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ARTICLES > Past Issues > 2010 > July 2010 > Summer Calendar

Summer Calendar

What’s happening in July, August and September.

Author: Kay Kpling

Art

Art Center Sarasota. I Am Home, a celebration of where and how we live here in the Sunshine State, continues through July 3. It’s followed by Outside Looking In (Show Us What You’ve Got!), a multimedia members’ show running July 15 through Oct. 23, with a reception July 22. 365-2032.Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art. Continuing at the gallery’s new Palm Avenue space through July 10 is a show featuring two artists: Linda Ging (Color Fields) and Peter Stephens (Homage to Atget). 366-2454Selby Gallery. David Budd: a 40-Year Retrospective of the sometime Sarasota artist’s paintings, continues through July 28. Coming up next: two traveling exhibitions, Treasures of the Frederic Remington Art Museum (presenting 20 bronzes, paintings and drawings of the American West) and Southern Graphics Council Exhibition (featuring prints by 39 SCG members), on view Aug. 13 (opening reception 5-7 p.m.) through Sept. 11. 359-7563.State of the Arts Gallery. Juxtaposition continues in July, with Off the Wall, featuring unconventional wall sculptures in media including found object assemblages, acrylic resin and exotic wood cross-hatch, taking its place in August and September. 955-2787.Museum of Fine Arts.
The St. Petersburg museum
continues to present Whistler, Hassam and the Etching Revival through Aug. 15. Also on view through that date: Turmoil and Triumph: American Works on Paper from the World War II Era, featuring works by such artists as Robert Gwathmey, Rockwell Kent and Thomas Hart Benton. (727) 896-2667.

Ringling Museum of Art. Continuing on view at the museum through Sept. 6 is Heyday: Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier, a show that captures, well, the heyday of the circus. Also: The World Ransacked for All Its Wonders: P.T. Barnum and American Popular Culture, through Aug. 16, and Splendid Treasures of the Turkomen Tribes from Central Asia, through Jan. 30. You
can also take a look at 20th-Century Abstraction from the Ringling Collection, offering works by Kandinsky, Olitski, Nevelson, Calder and others. And the exhibition Yinka Shonibare MBE: Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, blending historical styles with African visual motifs, is on view July 13 through Oct. 24. 359-5700.

Tampa Museum of Art. Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions continues here through Sept. 5, with other exhibitions including Leo Villareal: Recent Works through Jan. 3, Taking Shape: Works from the Bank of America Collection through Aug. 1, The Hidden City: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, through Dec. 5, Life Captured: Garry Winogrand’s Women Are Beautiful through July 18, and From Life to Death in the Ancient World, through Jan. 30. Opening Sept. 24 to run through Jan. 3: The American Impressionists in the Garden, featuring 40 or so paintings by American Impressionist artists, including Childe Hassam and Ernest Lawson. (813) 274-8130.

Dabbert Gallery. Opening July 2 to run through Sept. 28 is the gallery’s Summer Showcase, featuring all of its fine artists and collector’s special pricing. 955-1315.

Comedy

McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre. Keeping us laughing this summer are Frankie Paul (July 1-3), Dale Jones (July 7-11), Al Romas (July 14-18), and Valarie Storm (Aug. 4-8). 925-3869.

2010 Sarasota Improv Festival. Still looking for laughs? Try this two-day fest hosted by Florida Studio Theatre, with more than a dozen comedy troupes traveling from New York to Los Angeles to bring the funny to the Goldstein Cabaret. July 16-17; call 366-9000.

Dance

Fuzion Dance Artists Grooves and Sum-mer Brews Festival. The modern dance company offers interactive dance lessons (along with live music and beer tasting) in this fund raiser, set for 6 p.m. July 9 at Whole Foods Market. 955-8500 ext. 215.

Film

Monday Night Movies at the Ringling. On tap this summer: Shakespeare in Love, July 12; Grand Hotel, July 19; Out of Africa, July 26; Bridge on the River Kwai, Aug. 2; Casablanca, Aug. 9; Gandhi, Aug. 16; Mutiny on the Bounty, Aug. 23; and The Last Emperor, Aug. 30. All at 7 p.m. at the Historic Asolo Theater. 360-7399.

Miscellaneous

Circus, Cirque, Circo: A Family Tradition. Time to run away to the circus once more with this family-oriented show, playing at the Ringling Museum’s Historic Asolo Theater through Aug. 1. 360-7399.

St. Armands Boat Show. See the latest in nautical news, July 3 and 4 at St. Armands Circle Park. 388-1554.

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