The Tampa Museum of Art’s contemporary galleries keep downtown’s art conversation gloriously current — rotating exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography and new media from Florida artists and international names, in luminous second-floor spaces built for looking slowly.
Recent seasons have moved from reimagined Southern photography to large-scale installations that spill onto the museum’s terraces; the museum’s photography holdings and its commitment to living artists give every visit a new argument to consider. Programs like “Art on the House” pay-what-you-wish evenings and lunchtime “Connections” gallery talks keep the doors — and the ideas — open to everyone.
With its expansion strengthening exhibition space, TMA is programming like a museum twice its size.
Ancient gods downstairs, art of right now upstairs. Tampa’s museum holds both ends of 3,000 years.
