(July 1, 2023, Banner art by JIbanez) This sample of my work features acrylic-paint-on-cardboard icons of catholic saints. These images are based on the wood carvings by my brother José ‘Pepe’ Ibanez, a Puertorrican Saints wood carver. The subject of the show was chosen as an homage to my brother’s beautiful work, of which I...Read More

In ‘Montmartre’, Roe argues with a hefty support of exceptional scholarship, that Modernist Art was a product of the first decade of twentieth century Montmartre, not born in the 1920s to (in her words) ‘the accompaniment of Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps’. It was the product of the cross pollination between artists, writers, dancers,...Read More

Ayer viernes asistimos a la apertura de la retrospectiva de Norman Jensen en la Galería de Santa Fe College. Representaba 60 años de su producción y exhibía un verdadero banquete de sus conocidos paisajes y una multitud de trabajos en pequeño formato en medio mixto. Lo más excitante (y lo que sospecho que la mayoría...Read More

For the longest time this little tome had patiently looked down from my bookshelves to my comings and goings waiting to be picked up. Long time. I was supposed to have read it in graduate school, but I never got around to it before I quit. And for all that long I was under the...Read More

(Photo: probably taken by my dad eons ago of me and my brother at the beach in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, 1954) Yesterday afternoon I had one of those ‘geez, how things have changed’ moments. Not sure what brought it up, any longer, these things happen the moment I pass 55th street and go into the...Read More

Read it if… If you are intrigued and inspired by the aesthetics of traditional Japanese art, with its attention to the melancholic representation of the trace of the passage of time. In this book, Andrew Juniper invites us to explore with his simple and easily accessible exposition the spiritual principles of the Wabi Sabi concept,...Read More

Sarah Whitmire’s mixed media extravaganza, Oracles, will be at the Gather Gallery (Hotel Indigo at Celebration Point) for just a few more days and, if you are in Gainesville, you absolutely must make an effort to see it. The six 6’ x 4’ mixed media on wood panels, each one framed in old pine 2”...Read More

Read it if… after going through a year of the pandemic (and finding ourselves again facing an abyss…) I would like to put our historical moment in perspective, understand the implications and expectations and remember that humanity has been here before and survived (transformed…) to tell the tale. ”Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death...Read More

(Photo: Jorge) And just like that, Summer handed us over to Fall. The uncertain Florida Fall, that is. Earlier in October, the temperatures came comfortably down in Hogtown, the air dried up accordingly and we began enjoying the return of the magic of the winter light, presaged by its messenger, fall. In our little neck...Read More

(Photo: Jorge) And just like that, Summer is fixing to deliver us to Fall again. To what passes as Fall in Florida, at least. Approaching the end of the second pandemic year, Spring 2020 now sounds so naïve, extremely far, another reality as we looked into the abyss trying to make sense of what was...Read More