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Art: Best bets

By MARY ANN MARGER

© St. Petersburg Times, published August 23, 2001


Art critic Mary Ann Marger's recommendations for this weekend. Please refer to the Art Calendar for details.

Art critic Mary Ann Marger's recommendations for this weekend. Please refer to the Art Calendar for details.

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Venus De Milo in Twentieth Century Art -- Disarmingly charming, the ancient icon, translated into fine art and popular culture, appears many times, in many ways over at the Salvador Dali Museum.

underCURRENT/overVIEW5 -- Fifth in Tampa Museum of Art's summer series on area artists expands to include talents north and south of Hillsborough and Pinellas.

Jack Dowd's Last Call -- Sarasota-based artist Jack Dowd looks to New York City for a whimsical life-size bar scene. Also on view: treasures from contemporary permanent collection. West Galleries, Ringling Museum of Art.

New York, Currier & Ives -- Augmenting the Museum of Fine Arts' comprehensive permanent collection are the Gollay collection of New York School art and Currier & Ives prints.

Uncharted Waters -- The many modes of water media are explored in a juried show at the Arts Center. Also on view is annual members show. Both close Friday.

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