Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser salutes the Miami City Ballet’s resurgence

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Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser salutes the Miami City Ballet’s resurgence

Published February 12, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

The Miami City Ballet has had its share of difficult headlines of late. Artistic director Edward Villella announced his final season, the organization ran out of cash and its executive director left. But, things seem to be turning around, as Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser noted in the HuffPost. Kaiser...

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Celebrate Viernes Culturales/Cultural Friday Feb 22

Published February 12, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Pati Vargas, Viernes Culturales Join us for another Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday. Little Havana's popular art and culture festival is a great event for the whole family. Enjoy music, discover works by local artists and artisans in and around our iconic Domino Plaza on SW 8th St and SW 15th...

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Huffington Post Features Janet Echelman, Dilworth Plaza Artist

Published February 12, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Melissa Henry, Janet Echelman, Inc Artist Janet Echelman, who designed the public artwork for Philadelphia’s Dilworth Plaza recently shared her words for a feature on the The Huffington Post. Echelman’s TED Talk and accompanying article headlined their curated TED Weekend program themed “Imagination Innovation.” A Knight Arts Challenge Grant...

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Some mid-winter fair: Art Wynwood returns for second year

Published February 12, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Jesse Geller and VIP lounge of Art Wynwood. There have been grumblings since December about the proliferation of fairs during Art Basel. Some feel that the amount of art and fairs is overkill, and blurring the lines between quality art and junk. Not to mention that...

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Thomas Glassford constructs an acidic, synthetic garden at Moore

Published February 12, 2013 by CSchwartz

The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design are right in the thick of it for the exhibition “Afterglow” by Thomas Glassford. An enormous, scaffold-like construction currently resides in an entire room of Moore’s gallery space and confronts visitors with forms that are both natural and synthetic, confounding perceptions...

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“Show Love” opens at 555 Gallery

Published February 12, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Painting by Mary Thiefels, on right. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, 555 Gallery opened their latest juried show, appropriately titled “Show Love” and coincidentally featuring an entirely female lineup of regional college students, including Jennifer Belair, Sohpie Grillet, Eva Leventer, Molly Mitchell, Mary Thiefels and...

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FGO’s Magic Flute inspires student art exhibit

Published February 11, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Justin Moss, Florida Grand Opera On January 24, 2013, students and invited donors filled the Ziff Ballet-Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. It was dress rehearsal night and excitement filled the hall as everyone prepared to take their seats for a...

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“Innovative Works” is introspective, jarring and romantic

Published February 11, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

"Queen" Choreographed by Sasha Janes. Photography by ChristopherRecordPhotography No one theme runs through the five ballets in North Carolina’s Dance Theatre’s (a Knight Arts grantee) “Innovative Works.” The show is alternately introspective, jarring and romantic. Featuring work from choreographers Mark Diamond, Sasha Janes and Dwight Rhoden,...

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Impressions of Miami Light Project’s Here & Now 2013

Published February 11, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Miami Light Project's Here & Now festival offered Miami theatergoers a glimpse into the creative minds of Miami-based performing artists Liony Garcia, Matthew Evan Taylor, Ivonne Batanero and Shira Abergel. The artists created works, commissioned by the Miami Light Project (a Knight Emerging Artist Series) that were simultaneously lucid and...

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The revealing Grosvenor, a “Benjamin” on CD is playing in Miami too

Published February 11, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Benjamin Grosvenor is slated to play in Miami on Feb. 19 and his latest recording is a tantalizing introduction. Armed with an insolent youthfulness and wise beyond his years, Grosvenor is a genuine rara avis. His a career started at the...

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Twin Cities’ night-long arts festival, Northern Spark, moves to St. Paul for 2013

Published February 11, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Last week, the website for Northern Spark, the Twin Cities' annual, nocturnal arts festival, was updated to read: June 8, 8:58 p.m., Lowertown, St. Paul. And that quiet change caught my eye, because it made official the hummuna I’ve been hearing for a couple of months among arts folks that,...

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Big Bird Bash to become ‘The Macon Music Festival’

Published February 11, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

The Drive-By Truckers. Organizers of The Big Bird Bash, an independent music festival, announced Friday that the event will be rechristened “The Macon Music Festival” in 2014. This year, the festival, which highlights regional musical acts, will feature seven bands, art vendors, food vendors, games and...

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The Project [theatre] February 2013 update

Published February 10, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] It seems that everything happens at a pace in February, the weather gets inexplicably warmer, only 28 days, and The Project [theatre] has exactly 3 weeks to put up a show in a hotel. Wait…wait…what?? TRUTH! We are delightfully challenged to stage a one...

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How can creative placemaking transform communities

Published February 8, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Carol Coletta, ArtPlace How can creative placemaking strategies drive vibrancy and diversity powerful enough to transform communities? Last week saw a gathering of nearly 200 creative placemakers dedicated to exploring exactly that. ArtPlace, a national initiative for creative placemaking supported by the Knight Foundation, gathered grantees and funders together...

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The week in art

Published February 8, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Rune Guneriussen. Art just doesn’t want to slow down in this town. Sure there was a lull after Basel during the New Year’s break, but it was just that – art is roaring back in February. There have been openings all week, a trend that will...