With a rich cultural identity and a deep appreciation for artistic exploration, Sarasota County offers a plethora of opportunities for art enthusiasts and curious visitors to immerse themselves in the world of visual arts. From free museum days to open studio events, Sarasota County’s visual arts scene is a treasure trove waiting
Lee Price couldn’t figure out why his Cal U drawing and painting instructor didn’t seem to like him, at least not until the end of the semester. “He said he was hard on me because he saw potential,” said Price, 41, of Penn Hills. Price ended up going into the information technology field, taking a
Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, Gallery 308Jan. 13–March 10 Bonnie Ora Sherk was a local champion of overlooked urban spaces. This show, curated by SFMOMA’s Tanya Zimbardo, is the artist’s first posthumous retrospective (Sherk died in 2021 at the age of 76), and charts her practice of public installations, performances and long-term, radical
Art & Exhibitions The artist marries art history and contemporary life in a major London show. Jo Lawson-Tancred 2 hours ago Nicole Eisenman, The Triumph of Poverty (2009). Photo courtesy of Leo Koenig Inc., New York. Nicole Eisenman’s first major retrospective in the U.K., at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, contains over 100 works spanning some 30
Phillips Gallery is hosting Whitefish artist Deborah Quynn’s solo show, The Trail of Life, featuring paintings inspired by her small farm. Quynn’s love for animals is evident in her latest painting series which is meant to inspire joy and appreciation for life. To capture the animals’ “essence and personality” on canvas, she spent time on
Amid the plethora of best-album lists, we like to take a slightly different tack in looking back on the year in pop music. What follows is our highly biased list of 10 noteworthy, most obsessed-over albums by artists who graced our fair little state with a live performance during 2023, in order of appearance. Sunny
It’s no surprise to hear that AI image generators rely on the work of real human beings to churn out content at blink-fast rate. But exactly which artists? According to reports, a Google Sheet revealed via X (formerly Twitter) and Bluesky contained a list of thousands of artists, time periods, styles, genres and techniques that
In our house we have a favourite story about the time our toddler was dragged from the National Portrait Gallery kicking and screaming, ‘I want to see more paintings!!!’ She needed lunch, we had to go, but she really loved the ‘Nick Cave Gallery’, as she called it, with his luminous portrait by Howard Arkley
A spreadsheet submitted as evidence in a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney allegedly lists thousands of artists whose images the startup’s AI picture generator “can successfully mimic or imitate.” The spreadsheet is part of an ongoing case that argues Midjourney unlawfully profits from creators’ intellectual property by allowing its text-to-image tool to specifically rip off their
As of the writing of this article, it is day 84 of the Gaza War, which sadly does not seem to have any end in the near future. That unfortunately means it is also day 84 for the more than 100 innocent victims who are still being held hostage by the terrorist group Hamas. By