Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibition at Tampa Museum of Art
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Please join us this Friday evening (Oct.5) for a members-only reception to kick off our 2012-13 special exhibition season with the U.S. premiere of The Man, The Image and the World: Henri Cartier-Bresson, A Retrospective.
This exhibition showcases more than 300 photographs by one of the art form’s most accomplished geniuses. Tampa is joining the ranks of Zurich, Seoul and Brisbane as cities playing host to this extraordinary international exhibition.
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday morning, but members will have the first opportunity to see it. The opening reception will feature food by Mise en Place, cash bar, and a conversation between Museum Executive Director Todd Smith and Andrea Holzherr from Magnum Photos, Paris.
“This exhibition allows the Museum to return to our roots: collecting and exhibiting 20th century photography,” Smith recently noted. “From its earliest days more than 33 years ago, the Museum has been active in encouraging the appreciation of photography.”
Please respond to Jeff Stewart at 813-421-8371 by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Image Credit:
Copyright Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
Brussels, 1932
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“Saturday Night Gecko” Voted As 2013 Gecko Ball Theme
GULFPORT, FL: After four weeks of online public voting, organizers of the Fifth Annual Gecko Ball have announced that the overwhelming choice of voters for next year’s theme is “Saturday Night Gecko.” “Saturday Night Gecko” will evoke the 1970s disco era, including the music, dance moves, outfits, hair and fads of the 70s. Other themes up for consideration were “Gecko Rouge” (Cabaret) and “The Masked Gecko” (a Masquerade Ball), but “Saturday Night Gecko” was the voters choice by a landslide. August 24th will be the date of Gecko Ball 2013. The event gets larger and more popular each year, including costumes, over the top décor, cocktail specials, dinner buffet, silent auctions, and the popular live auction of geckos created by local artists. For more information and updates on the Gecko Ball, go to the facebook page at: www.facebook.com/geckoball.
The Gecko Ball occurs one week prior to the Gecko Fest street festival each year. The two events benefit a local cause or charity each year. Proceeds from 2012’s Gecko Ball, “Hooray for Geckowood!” and Gecko Fest will fund the creation and installation of public art in the Gulfport Waterfront District.
Did you know? Gulfport was named one of six national small-town finalists in the “Best For Food” category during the 2011 Rand McNally/USA Today Road Rally.
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“Faith and the LGBT Community “
Thursday, November 1st
7:00-9:00 PM
USF Marshall Student Center
Oval Theater
4202 E Fowler Ave, MSC 2100
Tampa, FL, 33620
EQFL, USF Libraries, and USF Pride
Alliance are sponsoring a “Faith
and the LGBT Community “
presentation and book signing by
Robert V. Taylor, the highest ranking
openly gay priest in the Episcopal
Church prior to Bishop Gene Robinson.
Robert’s newly released book, A New
Way to be Human, has been highly
acclaimed by such notables as Arch
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra,
Bernie Siegel, MD and others.
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Heritage and Cigar Festival — November 17, 2012
Dear Vendors, Sponsors and Volunteers:
Thank you for supporting the Heritage and Cigar Festival 2012. Check out www.celebrateybor.com for the most up to date information. As you know, the Heritage and Cigar Festival benefits the Ybor City Museum. All proceeds generated from the event go directly to the Museum and your participation supports the mission of the Ybor City Museum Society and ensures sustainability in providing exhibits, programming and educational activities.
If you have any questions or concerns considering this year’s event, please feel free to contact me directly via email or on my cell phone listed below.
Sincerely,
James Howard | Board Member | Ybor City Museum
813-956-4428
www.celebrateybor.com
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Please join us this Friday evening (Oct.5) for a members-only reception to kick off our 2012-13 special exhibition season with the U.S. premiere of The Man, The Image and the World: Henri Cartier-Bresson, A Retrospective.
This exhibition showcases more than 300 photographs by one of the art form’s most accomplished geniuses. Tampa is joining the ranks of Zurich, Seoul and Brisbane as cities playing host to this extraordinary international exhibition.
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday morning, but members will have the first opportunity to see it. The opening reception will feature food by Mise en Place, cash bar, and a conversation between Museum Executive Director Todd Smith and Andrea Holzherr from Magnum Photos, Paris.
“This exhibition allows the Museum to return to our roots: collecting and exhibiting 20th century photography,” Smith recently noted. “From its earliest days more than 33 years ago, the Museum has been active in encouraging the appreciation of photography.”
Please respond to Jeff Stewart at 813-421-8371 by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Know more.
Image Credit:
Copyright Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
Brussels, 1932
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In conjunction with the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition, the Museum has joined forces with our sister institutions around the Bay area to celebrate local photographers. We asked nine partner agencies to recommend a photographer whose works best captured the spirit of Cartier-Bresson’s belief that a photograph can seize “life in a moment.”
Now that we have assembled one work by each of the nominees, The Tampa Bay Times has put the nominees online. Everyone in the community has the opportunity to vote on which work best represents the idea of life in a moment in Tampa Bay. We will even put the 10 works on view at the Museum during the run of the Cartier-Bresson exhibition.
Nominees are Zach Christopher, MK Foltz, Jennifer Greenwell, Timothy W. Kennedy, James Reiman, Ric Savid, Herb Snitzer, Joseph Walles, Carlton Ward Jr., and Nolan Gray Wiley.
Check out the nominees and their work at www.tampabay.com/lifeinamoment, which will be live later this week. And the winner will be announced later this month.
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To See As Artists See: American
Paintings from The Phillips Collection
The Tampa Museum of Art is pleased to announce its spring 2013 special exhibition: To See As Artists See: American Paintings from the Phillips Collection on view from Feb. 2 through April 28, 2013.
To See as Artists See presents 105 paintings by 75 artists that trace the course of American painting from the 1850s through the 1960s. Artists included in the exhibition are Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, John Sloan, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko. The exhibition takes its title from an oft-quoted line from Duncan Phillips’ own writing on art, “All of us can acquire eyes wherewith to see the world as artists see it, variously, selectively, intellectually or emotionally, in full possession of the latent capacity for seeing nature in pictures and pictures in nature.”
To See as Artists See is the first large-scale, traveling presentation of the Phillips’s celebrated collection of American art, chronicling the broad scope and richness of its holdings. The exhibition had its premiere in Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, then traveled to the Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain and National Art Center Tokyo, Japan. It has been shown at only two U.S. venues: The First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn. and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Image Credit:
Childe Hassam
Washington Arch, Spring
1890
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.; 66.3575 x 54.9275 cm
Acquired 1921
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“Names, Names, Names!”
As the hip hop beat of the Pet Shop Boys swelled from the speakers, the runway show at last Friday’s third annual CITY event was full of designs from around the world. As models tempted us with what lies ahead for fall/winter 2012, the capacity crowd of
more than 400 enjoyed one of the hottest tickets in town.
Neiman Marcus assembled runway looks from their buyers’ newly stocked collections, Grand Events transformed the Museum into a glamorous spectacle, and Side Bern’s kept patrons wonderfully fed all night long. Barbara Keskiner, chair of the event, and her entire committee deserve a round of applause for making this year’s event fashionable, fun, and fruitful.
The proceeds from event support educational and exhibition programs at the Museum. The total raised is still being tallied and will be announced later this month.
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