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    “3” of a quality kind

    Published April 27, 2011 by

    The sculptures and installations of Robert Chambers have become part of the landscape of Miami. His works resemble creations from a scientific laboratory or mechanical creatures; sometimes whimsical, sometimes biomorphic, always interesting. One of his latest...
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    The poems are coming

    Published April 27, 2011 by

    There are three days left of O, Miami, Miami's first monthlong poetry festival - have you experienced a poem yet? Thousands of people watched poetry fly from the sky Saturday, April 16 as artists Jonathan Lizcano and Ximena Izquierdo dropped poems printed on biologically friendly materials over Sweatstock 2011. Were...
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    Random Acts of Culture™ arrives at GEICO headquarters

    Published April 27, 2011 by

    On April 12, the Macon Syhpmony Orchestra surprised employees at Gieco's cafeteria with a quintet performing the "Can-Can” from Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To...
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    Creative Commons’ chairman Joi Ito selected as next director of MIT Media Lab

    Published April 26, 2011 by

    MIT has announced that Joichi Ito has been selected as the next director of Knight grantee, MIT Media Lab. In its statement, MIT recognizes Ito, 44, "as one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers on innovation, global technology policy, and the role of the Internet in transforming society." Ito has been involved with Knight Foundation as a reviewer in the Knight News Challenge, the foundation’s media innovation contest. In that capacity he helped foundation staff winnow down a field of more than 2,000 applicants to less than two dozens finalists. Ito is co-founder and board chair (and previously served as CEO) of Creative Commons, the basis for the intellectual property rules in the Knight News Challenge contest.
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    SMDCAC’s “soft opening” presents Diavolo, Doug Varone and Dancers, and more

    Published April 26, 2011 by

    The spectacular South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (SMDCAC), designed by the famed architectural firm Arquitectonica International, celebrates its “soft opening” with a schedule that includes Doug Varone and Dancers, the Sarasota-based Asolo Repertory Theater Company’s production of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lynn Nottage’s Las Meninas, and the Diavolo Dance Theater. [caption...
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    Form and formlessness at 2739 Edwin

    Published April 26, 2011 by

    Marcelyn Bennett-Carpenter's Turn (one of two installations on view in Hamtramck this month) closed last Saturday night. To mark the occasion, there was an improvisational dance and music performance inside 2739 Edwin, the gallery space that housed the installation (composed of hundreds of translucent, tensile bands strung from floor to...
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    Exploring the Mu & CHAT partnership

    Published April 25, 2011 by

    By Rick Shoimi, Artistic Director Mu Performing Arts I want to address the impact the Knight Foundation grant had upon Mu's relationship with CHAT (Center for Hmong Arts and Talent). From the 1990'a through to about 2008, Mu has had a cordial though somewhat distant relationship with CHAT. At times...
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    Art of a scribe and the building of a community

    Published April 25, 2011 by

    In the front yard of a house sprawled along a waterway in Miami Beach, artist Michael Genovese was talking about his art, and encouraging those in attendance to leave their mark, literally, on one of his pieces. Genovese covers his works with inscriptions and his own hieroglyphics, and often invites...
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    DawnTown 2011: Enter now

    Published April 23, 2011 by

    Flex your creative muscles – you’re got less than one week left to enter DawnTown 2011, Downtown Miami’s annual international architecture ideas competition. Created in 2007 to attract national & international attention to Downtown Miami’s emerging architectural needs, the Knight-supported competition has been an ideas boom for Miami, with past...
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    Wuthering Heights HD: A night of firsts

    Published April 23, 2011 by

    By Patrick Dewane, Minnesota Opera Tuesday night the Minnesota Opera did an eight camera High Definition video shoot of its production of Wuthering Heights. The HD video made for a night of many firsts—a first for any Twin Cities major cultural organization, a first for the Minnesota Opera and a...