Don’t surrender to the binary world

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Don’t surrender to the binary world

Published December 17, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Six artists, including Jenny Larsson, Oscar Fuentes, Celeste Fraser Delgado, Claudio Marcotulli, Carlota Pradera and Matthew Taylor, shared radically divergent works that were magically and thematically linked through humor during Inkub8's (open studio) series. Oscar Fuentes opened the evening with a monologue-trance about his favorite obsession: love. He is enough,...

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“Nutcracker”: a holiday tradition

Published December 17, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

Phoebe Klett as Clara. Photo by Peter Zay I am going to see the Nutcracker this coming weekend for the first time. Of course I am familiar with the story: how young Clara is magically transported to another realm by Herr Drosselmeyer and the Nutcracker Prince...

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Carol Connolly’s Third Tuesday ‘Reading by Writers’ has a knockout lineup

Published December 17, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

University Club, 420 Summit Avenue, tinted postcard circa 1920 from the MInnesota Historical Society photography collection. On the third Tuesday of every month for more than 13 years, St. Paul Poet Laureate and Kay Sexton Award-winner Carol Connolly has hosted a collegial gathering of local poets,...

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Three concerts to enjoy this week in Macon

Published December 17, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Music is often called a "universal language." The correct combination of notes in a simple harmony, or complex melody, can move one to tears. Spirits can be lifted with music. With such vast complexity and power, it should come as no surprise that the seasons of one's life are often...

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Off and on the Walls

Published December 14, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Ron English The weather behaved so well this year for Art Basel, making the outdoor strolling, brunches and parties easy to enjoy. But there may not have been a better atmosphere than at the “opening” of the Wynwood Walls on a Tuesday night. That may sound...

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MOCAD’s Monster Drawing Rally a monster opportunity for art investors

Published December 14, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

Detroit artists working assembly line-style. On Friday, December 7th, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts Grantee) held the Monster Drawing Rally, which acted as a fundraiser for annual MOCAD programming. Artists were given one hour to produce one or...

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Apollo’s Fire to present “Messiah” at Westminster Presbyterian Church

Published December 14, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Ever wonder how Georg Friedrich Handel’s Messiah would have sounded when it was first performed? I did, especially after listening to the 500-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing “For Unto Us a Child Is Born,” and thinking how majestic and overwhelming that would have been back in 1742. All that, of...

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Everglades diary by Trong Gia Nguyen and Rebecca Reeve, Artists in Residence in the Everglades

Published December 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Trong Gia Nguyen, AIRIE We arrived at the AIRIE residency late Sunday morning on November 25, over two weeks ago. So apologies for this belated post, which comes right after Art Basel week in Miami, where I worked organizing a room exhibit at the satellite fair Aqua, and also...

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Asian Arts Initiative ends 2012 with a busy schedule

Published December 13, 2012 by CSchwartz

Chinatown North’s Asian Arts Initiative, a Knight Arts Grantee, has a lot going on this month. With a newly opened show about censorship and power entitled “Shut Your Trap!!: A Study on Authority in Art,” the soon-to-open Visual Artists Network (VAN) group exhibition and the Chinatown North Arts Crawl from...

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Thriving Center City offers Janet Echelman’s ‘Pulse’ increased prominence

Published December 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia For the first time in 60 years, Philadelphia’s population recently increased, with downtown neighborhoods growing by 16.3% in the last decade, according to the U.S. Census. Center City now has 181,000 residents and hosts 265,000 workers daily. Another indication of Center City’s vitality is...

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Things are happening at the Bechtler

Published December 13, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

Whoever thinks museums are stuffy, static places where nothing changes has not been to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (a Knight Arts grantee) lately. The main exhibition, “Giacometti: Memory and Presence,” has undergone a face lift recently and a new exhibition, “Antoni Tàpies: Texture and Image,” opens Saturday December...

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Seraphic Fire adds to its Christmas legacy

Published December 13, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Seraphic Fire's new, Grammy-nominated Christmas album. No season is so fraught with special events as the Christmas season, which is much closer nowadays to the end-of-year Saturnalia from whence it sprung than it is to a time of devotion (call it Festivus, if you like). But...

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Aderele debuts at Dance Now! Miami Open Stage

Published December 13, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

This Saturday, Prince Emmanuel Abiodun Aderele — percussionist, visual artist, Sacred Yorùbá choreographer/dancer and arts educator — will debut his latest work “YorùbáRhythm” during Dance Now! Miami's Open Stage series at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. Emmanuel Aderele. “YorùbáRhythm” is an ancestral Journey of Yorùbá, the...

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Kids and The 567 Center’s “Koolaid & Canvas” class

Published December 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Kids had a chance to learn how to paint like a real artist this weekend at The 567 Center for Renewal’s “Koolaid & Canvas” class. Macon artist Heatherly Wakefield taught the students how to paint a holiday penguin picture on canvas using acrylic paints. One of the students, Karis Burgand,...

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Tuesday Musical Association debuts its 125th anniversary poster project

Published December 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

In December 2011, Tuesday Musical Association was selected as a recipient of pro bono design services through TRIAD/Next Level's Design4Good program. The award provided design and production services for a poster celebrating Tuesday Musical Association's 125th anniversary. After reaching out to 427 Design, the two agencies decided to work together...