{"id":317283,"date":"2026-06-23T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:55:10","slug":"lies-sins-and-more-filed-in-the-last-library-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317283\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, sins and more filed in &#8216;The Last Library IV&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 What is truth? Who do we trust? These are questions raised by an installation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mfastpete.org\/exhibition\/last-library-iv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it kind of examines where we are right now with our history,\u201d said curator Stanton Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Library IV: Written in Water is a wonky-angled, immersive look at an old-school library from contemporary artists Ward Shelley and Douglas Paulson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019re very concerned with our perceptions of truth, particularly in the age where the printed word is no longer as reliable as it might be,&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas says the piece emerges in a world of artificial intelligence, competing versions of the truth and redacted documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really funny library, and it\u2019s filled with fictive books and records and archives, all kinds of secret plans and reports that got misfiled,&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Books titles include \u201cFake Fake News, \u201cThinking Without Books,\u201d and \u201cControl with Misery and Vice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one of the things I love about this project is reading those book labels and those files. They are very funny, and they are very pointed,\u201d said Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Your copies of the truth are officially filed.<\/p>\n<p>The installation will be at the Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg through July 12.<\/p>\n<p>And coming Thursday, June 26, the museum is hosting a \u201cguided writing, reflections and conversation\u201d on the installation. That\u2019s in partnership with \u201cbook and bottle\u201d of St. Pete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 What is truth? Who do we trust? These are questions raised by an installation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1011,1190,115,4094,7149,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,7148,835],"class_list":["post-317283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-human-interest","tag-human-interest","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}