I usually prefer not to repeat myself, but in this case, I’m going to make an exception. Yes, I’ve done posts in the past about the amazing new
Dali museum (click on this link if you’d like to check any of them out). But it keeps getting more and more amazing looking, and I just couldn’t [...]
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Dale Chihuly, whose amazing fine art glass creations are known the world over, has chosen St. Petersburg for his first ever permanent collection/gallery. Although the initial plans were made in 2005, the economic downturn wreaked havoc on the early plans, which involved combining a Chihuly gallery and studio with a new arts condo in downtown St. [...] The west coast of Florida has a number of great outdoor art shows throughout the fall, winter, and spring seasons. For St. Petersburg, our premier outdoor art event is, unquestionably, the Mainsail Arts Festival. Held on the waterfront in downtown St. Petersburg, this year’s Mainsail will be the 35th instance of this show! That’s pretty remarkable, but [...] The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is the current featured exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg. The exhbition 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 [...] If you’ve never paid a visit to the Dali Museum, you really should! It’s a fantastic land of the surreal, and walking through the museum and really taking time to absorb what you see there can create entirely new neural pathways in your brain! Dali’s works are amazing, over the top explosions of color and [...]
St. Petersburg is a fantastic venue for outdoor art shows and festivals – most of the time! As a case in point, the very popular Mainsail Arts Festival, held in downtown St. Petersburg each Spring, just had its 34th annual event a few months ago! Clearly, the 34 year history shows that Mainsail is a great [...] Okay, you’re right – Any Warhol died in 1987. So he can’t be in town. Andy Mouse Museum of Fine Arts But his work is. Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends is being presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg. The show opened in mid-May, and it will continue until August 16th. [...] |
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