Strong New Music Offerings Set Festival Miami Apart

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Strong New Music Offerings Set Festival Miami Apart

Published October 6, 2010 by Gregory Stepanich

Sandra Lopez, with Marcus Haddock, as Mimi in La Boheme. Festival Miami gets going Friday, and this year’s selection of classical, jazz, pop and dance events opens with one of the most cherished compositions of Richard Strauss, the Four Last Songs. Strauss wrote them in mid-1948, the year he turned...

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Knight Foundation seeks to hire Detroit program director

Published October 5, 2010 by Marc Fest

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October Update: Miami City Ballet

Published October 5, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

As Miami City Ballet’s (MCB) 25th Anniversary Season opening night rapidly approaches, the wardrobe department has been hard at work for months. We visited the shop while they were working on the costumes for the company premiere of Fanfare. As many companies do, MCB sometimes rents costumes from other companies,...

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Nudes Put Spotlight on Women

Published October 5, 2010 by Anne Tschida

In what has become a notorious underground act in the art world, a group called the Guerilla Girls surveyed the Met museum in New York and found that less than 5% of the artists were women, while 85% of the nudes were female -- most all presumably painted or sculpted...

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Updates from the Field: WDAV’s Concierto

Published October 4, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

August and September were whirlwind months for WDAV’s Concierto – America’s first bilingual (Spanish-English) classical music service! In this pilot phase, WDAV conducted webinars with a select group of public radio station general managers, program, and music directors to introduce the Concierto concept, offer audio samples and solicit feedback. Last...

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Update from Akron Art Museum: Digitizing the Collection

Published October 4, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

By Akron Art Museum Staff The success of the Akron Art Museum’s project to put the permanent collection online over the next two years depends on many different aspects. We’ve spent a lot of time in these early days figuring out in what order to tackle all of these multiple...

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CHANGING PLACES sparks Latino partnership

Published October 4, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

Levine Museum’s exhibit on Charlotte’s new diversity, CHANGING PLACES: From Black & White to Technicolor, is generating a broad array of community partnerships. One of the most exciting links the Museum with Latino radio and newspaper company Norsan Multimedia. Drawing Latino visitors has been a hard-to-reach goal for Levine. The...

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Thinking About a Community News Start-Up? Tune Into Today’s Boot Camp Live Blog

Published October 4, 2010 by Knight Foundation

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Heather Maloney: The Inkub8(r) Of Wynwood

Published October 4, 2010 by Neil de la Flor

“Inkūb8 is on the edge of the district," Heather Maloney says of her studio lab in Wynwood. "And, I want to make it a center." Maloney has guts and a vision for the future of Miami's emerging performance art scene. In my interview with Maloney, she elaborates on this vision...

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Merce Cunningham Returns

Published October 3, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad

Basel just got a bit brighter. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) is returning to Miami during the fair for a special “only-in-Miami” show. The performances, held as part of the Arsht Center’s Masterworks Series, are funded by a $150,000 grant by Knight Foundation. Designed specifically for the Arsht Center,...

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Let’s Talk About New Perspectives

Published October 1, 2010 by Anne Tschida

Art outlets have been getting increasingly creative and talkative about highlighting their offerings. Every week there has been a lecture somewhere in town, and slightly off-beat openings. This weekend is no exception. The Bass is unveiling a truly intriguing way to highlight parts of its collection with "The Nudist Museum."...

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New report offers tips for measuring a community site’s online impact

Published October 1, 2010 by marika.lynch

What if you knew not just how people were finding your hyperlocal website, but what they were looking for — and whether they found it? And how that information affected their life and your organization’s goals? Knight Foundation has just posted a new report to help its Knight Community Information Challenge winners measure their success at informing and engaging communities. That entails learning about constantly evolving Web metrics and knowing how to zero in on the best data to gauge online impact and inform decision making.

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