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Art: Hot Ticket
By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published October 5, 2000
Giving witness
Through art and verse, Saul Balagura portrays the horrors of the Holocaust at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Balagura, born in Colombia and now living in New Mexico, gave up a successful practice as a neurosurgeon to work out through art his profound empathy with the victims of the Nazi genocide. His expressionistic style conveys his emotion; the blank verse beside each work clearly tells its meaning. In Likeness, his 4-foot-high self-portrait in acrylic shown here, he wears the stripes of a prisoner, placing himself as a witness. The show runs through Jan. 28. Also on view at the museum is "Anne Frank: A History for Today," through Jan. 2, and the permanent exhibit. The Florida Holocaust Museum is at 55 Fifth St. N, St. Petersburg; (727) 820-0100. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; closed Oct. 9 (Yom Kippur). Admission: $6 adults, discounts for others.
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