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    McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes Susan Lee-Chun

    Published August 31, 2011 by

    By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to welcome the arrival of its newest Knight Artist-in-Residence, Susan Lee-Chun from Miami, Florida. Lee-Chun begins her residency on September 6, 2011 along with six other residents from across the country. Fascinated with the power...
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    Behind the scenes: The Brothers Size at GableStage

    Published August 31, 2011 by

    By Neal Hecker, GableStage It was a typical rain soaked afternoon, summer in Miami, as I stood, drying out in the empty theatre space at GableStage that would soon be transformed into a “mythical” Louisiana Bayou, courtesy of the imagination of Tarell Alvin McCraney. McCraney is a product of Miami,...
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    A Tribute to the sublime Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

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    By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Five years after Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s untimely death at 52, Harmonia Mundi releases a magnificent tribute to the lamented American mezzo-soprano. On two generous CDs, it’s a remarkable compilation of several recordings the singer made between 1989-1995 under conductor Nicholas McGegan...
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    Miami’s Seraphic Fire soars with Brahms’ German Requiem

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    By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer For the Miami ensemble’s second CD, Patrick Dupré Quigley, Seraphic Fire’s founder and artistic director, could have picked a “lighter,” easier work. Instead, he accepted the challenge of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Many will be surprised that this somber masterpiece comes...
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    La violencia as the new norm

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    Inside the 6th Street Container — a Knight Art Challenge finalist — in Little Havana is a little room. In fact, the Container, while elongated and appearing like a shipping container, is really a funky gallery with an alleyway entry. The exhibit...
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    The New York Times: “Taxpayers deserve an even stronger fix” for lagging FOIA requests

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    Freedom of Information Audits and Government Transparency from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Excessive bureaucratic delays have kept many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from being fulfilled in a timely manner, making our government less open than it should be, the New York Times said in an editorial this week, citing the work of the Knight-funded National Security Archive. The editorial’s title, “What’s Secret About World War II,” refers to the oldest unfulfilled FOIA request on record: Filed in 1991, the request asks for documents about atomic energy negotiations between the US and its allies at the close of World War II.  And as we previously noted, eight different federal agencies have pending requests over a decade old.
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    Knight welcomes @ElzbthMllr as new communications associate

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    I am excited to announce that earlier this week I joined the communications team at Knight Foundation. As a communications associate, I will be working to help engage audiences online. You can expect to see a lot of me as I work with the communications team in its efforts to increase its digital outreach. As part of my new role, I will be blogging, tweeting and producing other social media content. I'll also be spending quite a bit of my time listening and responding to you, our community, and reaching out beyond our existing network to help keep fresh new ideas coming into our organization.  
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    The “Making and Meaning” of Mark Garry

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    Upon researching Dublin artist Mark Garry for this article, I was comforted to find that I am not the only individual who had a difficult time defining his work. The artist uses his gentle and delicate sculptures skillfully placed around Detroit’s Cave gallery to make viewers consider how to navigate...
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    Fourth Wall Salon at Philadelphia Museum of Art

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    This Friday, Sept. 2, Fourth Wall Arts will be hosting its 15th Salon from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There are a wide array of artists and performers making an appearance at this Salon event. From poets and sculptors to music, dance and magic tricks,...
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    New report on independent news media emphasizes importance of business models

    Published August 29, 2011 by

    In order for a news organization to succeed, its staff must be as passionate about business innovation as it is about quality journalism, Michelle Foster writes in her new report, Matching the Market and the Model: The Business of Independent News Media. The report, released by the Center for International Media Assistance, stresses there is no one successful model that all independent media organizations should emulate. Instead, each news organization should take their customers and their environment into account to create sustainable business models.