Gantt Center’s First Year: Start of a Grand Journey

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Gantt Center’s First Year: Start of a Grand Journey

Published December 16, 2010 by bea.quirk

In its first year of operation, Charlotte's Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture surpassed projections with 67,000 people visiting the facility to view exhibits, engage with artists and take classes. About 57,000 had been expected. For CEO David Taylor, that’s just the beginning. “I see the center...

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Violinist Oliveira Next Up on Sunday Series

Published December 16, 2010 by Gregory Stepanich

The violinist Elmar Oliveira won the gold medal in the Tchaikovsky competition in 1978 (sharing it with Latvia’s Ilya Grubert), and is still the only American ever to win that prize. Since then he’s been steadily concertizing, recording and teaching. I’ve heard him a couple of times up at Lynn...

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Tool That Increases Transparency in News Content Now Being Used on 577 Sites

Published December 16, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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WordSpeak Book Launch & Reading At Books & Books

Published December 16, 2010 by Neil de la Flor

Tigertail's 2010-2011 season has kept poetry alive and fire-breathing all around South Florida. Coming up next: WordSpeak. Tigertail's teen spoken word project will celebrate a book launch and reading at Books & Books on Tuesday, Dec. 28 at 8 p.m. And I hope to see all of you there! [caption...

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Basel Recap: Inside Coral Morphologic

Published December 15, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

By Coral Morphologic Creators From December 2-5, we (Coral Morphologic) presented Artificial Reef, a series of large-scale video projections of corals, on three prominent buildings on Miami Beach. The project (facilitated by a grant from Knight Foundation) was meant to highlight the original living artforms of Miami Beach: corals. In...

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Random Acts of Culture™Arrives in Akron With a Bang

Published December 15, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

Hello Akron! Random Acts of Culture®, Knight Foundation’s nationwide initiative to bring the classics out of the performance halls and into the streets, has arrived in Akron in a big way. Our local partner, the Akron Symphony, has organized 51 unique Random Acts of Culture™ in less than one month....

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A “Sunburst” That Illuminates What We See and Say

Published December 15, 2010 by Anne Tschida

Sunlight penetrates the deep rosy-red curtains, so that the musical equipment inside this storefront are bathed in a special color this afternoon. Except this isn't really a store, and the equipment is an installation, of black and chrome musical stands -- for sheet music, microphones, instruments -- and some disembodied...

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Because the Night Belonged to Patti Smith, She Bursted Into Own Tribute At Book Fair

Published December 15, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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Akron Art Museum’s Detroit Disassembled A NY Times Top Holiday Pick

Published December 14, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

By Akron Art Museum Staff The Akron Art Museum has a bestseller: Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, co-published by the museum and Damiani, an Italian publisher. The book, produced for an exhibition organized by the museum last summer, is in its third printing just 8 months after its release....

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2010 DawnTown Architecture Competition Winners Announced

Published December 14, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

Winners of the 2010 DawnTown architecture competition, which invited innovative designs for a seaplane terminal on an island in downtown Miami, have been announced. The award ceremony featured remarks by world-famous architects Chad Oppenheim and Terry Riley. Here’s a bit of info about the winners and their submissions 1st Prize:...

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Happy New Year’s Eve at Summit Artspace in Akron

Published December 13, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jessie Raynor, AAAA Director Although construction on our Knight Foundation-funded project is a month behind schedule due to HVAC contractors, Summit Artspace is still able to present its first public event on our second floor, which is currently being renovated for performance space and arts offices. On New Year’s...

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Grantee Update: Gantt Center

Published December 13, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

The Harvey B. Gantt Center launched a free lecture series, Conversations @ Gantt, with a two-hour discussion led by fine art consultant, B. E. Noel on November 18, 2010. Noel – as she is known throughout the arts community – ran her namesake gallery in Charlotte for nearly 20 years...

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Forbidden Broadway Opens At Arsht Center

Published December 13, 2010 by Neil de la Flor

Tis' the season for satire! This December 14th, the long-running uber-popular Off-Broadway Tony award-winning musical comedy Forbidden Broadway opens at the Arsht Center for a limited two-week run. Forbidden Broadway lovingly roasts and skewers Broadway's biggest...

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Patti Smith Interrupts Her Own Poetic Tribute at Miami Book Fair

Published December 13, 2010 by P. Scott Cunningham

By P. Scott Cunningham/ Founder O,Miami On Nov. 19th, I was introducing Patti Smith at the Miami Book Fair when I was unexpectedly interrupted by… Patti Smith. The crowd saw her first—she’d walked on stage behind me—and some people began cheering as soon as they saw her long hair and cowboy...

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How Mad, How Beautiful

Published December 11, 2010 by Anne Tschida

There is a very special world awaiting in the Dorsch Gallery. Fans of artist/performer/magician Clifton Childree will recognize this world immediately, although they might still be blown away by the depth and creativity of his latest installation, "Orchestrated Gestures." There are...