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“The Blue Persian,” by Dale Chihuly, was the first piece Richard and Barbara Basch bought in 1993. Within one year, they collected 10 works by Chihuly.

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Glass Dr. Richard and Barbara Basch’s glass collection spans two decades and features more than 250 works of contemporary artists from the 20th-and-21st centuries.

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ne must mind their elbows when they walk through Dr. Richard and Barbara Basch’s Sarasota home — any false move could result in a shattering disaster. The home is covered with treasured and coveted pieces of colorful contemporary glass art that the retired couple has collected since the early ’90s. Their collection features a breadth of work from famed artists of the glass world, such as Dale Chihuly, Lucio Bubacco, Richard Marquis, Martin Blank and Giampaolo Amoruso, to name a few. Many of the artists the Basches have come to know personally. “(We have them) everywhere: bathrooms, kitchen, study — everywhere! And outside, too,” Barbara Basch says. They have so many that Barbara Basch worries they need to slow down collecting. She would hate for her home to resemble a retail store.

“Maybe we’ll go back to collecting paper weights and perfume bottles,” she jokes.

As Curator of Exhibitions Mark Ormond and two additional Ringling College of Art and Design staff carefully pack and load more than 35 of the Basches’ pieces, Barbara Basch raises her eyebrows while telling herself, “Don’t look, Barbara.” But, the packing has become easier with the fourth time the couple has lent their pieces for an exhibition.

“I have faith in these guys,” says Barbara Basch. The pieces are being taken to the Basch Gallery in the Ringling Academic Center where the fourth annual exhibit, from their collection, “Whimsy & Spontaneity in Glass,” will open Jan. 11 and run through March 23.

Come March 24, the pieces will return to their designated spots

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“We love to share it … We like to answer questions and get people enthused,” Barbara Basch, with her husband, Richard, says about their exhibitions. throughout the Basches’ home.

Every one of the Basches’ 250plus pieces, with the exception of about 10 that have been claimed by their two children, have been donated to and are now owned

by Ringling College — but the college doesn’t have a place to store them until Sarasota Museum of Art/SMOA’s doors open.

Therefore, Barbara Basch calls her home “The Warehouse.”

In addition to the glass collection, the couple also made a significant monetary donation to SMOA, a division of Ringling College of Art and Design, making them the largest individual donors in Ringling College’s history. Dr. Richard Basch, a retired radiologist, is on the Ringling College of Art and Design Board of Trustees, and Barbara Basch is on SMOA’s board of directors.

But the Basches’ history with glass dates back farther than their

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Richard Basch will give a lecture on the art of collecting and a tour of notable pieces of the Basch collection

Where: Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery of the Academic Center at Ringling College of Art and Design, 2363 Old Bradenton Road

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history with the college. Barbara 10th Chihuly piece that they optBasch owned Footnotes, a re- ed to expand their collection to tail store on the North Trail next include other artists. door to the now-defunct Image Barbara Basch has plenty of of Sarasota gallery that contained anecdotes about the glass pieces smaller glass pieces. The late gal- they’ve collected and the artists lery owner Ruth Katzman, whom who created them. She has also Barbara Basch calls an “art pillar become quite the encyclopedia of the city” and a friend, encour- of glassmaking over the years. She aged Richard and Barbara Basch shares her stories and knowledge to attend a small Chihuly show in on weekly docent tours that she 1993, in Tampa. leads in Basch Gallery.

“I didn’t even know who he was, During one visit to Chicago, but that started it,” Barbara Basch the Basches were having dinner says. “It was an epiphany and it with artist Lucio Bubacco, who just blew our minds ... we didn’t had just finished a series depictknow glass could do that!” ing Greek myths and mythologiThe couple bought their first cal figures. One he featured was piece, “The Blue Persian,” by Chi- Leda, the queen who was seduced huly at that exhibit, and then as by Zeus in the guise of a swan.

Barbara Basch says, they “went “Richard said, ‘Why don’t you crazy from there.” They met Chi- do nude female bodies with swan huly for the first time in their first wings and heads and call them year of collecting and have come ‘Dirty Birds?’’’ Barbara Basch says.

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“If nothing else, (people should come see the exhibition) because they’re beautiful,” Barbara Basch says.

She explains that glass is a compelling medium that attracts people. Her own interest in the art form continues to grow.

“The temptation after the 36 pieces leave (for the upcoming exhibit) is to fill in the gaps,” she laughs. She looks around her home, where there’s glass on every shelf and in every nook and cranny. “But when (those pieces) come back, where would we put them?”

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I had the pleasure of sitting next to supporters of The Players, Joanna Brown and Shirley Foss, and board member Dick Pell, at the season-announcement party Saturday, Jan. 5.

When the season was announced, here are the shows in need of sponsors: • “Steel Magnolia’s” Sept. 18 through Sept. 29 • “Crazy for You” Oct. 23 through Nov. 3 • “White Christmas” Dec. 4 through Dec. 15 • “Carousel” Jan. 8 through Jan. 19, 2014 • “Sordid Lives” Feb. 12 through Feb. 23, 2014 • “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” March 19 through March 30, 2014 • “Urinetown The Musical,” April 16 through April 27, 2014

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Asolo Rep’s season opener, “1776,” had much acclaim in Sarasota. So much so that the costumes, the set and most of the professional cast is heading to San Francisco for a run at a theater there. Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards announced more details will come at a later date.

Another interesting announcement from Edwards was that following each showing of “You Can’t Take it With You,” the set hands strike it within 30 minutes, and the technical process begins for “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Asolo Rep is one of three theaters in the nation to be able to accomplish such a feat in such little time.

 Volunteers branch out There are more than 100 volunteers signed up to participate in the building of Patrick Dougherty’s outdoor exhibit (read the article on Dougherty at YourObserver.com). President of Sarasota Art Museum/SMOA, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, Wendy

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I’m one of the said volunteers who will be working with Dougherty to help build his sculpture made of crepe myrtle, which averages 1-to-2 inches in diameter. Beginning Jan. 7 and continuing through the next three weeks, you can see Dougherty and his volunteers erecting the sculpture from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a 2 p.m. daily docent tour. Prior sculptures have lasted anywhere from two-to-four years.

by Yaryna Klimchak | Staff Writer Students at The Perlman Music Program played for an audience at an orchestra rehearsal Friday, Jan. 4, at the University of South Florida SarasotaManatee. Students from around the world attended this intensive twoweek music program founded by Toby Perlman, the wife of internationally acclaimed concert violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman. Itzhak Perlman conducted the orchestra of students in a tent while the audience enjoyed the music. “Practice makes perfect,” said Director of Programs Anna Kaplan.

Itzhak Perlman conducts the group of students between the ages of 13 to 20.

Students played in a tent that seats up to 1,000 people.

Students played at an open recital while audience members listened.

 Judge Barbieri gives her marks Last weekend, Assistant Director of Sarasota Ballet Margaret “Maggie” Barbieri was a judge at the Youth America Grand Prix at Tampa’s David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.

“I enjoyed watching and judging the competition,” Barbieri says. “It was good to see some amazing talent participate and interesting to see the different schools and training techniques.”

She said she couldn’t be more proud of the Sarasota Ballet students.

There were 10 female and two male students from the Margaret Barbieri Conservatory of Dance, including the youngest pas de deux entry of Olivia Ratner and Eddie Duffy, both 11.

“All the judges gave most of our students excellent marks,” she says. “I’d like to give credit to Isabel, Javier (Dubrocq) and Dex (Honea) for all their hard work.”

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Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) are on Christmas holiday with their three sons at a Thailand beach resort.

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Asolo Rep continues its 2012/13 theme of “The American Character Project,” which began with “1776,” with yet, another spectacularly relevant production of a great American classic, “You Can’t Take it with You.” This play is politically en pointe for today and reminds us that the “pursuit of happiness” does not lie in the bottom of a pocketbook.

It’s the tale of an eccentric, creatively inclined extended family who eschew the more conventional trappings of success in favor of supportiveness, individuality and harmony in their daily living.

The patriarch of the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan, in conversation with Wall Street titan Mr. Kirby, asserts the central idea of the famed play, “You’ve got all the money you need. You can’t take it with you.” Nonetheless, the line which got the most laughs from the opening night audience was when Grandpa Vanderhof declares he has never paid income tax because the government would just squander it. There’s something for everyone in this play.

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart brought their acclaimed, Pulitzer-winning play to the stage in 1937, during the Great Depression. It was immediately made into a film in 1938 by Frank Capra, and stared James Stewart. The Asolo revival, under the suburb direction of Peter Amster, continues

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A marvelously talented cast contributes its all to make this an immensely enjoyable, heartwarming and celebratory production. The large ensemble of performers work together as one perfect effervescent bubble of delightful drollery. Peggy Roeder, as Penny Sycamore, and David S. Howard, as Martin Vanderhof, drive the show and deliver the best lines, but the rest of the cast members shine just as bright.

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From ‘Viagra Falls’ to Betty White, Lou Cut-ells it to the chase Most people recognize Lou Cutell because of his many memorable cameos in television and movies: from “Mary Tyler Moore” and “The Golden Girls,” to “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

His just wrapped up filming the second season of “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers,” a prank show where mischievous seniors pull pranks on unsuspecting youngsters.

But what brought Cutell to Sarasota in late December was The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre’s re-opening for the production of the comedy, “Viagra Falls.” Cutell is the play’s co-writer and also plays the role of Charley. Cutell and longtime director of the Golden Apple, Robert Turoff, first met in the ’50s at Barn Theatre, in Augusta, Mich., where Turrell was directing and Cutell was one of his actors.

This is his first visit to Sarasota, but he is enjoying the white sands of Siesta Key Beach and calls Sarasota, “a great little arts colony.” He would love to come back in the future for a second round. He even has one of his other plays in mind.

Talk to me about writing “Viagra Falls,” and how you came to be the co-writer.

One guy, Joao Machado, and his friend saw me and said, “We have a play for you,” and I said, “Really?” The next day they brought it over… I thought, it wasn’t really a play, but I love the ending. I thought the ending was really special. So I gave it to my friend, Don Crichton (the future play’s original director). Don said, “Louie, there’s no play here!”

But there was something about it, so I put it aside for three weeks … all of a sudden it was like magic. The ideas kept flowing … I continued on and on and three years later we had a reading at my home and I invited all my friends. The applause kept going on and on, and they said “Louie, what a great play!” Well, I couldn’t believe it.

find life funny. ❝ISometimes I laugh at the silliest things … people’s foibles, maybe a look or something.

I think that comes out in ‘Viagra Falls.’

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The character Charley, whom you play, decides to celebrate his birthday with his friend Moe by taking a Viagra and ordering a call girl. Did you create the character Charley based on personal experience?

Well, that’s an interesting question.

Thank God, I don’t have any problems with my prostate.

The urologist who lives next door to me told me that he has analyzed people who have prostate cancer and has a (unproven) theory that people that (have it) have given up sex or their libido is gone.

So, there’s the idea (in the play) that if you

don’t use that thing, everything in life stops up. Like the line when Charley says, “Come on, Moe, I know there’s still a wolf in you.”

That conversation inspired parts of the plot.

Well, if you haven’t had a similar birthday celebration to Charley’s, what was the most memorable birthday you ever celebrated?

(In 2007, my cousin Chris) threw me a surprise party and invited all my friends and relatives. That was the only time (someone has ever done that for me), and I thought it was amazing.

What do you hope people take from your play when they see it?

A joy of life. “Have fun,” as I say in the play. My theme is about doing something; be out there. Sometimes life will throw you a curve ball, but you just gotta have fun and live one day at a time. Enjoy life as long as you have your health. You just gotta keep thinking positively about life …

I think a lot of people give up really early in life and miss the boat. I’m having as much fun now as ever, and I think the play has a couple of tears, but it’s mostly laughter — that’s life.

Speaking of laughter, tell me about your work on “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers.”

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The best. She’s an amazing lady, she really and truly is. What you see on screen is so wonderful, but there’s even more to her in person. I’ve known her since the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”… and then “Golden Girls.” She even comes to my house during dinner. People just love her!

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Sarasota Ballet conservatory students compete The Sarasota Ballet School’s Margaret Barbieri Conservatory of Dance had 12 students compete starting at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, in the Youth America Grand Prix, at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.

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Results from the award ceremony: Yamil Maldonado, 17, practices the pas de deux from “Le Corsaire.”

* Olivia Ratner: Top 12 Classical Variations for the Pre-Competitive Division (ages 9 to 11) * Caitlin Gish and Nikki Jennings: Top 12 Classical Variations for the Junior Division (ages 12 to 14) * Allison Forsyth: Top 12 Classical Variations for the Senior Division (ages 15 to 19)

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 Allison Forsyth, 16, rehearses one of her two pieces.

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Rachel Silverman, 12, Allison Forsyth, 16, and Caitlin Gish, 14, look in the mirror while pinning their hair up before their final rehearsal.

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by Mallory Gnaegy | A&E Editor People have come to see hundreds of exhibits since Kevin Dean, director of Selby Gallery, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, started running it in 1994.

“No one knows what goes into it,” Dean says. “We have five days to take a show down and put (the next) up.”

The current featured installation, Carol Mickett’s and Robert Stackhouse’s “Phases of Identity” exhibit that uses both Selby Galleries I and II for a series featuring two paintings and a sculpture, required an intensive set-up process.

The collaborative duo, based in St. Petersburg, has been working together for more than 12 years, and they seem to have the setup down to a science. This particular three-piece installation, created for Selby Gallery, was built in the artists’ St. Petersburg studio. Getting the sculpture portion of the installation to Selby Gallery took twoand-a-half days.

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To recreate the installation at Selby Gallery, each piece was measured, numbered and carefully packaged. The takedown to transport was the most difficult step in the process.

It took both artists; their assistant, Michael Massaro; two gallery employees, Robert Doyon and Dimitri Lykoudis; and Dean approximately 20 hours spread over three days to get the piece back up in its temporary location at Selby. After the reconstruction, the studio’s lighting had to be readjusted to have the right effect — which took another two hours.

The installation was inspired by the moon, which isn’t used as a subject matter, but to reflect a philosophical way of thinking.

“The moon acts as a vehicle for how people see the light of the sun,” Mickett explains. It gives a sense of how people come to know other things in life, “all knowledge is based on (the dynamic) of this relationship.”

The shadows the exhibit creates when lighted emphasize this relationship.

Because the exhibit features paintings made of white-on-white and a sculpture that draws attention to the shadows it creates, “if the lighting isn’t right, it can just look blah,” Mickett says. But the artists are happy with the outcome.

“These are always labor-intensive,” Mickett says of their installations.

There are no plans for the installation’s future once it comes down, but Mickett and Stackhouse are contemplating taking it back to their studio, which would require them take it down and reinstall it … again.

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