Well-known black-and-white landscape photographer Clyde Butcher broke his hip in a fall Tuesday night and underwent emergency partial hip replacement surgery on Wednesday.

Gulf Coast Symphony is the second-largest non-profit performing arts organization in Lee County. But there’s more to it than the classical, jazz and other concerts it produces each year. Gulf Coast Symphony produces more than 186 performances each year. That’s not just significant culturally. It means big dollars for Lee County business.

On August 20, Art Center Sarasota opens its final shows of its 100th season. One, in particular, will showcase the artists, volunteers and visionaries who helped establish Sarasota as one of the leading arts communities in Florida. “Shaping Sarasota: A Century of Art” traces Art Center Sarasota’s evolution from its earliest days in 1926 through a century of artistic innovation, community leadership, and creative exchange.

Since joining The Naples Players nearly 10 years ago, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Artistic Director Bryce Alexander has led one of the most transformative decades in The Naples Players' nearly 75-year history.

'Songbirds of the Seventies' performers Samantha Duval, Victoria Boland and Madalyn McHugh take Florida Studio Theatre audiences back to a time when female singer-songwriters transformed the music industry from spectacle to introspective storytelling that addressed love, heartbreak, independence and empowerment from a personal, feminist perspective.

This week, one show opens, four shows close, five continue their runs and there are three limited engagements at Southwest Florida equity and community theaters.

Rookery Bay does more than manage coastal lands and promote a public sense of ownership of Southwest Florida’s natural resources. It also hosts art exhibitions, such as “Through the Light of the Estuary.”

There will be no Sarasota Improv Festival this year due to the construction of the McGillicuddy Arts Plaza. So, Florida Studio Theatre is bringing back the breakout hit of last year’s festival, Orlando improv troupe Forgotten Broadway.

If you do a painting based on a set of instructions I give you, who gets to sign the painting? Artist Sol LeWitt’s answer just might surprise you as, in his estimation, the principal tenet of conceptual art is that art lies within the idea or creative concept not the object or the person who actually crafts a painting, fabricates a sculpture or makes a print.

The Florida governor’s war on street art hits Fort Lauderdale, where an artist says her rights were violated.