Most museums and galleries are closed today, but you can head to HCC-Ybor's Performing Arts Building for a visual art experience that's truly unique.
If you've missed Kurt Piazza: The Future Belongs to Ghosts, this week is your last chance to see a haunting and memorable show. In Piazza’s prints, the black silhouettes of decomposing architectural forms appear and reappear. In his videos, footage distorted with visual effects hints at a forgotten landscape one moment, then dissolves into a series of rhythmic patterns the next. hccfl.edu/yc/art-gallery.aspx, kurtpiazza.com. Read more about the exhibition in this story by art critic Megan Voeller.
Later at the Orpheum in Ybor, The Rocketz – formed by one-time Down by Law bassist John Dimambro – bring their self-styled “foot stompin’, bone crushin’, sex-a-billy avalanche of rock and roll from Los Angeles” to town for a Monday night showing. (Contributed by Leilani Polk.)
This article appears in Jan 20-26, 2011.