Art House
Early this summer, our senior photographer sent me an email with some images attached. “Have you seen this?” he asked. He was referring to Mujer Vestida, the 10 ½-foot bronze sculpture by legendary Colombian artist Fernando Botero that popped up on Bayshore Boulevard seemingly out of nowhere in June.
As it did for many Tampanians, its distinctive look and placement — on what appears to be a random patch of grass near Bay to Bay Boulevard — turned our photographer’s head and caused him to pull over and snap some shots. How did such an iconic piece of art end up on this blank stretch of Bayshore?
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