Founded in 1956, the University of South Florida had never produced a Rhodes Scholar finalist throughout its history – until Alexander Mercier came along. Mercier’s first...
By now, the whole world knows that downtown St. Petersburg is a big ‘ol concrete canvas. There are something like 100 unique and colorful murals painted...
The tectonic shift in photography’s status as composed art, as opposed to photojournalism, or “capturing the moment,” began in the 1970s. At that time, “Television brings...
In Mexico, Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an annual holiday, much less solemn than the name would imply. “It’s a celebration deeply...
Fairgrounds visitors aren’t required to do anything but walk around and take it all in. And there’s a lot to take it at St. Petersburg’s new...
St. Petersburg has a new way to buy local art and oddities thanks to the creative thinking of Chance Ryan and Kayla Cox, founders of Lucid...
When the St. Petersburg Museum of History’s 10,000-square-foot expansion debuts in the fall of 2022, the facility itself will be 100 years old. And the new...
Through dozens of striking paintings, sculptures, mixed media and other works, the African American experience is documented in Reverberations: Black Artists on Racism and Resilience, one...
The Dali Museum is going back to the drawing board to reconfigure its $42 million expansion plans. The Dali is the most visited art museum in...
The continuing development of St. Petersburg has cost it one of its very best artists. Steven Kenny, whose “surrealist baroque” paintings, fanciful oils depicting human figures...