Interview with Aaron Carnes
In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes is an entertaining take on the story of third-wave ska. It’s written with the wit and sarcasm indicative of the movement, and it’s being released in an expanded second edition by CLASH Books.
Working Conditions at The Ringling Museum
Working Conditions, recently at the Ringling Museum of Art, consisted of photographs that depict how work has changed over the past two centuries. Black-and-white images of gold and coal miners from the earliest days of photography begin a narrative that culminates with drab cubicles and colorful images from the tech industry.
Interview with Jessica Todd
Parachute Gallery’s Summer School is an exhibition celebrating the books that are currently banned in Florida’s classrooms. Parachute’s founder, Jessica Todd, organized the exhibition with Victoria Alvarez, as a response to censorship.
Visible Time at USFCAM
Rico Gatson’s Visible Time at University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum is an exhibition of collages, abstract paintings, kaleidoscopic videos, and a monumental mural. Energetic portraits depict influential advocates of racial justice, musicians who’ve changed the cultural landscape, and actors that have paved the way for equal representation.
Interview with Kirk Ke Wang
Kirk Ke Wang’s Snow in September is an exhibition of abstract, mixed-media paintings based on images from the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. The title of the exhibition refers to a play from China’s Yuan Dynasty about injustice where a woman is wrongfully sentenced to death for an offense she didn’t commit.
Interview with Libbi Ponce
Libbi Ponce is a sculptor and installation artist who uses 3-D imaging, sheet metal, and found foam to create experiences on-screen and in the gallery. Their art draws inspiration from Pre-Columbian artifacts, and serves as memories from the Ecuadorian diaspora.
Interview with Heather Augustyn
Heather Augustyn’s Women in Jamaican Music tells the history of influential women in an industry that’s dominated by men. Its in-depth research paints a portrait of the time, and its personal interviews let the musicians and businesswomen speak in their own voices.
The Right to Swim
Vivia Barron’s exhibition of paintings at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum titled, The Right to Swim, depicts the beaches of Saint Petersburg in the welcoming way that she remembers from her childhood in Jamaica.
Interview with Mladen Bizumic
Mladen Bizumic, PhD is a Vienna-based artist who creates installations that manifest photography’s social relations. Merging analog with digital media, his installations serve as entry points for discussions about photography’s form, and the economic structures that perpetuate the photography industry.
Ah Who Run Dis at SPAACES
Krystle Lemonias is a Jamaican-American artist working with fiber-based materials and video installations. Ah Who Run Dis at SPAACES Gallery is an exhibition of her recent works that deal with themes of domestic work, family dynamics, and the immigrant experience.
Interview with Dakota Gearhart
Dakota Gearhart is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates video art and installations. Gearhart’s Life Touching Life is a psychedelic journey through the digital world led by a hostess named Tiffany. It’s an existential artwork that critiques pollution and the military-industrial complex which has produced many of our household technologies.
The Baby-Faced Killer
Lydia Lunch’s music, poetry, and video works center around themes of misogyny, sexual abuse, and the patriarchy. Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over is a documentary about the artist’s life, and her creative influences. It’s a diary of how she continues to machete her way through society.