“Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders” at Akron Art Museum

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“Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders” at Akron Art Museum

Published February 8, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Motorcycle riders can conjure up curious images: maybe as a gang of thugs drifting around looking for trouble, or a group of restless spirit young men and women adrift on the open road. The exhibit at the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, kind of sets the record straight,...

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“Contorted” at Public Pool warps images of women into a new reality

Published February 8, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Last call for CONTORTED, closing this Saturday, Feb. 9th, at Public Pool. This coming Saturday, February 9th is the last chance to catch “Contorted” —the five-woman group show on display at the Public Pool artspace in Hamtramck. The open gallery sessions have featured a live performance...

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Liony Garcia: Here & Now

Published February 7, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Liony Garcia's work is ephemeral. It investigates the time and space between one body movement and the next and reveals the symbols that emerge (and vanish just as fast as they're created). In his latest work, “In Lieu of Flowers,” to debut at Miami Light Project's Here & Now series,...

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Remembering John Cage, American original

Published February 7, 2013 by Gregory Stepanich

John Cage (1912-1992). For young people, John Cage is something of a hero. So says Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust, which administers the affairs of the composer, inventor, philosopher and all-around artist who made such a remarkable impact on the music of...

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“Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler”

Published February 7, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

A festive Mardi Gras atmosphere pervaded the Charlotte Art League (CAL) at last week’s first Friday exhibition opening. With fun music, beads galore and king cake, it was difficult not to “Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler,” as the exhibition title encourages. This themed exhibition runs through February 22 and can...

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The Knight Arts Challenge Miami is coming to you

Published February 7, 2013 by marika.lynch

One of the beautiful things about Miami is that while Wynwood and Miami Beach put us on the national map, each year there’s more great art emerging in neighborhoods from Delray Beach to Homestead. We see it in Urgent Inc.'s community murals in Overtown, in Tarell McCraney’s 90-minute modern version...

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Philadelphia Sculpture Gym explores metal processes

Published February 7, 2013 by CSchwartz

At the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym’s gallery throughout the month of February, a dozen artists try their hands at bending, molding and soldering metal into a variety of recognizable and fantastical forms. The “Process Show: Metal” at this Knight Arts grantee demonstrates technological explorations, smooth sculptural contours, as well as examples...

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The Schubert Club’s Arts Ambassadors: Theoroi

Published February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Tessa Retterath, Theoroi A program of The Schubert Club, Theoroi is a select group of arts ambassadors ages 21-35 who attend a curated series of arts events and spread the word through social media. Theoroi had a busy couple months in December and January. On December 3, the Theoroi...

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Springboard for the Arts featured on ArtsFwd

Published February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts ArtsFwd provides a nice profile of Knight grantee, Springboard for the Arts. This story and video details Springboard's experience in the EmcArts Innovation Lab and the changes and new programming that resulted, including a partnership with the Knight Foundation to bring the Community...

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Puzzle Piece Theatre debuts Anthony Clarvoe’s “Show and Tell”

Published February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre Puzzle Piece Theatre, Detroit's newest professional company, will debut with the Michigan premiere of Anthony Clarvoe's “Show and Tell”. The play's setting could not be timelier; the plot follows the investigation after an explosion in an elementary school that leaves a class of 24...

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Macon Film Festival: Where creativity meets community

Published February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Beverly Blake, Knight Foundation Program Director/Macon Eight years ago, a group of creative folks here in Macon came up with the idea for a film festival to celebrate the craft of the moving image and introduce independent films that rarely appear in Macon and the Macon Film Festival was...

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A one-two mayoral punch on behalf of the arts

Published February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Adrienne Arsht Center Staff Opera stars. Prima ballerinas. Legendary violinists. Mayors? Two of the biggest government rock stars of our time – former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz – stepped into the spotlight usually reserved for gifted artists on the grand stage of the...

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Macon Film Festival announces kick-off screening of “The Buddy Holly Story”

Published February 6, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

It’s no secret that the film industry has invaded Georgia. Feature films and television series are regularly filmed throughout the Atlanta area. While the concentration of filming is in Georgia’s largest metropolitan area, Macon is no stranger to the filmmaker’s lens. In early 2012, Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake and Amy...

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Rose Ensemble brings medieval chant to life with selections from Hildegard von Bingen and the Minstrel

Published February 6, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

The St. Paul-based Rose Ensemble will soon open “Sibyls of the Rhine,” a series of candlelight concerts highlighting medieval chant and polyphony from Germany and France. For this show, the internationally-known ensemble will focus on the sounds of the Gregorian Vespers, with the atmospheric, 13th century “Song of Songs” by...

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Summit Artspace branches out to theater in performances of “The Emperor Jones”

Published February 6, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Word has it that famous playwright Eugene O’Neill had a great first year when he got to Broadway in 1920 with his plays. One of the reasons was his second Broadway production – “The Emperor Jones.” The play tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African American who kills a...