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ArticleBy Sally Ollove, Bearded Ladies We were deep in the rehearsal process for My Dinner with Dito: A How To Be Gay Cabaret when the Supreme Court ruling on DOMA was announced. That makes us Beards 2-for-2; we like to credit our first cabaret, Back in the Army, which centers...
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ArticleWhether or not Adrian Matejka wins the National Book Award in Poetry on November 21st, he will be in town on November 22nd celebrating with O, Miami and District 44 at The Big Book Party, an event honoring Matejka's book, The Big Smoke. Adrian Matejka. The...
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ArticleIn case you haven't heard the word on Citywide Philly, November is high time to submerge and steep yourself in the collective minds of the Philadelphia artistic community through this month-long collaborative creative event, which also happens to be a Knight Arts grantee. Finding a starting point for Citywide, however,...
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ArticleIs a ballet or dance ever really finished? Ask choreographers and they likely will tell you that at some point they just stopped and said something like "Let's go with this." Left with more time and resources, they might continue tweaking and perfecting little things or making the slightest choreographic...
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ArticleIn September 2012, The 567 Center for Renewal (a Knight Arts grantee) launched a new arts education program. Since that time, the center's classes for children and adults have seen strong attendance. The program continues to offer new workshops on a regular basis. Upcoming workshops at The 567 include: [caption...
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Article“The Veterans Play Project” opens this week, presented by Mixed Blood in partnership with Bedlam Theatre and the Minnesota Humanities Center. From June 2012 to March 2013, artists of Footprints Collective asked local veterans of all stripes – of any ability or disability, any race, age, gender or cultural background...
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ArticleBy David B. Devan, Opera Philadelphia Svadba-Wedding, the a cappella opera written by the talented, Montreal-based composer Ana Sokolović, was the perfect choice to launch Opera Philadelphia's newest initiative, Opera in The City. It couldn't have been more successful. The entire run sold out with rave reviews from both audiences...
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ArticleBy Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Introduced in 1939, by H. Weyl, the term symplectic comes from the Greek sym-plektikos (συμπλεκτικός) meaning "that intertwine" or "connect”. Determined essentially by a complexity of subspaces on which the structure vanishes itself, the symplectic topology measures the area by using complex curves instead...
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ArticleBy AIRE staff AIRIE and Everglades National Park will kick off Fresh AIRIE: Artists’ Experiences in a World Heritage Site, at the Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Homestead Campus. This traveling exhibition features works by more than 30 artists as part of the Everglades National Park’s AIRIE Collection, including painting, photography,...
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ArticleBy Valerie Ricordi, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA)’s new documentary “Collector to Collector,” opens with Rosalind Jacobs, whose lifelong friendships with many of the artists in the Surrealist and Dadaist movements resulted in an amazing collection of works by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and most substantially,...
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ArticleNow celebrating its 15th year presenting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects is pleased to announce that artist Angel Otero has been commissioned to create a work for Art on the Move, part of an ongoing public commissions initiative. The New York-based Puerto Rican artist embeds personal history in his densely...
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ArticleThe band members of Papaloko’s Haitian roots group were dressed all in white, thumping out electric, entrancing sounds at a high decibel that the crowd at Locust Projects (a Knight Arts grantee) couldn’t ignore — at one point it seemed as though the whole gallery space was swaying to the...
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ArticleTo see "Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams," a collection of work never previously shown by Jessica Frelinghuysen, without the context of her finished work and installation pieces, is like hearing the set-up for a joke but missing out on the punchline. Or put better, seeing the assorted gouache rough sketches,...
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ArticleOver the weekend, the Painted Bride Art Center hosted a rare retrospective of the Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) as they set out to mark the five year anniversary of their relocation from New York to Philadelphia. In a relatively short span, this group of brilliantly gifted movers and makers created a...
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ArticleA significant purpose of World’s Fairs was to showcase the arts, crafts and technologies from countries around the world in one central place. Through an ArtFusion program this Wednesday, November 13, the Mint Museum of Art (a Knight Arts grantee) will explore the influences of Indian art on World’s Fairs,...