Penumbra Theatre returns with style and “Spunk”

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Penumbra Theatre returns with style and “Spunk”

Published March 18, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

“It’s been a hard year,” said Penumbra Theatre founder Lou Bellamy as he thanked the well-heeled crowd of stalwart supporters and theater fans who turned out for the opening night of “Spunk” last Thursday. The play they all came to see is a blues-soaked adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Three...

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Can Twitter get me opera tickets?

Published March 17, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Alejandra Serna, Florida Grand Opera They say that if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is, but not in this case. Florida Grand Opera is doing its first ever tweet seats, or Tweet Tickets, event on March 21 for the opening of an edgy tango...

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José María Condemi: María de Buenos Aires means opera and tango crossroads and much more…

Published March 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer For the Argentine director José María Condemi, the equation María de Buenos Aires + Tango + Florida Grand Opera + Miami results in a tempting mercurial crossroads that widens and multiplies according to Astor Piazzolla’s magical music and his poet Horacio...

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Ready for some art and pARTy?

Published March 15, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Ramon Bofill at ArtCenter/South Florida. We like to mix our art with some parties; it goes a long way to explain why Art Basel Miami Beach is here. And Saturday night is no exception: ArtCenter/South Florida (a multiple Knight Arts grant winner) is throwing its annual...

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Verb Ballets honored choreographer Heinz Poll in intimate dance concert

Published March 15, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Heinz Poll, who co-founded and directed the Ohio Ballet for nearly 30 years, received posthumous honors recently. Verb Ballets paid tribute to the late company director with a performance titled “Honoring Heinz Poll” at the Akron Civic Theatre (a Knight Arts grantee). Poll’s Ohio Ballet had significant impact on the...

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Two workshops and a book signing at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

Published March 15, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art At an Ohr-O’Keefe Museum Studio Ohr workshop on February 9, 2013, students used the printmaking art of linocut to create one-of-a-kind 4” x 6” Valentine cards that could be mailed, framed or given as gifts. Linocut skills can be used to transfer...

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Detroit – get your ideas ready for the Knight Arts Challenge!

Published March 15, 2013 by marika.lynch

In just one week, on March 25, we'll start accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit. This year, we'll be giving away up to $3 million to arts and cultural projects that engage and enrich the city. The deadline is April 22. Get Detroit Arts Email Updates Email...

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Emily Johnson premieres “Niicugni” at Miami-Dade County Auditorium

Published March 15, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Tigertail Productions always brings innovative, cutting-edge performing artists to Miami that challenge our preconceived notions of what performance art is and can be. These artists push the conceptual boundaries of art and create new points of reference. Emily Johnson is no exception. Emily Johnson. Emily Johnson...

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Friends of the SPCO’s Youth Chamber music competition goes viral

Published March 15, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kelly Belich, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra The Friends of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s second annual Youth Chamber Music Competition, the final rounds of which will take place March 23-24, saw an interesting innovation this year. For the first time, the competition’s first round was judged via YouTube videos...

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Preview: “How is Your School?” at 2739 Edwin Gallery

Published March 15, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

2739 Edwin to host a timely conversation about education. There are few issues in Detroit more politically or emotionally fraught than the state of the Detriot Public School system. In this regard, Detroit is perhaps an extreme example, but by no means the sole instance of...

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Cleveland Orchestra concert to embrace two lovers, and then everyone else

Published March 14, 2013 by Gregory Stepanich

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. Tonight, the Cleveland Orchestra opens a series of three concerts that celebrate love between two humans as well as the love of humanity in general. The love story of composer Peter Lieberson and his wife, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, is told in the...

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Mark Gardner with Hans and Jakob Weissflog at the Center for Art in Wood

Published March 14, 2013 by CSchwartz

The Center for Art in Wood in Old City (formerly the Wood Turning Center) is a non-profit community space that, since its inception in 1986, has provided wood turning, woodworking and exhibition opportunities for local artists working in the medium of wood. Currently, the Center is hosting a two-part show...

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Inside the Minnesota Museum of American Art’s “D.I.Y. Printing: Presses Not Required”

Published March 13, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Christina Chang, Minnesota Museum of American Art “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt’s words perfectly capture the do-it-yourself (D.I.Y.) spirit that is the subject of the MMAA Project Space’s new exhibition of print, D.I.Y. Printing: Presses Not Required (March...

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The Internet Cat Video Festival comes to St. Paul for its second year

Published March 13, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Full disclosure: I'm (tangentially) affiliated with what I'm writing about today, but it's significant enough to the St. Paul arts-and-culture scene that I'm going to mention it anyway. The Walker’s hugely popular Internet Cat Video Festival (a.k.a. #catvidfest) is returning for a second year, and the festivities will be held...

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“The Intimate Bach, Part II” from Apollo’s Fire coming to Akron area

Published March 13, 2013 by Roger Durbin

In case you missed “The Intimate Bach, Part I” from Apollo’s Fire, a Knight Arts grantee, here’s your chance to redeem yourself, for the celebrated Baroque orchestra will be coming again to appear at Fairlawn Lutheran Church on Thursday evening. This performance has the subtitle “with his friend Telemann,” referring...