Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: Applications Due Nov. 1

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: Applications Due Nov. 1

Published October 22, 2010 by Robertson.Adams

Nov. 1 is the deadline for your 150 word application to the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia. Already submitted your idea? Don’t forget – you can submit as many great ideas as you want! Knight Foundation is bringing new support for the arts in Philadelphia through a community-wide contest that funds...

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia – Archived Chat

Published October 22, 2010 by Robertson.Adams

Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia Chat

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Masterful Interpretations of the Masters

Published October 22, 2010 by Anne Tschida

Here's the premise: Little Red Riding Hood takes a trip through the ages, stepping into the lush and lusty worlds of Caravaggio, Botticelli, Velazquez. How does she do this? Ukrainian-born photographer Anton Solomoukha poses photos of her and other models, clothed and naked, and places them collage style [caption id="attachment_7791"...

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Random Acts of Culture™ Meets the Tango

Published October 21, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

Random Acts of Culture™ met the Tango this week as musicians from the Charlotte Symphony partnered with two Tango dancers to perform at the Charlotte Douglass International Airport. This was the fourth RAC performed in Charlotte - click the video below to see the RAC and crowd reactions.

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Sneak Peak: Bruce Weber @ MOCA

Published October 21, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

MOCA pairs the fashionable with the unfathomable in its upcoming exhibit Bruce Weber: Haiti/Little Haiti. The exhibition, sponsored by Knight Foundation, is Weber’s first major museum installation and features roughly 75 photographs of Miami’s Haitian community taken...

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Replica Opens At Arsht And Moca

Published October 21, 2010 by Neil de la Flor

The Adrienne Arsht Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) will host the premiere of REPLICA, a multi-disciplinary exhibit sponsored by Knight Foundation and composed of work by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz and Taiwanese dancer CC Chang. The work will be performed... over two days and...

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Nonprofit investigative reporting: a merger and new reports

Published October 20, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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Hawaii Information Needs project featured on AJR.com

Published October 20, 2010 by marika.lynch

In September, the Hawaii Community Foundation won a Knight Community Information Challenge grant to launch Hiki No, a student news network in conjunction with PBS Hawaii that will broadcast throughout the islands. AJR.com recently reported on the project: Honolulu lost one of its two newspapers in May, and the city's three commercial television news operations merged into one last November. What's more, most Hawaii news sources are based in Honolulu, the bulk of news stories are focused on its home island of Oahu, one of eight main islands that make up the state. "You'll only see other stories if something huge happens," which...

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Collaboration is the New Competition: Four News Orgs Partner with Hyperlocal Sites in J-Lab Project

Published October 20, 2010 by marika.lynch

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Macon Arts Group to Engage the City With Knight-Funded Projects

Published October 20, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

Macon Film buffs, theater lovers, fans of African American art and others will benefit from projects put on by six cultural groups with $77,000 in Knight funding, the foundation announced today. The grants are among the first in Knight Foundation’s new national arts program, which focuses on Macon and seven...

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Bach Moment at New World Reaffirms Gift of Music

Published October 20, 2010 by Gregory Stepanich

After cellist Lynn Harrell played Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the New World Symphony on Saturday night at the Lincoln Theatre, he came out for a solo encore. And he introduced it this way: “I can’t tell you how exciting it is to be playing with these young musicians, who are...

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Macon Arts Group to Engage the City With Knight-Funded Projects

Published October 20, 2010 by marika.lynch

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White House Volunteers Help KaBOOM! and Knight Foundation Make a Difference for DC School

Published October 20, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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Knight Fellow’s Work Helps Prompt Policy Change in Tanzania

Published October 20, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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Our Varied Sense of Place

Published October 19, 2010 by Anne Tschida

A small, almost quiet landscape oil painting summarizes most beautifully the power of the group show now hanging on the walls of the garage and house of the Carol Jazzar Gallery, called "a sense of place." At first glance it's a seemingly straightforward view of an empty road [caption id="attachment_7672"...