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For Tampa street artist (and Jimmy John’s delivery guy), downtown’s a canvas
TAMPA — On a sunny Friday afternoon in downtown Tampa, Glen Baham stood on the sidewalk outside a corner café, pondering a blank canvas in front of him. Passersby slowed to appear at his assortment of abstract art propped alongside the wall of the Kava Lifestyle Kava Bar powering him — their bold shades, the urban feel. “Nice,” a girl explained. “You like it?” claimed Baham, 27. “Thank you very a great deal.” So: What colors to choose for his next piece of road art? “Pink,” an individual suggested, and he was off, squirting and spreading the acrylic paint, grabbing a palette knife for texture. As he labored, the rap…
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Why Jasper Johns has been ‘miscast’ as a mysterious artist
Composed by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN At 91 yrs outdated, Jasper Johns is one particular of the most crucial living artists now, with auction income worth tens of tens of millions of pounds and a seven-ten years career credited with changing the class of 20th-century artwork. But the American artist has normally been unwilling to engage with interpretations or even showings of his work, leaving curators to present it as they like — and viewers to access their own conclusions. His most recent retrospective, “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” is a significant twin-city exhibit featuring hundreds of paintings, sculptures, combined-media performs and prints, with just one fifty percent on display screen at the…
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