MDC Live Arts Lab a learning hub for professionals

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MDC Live Arts Lab a learning hub for professionals

Published May 10, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College Miami Dade College’s (MDC) MDC Live Arts is pleased to announce Live Arts Lab, a professional development laboratory for local working artists. Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Nora Chipaumire, who was first introduced to South Florida audiences last year during MDC Live Arts’ 2011 -...

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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra takes Carnegie Hall

Published May 10, 2013 by Dennis Scholl

The old joke goes like this: A tourist stops a New Yorker on the street and asks "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The local pauses for a minute and then replies "practice, practice, practice..." Well, the world class Detroit Symphony Orchestra must have been practicing. They were in...

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Weekend preview: “Mobile Homestead” opening at MOCAD & “Able Objects” closing at Public Pool

Published May 10, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Objects more able than they appear: "blue bench, pick it fence, and foot lamp" by REAL OK DESIGN. This Saturday, May 11, promises to be an extravaganza of household objects made art, as Public Pool hosts the closing of “Able Objects,” sculpture by Real OK Design...

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“Page at a Time” at The Wolfsonian-FIU

Published May 10, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Just because National Poetry Month and the O, Miami Poetry Festival are over, it doesn't mean the world will come to an end—at least not yet. As of yesterday and through Sunday, June 2, The Wolfsonian-FIU presents "Page at a Time." "Page at a Time" is a 15-year-long interdisciplinary arts...

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Weathervane Playhouse’s “The 39 Steps” chock full of laughs

Published May 10, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Weathervane Playhouse's "The 39 Steps." Patrick Barlow went for the gusto when he decided to script a play based on the famous Alfred Hitchcock film “The 39 Steps,” which was itself taken from an earlier novel. The result is a frantic, fun, zany spoof that...

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Mainly Mozart Festival opens 20th season this weekend

Published May 9, 2013 by Gregory Stepanich

Poster for the Mainly Mozart Festival. This Sunday, the 20th incarnation of South Florida’s Mainly Mozart Festival launches at the Coral Gables Museum, and will last over the next six weekends. As the festival’s title suggests, the music of Mozart is a central focus, and will...

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EcoFab Trash Couture was a visual thrill

Published May 9, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

The ecoFab Trash Couture Fashion Show (which I wrote about earlier this month) hit the runway with glitz, bravado and Barbie doll heads! Twenty-three artists took their assignment to create fashion out of at least 25 percent recycled materials and the rest using re-purposed, reused or sustainable materials to new...

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A closer look at Ranjana Warier, the creative soul behind the “From Bharatanatyam to Bollywood

Published May 9, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Original Noise Entertainer. Educator. Facilitator. Innovator. The embodiment of power who can fight social injustice. This is Indian Dance, a heroine who takes an audience through a journey from her divine origin to present day. This is also in some ways Ranjana Warier, the creative soul behind the “From...

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Christina Day’s objects aren’t all they seem

Published May 9, 2013 by CSchwartz

Napoleon just opened the month of May with a solo show by member artist Christina P. Day. Entitled “Solid State,” the objects in the exhibit are indeed physically solid, but contextually they are plastic and malleable in innumerable ways. Day places only four works within the confines of the space,...

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A New York state of mind with a Miami twist

Published May 8, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Carol K. Brown at Nohra Haime booth, Pulse New York. The Frieze New York Art Fair returns to Manhattan for a second year, after the wildly successful introduction of the London-based fair last year on Randall’s Island. More than 180 galleries from across the globe will...

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Historic Macon announces tour schedule for “Macon, Then and Now” exhibit

Published May 8, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

575 College Street, Macon, GA from "Macon, Then and Now." Image courtesy of Historic Macon Foundation A photography exhibition featuring archival photographs of historic Macon properties alongside photographs of their present-day appearance will soon begin a tour around Macon. The project was kicked off on March...

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“Gilgamesh: He Who Knew Everything” in performance at Balch Street Theatre

Published May 8, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Good theater is the kind where you leave with your mind reeling with ideas about what you’ve just seen – thinking about it and figuring it out. That’s what you have to look forward to if you go to see New World Performance Laboratory’s “Gilgamesh: He Who Knew Everything” at...

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St. Paul craft scene triple play: Craftstravaganza, No Coast’s summer sale and American Craft goes digital

Published May 8, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

L to R: Key Candles, Negative Space Photo & Design. Photos courtesy of Craftstravaganza Three interesting newsy bits from St. Paul’s thriving craft scene have caught my attention recently that merit passing on. If you’re looking to shop: Andy and Jenna Krueger’s long-lived indie craft sale,...

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Early inspirations: A neighborly collaboration

Published May 8, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist Long known for its creative culture, the historic Northwestern Building in the heart of Lowertown St. Paul is host to Second Floor Live, a cluster of performance spaces with a variety of musical offerings, including classical, jazz, contemporary, musical theatre and more. Second Floor Live is...

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Jonathan Green: The Low Country rice culture

Published May 8, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Dias Dobson, Gantt Center Jonathan Green — the painter whose work, A Spiritual Journey of life, is currently on display at the Gantt Center — is more than an artist: he’s a visionary, an intellectual and a history teacher. As a proud South Carolina native, Green has made it...