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May Events Kay Kipling's guide to the month's best cultural and special events. Kay Kipling |
On Exhibit
VISUAL SEDUCTION
There is a temptress in the galleries of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. She is Salome, as painted by the American artist Robert Henri. From within her gold frame in the corner of a room, she emerges from the darkness of her canvas and looks in our direction. Her eyes lock with ours, and we imagine the power of her performance.
As the legend goes, her dance was to please her stepfather, King Herod, so her mother could be rid of John the Baptist. Henri’s Salome appears less than evil but hardly guileless. She seems more like an actress in costume than a woman from the Bible.
We can see that Henri enjoyed the experience of painting his model. He luxuriated in the lush pigment as he stroked the paint on, the pressure of his brush meeting the tautness of the canvas. He has taken particular delight in the application of dabs of rich color to indicate the flash of the jewels that adorn her fingers, wrist and arms. Her torso is thrust in all the right directions as she flirts with us. The sheer fabric of her black costume reveals as much as it conceals, all of this leaving us to wonder—what mischief awaits?—Mark Ormond
ART
Galleria
Silecchia. On view through May 31, photographs by Michael Kahn and new works and
“sold-out” collectibles by Glenna Goodacre. Opening May 4 to run throughout the
month is an exhibit featuring works in bronze from the original wood carvings of
Leo E. Osborne. 365-7414.
Art Center
Sarasota.
Venice
Selby
Gallery. The 2007 Best of Ringling
Annual Student Exhibitions continue here through May 11. Coming up May 25, to
run through June 15, an exhibition of work by members of the Florida Artists
Group, and a show featuring
Sonnet Gallery. San Francisco-based artist Kate Anderson is highlighted in the
Ringling
Salvador
Museum
Longboat
State of the
Arts Gallery. On view all month here: the White Hot exhibition, featuring artworks
in white. 955-2787.
Palm Avenue
Gallery Walk. The monthly stroll takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. May 4 along the
avenue. 955-1315.
Dabbert
Gallery. All That Jazz, a group show,
opens with a reception at 6 p.m. May 4 and continues through May 29 at the
CHILDREN
Anne of
Green Gables. A Theatre for Young People production of the beloved L.M.
Montgomery story of an orphan girl, onstage May 10-20 at Venice Little Theatre.
488-1115.