THERE IS NO HEAVEN FOR CONCEPTS: Jonathan Rajewski’s smash debut at N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art

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THERE IS NO HEAVEN FOR CONCEPTS: Jonathan Rajewski’s smash debut at N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art

Published March 5, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Rajewski (left center) among the opening night crowd at his first solo exhibition THERE IS NO HEAVEN FOR CONCEPTS, the first solo exhibition for Detroit artist Jonathan Rajewski, is a special kind of pain for people like me, who can barely repress their desire to touch...

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Opera Returns to Second Saturday Art Walk

Published March 5, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Alejandra Serna, Florida Grand Opera Last year, Florida Grand Opera (FGO) made a splash when it debuted at Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk with a preview event that brought opera to the young, art-loving hipsters of the neighborhood. Winning the company the honor of “Best Arts Outreach 2012” by...

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Winning sponsorships in the arts

Published March 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council Over 60 arts executives and corporate representatives gathered at the Adrienne Arsht Center this week to explore collaborations at the Arts & Business Councils Miami Arts Marketing Project program on corporate sponsorship. In today’s economy and corporate landscape both sponsor and beneficiary must...

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Infusing dance with a sense of home…and home

Published March 3, 2013 by marika.lynch

Choreographer Augusto Soledade sees his work as a dialogue between “home” and… “home.” The first represents his early experiences and discoveries in Salvador, Brazil; the second the adult life he continues to create in South Florida. The result is Afro-fusion contemporary dance reflected in his latest work Cordel, which...

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Artworks that have the power to transform

Published March 1, 2013 by Anne Tschida

"Growth Spurt" from Felice Grodin. In the drawings on Mylar that Felice Grodin creates, there is a lot of action. They can at first look like expanding, growing organisms. But on closer observation, these fairly large pieces, a number of which are up at the Diana...

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567 Center for Renewal February update

Published March 1, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Timothy Durski, 567 Center for Renewal Is it fair to say, yet, that everyone is a photographer? It’s not that everyone could be a photographer; it’s that we all have that camera on our phone, in our pocket, even those of us still holding out with our budget-model flip...

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Oh, the French farce of it all: Georges Feydeau’s “A Flea in Her Ear” at The University of Akron

Published March 1, 2013 by Roger Durbin

One thing about farce, French or not, it allows some potentially serious intimate (and often sexual) topics and situations to get on stage and not outrage its audience. Take Georges Feydeau’s “A Flea in Her Ear,” a turn-of-the-last-century comedy that is being performed in the Sandefur Theatre at The University...

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Weekend preview: MOCAD, SOUP and Detroit Future Media

Published March 1, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

As we bid an enthusiastic farewell to winter and spring into March, there’s a weekend full of events all based around building a better future. Photo by Corine Vermeulen For your forward-looking Friday pleasure, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts grantee) is holding...

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From mambo to Mozart

Published February 28, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

I remember attending performances at the old New World space on Lincoln Road, which is now H&M, before I knew the difference between Mozart and mambo. Now, I know a little bit more about music, but every time I go to the New World Center, I learn something new from...

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Janet Echelman’s ‘Pulse’ will add unique dimension to Dilworth Plaza

Published February 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia Accessible fountains in city parks draw people of all ages, as the Center City District experienced once again when it transformed Sister Cities Park and reopened it in 2012. This 1.3-acre park at 18th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was an abandoned and...

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What does it take to be a ballerina?

Published February 28, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

Jamie Dee in last Fall's performance of "Limitless." Photograph by Christopher Record. What is it like to be a ballet dancer? Pushing your body to extremes? Beginning a professional career while in your teens? These questions popped up time and again over the last few months...

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University of Delaware @ Crane presents “Surface as Signifier”

Published February 28, 2013 by CSchwartz

The University of Delaware Art Department’s space in the Crane Arts Building ([email protected]) has a new nine-artist exhibition underway that seeks to examine the role of surfaces in visual creations. The show “Surface as Signifier,” curated by Peg Curtin and Bruce Garrity, manages to delve into conceptual territory by judging...

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From Basel to Miami nonstop: Pedro Memelsdorff, new regent of the Schola Cantorum

Published February 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer He comes to Miami directly from Basel and has nothing to do with Art Basel, but rather with a diametrically opposed and equally valuable art form. Since January, Argentine Pedro Memelsdorff has been at the helm of the famous Schola Cantorum...

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VocalEssence WITNESS remembers Marian Anderson

Published February 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence “Raise your hand if you ever saw Marian Anderson perform live!” someone shouts and thirty or so hands shoot into the air. This brief meeting took place amongst audience members at WITNESS: Marian Anderson, a concert paying tribute to the celebrated African American contralto’s life as...

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Opera makes reading fun again

Published February 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Stefanie Hew, Florida Grand Opera From maracas to the triangle, every child has the opportunity to play a part in the story with Florida Grand Opera’s Read Along, Sing a Song program – a free literacy workshop series that incorporates music into the reading process. In partnership with Miami-Dade...