This year, Knight Foundation celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami, which funds the best ideas for bringing South Florida together through the arts. Below, writer Anne Tschida explores how Miami and its cultural scene has changed in that time. Get off the Biscayne trolley at the Museum Park stop, and you […]
Article · November 28, 2017 by Anne Tschida
This post has been corrected to reflect that the duration of the residency is one year. ProjectArt is one of those ground-up initiatives that makes you wonder, why has this program not been in place forever? The model was pretty simple: re-energize public libraries by providing art classes to children in underprivileged neighborhoods, where cuts […]
Article · May 2, 2017 by Anne Tschida
The bright, cool afternoon boded well for the inauguration of The Underline public art program. Hired performers turned Nicolas Lobo’s steel sculpture into a jungle gym with their acrobatics, soon joined by kids passing the Brickell Metrorail stop where it was temporarily installed. Other spectators climbed aboard Agustina Woodgate’s mobile radio station, which required participants […]
Article · February 14, 2017 by Anne Tschida
Bright white spotlights and thumping music accosted the arrivals to “Portrait of Myself as My Father,” Nora Chipaumire’s performance at the Miami Light Project, which Knight Foundation supports. During a performance run earlier this month, the stage was set as a boxing ring, and the atmosphere was intentionally disorienting as audience members took their seats. […]
Article · October 25, 2016 by Anne Tschida
When Wynwood Walls opened up in 2009, it announced the arrival of a burgeoning cultural district loud and clear. The magnificent colorful wall murals painted by internationally known street artists on a property on Northwest Second Avenue quickly became a focal point for the rejuvenating urban core of Miami, centered in the Wynwood neighborhood. The […]
Article · October 17, 2016 by Anne Tschida
Above: “The Inverse” by Laura Lima. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio. For the latest entry into the pantheon of arts institutions in South Florida, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami has made quite a splash in its short, almost two-year existence. In its temporary home in the Design District–the permanent museum is scheduled to open […]
Article · July 27, 2016 by Anne Tschida
Above: Singer Zachary James, director R.B Schlather, musician Michael Weinfield-Zell. All photos by Francisco Javier Moraga Escalona. The audience attending “the little match girl passion” sat on mats on the broad staircase or in the upper echelon seats in the elegant auditorium at the Perez Art Museum Miami. The two sections are divided by a […]
Article · June 10, 2016 by Anne Tschida
Above: App-activated sound art “The Sounds,” a collaboration between Brad Laner and Ivan Toth Depeña. All images courtesy Ivan Toth Depeña. Take a break from texting and “liking” as you walk down the street, and look up, with your phone. You may encounter some fascinating art that appears only on your screen, courtesy of artist […]
Article · May 26, 2016 by Anne Tschida
Above: The Cuban artists visit the studio of Miami-based José Bedia. Photos courtesy of Ana Clara Silva. It was a perfect evening up on the third floor of the Pérez Art Museum Miami on April 29, where the closing reception was held for the artists and curators participating in the second part of the ground-breaking Dialogues […]
Article · May 9, 2016 by Anne Tschida
The precisely lit gallery highlighting the work of Michele Oka Doner. All photos courtesy of the Perez Art Museum Miami. The gallery at the Pérez Art Museum Miami is darkened, and the lighting is very dim. Spotlights highlight the two-toned prints made from organic material on the walls, while overhead lighting makes the dual platforms […]
Article · April 25, 2016 by Anne Tschida
National Water Dance at the Deering Estate at Cutler in south Miami-Dade County. Photos by Juan Cabrera for National Water Dance. Around a fountain in downtown Los Angeles, students from the second-largest school district in the nation will be dancing, starting at 4 p.m. EST on Saturday, April 16. Simultaneously, University of Alabama students will […]
Article · April 13, 2016 by Anne Tschida