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By TIMES WIRES
Published June 28, 2006

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Photo museum reframed

The Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts will get a new location and a new name in September. Director Joanne Milani said the small museum will move from its Hyde Park Village location to 200 N Tampa St. downtown as the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.

Its current name has often linked the small institution to commercial galleries; it has always operated as a not-for-profit museum with a mission to exhibit (not sell) photography.

Since its founding in 2001, the museum has mounted shows by well-known contemporary photographers along with past masters. It has a community component, with members' and children's shows.

The move will also give the museum higher visibility, Milani said. "Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document" will launch the new space with an opening Sept. 15. Milani also said the museum plans programs such as "Digital Lunch," a brown bag event during the lunch hour that will teach visitors to use their digital cameras, and weekend classes on the history of photography.

- LENNIE BENNETT, Times art critic

 

Brangelina photos stolen

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's private baby shower photos have been stolen.

The pictures, which feature Jolie's top-secret baby-booty fest in Namibia and the couple in "private moments" with their kids, are contained on a tiny digital memory card, the pair's lawyers said.

The lawyers have peppered media outlets with letters that threaten a swift lawsuit and possible criminal prosecution for anyone who publishes the purloined pictures.

A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said he did not know which law enforcement agency was investigating because it was unclear where and when the memory card was snatched.

- Times wires