Tag: Joan Altabe

The exhibition, Syd Solomon: Along the Shore 1956-1989 (Where Fishing and Abstract Expressionism Met), is a small selection of Syd Solomon’s work from his estate which will be exhibited in commemoration of...

October 18 –December 7, 2013 Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota FL Art Center Sarasota is opening three new exhibitions on Thursday, October 18, 2012. In Galleries One and Two, “Artists Who...

by Joan Altabe You call this an art show? Really” Check your press releases for hype, please. To this critic, at least, it’s just gray scud on the page. International...

Sarasota has an art history, how about a future? Even before Ringling’s school began to draw World War II veterans intent on studying art under the G.I. Bill of Rights,...

by Joan Altabe In the beginning… Soldiers returning from WWII came to town to make art their life. One of those soldiers was Syd Solomon, whose legs were frostbitten during...

Fury sits beneath these words. Miami Beach gets the Basel Art Fair and we get Sarasota Masters Art Festival. Classing a street fair as a “Sarasota Masters Art Festival” and...

Sarasota Visual Art’s round up of exhibitions and events for Friday, Dec. 9 through Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. Week in Review Building Blocks: Interview with Michael Halflants – http://wp.me/p1DJvQ-iR Architect,...

Marketable art in town these days seems to come in four groups: sofa art (furniture store art that accessorizes living rooms, usually abstract), tourist art (palm trees, pelicans, etc.), schmaltz...

Ego Leonard comes across like clip art in three dimensions, like some poor cousin of “Unconditional Surrender,” like some nettlesome member of the Pop art family -that clan of colorable...

WEEK IN REVIEW: Origin of Ego, the Artist behind the Lego Man http://bit.ly/te10Al Open Letter to “Occupy Sarasota” – From Joan Altabe http://bit.ly/rtpfqW Brushing Up on the iPad by Kevin...

300 Words by Joan Altabe First, to clear up any confusion, the proposed garage murals will be painted inside, not outside. No matter. Painting within is no less objectionable than...

300 Words By Joan Altabe You’re not going to believe this, coming from me. You don’t always need public art. I know, I know: For years, I’ve railed that there’s...