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May 11, 2023

Arts Picks | May 12-14

Contemporary dance, an artist talk, and a storytelling competition are this weekend’s Jacksonville Arts Picks.

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March 30, 2023

Arts Picks | Mar. 31 – Apr. 2

Flamingo topiaries, a new art exhibit and a music-and-art pairing are on tap for this weekend in Jacksonville.

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March 15, 2023

Arts Picks | Mar. 17-19

Jacksonville Today Arts and Culture Editor Matt Shaw shares his top 3 arts and culture picks for the weekend. Friday, Saturday, Sunday  Print+ MOCA Jax | Downtown Jacksonville Artist and University of North Florida Associate Professor Sheila Goloborotko curates this group show exploring diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion through the ever-expanding medium of printmaking. Originally shown at the Hunterdon Art Museum

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March 9, 2023

Arts Picks | Mar. 10-12

Two Downtown Jacksonville events and an immersive art exhibit in St. Augustine are this weekend’s Arts Picks.

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February 8, 2023

ARTS PICKS | Feb. 9-12

Live jazz and blues, a local painter’s solo show and the Jax Symphony’s pipes are this weekend’s Arts Picks.

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November 2, 2022

ARTS PICKS | Nov. 4-6

Every week, Jacksonville Today Arts and Culture Editor Matt Shaw shares his top 3 arts and culture picks for the weekend. Friday & Saturday  The Paul Simon Songbook  Jacoby Symphony Hall | Downtown Jacksonville  Just slip out the back, Jack. And make a new plan, Stan, to take advantage of one of three opportunities to see the Jacksonville Symphony celebrate the music

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April 11, 2022

Capturing the magic of Black motherhood despite the maternal mortality crisis

It’s one thing to know something. It’s an entirely different experience to be immersed in your knowledge, feel it with your heart, and see it reflected back at you. That is exactly how local curator, writer, wife and mother Shawanna Brooks wants you to feel when you experience her visual and literary art exhibition, Magic, Mirth, & Mortality: Musings on

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January 26, 2022

Painter Richard Heipp forces us to see the world, and his art, anew

In Wes Anderson’s new film, The French Dispatch, Julian Cadazio (a huckster of substantial means played by Adrien Brody) is trying to convince his rich uncle to back his latest scheme: investing in modern art.  Cadazio, while doing a stint in prison, has stumbled upon the work of Moses Rosenthaler, a hyper-macho, mentally ill and enormously talented artist played by

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December 16, 2021

How 4 Jacksonville artists made it to Miami Art Week

It’s just after 5 p.m. on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Artist and Professor Dustin Harewood dons a paint-splattered denim apron as he takes a seat atop a craft table inside his sprawling classroom at Florida State College of Jacksonville’s Kent Campus. Seated two tables over, fellow artist and FSCJ Professor Mark Creegan is using a fine-detail brush to apply finishing

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