Visual Arts

Works by Camilo Velasquez and Doug Rhodehamel at Maitland Art Center are somber, yet inspire change

Barbara Sorenson casts a net for memories with her large-scale installations

Bryce Hammond’s paintings expose the vacancy at the heart of a Florida beach town

Photographer of female gun owners sidesteps gun advocacy and focuses on feminine empowerment

C.S. Lewis depicts the banality of evil in The Screwtape Letters

Sunshine State literature makes for great gift-giving

The “every-so-often” Grandma Party Bazaar showcases Orlando’s tight-knit community of artists

Orlando artists and arts professionals party down south at Art Basel Miami Beach

No divine intervention but plenty of powerhouse performances in this bleak Depression-era tale

The best Dicks for you

Hollywood’s favorite sci-fi writer didn’t think it was all fiction

Twelve21 Gallery hosts auction to benefit Japanese tsunami and earthquake survivors

Two shows at Cornell posit new theories of relativity

Eustis museum explores the common heritage and diverging paths of three former Research Studio members

Kerouac House resident writer Beth Raymer talks about betting, boxing and other forms of risky behavior

Expanding and evolving novel doesn’t quite take off

Guest editor Alison Bechdel rounds up the year’s best strips

Rollins hosts a weekend of good old-fashioned consciousness-raising featuring Gloria Steinem, Patricia Schroeder and the Guerrilla Girls

From Michael Jackson’s origin story to Katrina shelters to ‘One Tree Hill,’ excavating America from the bottom up