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It’s not a perfect album like Liberty Belle or 10 Lovers Lane, but I think about Tallulah more. Maybe it’s the cover. Amanda’s elf shoes, Other Robert’s cowboy hat, Lindy cool as you please in a Bowie-worthy suit, Main Robert trying so hard not to be eclipsed by Grant that he’s dyed his hair and got giant 80s specs. Grant appears to be quietly writing “Bye Bye Pride.”

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Head Full Of Steam | The Go-Betweens Robert/Prince.

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The Vickers Family Art Collection Arrives at the Harn Museum

It’s moving day and the massive collection of Florida art has arrived at the Harn Museum of Art. Thanks to an extraordinary donation from Sam and Robbie Vickers, their once-private collection has found its public “forever home” at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida. Over a few days, I was able to document the behind the scenes process as Harn staff excitedly welcomed a truckload of more than 1,200 drawings, oil paintings, and watercolors — the largest single art collection ever gifted to the university.

The inaugural exhibition, A Florida Legacy: Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers, opens Feb. 26 and runs through Aug. 1, 2021. Art lovers will be able to marvel up close at Robert J. Curtis’s iconic 1838 portrait of Seminole leader Osceola; Winslow Homer’s action-filled Foul Hooked Black Bass; John Singer Sargent’s masterful Palm Thicket; Martin Johnson Heade’s rare Oleanders; Ralston Crawford’s soaring Overseas Highway #2; and Jane Peterson’s vibrant gouache, Toucans, Parrot Jungle — to name just a few of the delights on view.