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    Following Miami City Ballet’s Fanfare – Meet Maestro Gary Sheldon

    Published December 5, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

    By Rebecca King, Corps de Ballet It is Miami City Ballet’s 25th anniversary and what better way to start this season than by bringing the orchestra back! If you have attended any of our performances so far this season, you have experienced the delight of Opus One Orchestra. However, there...
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    Akron Art Museum: November Update

    Published December 5, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

    By Akron Art Museum Staff In our update last month we discussed generating new digital material to accompany art objects in the Akron Art Museum’s collection. We’ve also been using new technology to digitize older analog material from our archives. The Akron Art Museum has been adding new works to...
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    2010 Knight Arts Challenge: Borscht Film Festival

    Published December 4, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

    The 2010 Knight Arts Challenge has officially ended and 27 winners are hard at work celebrating and infusing $3.8 million into the local arts scene. The Borscht Film Festival has earned $150,000 of the total to help “shape Miami’s cinematic identity” by creating and showcasing original films that tell unique...
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    Random Acts of Culture™ Comes to Two Markets in Macon

    Published December 4, 2010 by Robertson.Adams

    Random Acts of Culture ™ arrived in Macon last month as the Macon Symphony Orchestra and the McDuffie Center for Strings surprised shoppers at Kroger and diners at Fresh Market City Cafe with a performance of "Habanera" from Bizet's opera Carmen. Enjoy the video then click here to experience more...
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    Our Once A Year Museum On the Beach

    Published December 4, 2010 by Anne Tschida

    Aside from a rarefied, moneyed few, the art in the Miami Beach Convention Center is for looking, not acquiring. While affordable art can be found in the numerous satellite fairs around town, it's not in the convention center. But that's OK. [caption id="attachment_9475" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Art and those who love...
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    Maria Thomas on Her Lens for Reading the News Challenge Applications

    Published December 3, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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    Launch of ‘Jumo’ Is Only the Beginning for Knight Technology for Engagement Initiative

    Published December 3, 2010 by Robertson.Adams

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    And Now the Fun Begins

    Published December 3, 2010 by John Bracken

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    A Feast of Fresh Music at the New World

    Published December 2, 2010 by Gregory Stepanich

    Colin Matthews. (Photo by Maurice Foxall) This has been a good season so far for new classical music, with big premieres from Carlos Rafael Rivera and Daniel Bernard Roumain in the past couple of months, and some more fresh music debuting this weekend at the New World Symphony. The much-celebrated...
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    Why does Knight Foundation fund Random Acts of Culture™?

    Published December 2, 2010 by Dennis Scholl

    Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To that end, we strongly believe in the potential of the arts to engage residents, and bring a community...
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    Grantee Update: Arts & Science Council

    Published December 2, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

    ASC is hard at work planning our ninth Random Act of Culture (RAC). Though the location will remain a closely guarded secret until that date, the upcoming RAC will feature two musicians from the Charlotte Symphony. This is our second RAC with symphony musicians and their third performance for the...
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    Miami Art Museum Breaks (New) Ground

    Published December 2, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

    Welcome to a new day in the Miami art scene. The Miami Art Museum (MAM) officially broke ground on its new building in Museum Park this week (Nov 30). The building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013 and MAM’s chairman of...
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    Street.Art.Cycle

    Published December 2, 2010 by Neil de la Flor

    It’s time. It’s here. It’s Art Basel 2010. And, if you’re not overwhelmed yet by all of the uber-fabulous art, it’s time to hop on your bike and cycle down to Wynwood for a 'performing' arts event that's good for the environment and your body! Street.Art.Cycles and Primary Flight are...
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    Traveling exhibits expand COURAGE project

    Published December 2, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

    Thanks to Knight funding, Levine Museum of the New South is working with MorrisDesign to create two travelling panel exhibits affiliated with COURAGE: The Carolina Story that Changed America. PARA TODOS LOS NINOS/Fighting Segregation before Brown v Board explores the important but little-known Mendez v Westminster case of 1946, in...
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    Detroiters Show Unwavering Passion for Their City at Town Hall Meeting

    Published December 1, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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