WHEN the artist Byron Kim saw workers repainting a small bridge near his studio in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, he was concerned. “I watched them painting it Deep Cool Red,” he said, “and I kept thinking, did we pick the right color?”
Skip to next paragraph Richard Perry/The New York TimesTop,Third Avenue Bridge, Gowanus, is Deep Cool Red; middle, East 241st Street Bridge is Dark Green, and the Washington Bridge in Harlem, Munsell Gray; bottom, The Wards Island Bridge is Aluminum Green More Photos » Top, Richard Perry/The New York Times; bottom, Uli Seit for The New York Times The George Washington Bridge, top, is painted George Washington Bridge Gray, and the Astoria Boulevard Bridge is Federal Blue. More Photos >
Along with having an artist’s eye for particulars, Mr. Kim is one of 11 members of the city’s Public Design Commission (formerly the Art Commission). He and his colleagues review permanent works of art, architecture and landscaping proposed for city property. Picking the color of a city-owned bridge fits squarely in their vast domain.
In New York, that is not a small task. There are 2,027 bridges in the five boroughs. The lion’s share of them, 783, is maintained by the Department of Transportation’s Division of Bridges. As such, they are subject to review by Mr. Kim and the rest of the Design Commission.
Unless the structure is designated as a landmark or exempt from the guidelines, there is a choice of only seven colors: Deep Cool Red, Federal Blue, George Washington Bridge Gray, Aluminum Green, Pulaski Red, Munsell Gray or Dark Green. These are nicknames used by the Department of Transportation and other city agencies for particular colors in the federal standard color system.
“We can’t have every color, or even dozens, because of maintenance,” Mr. Kim said. “The Department of Transportation has to keep so much volume of these colors on hand, it would be almost impossible for them to add even one more.”
When Mr. Kim started in 2003, the approved palette contained only three colors. “We kept having to assign Pulaski Red, Munsell Gray or Dark Green,” he recalled. “It was such a small range that when the D.O.T. gave us the opportunity to ask, we pleaded for some more vibrant colors.”
The color chosen for each bridge is reviewed by the Design Commission case by case, with the goal of establishing consistency along roadways as well as a dignified presence appropriate to the environment.
“Something like a bright yellow would be impractical, not only because it gets dirty, but because it’s too crazy,” Mr. Kim said. “Our charge is to have a color palette that makes sense and use it in a way that’s not too chaotic or boring.”
His favorites are George Washington Bridge Gray and Federal Blue. “They have a strong relationship with the sky,” he said. “That’s important. For me, visually, bridges are more about what’s above and behind than below.”
As for the small bridge crossing on the way to his Carroll Gardens studio, it turns out the Design Commission got it just right. “The school that abuts it was repainted not long after the bridge,” he said. “It happened to go very well — a good choice and some good luck.”
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
Hiroshima In Philadelphia
An installation of “Hiroshima,” a set of paintings by the artist Jacob Lawrence, will be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia through Dec. 28. Mr. Lawrence, who died in 2000, was commissioned in 1982 to make illustrations for a book of his choice by Sidney Shiff, the owner of the Limited Editions Club in New York. The artist chose John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” originally published as a single issue of The New Yorker in 1946, which describes the accounts of six survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Aug. 6, 1945. The result was “Hiroshima” (1983), a set of eight paintings, one of which, “Playground,” is shown at left. Mr. Lawrence became famous in the 1930s and ’40s for multipanel narratives based on key events in American culture and the African-American experience. For the “Hiroshima” series, he drew on his own experience in urban communities to imagine the bomb’s cultural impact.
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter
Grace Hartigan, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture, leading some critics to see in them prefigurings of Pop Art, died on Saturday in Baltimore. She was 86.
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Marty Katz/baltimorephotographer.comGrace Hartigan in her studio in 1993 with her painting “Junk Shop With Egyptian Violet.” 
Grace Hartigan/Corcoran Gallery of Art"Summer Street," 1956.
The cause was liver failure, said Julian Weissman, a longtime dealer of hers.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition. Determined to stake out her own artistic ground, she turned outward from the interior world sanctified by the Abstract Expressionists and embraced the visual swirl of contemporary American life.
In “Grand Street Brides” (1954), one of several early paintings that attracted the immediate attention of critics and curators, she depicted bridal-shop window mannequins in a composition based on Goya’s “Royal Family.” Later paintings incorporated images taken from coloring books, film, traditional paintings, store windows and advertising, all in the service of art that one critic described as “tensely personal.”
“Her art was marked by a willingness to employ a variety of styles in a modernist idiom, to go back and forth from art-historical references to pop-culture references to autobiographical material,” said Robert Saltonstall Mattison, the author of “Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World” (1990).
Grace Hartigan was born in Newark in 1922 and grew up in rural New Jersey, the oldest of four children. Unable to afford college, she married early and, in a flight of romantic fancy, she and her husband, Bob Jachens, struck out for Alaska to live as pioneers. They made it no farther than California, where, with her husband’s encouragement, she took up painting.
“I didn’t choose painting,” she later told an interviewer. “It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.”
In the mid-1940’s she left her husband, placed their son, Jeffrey, in the care of his parents and moved back to Newark, where she trained in mechanical drafting and took painting lessons with Isaac Lane Muse. After moving to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1945, she became part of the postwar New York artistic scene, forming alliances with the Abstract Expressionist painters — although de Kooning reduced her to tears by telling her she completely misunderstood modern art — and poets like Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch.
Ms. Hartigan won fame early. In 1950, the critic Clement Greenberg and the art historian Meyer Schapiro included her in their “New Talent” show at the Kootz Gallery, and a one-woman exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery soon followed. “Persian Jacket,” an early painting, was bought for the Museum of Modern Art by Alfred Barr.
Barr and the Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Miller included her in two important shows, “12 Americans” in 1954 and “The New American Painting,” an exhibition that toured Europe in 1958 and 1959 and introduced Abstract Expressionism abroad. In 1958, Life magazine called her “the most celebrated of the young American women painters.”
After starting out as a purely abstract painter, Ms. Hartigan gradually introduced images into her work. It was O’Hara’s blending of high art and low art in his poetry that influenced her to cast far and wide for sources.
In 1949 she married the artist Harry Jackson, “not one of my more serious marriages,” she later said. The marriage was annulled after a year. In 1959 she married Robert Keene, a gallery owner, whom she divorced a year later. In 1960 she married Winston Price, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who collected modern art and had bought one of her paintings. After injecting himself with an experimental vaccine against encephalitis in 1969 and contracting spinal meningitis, he began a long descent into physical and mental illness that ended with his death in 1981.
Ms. Hartigan is survived by a brother, Arthur Hartigan of Huntington Beach, Calif.; a sister, Barbara Sesee of North Brunswick, N.J.; and three grandchildren. Her son, Jeffrey Jachens, died in 2006.
Ms. Hartigan’s move to Baltimore coincided with a drastic shift in artistic fashion, as Pop Art and Minimalism eclipsed Abstract Expressionism. Out of the spotlight, Ms. Hartigan embarked on what she later recalled as “an isolated creative life.” For decades she painted in a loft in a former department store and taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The college created a graduate school around her, the Hoffberger School of Painting, of which she became director in 1965. She taught at the school until retiring last year.
As historians and curators reassessed the history of postwar art, she experienced a resurgence of sorts. Her use of commercial imagery led her to be included in “Hand-Painted Pop,” a 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, despite her loathing for the movement.
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion,” she said in the 1960’s. On the other hand, she reflected at the time of the Whitney show, “I’d much rather be a pioneer of a movement that I hate than the second generation of a movement that I love.”
Her work was exhibited as recently as May at the Jewish Museum in New York, in “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976.”
On an artistic path marked by twists and turns and restless experimentation, she maintained a fierce commitment to the modernist agenda and a belief in art’s near-magical powers.
“Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me,” she told the reference work “World Artists: 1950-1980.”
“Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.”
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Marty Katz/baltimorephotographer.comGrace Hartigan in her studio in 1993 with her painting “Junk Shop With Egyptian Violet.” Grace Hartigan/Corcoran Gallery of Art"Summer Street," 1956. The cause was liver failure, said Julian Weissman, a longtime dealer of hers.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition. Determined to stake out her own artistic ground, she turned outward from the interior world sanctified by the Abstract Expressionists and embraced the visual swirl of contemporary American life.
In “Grand Street Brides” (1954), one of several early paintings that attracted the immediate attention of critics and curators, she depicted bridal-shop window mannequins in a composition based on Goya’s “Royal Family.” Later paintings incorporated images taken from coloring books, film, traditional paintings, store windows and advertising, all in the service of art that one critic described as “tensely personal.”
“Her art was marked by a willingness to employ a variety of styles in a modernist idiom, to go back and forth from art-historical references to pop-culture references to autobiographical material,” said Robert Saltonstall Mattison, the author of “Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World” (1990).
Grace Hartigan was born in Newark in 1922 and grew up in rural New Jersey, the oldest of four children. Unable to afford college, she married early and, in a flight of romantic fancy, she and her husband, Bob Jachens, struck out for Alaska to live as pioneers. They made it no farther than California, where, with her husband’s encouragement, she took up painting.
“I didn’t choose painting,” she later told an interviewer. “It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.”
In the mid-1940’s she left her husband, placed their son, Jeffrey, in the care of his parents and moved back to Newark, where she trained in mechanical drafting and took painting lessons with Isaac Lane Muse. After moving to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1945, she became part of the postwar New York artistic scene, forming alliances with the Abstract Expressionist painters — although de Kooning reduced her to tears by telling her she completely misunderstood modern art — and poets like Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch.
Ms. Hartigan won fame early. In 1950, the critic Clement Greenberg and the art historian Meyer Schapiro included her in their “New Talent” show at the Kootz Gallery, and a one-woman exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery soon followed. “Persian Jacket,” an early painting, was bought for the Museum of Modern Art by Alfred Barr.
Barr and the Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Miller included her in two important shows, “12 Americans” in 1954 and “The New American Painting,” an exhibition that toured Europe in 1958 and 1959 and introduced Abstract Expressionism abroad. In 1958, Life magazine called her “the most celebrated of the young American women painters.”
After starting out as a purely abstract painter, Ms. Hartigan gradually introduced images into her work. It was O’Hara’s blending of high art and low art in his poetry that influenced her to cast far and wide for sources.
In 1949 she married the artist Harry Jackson, “not one of my more serious marriages,” she later said. The marriage was annulled after a year. In 1959 she married Robert Keene, a gallery owner, whom she divorced a year later. In 1960 she married Winston Price, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who collected modern art and had bought one of her paintings. After injecting himself with an experimental vaccine against encephalitis in 1969 and contracting spinal meningitis, he began a long descent into physical and mental illness that ended with his death in 1981.
Ms. Hartigan is survived by a brother, Arthur Hartigan of Huntington Beach, Calif.; a sister, Barbara Sesee of North Brunswick, N.J.; and three grandchildren. Her son, Jeffrey Jachens, died in 2006.
Ms. Hartigan’s move to Baltimore coincided with a drastic shift in artistic fashion, as Pop Art and Minimalism eclipsed Abstract Expressionism. Out of the spotlight, Ms. Hartigan embarked on what she later recalled as “an isolated creative life.” For decades she painted in a loft in a former department store and taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The college created a graduate school around her, the Hoffberger School of Painting, of which she became director in 1965. She taught at the school until retiring last year.
As historians and curators reassessed the history of postwar art, she experienced a resurgence of sorts. Her use of commercial imagery led her to be included in “Hand-Painted Pop,” a 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, despite her loathing for the movement.
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion,” she said in the 1960’s. On the other hand, she reflected at the time of the Whitney show, “I’d much rather be a pioneer of a movement that I hate than the second generation of a movement that I love.”
Her work was exhibited as recently as May at the Jewish Museum in New York, in “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976.”
On an artistic path marked by twists and turns and restless experimentation, she maintained a fierce commitment to the modernist agenda and a belief in art’s near-magical powers.
“Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me,” she told the reference work “World Artists: 1950-1980.”
“Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.”
More Articles in Arts » A version of this article appeared in print on November 18, 2008, on page B14 of the New York edition.
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
First Coast Happenings
FRIDAY
Charity Golf Classic, presented by Healing Every Autistic Life, golf clinic, 8 a.m.; shotgun start, 8:30 a.m.; TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach. Funds raised will place iPads in special needs classrooms in Northeast Florida. (904) 716-4198 or healautismnow.org.
First Coast Classic Ballroom and Latin Dance Championship, day sessions, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; dinner 6 p.m., show, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; World Golf Village, Renaissance Hotel, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. $25, day sessions; $40 and $55 evening shows; dinner and show, $110 Friday; dinner and show, $120 Saturday; $150 Saturday show and VIP After Party; $215 Saturday dinner, show and VIP After Party. (904) 904-338-9219 or firstcoastclassic.com.
Jacksonville Home and Patio Show, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St. $10 adults, $5 children 6-12 and seniors 60 and older. jacksonvillefallhomeshow.com.
“A Conversation with Emery Conrad,” in celebration of LGBT History Month, noon, University of North Florida. Speaker is Emery Grant, of the Stonewall Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, on “Behind Seneca, Selma and Stonewall,” stories of the travelling LGBT History and Civil Rights exhibit, along with a display of special artifacts from the Stonewall Archives only available for viewing during the presentation. Includes a free lunch. Exhibit on display through Oct. 31. (904) 620-2192 or unf.edu.
Tactile Art Show and Thread to the Past: 1855, 5-9 p.m., St. Augustine Art Association. Includes the St. Augustine Bayfront Quilt during the First Friday Art Walk grand opening reception. Features “touchable” art created in partnership with the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. The Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild rolls out a panoramic interpretation of St. Augustine’s 19th century harbor. This collaborative quilt celebrates St. Augustine’s 450-year old artisan traditions. Show runs through Nov. 2. (904) 824-2310 or staaa.org.
Oktoberfest, VIP Preview Party to benefit the Memorial Park Association, 6-9 p.m. Friday, $125; Festival, noon-8 p.m. Saturday; Memorial Park, 1620 Riverside Ave. Includes music, beers, beer competitions, food trucks and a souvenir Oktoberfest stein. $35 in advance, $40 at the gate. memparkjax.org.
“Man of LaMancha,” meal 6:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; meal 11:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., show 1:15 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; meal 12:15 and 6:30 p.m., show 2 and 8 p.m. Sundays; Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd. Show runs through Oct. 12. Tickets start at $38. Reservations, (904) 641-1212 or alhambrajax.com.
Cosmic Concerts, Fright Light, 7 p.m.; Laser Pop, 8 p.m.; Queen, 9 p.m.; Pink Floyd: The Wall, 10 p.m., Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle. $5 per person per show, laser glasses $1. (904) 396-6674 or moshplanetarium.org.
“The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild,” 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ Black Box Theatre, 2445 San Diego Road. $10 in advance and student, $12 at the door. (904) 346-5620 or da-arts.org.
Concert, 7:30 p.m., Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St. Features violinist Sean Lee and pianist Peter Dugan. Reservations, (904) 355-7584 or fridaymusicale.com.
“The 39 Steps: A Live Radio Play,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N. Features a 35-piece live orchestra and “Foley” sound-effects artists to help tell the story. $10 adults, $5 seniors 62 and older, military and students with ID; JU staff, faculty and students get in free with ID. (904) 256-7370 or ju.edu.
“Avenue Q,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. $15, $25. (386) 585-9415 or crtpalmcoast.com.
“The Addams Family,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine. Show continues 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-11, 2 p.m. Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16-18, 2 p.m. Oct. 19. $25 adults, $22 seniors, $20 students and military. (904) 825-1164 or limelight-theatre.org.
Friday Night Live, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. The music competition concludes with the winners from the first four weeks competing for a grand prize of $1,000 cash. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
“Figuro,” a play freely adapted from “Le Mariage de Figaro” by Beaumarchais, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Theatre Jacksonville, Harold K. Smith Playhouse, 2032 San Marco Blvd. $25. (904) 396-4425 or theatrejax.com.
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. Thursday, Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jacksonville Beach. Show continues 8 p.m. Oct. 10-11. $28. (904) 249-0289 or playersbythesea.org.
SATURDAY
Life Without Lupus Walk to benefit the Lupus Foundation of Florida, registration 7 a.m., walk 8-10 a.m., Red Cross Building grassy area, 751 Riverside Ave. Walk followed by an awards ceremony. lupusflorida.org.
Jacksonville Marine Corps 1/2 Marathon and Freedom 5K, 7 a.m.-midnight, Metropolitan Park, through Riverside and back to Metro Park. Event is a celebration of running, physical fitness, prizes and awards and a tribute to our military with an expo, receptions and parties. jaxmarinecorpshalfmarathon.com.
“Stand Up to Addiction” Rally, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., SeaWalk Pavilion, Jacksonville Beach. Includes a 5K run, live music, speakers and free activities for the family. (404) 989-4186 or soberlivingamerica.org.
Community Yard Sale to benefit Waste Not Want Not, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Orange Park Town Hall Park, Kingsley Avenue and U.S. 17. $25, 15x15 booth; electric $5 more. (904) 505-5894 or wastenotflorida.com.
Profit Golf Classic to benefit Take Stock in Children and children’s charities, shotgun start 9 a.m., King & Bear Golf Course, World Golf Village, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. Registration, profitgolfclassic.com.
Self Defense Workshop to benefit the Fernandina Beach Library, 9 a.m.-noon, Fernandina Beach Recreation Center, 2500 Atlantic Ave. Features martial arts expert Dan Kelly. $20. (904) 277-7365.
Mayor’s “Es Mi Vida” Hispanic Expo, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Schultz Center for Training and Leadership, 4019 Boulevard Center Drive. Includes a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at 11 a.m. (904) 630-1776 or coj.net.
Fall Craft Festival to benefit the church missions, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mandarin Methodist Church, 11270 San Jose Blvd. Includes hand-made crafts, a Country Store, bakery, lunch and Children’s Shop. (904) 268-5549 or mandarinumc.com.
Jacksonville Farmers Market, dawn to dusk daily year round, 1810 W. Beaver St. Features local, organic, ethnic and specialty produce, along with other foods and agricultural products. Includes the St. Vincent’s Heathcare Fall Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, with live music, a Kids Zone, arts and crafts, classic and new cars exhibits, plants and organic gardening, health booths and food trucks. Admission, entertainment and kids zone activities are free. (904) 354-2821 or jaxfarmersmarket.com.
Blessing of the Animals, Saturday as part of the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine, on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and the environment. All creatures big and small welcomed, pets must be on a leash and/or caged.
¦ Blessed Trinity Parish, 10472 Beach Blvd. — 9 a.m. in the parish parking lot.
¦ Sacred Heart Parish, 5752 Blanding Blvd. — 9 a.m. in front of the church.
¦ St. Paul Parish, 2609 Park Street — 10 a.m. near the fountain.
¦ Holy Spirit Parish, 11665 Fort Caroline Road — 10 a.m. at the church entrance.
¦ Most Holy Redeemer Parish, 8523 Normandy Blvd. — 11 a.m. under the big oak tree on church grounds.
¦ Holy Family Parish, 9800 Baymeadows Road — 3:30 p.m. on the church grounds.
¦ Sunday, Oct. 12, Mary Queen of Heaven Parish, 9401 Staples Mill Drive — 12:30 p.m. on church grounds.
“Copyright or Wrong” Workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, 50 Executive Way. $20, members get in free. Reservations, (904) 280-0614, ext. 204.
Corn Maze, 5-9 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays, Saturday through Oct. 26, Sykes and Cooper Farms, 5995 Brough Road, Elkton. Features a nine-acre maze, a children’s maze, hayrides, a playground and farm animals. $9 adults, $7 seniors and active military; children 2 and younger get in free. sycofarms.com.
Family Pet Fair and Blessing of the Pets to benefit St. Francis Animal Hospital and St. Philip Neri Animal Ministry, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Blessing 1:30 p.m., Fletcher Park, 1652 Atlantic Blvd. Includes pet and people vendors, food, a Laundromutt charity dog wash, free nail trims, dogs available for adoption and face painting. Pet microchipping $15. (904) 674-7223.
Jaxport Bowling benefit, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Bowl America Southside Bowling Center, 11141 Beach Blvd. $25 each or $125 per team of five. jaxport.com/giving.
Riverside Arts Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Riverside Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Includes arts and crafts, fresh vegetables and produce and food vendors. (904) 389-2449 or riversideartsmarket.com.
¦ River Stage: You Rascal You!, 10:30-11:30 a.m.; Blue Muse, noon-2:15 p.m.; and the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble 2, 2:45-3:30 p.m.
¦ Hilltop Stage: Annith Harris, 10:30 a.m.-noon; John Morgan, 1:30-3 p.m.
¦ Roundhouse Stage: Andrew Ratcliff, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
¦ Crossroads Stage: Gyminators, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Fall Stamp Collectors Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Northeast Florida Safety Council Building, 1725 Art Museum Drive. Free admission. facebook.com.
Beaches Art Fest, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Beaches Museum and History Park, 380 Pablo Ave., Jacksonville Beach. (904) 241-5657 or beachesartfest.com.
Golf Festival, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, throughout World Golf Village, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. Includes interactive activities, Hall of Fame members, demonstrations, golf movies, contests, tours, food trucks, a Women’s Clinic from 3-6 p.m. and bounce houses. Live music by Ryan Campbell and the Charlie Walker Band, noon-4 p.m. Free. worldgolfhalloffame.org.
Living History Day, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Fort Matanzas, 8635 Florida A1A, 15 miles south of St. Augustine. Includes reenactors and demonstrations. Free, includes ferry ride to Rattlesnake Island. (904) 471-0116 or mps.gov/foma.
Open House, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., program noon, University Park branch library, 3435 University Blvd. N. Program with City Council president Clay Yarborough and Councilman John Crescimbeni with a resolution commemorating the anniversary and the library’s 10 years of service. Includes door prizes and arts and crafts for children. (904) 630-2665.
Art Fest, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Waldo Farmers and Flea Market, 17805 U.S. 301, Waldo. Includes arts and crafts, exhibits, demonstrations, face painting and live music. (352) 468-2255 or waldoflea.com.
Datil Pepper Festival and Cook Off, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, St. Augustine Agricultural Center, 3125 Agricultural Center Drive, St. Augustine. Includes datil pepper tastings, local chefs in a Datil Pepper Cook-Off with tastings for patrons and a Home and Garden Show. (904) 209-0430 or augustine.com/event/datil-pepper-festival-cook.
Dia de Justicia — Day of Justice, 1-5 p.m., Florida Coastal School of Law, 8787 Baypine Road, Room 250. Program to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month is in Spanish and English.
Jacksonville Original Music and Art Festival, 1 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Features a celebration of musical creativity and art presented by Songwriters Showcases of America and includes more than 125 acts on 14 stages in downtown Jacksonville, with eight stages at The Landing. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
Fashion Show, 3 p.m., Orange Park Mall, at the entrance of Dillards, 1910 Wells Road. Features area success stories. (904)269-2222.
River City Pride parade and festival, parade, 4 p.m. Saturday, Boone Park to 5 Points Business District; festival, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, River City Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Free; commemorative bracelet, $3. rivercitypride.com.
Fiesta de Aviles, 4-10 p.m., Aviles Street, St. Augustine. Features a celebration of St. Augustine’s Old Town heritage with live music, costumes, art exhibits and a special running of the “bulls” along Aviles Street. Free. (904) 377-0198.
FinFest at Sawgrass to benefit Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m., The Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort and Spa, 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach. Includes tropical-style cuisine, live and silent auctions and a performance by KTG Musical Entertainment. $130, ages 41 and older; $70.15, ages 40 and younger. (904) 355-3403 or eventbrite.com.
The Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale, 7 p.m., St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, 4758 Shelby Ave. Features a program of Early American Music and an appearance by the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus. Free admission. (904) 269-9819 or jaxmasterworks.org.
Jazz Jamm with Euge Groove, 7 and 10 p.m. Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, 829 N. Davis St. Features the jazz/R&B/pop perfection of saxophonist Steven Eugene Grove. (904) 632-5555 or ritzjacksonville.com.
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Thrasher-Horne Season Opener, 8 p.m., Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, 283 College Drive, Orange Park. Includes musical favorites and light classics. $16-$48. (904) 276-6750 or thcenter.org.
SUNDAY
“Practice World Peace,” yoga for all ages and abilities, led by Brenda Star Walker, 11 a.m.-noon, Memorial Park, Riverside. Bring a blanket. Free. (904) 699-5172.
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m., EverBank Field. Single game tickets: $45-$110 in advance, $50-$115 on game day; club seats, $160-$280 in advance, $160-$285 on game day. (904) 633-2000 or jaguars.com.
EMMA Concert Series, 2 p.m., Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine. Features The Italian Saxophone Quartet with Piano. $30 adults, $5 students and children. (904) 797-2800 or emmaconcerts.com.
Rubber Ducky Regatta to benefit Learn to Read St. Johns, 2 p.m., Nocatee’s Splash Water Park, 245 Nocatee Center Way, Ponte Vedra Beach. $5 to enter the race. Registration, (904) 826-0011 or ltrstjohns.org.
“Cover the Town With Sound,” 3 p.m., Glenmoor at World Golf Village, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. Features a free concert series with groups of Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra musicians performing throughout the area. Does not include the full orchestra. (904) 354-5547 or jaxsymphony.org.
Reggae Jammin’ on the River, 4-9 p.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Includes live music by King Eddie and the Pili Pili Band. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
“Dearly Departed” to benefit the Broken Ninja Project, 4:30 p.m., Fernandina Little Theatre, 1014 Beech St., Fernandina Beach. $25. (904) 277-2202 or ameliaflt.org.
Widespread Panic, 6 p.m., St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 Florida A1A S. $39.50-$47.50. (904) 471-1965 or staugamphitheatre.com.
MONDAY
“Pars Fore Paws” Golf Tournament to benefit Clay Humane, registration 11 a.m., lunch noon, shotgun start 12:30 p.m., Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club. Includes dinner, a raffle and prizes following the event. $100. (904) 610-7603 or clayhumane.org.
Blood Drive, 3:30-6:30 p.m., Lowe’s Home Improvement, 5155 Lenox Ave. Registration, thebloodalliancedonor.org.
Purple Out during the softball league co-ed games, in observance of Domestic Violence Month, 7 p.m. Monday; and during the men’s games, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Treaty Park, 1595 Wildwood Drive, St. Augustine. Wear purple; get creative with clothes and hair. (904) 824-1555 or bettygriffinhouse.org.
TUESDAY
Coping with Food Allergies, 3:30 p.m., Mandarin Senior Center’s Lifetree Cafe, 3848 Hartley Road. Features “Allergic to Food: Living in an Incredible, Inedible World,” a filmed interview with nutritionist Nicole Eckman featuring a glimpse into the life of a woman coping with Celiac disease. Free. (904) 731-0731 or email gtreiber.hopejax@gmail.com.
Emergence Concert, as part of the Music at Main series, 7 p.m., Main Library, 303 N. Main St. Features Jacksonville University voice students. Series showcases the talents of student performers. (904) 630-2665 or jaxpubliclibrary.org.
Eat Local Give Local to benefit the Fresh Access Bucks program, 7:30 p.m., Jaxon Social, 1611 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach. Includes two drink tickets, a three-course dinner (vegan available), an auction and live entertainment. $75 a person. beacheslocalfoodnetwork.org.
WEDNESDAY
Little Learners, 9-11 a.m., Museum of Science and History, 1025 Museum Circle. Features “Earth, Moon and Sun” at 10 a.m. and “Spooky Shapes and Colors” at 11 a.m. $5 a person for children 3 and older. Registration requested. (904) 396-6674 or themosh.com.
Leadership Speakers Bureau Series, 10 a.m., University of North Florida’s Student Union, Building 58W, Room 2704. Speaker is the Rev. J. Perry Smith, author of “The Unlikely Priest,” with “From Matador to Priest: Maintaining an Authentic Leadership Style,” his life of service as a matador, Trappist monk, U.S. Army counter-intelligence agent, CIA operative, FBI agent and an Episcopal priest. Free. Registration, email alison.kent@unf.edu.
Basketball: New Orleans vs. Washington, 7 p.m., Veterans Memorial Arena. $14-$299. (904) 630-3900 or jaxevents.com.
THURSDAY
Classic Rock Trivia Cruises, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays during October, Amelia River Cruises, Fernandina Harbor Marina, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina Beach. Features a classic rock sound track, trivia and prizes. $28. ameliarivercruises.com.
Adamec Bike Night, 6-10 p.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Includes free bike parking, vendors, prizes and live music by Spanky the Band. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
The Beatles: White Album, as part of Classic Albums Live, 7:30 p.m., Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, 283 College Drive, Orange Park. (904) 276-6750 or thcenter.org.
OCT. 10
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra with the Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel, 11 a.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Times-Union Center for the Performing, 300 W. Water St. Guest artists are A.J. Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle. Coffee concert, Friday 11 a.m., $16-$26; pops concerts, both evenings, $25-$72. (904) 354-5547 or jaxsymphony.org.
Lost Ships Archaeology Tour, 3 p.m., St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, 81 Lighthouse Ave. $24. 81 Lighthouse Ave., St. Augustine. (904) 829-0745 or staugustinelighthouse.org
St. Augustine Greek Festival, 4-9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Francis Field, 29 W. Castillo Drive, St. Augustine. Festival celebrates the Greek heritage that began when the first Greek settlers arrived in Florida in 1768. Includes Greek food, live music, arts and crafts, traditionally-costumed folk dancers and a kid’s center with games and rides. $3; free for children 12 and younger and active military and immediate family with ID. (904) 829-0504.
An Evening of Hugo Wolf, 7:30 p.m., Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N. Features mezzo-soprano Brittnee Siemon in in an evening of the art song of Hugo Wolf. Includes JU faculty members baritone Jay Ivey and soprano Kimberly Beasley, with JU alum pianist Alfred Meneses. $10 adults; $5 seniors 62 and older, military, students and children younger than 17; JU faculty, staff and students get in free. (904) 256-7677 or ju.edu
Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens, 8 p.m., Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, 829 N. Davis St. $34, $39. (904) 632-5555 or ritzjacksonville.com.
Live music by Bread and Butter, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
OCT. 11
“Out of Darkness” Community Walk to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 7:30 a.m.-noon, The Jacksonville Landing. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
Cars and Coffee Cruise-in, 9-11 a.m., The Florida Times-Union, 1 Riverside Ave. All makes and models welcome. Group meets the second Saturday of each month. automotiveaddicts.com.
Riverside Arts Market, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Riverside Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Includes arts and crafts, fresh vegetables and produce and food vendors. Features a North Florida Yoga Fest. (904) 389-2449 or riversideartsmarket.com.
Poker Run to benefit Wreaths Across America, registration 8:30 a.m., last bike out 10 a.m., last bike in 5 p.m.; After Party, 5:30 p.m.; American Legion, Post 129, 1151 Fourth St. S., Jacksonville Beach. $20 driver, $15 passenger. Includes door prizes, live entertainment, a raffle, dinner, games and vendors. post129.org.
Artrageous Artwalk, 5:30-8:30 p.m., downtown Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island. Free. (800) 226-3542 or ameliaisland.com.
Wine to Shine to benefit the Lori Ann Breast Cancer Foundation, 6-10 p.m., Deerwood Country Club, 10239 Golf Club Drive. Includes cocktails, dining stations, an auction, live music and dancing. Cocktail attire requested. $100 a person. (904) 424-2603 or winetoshine.eventbrite.com.
Widespread Panic, 7 p.m., St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 Florida A1A S. $49.50-$79.50. (904) 471-1965 or staugamphitheatre.com.
Live music by the IveyWest Band, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
Fax to (904) 359-4478 or email events@jacksonville.com. Complete listing at jacksonville.com/calendars. To put your event in the free online calendar, go to events.jacksonville.com.
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Charity Golf Classic, presented by Healing Every Autistic Life, golf clinic, 8 a.m.; shotgun start, 8:30 a.m.; TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach. Funds raised will place iPads in special needs classrooms in Northeast Florida. (904) 716-4198 or healautismnow.org.
First Coast Classic Ballroom and Latin Dance Championship, day sessions, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; dinner 6 p.m., show, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; World Golf Village, Renaissance Hotel, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. $25, day sessions; $40 and $55 evening shows; dinner and show, $110 Friday; dinner and show, $120 Saturday; $150 Saturday show and VIP After Party; $215 Saturday dinner, show and VIP After Party. (904) 904-338-9219 or firstcoastclassic.com.
Jacksonville Home and Patio Show, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St. $10 adults, $5 children 6-12 and seniors 60 and older. jacksonvillefallhomeshow.com.
“A Conversation with Emery Conrad,” in celebration of LGBT History Month, noon, University of North Florida. Speaker is Emery Grant, of the Stonewall Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, on “Behind Seneca, Selma and Stonewall,” stories of the travelling LGBT History and Civil Rights exhibit, along with a display of special artifacts from the Stonewall Archives only available for viewing during the presentation. Includes a free lunch. Exhibit on display through Oct. 31. (904) 620-2192 or unf.edu.
Tactile Art Show and Thread to the Past: 1855, 5-9 p.m., St. Augustine Art Association. Includes the St. Augustine Bayfront Quilt during the First Friday Art Walk grand opening reception. Features “touchable” art created in partnership with the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. The Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild rolls out a panoramic interpretation of St. Augustine’s 19th century harbor. This collaborative quilt celebrates St. Augustine’s 450-year old artisan traditions. Show runs through Nov. 2. (904) 824-2310 or staaa.org.
Oktoberfest, VIP Preview Party to benefit the Memorial Park Association, 6-9 p.m. Friday, $125; Festival, noon-8 p.m. Saturday; Memorial Park, 1620 Riverside Ave. Includes music, beers, beer competitions, food trucks and a souvenir Oktoberfest stein. $35 in advance, $40 at the gate. memparkjax.org.
“Man of LaMancha,” meal 6:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; meal 11:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., show 1:15 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; meal 12:15 and 6:30 p.m., show 2 and 8 p.m. Sundays; Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd. Show runs through Oct. 12. Tickets start at $38. Reservations, (904) 641-1212 or alhambrajax.com.
Cosmic Concerts, Fright Light, 7 p.m.; Laser Pop, 8 p.m.; Queen, 9 p.m.; Pink Floyd: The Wall, 10 p.m., Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle. $5 per person per show, laser glasses $1. (904) 396-6674 or moshplanetarium.org.
“The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild,” 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ Black Box Theatre, 2445 San Diego Road. $10 in advance and student, $12 at the door. (904) 346-5620 or da-arts.org.
Concert, 7:30 p.m., Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St. Features violinist Sean Lee and pianist Peter Dugan. Reservations, (904) 355-7584 or fridaymusicale.com.
“The 39 Steps: A Live Radio Play,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N. Features a 35-piece live orchestra and “Foley” sound-effects artists to help tell the story. $10 adults, $5 seniors 62 and older, military and students with ID; JU staff, faculty and students get in free with ID. (904) 256-7370 or ju.edu.
“Avenue Q,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. $15, $25. (386) 585-9415 or crtpalmcoast.com.
“The Addams Family,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine. Show continues 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-11, 2 p.m. Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16-18, 2 p.m. Oct. 19. $25 adults, $22 seniors, $20 students and military. (904) 825-1164 or limelight-theatre.org.
Friday Night Live, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. The music competition concludes with the winners from the first four weeks competing for a grand prize of $1,000 cash. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
“Figuro,” a play freely adapted from “Le Mariage de Figaro” by Beaumarchais, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Theatre Jacksonville, Harold K. Smith Playhouse, 2032 San Marco Blvd. $25. (904) 396-4425 or theatrejax.com.
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. Thursday, Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jacksonville Beach. Show continues 8 p.m. Oct. 10-11. $28. (904) 249-0289 or playersbythesea.org.
SATURDAY
Life Without Lupus Walk to benefit the Lupus Foundation of Florida, registration 7 a.m., walk 8-10 a.m., Red Cross Building grassy area, 751 Riverside Ave. Walk followed by an awards ceremony. lupusflorida.org.
Jacksonville Marine Corps 1/2 Marathon and Freedom 5K, 7 a.m.-midnight, Metropolitan Park, through Riverside and back to Metro Park. Event is a celebration of running, physical fitness, prizes and awards and a tribute to our military with an expo, receptions and parties. jaxmarinecorpshalfmarathon.com.
“Stand Up to Addiction” Rally, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., SeaWalk Pavilion, Jacksonville Beach. Includes a 5K run, live music, speakers and free activities for the family. (404) 989-4186 or soberlivingamerica.org.
Community Yard Sale to benefit Waste Not Want Not, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Orange Park Town Hall Park, Kingsley Avenue and U.S. 17. $25, 15x15 booth; electric $5 more. (904) 505-5894 or wastenotflorida.com.
Profit Golf Classic to benefit Take Stock in Children and children’s charities, shotgun start 9 a.m., King & Bear Golf Course, World Golf Village, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. Registration, profitgolfclassic.com.
Self Defense Workshop to benefit the Fernandina Beach Library, 9 a.m.-noon, Fernandina Beach Recreation Center, 2500 Atlantic Ave. Features martial arts expert Dan Kelly. $20. (904) 277-7365.
Mayor’s “Es Mi Vida” Hispanic Expo, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Schultz Center for Training and Leadership, 4019 Boulevard Center Drive. Includes a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at 11 a.m. (904) 630-1776 or coj.net.
Fall Craft Festival to benefit the church missions, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mandarin Methodist Church, 11270 San Jose Blvd. Includes hand-made crafts, a Country Store, bakery, lunch and Children’s Shop. (904) 268-5549 or mandarinumc.com.
Jacksonville Farmers Market, dawn to dusk daily year round, 1810 W. Beaver St. Features local, organic, ethnic and specialty produce, along with other foods and agricultural products. Includes the St. Vincent’s Heathcare Fall Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, with live music, a Kids Zone, arts and crafts, classic and new cars exhibits, plants and organic gardening, health booths and food trucks. Admission, entertainment and kids zone activities are free. (904) 354-2821 or jaxfarmersmarket.com.
Blessing of the Animals, Saturday as part of the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine, on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and the environment. All creatures big and small welcomed, pets must be on a leash and/or caged.
¦ Blessed Trinity Parish, 10472 Beach Blvd. — 9 a.m. in the parish parking lot.
¦ Sacred Heart Parish, 5752 Blanding Blvd. — 9 a.m. in front of the church.
¦ St. Paul Parish, 2609 Park Street — 10 a.m. near the fountain.
¦ Holy Spirit Parish, 11665 Fort Caroline Road — 10 a.m. at the church entrance.
¦ Most Holy Redeemer Parish, 8523 Normandy Blvd. — 11 a.m. under the big oak tree on church grounds.
¦ Holy Family Parish, 9800 Baymeadows Road — 3:30 p.m. on the church grounds.
¦ Sunday, Oct. 12, Mary Queen of Heaven Parish, 9401 Staples Mill Drive — 12:30 p.m. on church grounds.
“Copyright or Wrong” Workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, 50 Executive Way. $20, members get in free. Reservations, (904) 280-0614, ext. 204.
Corn Maze, 5-9 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays, Saturday through Oct. 26, Sykes and Cooper Farms, 5995 Brough Road, Elkton. Features a nine-acre maze, a children’s maze, hayrides, a playground and farm animals. $9 adults, $7 seniors and active military; children 2 and younger get in free. sycofarms.com.
Family Pet Fair and Blessing of the Pets to benefit St. Francis Animal Hospital and St. Philip Neri Animal Ministry, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Blessing 1:30 p.m., Fletcher Park, 1652 Atlantic Blvd. Includes pet and people vendors, food, a Laundromutt charity dog wash, free nail trims, dogs available for adoption and face painting. Pet microchipping $15. (904) 674-7223.
Jaxport Bowling benefit, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Bowl America Southside Bowling Center, 11141 Beach Blvd. $25 each or $125 per team of five. jaxport.com/giving.
Riverside Arts Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Riverside Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Includes arts and crafts, fresh vegetables and produce and food vendors. (904) 389-2449 or riversideartsmarket.com.
¦ River Stage: You Rascal You!, 10:30-11:30 a.m.; Blue Muse, noon-2:15 p.m.; and the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble 2, 2:45-3:30 p.m.
¦ Hilltop Stage: Annith Harris, 10:30 a.m.-noon; John Morgan, 1:30-3 p.m.
¦ Roundhouse Stage: Andrew Ratcliff, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
¦ Crossroads Stage: Gyminators, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Fall Stamp Collectors Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Northeast Florida Safety Council Building, 1725 Art Museum Drive. Free admission. facebook.com.
Beaches Art Fest, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Beaches Museum and History Park, 380 Pablo Ave., Jacksonville Beach. (904) 241-5657 or beachesartfest.com.
Golf Festival, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, throughout World Golf Village, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. Includes interactive activities, Hall of Fame members, demonstrations, golf movies, contests, tours, food trucks, a Women’s Clinic from 3-6 p.m. and bounce houses. Live music by Ryan Campbell and the Charlie Walker Band, noon-4 p.m. Free. worldgolfhalloffame.org.
Living History Day, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Fort Matanzas, 8635 Florida A1A, 15 miles south of St. Augustine. Includes reenactors and demonstrations. Free, includes ferry ride to Rattlesnake Island. (904) 471-0116 or mps.gov/foma.
Open House, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., program noon, University Park branch library, 3435 University Blvd. N. Program with City Council president Clay Yarborough and Councilman John Crescimbeni with a resolution commemorating the anniversary and the library’s 10 years of service. Includes door prizes and arts and crafts for children. (904) 630-2665.
Art Fest, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Waldo Farmers and Flea Market, 17805 U.S. 301, Waldo. Includes arts and crafts, exhibits, demonstrations, face painting and live music. (352) 468-2255 or waldoflea.com.
Datil Pepper Festival and Cook Off, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, St. Augustine Agricultural Center, 3125 Agricultural Center Drive, St. Augustine. Includes datil pepper tastings, local chefs in a Datil Pepper Cook-Off with tastings for patrons and a Home and Garden Show. (904) 209-0430 or augustine.com/event/datil-pepper-festival-cook.
Dia de Justicia — Day of Justice, 1-5 p.m., Florida Coastal School of Law, 8787 Baypine Road, Room 250. Program to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month is in Spanish and English.
Jacksonville Original Music and Art Festival, 1 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Features a celebration of musical creativity and art presented by Songwriters Showcases of America and includes more than 125 acts on 14 stages in downtown Jacksonville, with eight stages at The Landing. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
Fashion Show, 3 p.m., Orange Park Mall, at the entrance of Dillards, 1910 Wells Road. Features area success stories. (904)269-2222.
River City Pride parade and festival, parade, 4 p.m. Saturday, Boone Park to 5 Points Business District; festival, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, River City Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Free; commemorative bracelet, $3. rivercitypride.com.
Fiesta de Aviles, 4-10 p.m., Aviles Street, St. Augustine. Features a celebration of St. Augustine’s Old Town heritage with live music, costumes, art exhibits and a special running of the “bulls” along Aviles Street. Free. (904) 377-0198.
FinFest at Sawgrass to benefit Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m., The Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort and Spa, 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach. Includes tropical-style cuisine, live and silent auctions and a performance by KTG Musical Entertainment. $130, ages 41 and older; $70.15, ages 40 and younger. (904) 355-3403 or eventbrite.com.
The Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale, 7 p.m., St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, 4758 Shelby Ave. Features a program of Early American Music and an appearance by the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus. Free admission. (904) 269-9819 or jaxmasterworks.org.
Jazz Jamm with Euge Groove, 7 and 10 p.m. Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, 829 N. Davis St. Features the jazz/R&B/pop perfection of saxophonist Steven Eugene Grove. (904) 632-5555 or ritzjacksonville.com.
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Thrasher-Horne Season Opener, 8 p.m., Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, 283 College Drive, Orange Park. Includes musical favorites and light classics. $16-$48. (904) 276-6750 or thcenter.org.
SUNDAY
“Practice World Peace,” yoga for all ages and abilities, led by Brenda Star Walker, 11 a.m.-noon, Memorial Park, Riverside. Bring a blanket. Free. (904) 699-5172.
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m., EverBank Field. Single game tickets: $45-$110 in advance, $50-$115 on game day; club seats, $160-$280 in advance, $160-$285 on game day. (904) 633-2000 or jaguars.com.
EMMA Concert Series, 2 p.m., Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine. Features The Italian Saxophone Quartet with Piano. $30 adults, $5 students and children. (904) 797-2800 or emmaconcerts.com.
Rubber Ducky Regatta to benefit Learn to Read St. Johns, 2 p.m., Nocatee’s Splash Water Park, 245 Nocatee Center Way, Ponte Vedra Beach. $5 to enter the race. Registration, (904) 826-0011 or ltrstjohns.org.
“Cover the Town With Sound,” 3 p.m., Glenmoor at World Golf Village, Interstate 95, Exit 323, near St. Augustine. Features a free concert series with groups of Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra musicians performing throughout the area. Does not include the full orchestra. (904) 354-5547 or jaxsymphony.org.
Reggae Jammin’ on the River, 4-9 p.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Includes live music by King Eddie and the Pili Pili Band. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
“Dearly Departed” to benefit the Broken Ninja Project, 4:30 p.m., Fernandina Little Theatre, 1014 Beech St., Fernandina Beach. $25. (904) 277-2202 or ameliaflt.org.
Widespread Panic, 6 p.m., St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 Florida A1A S. $39.50-$47.50. (904) 471-1965 or staugamphitheatre.com.
MONDAY
“Pars Fore Paws” Golf Tournament to benefit Clay Humane, registration 11 a.m., lunch noon, shotgun start 12:30 p.m., Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club. Includes dinner, a raffle and prizes following the event. $100. (904) 610-7603 or clayhumane.org.
Blood Drive, 3:30-6:30 p.m., Lowe’s Home Improvement, 5155 Lenox Ave. Registration, thebloodalliancedonor.org.
Purple Out during the softball league co-ed games, in observance of Domestic Violence Month, 7 p.m. Monday; and during the men’s games, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Treaty Park, 1595 Wildwood Drive, St. Augustine. Wear purple; get creative with clothes and hair. (904) 824-1555 or bettygriffinhouse.org.
TUESDAY
Coping with Food Allergies, 3:30 p.m., Mandarin Senior Center’s Lifetree Cafe, 3848 Hartley Road. Features “Allergic to Food: Living in an Incredible, Inedible World,” a filmed interview with nutritionist Nicole Eckman featuring a glimpse into the life of a woman coping with Celiac disease. Free. (904) 731-0731 or email gtreiber.hopejax@gmail.com.
Emergence Concert, as part of the Music at Main series, 7 p.m., Main Library, 303 N. Main St. Features Jacksonville University voice students. Series showcases the talents of student performers. (904) 630-2665 or jaxpubliclibrary.org.
Eat Local Give Local to benefit the Fresh Access Bucks program, 7:30 p.m., Jaxon Social, 1611 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach. Includes two drink tickets, a three-course dinner (vegan available), an auction and live entertainment. $75 a person. beacheslocalfoodnetwork.org.
WEDNESDAY
Little Learners, 9-11 a.m., Museum of Science and History, 1025 Museum Circle. Features “Earth, Moon and Sun” at 10 a.m. and “Spooky Shapes and Colors” at 11 a.m. $5 a person for children 3 and older. Registration requested. (904) 396-6674 or themosh.com.
Leadership Speakers Bureau Series, 10 a.m., University of North Florida’s Student Union, Building 58W, Room 2704. Speaker is the Rev. J. Perry Smith, author of “The Unlikely Priest,” with “From Matador to Priest: Maintaining an Authentic Leadership Style,” his life of service as a matador, Trappist monk, U.S. Army counter-intelligence agent, CIA operative, FBI agent and an Episcopal priest. Free. Registration, email alison.kent@unf.edu.
Basketball: New Orleans vs. Washington, 7 p.m., Veterans Memorial Arena. $14-$299. (904) 630-3900 or jaxevents.com.
THURSDAY
Classic Rock Trivia Cruises, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays during October, Amelia River Cruises, Fernandina Harbor Marina, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina Beach. Features a classic rock sound track, trivia and prizes. $28. ameliarivercruises.com.
Adamec Bike Night, 6-10 p.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Includes free bike parking, vendors, prizes and live music by Spanky the Band. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
The Beatles: White Album, as part of Classic Albums Live, 7:30 p.m., Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, 283 College Drive, Orange Park. (904) 276-6750 or thcenter.org.
OCT. 10
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra with the Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel, 11 a.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Times-Union Center for the Performing, 300 W. Water St. Guest artists are A.J. Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle. Coffee concert, Friday 11 a.m., $16-$26; pops concerts, both evenings, $25-$72. (904) 354-5547 or jaxsymphony.org.
Lost Ships Archaeology Tour, 3 p.m., St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, 81 Lighthouse Ave. $24. 81 Lighthouse Ave., St. Augustine. (904) 829-0745 or staugustinelighthouse.org
St. Augustine Greek Festival, 4-9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Francis Field, 29 W. Castillo Drive, St. Augustine. Festival celebrates the Greek heritage that began when the first Greek settlers arrived in Florida in 1768. Includes Greek food, live music, arts and crafts, traditionally-costumed folk dancers and a kid’s center with games and rides. $3; free for children 12 and younger and active military and immediate family with ID. (904) 829-0504.
An Evening of Hugo Wolf, 7:30 p.m., Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N. Features mezzo-soprano Brittnee Siemon in in an evening of the art song of Hugo Wolf. Includes JU faculty members baritone Jay Ivey and soprano Kimberly Beasley, with JU alum pianist Alfred Meneses. $10 adults; $5 seniors 62 and older, military, students and children younger than 17; JU faculty, staff and students get in free. (904) 256-7677 or ju.edu
Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens, 8 p.m., Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, 829 N. Davis St. $34, $39. (904) 632-5555 or ritzjacksonville.com.
Live music by Bread and Butter, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
OCT. 11
“Out of Darkness” Community Walk to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 7:30 a.m.-noon, The Jacksonville Landing. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
Cars and Coffee Cruise-in, 9-11 a.m., The Florida Times-Union, 1 Riverside Ave. All makes and models welcome. Group meets the second Saturday of each month. automotiveaddicts.com.
Riverside Arts Market, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Riverside Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave. Includes arts and crafts, fresh vegetables and produce and food vendors. Features a North Florida Yoga Fest. (904) 389-2449 or riversideartsmarket.com.
Poker Run to benefit Wreaths Across America, registration 8:30 a.m., last bike out 10 a.m., last bike in 5 p.m.; After Party, 5:30 p.m.; American Legion, Post 129, 1151 Fourth St. S., Jacksonville Beach. $20 driver, $15 passenger. Includes door prizes, live entertainment, a raffle, dinner, games and vendors. post129.org.
Artrageous Artwalk, 5:30-8:30 p.m., downtown Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island. Free. (800) 226-3542 or ameliaisland.com.
Wine to Shine to benefit the Lori Ann Breast Cancer Foundation, 6-10 p.m., Deerwood Country Club, 10239 Golf Club Drive. Includes cocktails, dining stations, an auction, live music and dancing. Cocktail attire requested. $100 a person. (904) 424-2603 or winetoshine.eventbrite.com.
Widespread Panic, 7 p.m., St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 Florida A1A S. $49.50-$79.50. (904) 471-1965 or staugamphitheatre.com.
Live music by the IveyWest Band, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., The Jacksonville Landing. Free. (904) 353-1188 or jacksonvillelanding.com.
Fax to (904) 359-4478 or email events@jacksonville.com. Complete listing at jacksonville.com/calendars. To put your event in the free online calendar, go to events.jacksonville.com.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Amid Intimate Galleries, a Jewel of a Painting Collection
The next several days promise to be unusually euphoric for the nation’s capital, even by the standards of past presidential inaugurations. If you’re in town for this historic event and have some extra time, you can always duck into the National Gallery of Art without clouding your elation. Thanks to the museum’s magnificent painting collection, the euphoria possible inside its walls can easily match the mood outside. It may also strike you as similarly alive with a sense of human possibility.
The National Gallery, founded in 1937 as a gift to the nation from the financier Andrew W. Mellon, opened its doors in 1941. It is the jewel in the crown of Washington’s many great museums. It is open, with free admission, 363 days a year, although this year that number will drop to 362. Like many institutions along the Mall, it will be closed on Inauguration Day.
Although the gallery has impressive holdings in prints, drawings, photography, the decorative arts and especially sculpture, it is not an encyclopedic museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others across the nation. Its art is almost entirely European and American, and its long suit by far is painting.
The bulk of the National Gallery’s paintings are arrayed on its vast main floor, where warrens of wonderfully intimate galleries feed into two long halls that meet at a domed rotunda. It is as if the arcades of the Palais Royale in Paris were attached to either side of the Pantheon in Rome.
The galleries are numbered, and the first 25 or so offer an amazing review of the font of Western painting in 13th- to 16th-century Italy, especially if you attend primarily to the abundant renderings of the Madonna and Child. The starting point is “Madonna and Child Enthroned” by Margaritone d’Arezzo in Gallery 1. Dated around 1270, it encapsulates the gold ground, frozen poses and flattened space of Byzantine art.
One possible end point is “The Alba Madonna,” Raphael’s glorious tondo from around 1510 in Gallery 20. Here the Madonna leans toward the Christ Child like a mother (albeit a very dignified mother) on a picnic; the graceful, fully rounded figures occupy an immense dome of crystalline, blue-skied space that stretches out behind them.
In between these two paintings virtually every Italian painter of the time seems to weigh in on the subject, as well as on how to render the figure expressively in space. The progression of works gives unusual force to both the idealism and realism of the High Renaissance. Of course the Renaissance portraits in these rooms are not small change, starting with Leonardo’s ineffable “Ginevra de’ Benci” (Gallery 6).
Across the hall the Northern Renaissance and its repercussions unfold almost as compellingly, with scores of must-see galleries, including two (48 and 51) devoted to Rembrandt and his school. One of the choicest places to pause is Gallery 39, where you’ll find three pinnacles of the astounding realism favored in Germany and the Netherlands.
First is Jan van Eyck’s meticulous “Annunciation,” from around 1434-6, in which the Angel Gabriel finds Mary in a Gothic church standing on a carpet whose delicate lines depict scenes from the Old Testament. Second is Petrus Christus’s grand “Nativity,” from around 1450. The elaborate manger includes an arch decorated with statues of Adam and Eve and a peaked roof with green leaves sprouting from a horizontal beam directly above the Christ Child. Yet this sign of growth and hope is framed by a triangle of spindly wood that subtly evokes torturously stretched arms, as on the Cross. Third is Rogier van der Weyden’s luxuriously austere “Portrait of a Lady” of around 1460, her delicate face framed by white veils in a shape reminiscent of a sphinx.
A quick stop in Gallery 50C, not much bigger than a large closet, will bring you face to face with Vermeer’s dewy “Girl With the Red Hat” (1665-66), turning around to peer out of the picture so quickly that you can almost hear the rustling of her blue silk garment. The space behind her is muffled by a yellow and green tapestry in soft focus.
On the other side of the rotunda, French Impressionism and a few galleries of American art await. (More are in the process of being reinstalled after a temporary exhibition, along with galleries of British art.) Among the Impressionists, keep an eye out for Cézanne’s rough-surfaced, all-thumbs portrait of his domineering father in Gallery 83. He is clothed like a laborer, despite being a banker (as he thought Cézanne should have been) and is shown seated beneath one of his son’s still lifes, reading a newspaper that favorably reviewed his son’s work.
Another standout in this section is Gauguin’s “Still Life With Peonies” (Gallery 84), a relatively unfamiliar work painted in a quasi-Impressionistic manner but with the deep reds, greens and yellows typical of Gauguin’s mature style. An early work, it shows Gauguin’s bowing to his elders, probably by depicting art that he owned: part of a drawing by Degas is visible, tacked to the wall, along with a village scene that might be by Pissarro.
More Articles in Arts » A version of this article appeared in print on January 16, 2009, on page C32 of the New York edition.
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