“Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor” at Akron Art Museum

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“Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor” at Akron Art Museum

Published November 2, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Old artists can learn new artistic tricks, or can if they are like Adolph Gottlieb. The Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, sets out to show exactly that in its newest exhibition, "Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor." Adolph Gottlieb. Photo by Michael Fredericks I think it's fascinating...

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“Existentialism of Jazz” at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

Published November 1, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

From left to right: “Femme Assise” by Alberto Giacometti, 1956, “Femme assise (Annette)” by Alberto Giacometti, 1956. Art meets jazz at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (a Knight Arts grantee) this Friday at 6 p.m. The concert, “Existentialism of Jazz,” will feature music from the...

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Two new Community Supported Art programs in Philly

Published November 1, 2012 by CSchwartz

Two Philadelphia groups have begun working on a project which seeks to close the gap in the buyer and maker relationship that comes with purchasing artwork. Grizzly Grizzly and neighbor Tiger Strikes Asteroid have begun one of Philadelphia’s first Community Supported Art (CSA) programs along with the Philadelphia Folklore Project,...

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Weathervane Playhouse’s “Shooting Star” blazes with well-acted drama

Published November 1, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Two-person dramas are going to be talky. They just are. So it really helps when the play is lively, full of human insight, and extremely well acted, as Weathervane Playhouse's "Shooting Star" is. Steven Dietz's play – which incidentally is being performed in Weathervane Playhouse's intimate 50-seat black box Dietz...

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Art Meets Technology: The Soundscape of Dancing around the Bride

Published October 31, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jaime Bramble Schell, Philadelphia Museum of Art With visual art, music, and dance all coming together in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp—generously supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation—a visit to the exhibition galleries becomes a...

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Miami Choral Academy tries to change lives through song

Published October 31, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Students in the Miami Choral Academy program. One day not too long from now, youth choral groups might be as ubiquitous and popular nationwide as Pop Warner football teams. That’s the goal, in any case, of the Miami Choral Academy, whose director, Shawn Crouch, is working...

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The coolest band in Paris

Published October 31, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

It seems like every band these days is the coolest band around. An endless supply of cool, hip groups sprout like dandelions and promise to radically reshape the sound of the music industry. Cool is cool, but interesting is beyond cool. This Friday, November 2nd, Nouvelle Vague returns to Miami...

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First Friday offers a variety of things to enjoy

Published October 31, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Part of the exhibit will be a memorial for Sam Zellner, a beloved arts exchange member who passed away this summer. Artists will share their personal collections of Sam's work with written memories or stories of how Sam touched their lives. A memorial book will be...

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Photographer Joel Pickford captures faces of the Hmong diaspora in America

Published October 31, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Qeej player at a Lee clan funeral in Fresno, CA, 2007. Photo by Joel Pickford, courtesy of the author's website California photographer and filmmaker Joel Pickford will be in the Twin Cities this week and next to discuss his new book, “Soul Calling: A Photographic Journey...

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“Hurricane Susan” arrives at Florida Grand Opera

Published October 30, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer A refreshing breeze is blowing through the Florida Grand Opera, and it has a name. It comes from the west, not exactly the “far west” but the west coast of Florida. Her name is Susan Danis, she comes from a successful...

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Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal

Published October 30, 2012 by Dennis Scholl

My friend Bill Ivey, former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts under President Clinton, has a new book, “Handmaking America.” Last night he was on the PBS show Newshour discussing the book. I had the good fortune to serve with Bill last month as a member of the...

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A look at United States Artist Knight Fellow Michelle Ellsworth’s urban development project

Published October 30, 2012 by Dennis Scholl

Knight Foundation funds United States Artist Knight Fellows in the 26 Knight communities. The winners get a phone call from United States Artists and are told that they’ve won a $50,000 grant, no strings attached. Many use it to advance their artistic practice, some use it for health care and...

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Out of damaged landscapes, sublime art

Published October 30, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Painting from Robert Huff. Robert Huff has been working on his art for a long time, that is obvious. There is no funny business here, no conceptual conceits, no sloppy composition. The new works hanging at the Carol Jazzar Gallery are not just beautiful, they are...

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Verses by Robert Sestok Opening at CCS

Published October 30, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

"Verses" will be opening this Friday, November 2 at the Center Galleries in CCS. Robert Sestok is a prominent Cass Corridor artist, whose complex, welded steel sculptures can be found installed in public spaces around Detroit and New York City, among other places. Better known as...

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A dialogue with Nancy Ann Coyne, creator of Speaking of Home

Published October 29, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Adrienne Kleinman, Forecast Public Art Hailing from New York City, artist and designer Nancy Ann Coyne is no stranger to busy metropolises. In 2008, she launched Speaking of Home, a radical new public art project in bustling downtown Minneapolis. She was the first artist in the city’s history granted...