Friday, September 03, 2010
upcoming events
MUSEUM HOURS, ADMISSION & DIRECTIONS
Museum hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, and Fri from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Thurs from 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.; and Sat and Sun from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Museum location: The new Tampa Museum of Art is located in downtown Tampa on the Hillsborough river at 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza. Click here for directions.
General Admission: adults $10; seniors $7.50, Florida educators $7.50, military plus one guest $7.50 (each); students $5; and children ages 6 and under free
On select days, choose your own admission fee with "Pay What You Will."
"Pay What You Will" every second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. presented by BankAtlantic, and every Thurs from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. presented by Wachovia Wells Fargo.
Reciprocal Admittance: Members of Southeastern Reciprocal Museums (SERM) and North American Reiciprocal Museums (NARM) may be admitted during regular admission hours free of charge with presentation of the appropriate membership identification.
**Please note, food, beverages, and any bags larger than 9X11 inches are not permitted in our galleries. Please ask for a locker at the front desk.
No photography is permitted in the galleries.
Sono Cafe will be open during regular museum hours.
Parking: Parking can be found in the W.F. Poe Garage for $1.20/hour. Please see map below
Sono Cafe
Hours of Operation: Mon, Tues, Wed, and Fri from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Thurs from 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.; and Sat and Sun from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The new Tampa Museum of Art features a café - Sono Café - which is open seven days a week. Sono Café overlooks the banks of the Hillsborough River and is accessible to all visitors through an admission-free entrance. The café has a seating capacity of approximately 75, including waterfront tables, and will offer menu items appropriate to visitors of all ages. Sono Café embraces the ‘Slow Food Movement,’ which counters fast food, and fast life, and invites guests to slow down and enjoy their dining experience with all the sensations that accompany the consumption of good food and quality ingredients in a comforting environment. The menu of Sono Café is rooted in Italy – where the concept of ‘Slow Food’ was founded in 1989 – and will offer guests a range of choices from wine to dessert, and everything in between. Sono Café will become Tampa’s downtown hub during the week, and a key destination for weekend visitors and downtown residents alike. Sono Cafe is operated by Mise en Place of Tampa.
Bank of America Museums on Us
The Tampa Museum of Art is proud to participate in the Museums on Us® program sponsored by Bank of America, which provides cardholders free access to some of the nation's finest arts, cultural and educational institutions during the first full weekend of every month.
To qualify for Museums on Us, Bank of America customers simply present their ATM, credit or check card and valid photo ID to gain free general admission to the museum. Please note this offer does not apply to special exhibitions, fundraising events or ticketed shows. Offer valid the first full weekend of each month through December 2010.
For more information on Museums on Us or Bank of America's arts and culture programming, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/museums.
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Photography Foundations:
The Art of Berenice Abbott and Aaron Siskind from the Tampa Museum of ArtAugust 20 - October 8, 2010
THE ARMACOST LIBRARY AT ECKERD COLLEGE
4200 54TH AVENUE SOUTH, ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33711
PUBLIC VIEWING HOURS:
MON-FRI, 10 AM TO 5 PM SAT-SUN, 12 PM TO 5 PM
Eckerd College is pleased to host this exhibition
of prints on loan from the Tampa Museum of Art.
For more information: Call 727.864.7979 or visit www.eckerd.edu
Photography Foundations unites two modernist photographers that defined and defied concepts of straightforward photography. These contemporaries imbued the field of documentary photography with expressive personal styles, thereby disrupting the compartmentalization of art and document.
As a founding member of the socially committed group of amateur and professionals named the New York Photo League, Berenice Abbott realized the documentary project titled Changing New York. This project, and her subsequent work in the New York cityscape, presented a city in flux as a fascinating modern experience. Capturing the inter- and post-war city’s changing architecture in dizzying new skyscrapers and nostalgic storefronts, Abbott preserved as well as represented a city for the future. Later in Abbott’s career she applied this same expressive vision to scientific principles, capturing abstract notions of physics in modern visual form for the untrained audience.
A colleague in the New York Photo League, Aaron Siskind first made a name for himself as a social documentarian photographer in 1936 with the Harlem Document. Siskind’s photographs took an in-depth look at the social scene in the city’s most significant black neighborhood, highlighting aspects of a community separate from the larger city. By 1943, the artist had moved away from social themes to symbolic imagery, and became known for extending the meaning of the straight photograph by championing its potential for abstraction in both urban and rural environments.
This exhibition is comprised of a selection of Abbott’s work (on the first floor), primarily from the portfolio Retrospective, that brought together some of her famous images of New York and later scientific subjects; and photographs by Siskind (on the second floor), including an early abstract work on Martha’s Vineyard and later work from his Salvador series.
Image:
Installation image of Aaron Siskind photographs in Photography Foundations: the art of Berenice Abbott and Aaron Siskind from the Tampa Museum of Art at Eckerd College Armacost Library (Selectionsfromthe Salvador series, Gelatin silver prints. Tampa Museum of Art.)