Animated architecture takes on Buckminster Fuller in “Vector Equilibria”

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Animated architecture takes on Buckminster Fuller in “Vector Equilibria”

Published October 8, 2013 by CSchwartz

Outside of the University City Science Center on the east façade of 3440 Market Street, two nights of site-specific video installations will be visible as part of the Knight Arts grantee project “Animated Architecture” curated by Sean Stoops. On October 19 and 20 from 7-9 p.m., visitors to the viewing...

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A Harlem gospel tradition comes to Charlotte

Published October 7, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chorale Le Chateau will make a joyful noise at the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church this coming Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. Blending jazz expression with sacred African American church service, this concert, “Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration,” will traverse jazz history from spirituals...

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Octavio Campos performs at MLP

Published October 7, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

When I think of Octavio Campos, I think of the ancient Greek mythological beast, the Chimera. Not that Campos is a beast per se, but he embodies the wild fire-breathing magic of the Chimera. His work, and his heart, exists in a space where fearless imagination enables him to push...

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Book lovers take note: Twin Cities Book Fest hits the fairgrounds on Saturday

Published October 7, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

2013 Twin Cities Book Festival is Saturday, October 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds The Twin Cities Book Festival is coming up this Saturday at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, and organizers expect more than 7,000 area bibliophiles to turn out...

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One City Art Festival could become an annual event

Published October 7, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

One City Art Festival logo. I had a front row seat at the first meeting of what would become the One City Art Festival. Jeff Bruce, director of exhibitions at the Tubman African American Museum, had mentioned getting a group together to talk about a visual...

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Talking about the life and art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Published October 6, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Snapshot from Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1994. It was appropriate that as the audience streamed in to take their seats at the de la Cruz Collection on Thursday night, they would pass by the lovely light sculpture by Felix Gonzalez-Torres hanging from the ceiling and pooling on the...

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MACLA: Youth + media tools = cultural innovation

Published October 5, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, MACLA At MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana), we see youth as cultural innovators on their own terms. They are the next generation and the voice of the future. We have an awesome responsibility to construct a safe space for them to gather and create....

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Artist in Residence in Everglades announces 2014 fellows

Published October 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), proudly announces the 2014 AIRIE Fellows. This year, AIRIE boasts a creative group of local, national and international artists across several disciplines including painters, installation artists, new media artists, photographers, and writers, who will live and work...

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Local Artist participated in greater numbers in this year’s Miami Performance International Festival ’13

Published October 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Charo Oquet, Edge Zones This year local performance artists participated in large numbers in the second annual Miami Performance International Festival from June 1– 30, 2013, M/P ’13 thanks to the support of a newly received John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant to support their production cost....

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Knight Foundation receives Emmy nominations

Published October 4, 2013 by Dennis Scholl

Last night Knight Foundation received its seventh and eighth Emmy nominations (Suncoast region) in the last five years. This year's first nomination was for a short film Theaster Gates: Soul Manufacturing Corporation. The film arose from Gates' exhibition at Locust Projects during Art Basel last December. Knight Foundation's second nomination...

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NoWhere. A solo show by Juan Pablo Ballester on view at Farside Gallery

Published October 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Existence -as a conscious coexistence and survival- implies a constant redefinition of our condition as a subject amidst the human flow in which we imbricate or not. And this dilemma looms from the overwhelming pariah status that, one way or another, marks us every...

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Preview: save your Saturday for the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival

Published October 4, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

This year's HNAF is bursting at the seams with an all-day schedule of events. Beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 5th, with an opening performance at HenriettaHaus and continuing through to late night music events from 6-9 p.m., the 2013 Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival is...

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Women’s Art League presents 80th anniversary show at St. Paul’s

Published October 4, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Akron’s Women’s Art League has been around for 80 years, beginning when a small group of women got together in mutual support of their interest in making art. As the group picked up speed – and members – they were able to hire professionals to assist in the development of...

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Knight Arts Challenge winner Ranjana Warier offers an insider view of her project

Published October 3, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

Ranjana Warier is a 2012 winner of Knight Arts Challenge Miami. Below, she writes about her project, which showcases classical Indian dance through adaptations of Western fairy tales. By Ranjana Warier How would you describe cultural fusion in a word? “Magical” and “exotic” were among the adjectives used by those...

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Philly Photo Day 2013 is quickly approaching!

Published October 3, 2013 by CSchwartz

Once again, the Knight Arts grantee and quickly rising star of the Philly arts community, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC), is hosting Philly Photo Day on October 18. This fourth annual iteration of the event will see thousands of professional and amateur photographers point the lenses of their cameras...