Art & Culture
Flowin’ thru Downtown
The fact that our city hosts one of the largest free jazz festivals in the country is impressive. The legendary names that have visited here to headline over the years — think Miles Davis, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie, and Harry Connick, Jr. — is even more so. That the festival has creatively evolved over three decades alongside the growing city, spurred on by feedback from its hundreds of thousands of attendees, is perhaps the most impressive aspect to this annual event. Each year brings new and beloved performers, and now-staple ancillary events, but also invariably includes new surprises.
read moreArbus Magazine and White Oak’s Inaugural The Art of Conservation
Arbus Magazine and White Oak have partnered in an inaugural event that brings together these same fields of interest that are at work in this incredible location. Conservation and art will be celebrated in a two-day plein air painting event culminating in The Art of Conservation gala – a tour by trolley to watch the artists working in three of White Oak’s conservation areas, an outdoor dinner by the river, and an auction of the artwork produced on site with a portion of the proceeds benefitting White Oak Conservation Foundation.
read morePhase Eight Announces New Season
For the 2018-19 season, Phase Eight Theater Company plans to continue “Pushing the Boundaries of Performance.” Having settled into permanent digs at WJCT Studios, Artistic Director JaMario Stills and his team have been planning an exciting second season, expanding into their mission to be Florida’s next great regional theater.
read moreFinding Beauty
From a forgotten space emerges a special sculpture garden on the campus of Douglas Anderson
read more2017 Art & Antiques Show — A Grand Tour
London Calling: Britain Through the Ages is the theme of the 2017 Art & Antiques Show hosted by The Women’s Board to benefit Wolfson Children’s Hospital. The 41st annual show will highlight British life, from English gardens and high tea to pubs and Beefeaters.
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All That Glitters
Few places evoke style, elegance, and refinement like the French capital of Paris…. The city’s long-standing tradition of creative design and exquisite craftsmanship will be on display at the Cummer Museum in Bijoux Parisiens: French Jewelry from the Petit Palais, Paris, an exhibition presenting an important selection of jewelry, drawings, fashion prints, paintings, and photographs from one of the most prestigious collections of its kind.
read moreDesigning Place
DIA Urban Arts Project responds to — and creates anew — our Downtown spaces
read moreAncient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers
MOSH’s Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers will be on view from September 23, 2017 through January 28, 2018. The show explores an epic period during which Rome conquered much of the ancient world through military ingenuity, oversaw significant feats of construction and pioneered technological innovations that affect our lives today.
read moreThe Haydon Burns Library: A Case Study in Preservation
Designed by innovative Jacksonville architect Taylor Hardwick, the new library was like nothing else the city had ever seen. Its façade featured eighty-eight cast-concrete sculpted fins, each nineteen feet tall, which mimicked the windswept profiles of popular automobiles of the era. The fins created ever-changing shadow patterns and added to the harmonic, almost musical rhythm of the exterior. (Architect Hardwick liked to point out that the number of fins on the library was the same as the number of keys on a piano.)
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