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Top 10 arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: May 27-June 2 Our weekly guide to the best in Sarasota-Manatee performing and visual arts events. Art matters at Sarasota Art Museum Saturday marks the opening day of the first comprehensive retrospective of the painter Robert Colescott with the exhibition “Art and Race matters: The Career of Robert Colescott.” On display through Oct. 21, the exhibit features 53 works produced during 50 years of a prolific career. His colorful and lively paintings tinged with satire have confronted a variety of issues related to race, gender, identity and the challenges of living in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition was curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and organized by Raphaela Platow and originated at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Stokes is the recipient of the Sarasota Art Museum’s first Cura Award, recognizing significant achievements in art curation. The museum is at 1001 S. Tamiami Tr ....
Arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 10-16 A Dickens of a performance Jim Floyd has a rare treat for himself and audiences this holiday season. He not only gets to return to performing after a long pandemic-forced break, but he’s playing all the characters in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” including the author himself. Floyd stars in the Players Centre for Performing Arts production of Greg Oliver Bodine’s one-man version of the classic story outdoors at the Bazaar at Apricot & Lime in Sarasota. He plays the author who has arrived for a reading from his novel about Ebenezer Scrooge and his experience one Christmas. But when Dickens’s luggage and his book don’t arrive, he ends up acting out the story for the audience, using whatever props and items of clothing he can to transform himself into ghosts, Bob Cratchit or Tiny Tim. It’s the first of three outdoor shows at the Bazaar planned by the Players Centre. “A Christmas Carol” runs through Dec. ....