of the water when Andy Warhol died. Yet, somehow, he pegged the Facebook aesthetic while Mark...

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Olda Reviews: Tempus for the Spring and Us for Each Other

by Danny Olda It’s sad in a way – like homeless people lending each other money; the current economic climate impelling the underfunded to fund each other. My wife reminds...

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Olda Reviews: Art After Dark – On the Record

by Danny Olda My students looked at me as if they always thought I might be a nerd and I had just confirmed their suspicions. Had I done anything fun...

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Olda Reviews: Art Getting to Work

If art neighborhoods were personified perhaps St. Petersburg’s 600 Block would be a skinny-jeans-and-Chucks hipster. Tampa’s Seminole Heights might be tweed jacketed; scruffy but mature. However, there is a new...

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Olda Reviews: Like Water, Plain Yet Potent

by Danny Olda Flush the toilet, wash down a pill, take a bath, drive through the rain, swig a bottle of Dasani, drown. Despite its ubiquitous nature (or perhaps because...

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Olda Reviews: Kirk Ke Wang Serves Up an Impressive Installation

by Danny Olda We’re not scientists. We’re not here to solve problems. Kirk Ke Wang was referring to artists when he said this, his hand resting on the head of...

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Olda Reviews: I LIKE MY ART LIKE MY VEGGIES…

by Danny Olda Even being situated in the middle of the art world, its difficult not to think in terms of art archetypes like the starving artist, the rich collector,...

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Olda Reviews: Contain It! … Ok, Not So Much.

by Danny Olda There is an inverse relationship that builds the least exciting art exhibits: more initial potential against less use made of it. As I mentioned in the preview...

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Olda Reviews: Things Not Seen Before

Nearly 100 years after his birth and 20 years since his death John Cage’s relevancy to the current creative world is as strong as it’s ever been. To be sure,...

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