Caroline Calouche & Co. goes “Macabre”

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Caroline Calouche & Co. goes “Macabre”

Published October 15, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

"The Macabre Masque" performance program. Caroline Calouche & Co.’s performance this past weekend, October 12 and 13, was an intriguing blend of modern dance, theater, drama and the aerial arts. The Company, now in its 7th season, has become known for this multidisciplinary approach to contemporary...

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Santiago Betancur is present

Published October 15, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Last Friday I had the day off and spent it anchored to a wooden chair grading student essays inside Panther Coffee in Wynwood. Panther is a kaleidoscopic merry-go-round of Miami's glittery and gritty art scene. It's where I feel centered amidst the dance of baristas and their giant robotic coffee...

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Sun Yung Shin’s new collection offers poems for an uneasily globalized world

Published October 15, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Sun Yung Shin’s second poetry collection, “Rough, and Savage” from Coffeehouse Press, is simultaneously alluring and caustic, lovely and mournful, ambitious in both its moral ambition and literary invention. Shin’s poems deal in pain and love and alienation, but she weaves those well-worn themes into something fresh, a contemporary fairy...

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Tubman exhibits work of renowned visionary artist Mr. Imagination

Published October 15, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack), 1948–2012 The work of famed visionary artist Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack) is currently on display at the Tubman African American Museum (a Knight Arts grantee) in Macon. "The World of Mr. Imagination: 1948–2012" features selected works from the artist's home...

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: Final day to apply!

Published October 15, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

TODAY is the final day to submit your best idea for the arts in Philadelphia to the Knight Arts Challenge! Make sure you apply by midnight tonight. No idea is too large or too small, and everyone can apply. Here’s a reminder of our three basic rules: 1. Your idea...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art at TED: “All art was once contemporary”

Published October 13, 2012 by Dennis Scholl

By Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation/VP Arts Tom Campbell, the newish director of the Metropolitan is not your father's museum director. Watch him crack up the crowd in this TED talk. We need more legacy institutions to choose this kind of leadership - go Tom go. Thomas...

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A super day at the Arab American National Museum

Published October 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Matthew Stiffler, Arab American National Museum Saturday, September 8, 2012 was a banner day at the Arab American National Museum. The building was filled with area youth, local and national media, and 100 comic book fans and Arab American community members, all celebrating the release of the first Arab...

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Following the ‘Twisted Lines’ of a good solo show

Published October 12, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Still from "Hand Catching Lead" from Quisqueya Henriguez. Solo shows and group shows are very different animals. Each has its special rewards and difficulties. Solo artist exhibits can be more cohesive by nature – they come from the hand of one artist. But if the work...

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The new 555 Gallery officially opens house

Published October 12, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

It's a banner year for the 555 Gallery in their new space. In an outcome which proves that sometimes the good must be relinquished for the best, the 555 Gallery had the official opening of their new nonprofit gallery, learning center and artist studio space in...

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Baritone Thomas Hampson will sing of America in Tuesday Musical concert

Published October 12, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Great looks and great voice, Thomas Hampson seems to have it all, as concertgoers will discover when the famous baritone appears in E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for Tuesday Musical, a Knight Arts grantee. Long applauded for his opera roles, singled out for his recording works with Grammy Awards and...

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Knight Arts Challenge Miami People’s Choice: Urgent, Inc.

Published October 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

The 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Miami is bigger and better than ever with the addition of its first People’s Choice Award. Knight Foundation has selected five local nominees from this year’s group of finalists – the rest is up to you.Vote for your favorite and the winner will receive $20,000...

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: Get inspired by winning ideas

Published October 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

In its first two years, Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia has awarded $5.4 million to 71 projects — all of which focus on engaging and enriching Philly’s neighborhoods through the arts. If you’ve got an idea that will bring fresh thinking, inspiration and innovation to the city’s cultural community, now is...

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McKnight Foundation’s State of the Artist

Published October 11, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Laura Zimmerman, The McKnight Foundation Last fall, 120 artists sent me their résumés. They were not applying for a job at the Foundation, nor was I creating a hard copy LinkedIn. Artists agreed to share this career documentation as part of a year-long celebration of the 30th Anniversary of...

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Community Day at the McColl Center for Visual Art

Published October 11, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

JoAnn Sieburg-Baker's Studio at the McColl Center. Art, culture and community combine in one fun, family-friendly day at the McColl Center for Visual Art (a Knight Arts grantee) this Saturday October 13th from 11-4 p.m. Community Day will feature current resident artists leading a variety of...

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Write your book with poet Emma Trelles

Published October 11, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Every day poetry has the power to move us. It can speak for us and to us in ways that can't be easily understood or quantified. The power of poetry is intuitive and it lives somewhere between the soul and the stars. In many ways, poetry is a language of...