Tuesday Musical begins new season with a cappella group Cantus

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Tuesday Musical begins new season with a cappella group Cantus

Published September 20, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Tuesday Musical, a Knight Arts grantee, has been doing its musical thing for 125 years and is starting up a new one – with a new executive director. To begin things once again will be the nine-member, male, a cappella group Cantus on September 24. Cantus is hailed, according to...

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Whimsy and innovation: Yo La Tengo and Buckminster Fuller usher in the 2013 Detroit Design Festival

Published September 20, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

To coincide with the Detroit Design Festival, which will be going on all this weekend, the Detroit Film Theater/DIA hosted an outstanding event sponsored by the Reva Stocker Taubman Lecture Fund. Filmmaker Sam Green was on hand to present his “live documentary”—a narrated slide show that featured video clips and...

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“Inventing the Modern World”

Published September 20, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

“Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939.” “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939” opens this weekend at the Mint Museum of Art Uptown (a Knight Arts grantee). A groundbreaking international exhibition, “Inventing the Modern World” presents approximately...

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Opportunity for Philly Artists: LandLab environmental art residency

Published September 20, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Naomi Leach, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education Challenges to our local ecosystem have ripple effects for all of us: stormwater runoff floods our roads and depletes groundwater reservoirs; invasive plant species steal nutrients and resources critical to native wildlife, upsetting the essential balance of nature. Landlab, a collaboration...

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Zeitgeist’s New Music Harvest

Published September 20, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist Welcoming autumn’s arrival, contemporary music ensemble Zeitgeist will kick off its 2013-14 season with their annual New Music Harvest concert series. Pairing the best of new chamber music with some of Lowertown St. Paul’s finest cuisine, the concert features music from composers both near and far...

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Marlo Pascual bridges the gap between image and object at Moore

Published September 19, 2013 by CSchwartz

The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design are highlighting the work of the boundary-breaking artist Marlo Pascual. Through found photos, physical constructions, and layered images, Pascual takes us on a heady jaunt through the human mind and through the detritus of the abandoned meanings that abound in the...

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Urban culture on stage at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

Published September 19, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

The Los Angeles-based dance company Diavolo returns to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center with the premiere of two new works, "Transit Space" and "Fluid Infinities," on Saturday, October 12 at 8 p.m. Diavolo. Under the Artistic Director Jacques Heim, Diavolo's performances have redefined space by...

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None Too Fragile has its “Nerve” in solid production of Adam Szymkowicz’s play

Published September 19, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Time to go out and see a play. None Too Fragile theater group makes it pretty hard not to. First off, you can get in by paying what you can, but no more than $20. You get to see really good local actors in some seriously scripted drama. And, you...

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Walker West Music Academy: What music means

Published September 19, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy This month, Walker West Music Academy is featured as a part of Minnesota Philanthropy Partner's Nonprofits to Know series. The video focuses on the story of Saliem Hashel, a Walker West violin student who has grown immensely from her time at the Academy....

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MDC Live Arts Brings Experimental Latin Artists to Miami

Published September 18, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College Miami Dade College’s MDC Live Arts performing series will bring together an eclectic group of Latin artists for its inaugural OLA Music Fest to celebrate the new wave of Latin music sprouting across the globe, from London to São Paulo to Miami and beyond....

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Mercer Theatre begins new season with French comedy Tartuffe

Published September 18, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

"Tartuffe" at Mercer's Back Door Theatre. Mercer's Theatre Arts department announced its 2013-2014 production schedule in May, and it looked promising to me. I was especially excited about a couple of the comedies planned for this year, so don't be surprised to hear a lot about...

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How has the Twin Cities gallery scene changed since the 1970s?

Published September 18, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Illustration by Andy Sturdevant for "Ghost Crawl," courtesy of mnartists.org. A present-day rendering of what used to be the home site of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM), one of the key arts groups in the 1970s gallery scene. If you have an interest in...

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Minnesota State Fair celebrates performing arts with Arts A’Fair

Published September 17, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Lindsay Dickson, Minnesota State Fair Foundation In celebration of arts in Minnesota, State Fair guests were entertained by drumming, dance, theater and music with surprise 10-minute pop-up showcases throughout the fairgrounds. This was the inaugural year for the Arts A’Fair program at the Minnesota State Fair, with plans for...

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In practice, the world awaits

Published September 17, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Aramis Gutierrez, "Do You Wish To Rise? Begin by Descending." The first thing that will strike you is the series of light, pastel pink canvases that are basically empty. Very little color, very little movement in these latest paintings from one of Miami’s best painters, Aramis...

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Death comes to DIY Ferndale

Published September 17, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

A reunited Death playing DIY Street Fair Ferndale. As a fan of the horror movie genre, I love nothing better than a story of life after death. Last Saturday, September 14th, DIY Street Fair Ferndale witnessed the resurrection of Death, a band whose legacy was nearly...