MDC Live Arts opens 22nd season with Modern Flamenco

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MDC Live Arts opens 22nd season with Modern Flamenco

Published September 26, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College Award-winning choreographers and founders of the renowned Nuevo Ballet Español, Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez, will present Cambio de Tercio for the first time in the U.S. as part of Miami Dade College’s MDC Live Arts performing arts series at 8 p.m. Friday and...

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Carol Porter holds gallery talk about her paintings

Published September 26, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Carol Dodd Porter begins her gallery talk on Tuesday, September 25. The Gallery at Macon Arts Alliance, a Knight Arts grantee, hosted a gallery talk on Tuesday, Sept. 25 by Carol Dodd Porter, about her many paintings featured in the gallery's September exhibit "Slow Down, Step...

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A “Cornucopia” of photos and poems by multimedia artist Mike Hazard

Published September 26, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

When photographer and filmmaker Mike Hazard (a.k.a. "Media Mike") moved to Lowertown in 1999, his new place was less than a block from the downtown St. Paul Farmer’s Market, so it was natural to incorporate a stop there into his routine. With all its townie charm, bustle and sheer vitality,...

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Deborah Pinter’s flower series photographs on view in Peninsula

Published September 26, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Take in photographer Deborah Pinter's flower series exhibit, called "Luminous Florals," and combine a nice fall outing with a satisfying art experience. Pinter's flower studies are on view at the Hines Hill campus (the administration building) in the John F. Seiberling Gallery near the Boston Store in Peninsula district. What...

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Rubens Ghenov and a mystery wrapped in an enigma

Published September 25, 2012 by CSchwartz

Rubens Ghenov has a solo painting exhibit at Tiger Strikes Asteroid right now, but his abstract forms, although the outward face of the show, are only a portion of the full concept at hand. Along with his sharp, textured paintings, Ghenov provides an essay by Ana Monique Abe and a...

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CIFO and the Latin discussion

Published September 25, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Francisca Aninat, "Sin titulo" detail. It doesn’t seem like nine whole years since CIFO started its Grants and Commissions Program, which supports, promotes, then highlights mid-career and emerging artists from Latin America. This is a unique program, where chosen artists participate in creating art around a...

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“Cosmo(s)politan: an evening of film and video” at the Jam Handy Building

Published September 25, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

It is delicate confession for an arts and culture blogger to confess a certain level of discomfort with avant garde cinema. At times it seems the imagery and nonsensical connections are paralleled in their extremity only by the level of seriousness with which they are taken. For my part, I...

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Coming up: Two opportunities to get your Knight Arts Challenge questions answered

Published September 25, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Have a question about the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia? We’re giving you two opportunities to learn more and get your questions answered before the Oct. 15 application deadline. Bring your questions directly to Knight Foundation reps, who’ll answer them in person at our Philly Town Hall Meeting (October 3) —...

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Art forgery and the work of Alberto Giacometti

Published September 24, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

"Femme assise (Annette)" by Alberto Giacometti on view in "Giacometti: Memory and Presence" at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Forgery is always a hot-button word in the art world, but with the rise of online shopping, the issue has intensified greatly. In recent years, the...

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Alleluia, it’s Junot Diaz

Published September 24, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Dropping F-bombs in church may seem sacrilegious, but it's not, especially when those bombs are dropped by Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). If you're not familiar with Diaz's work, I suggest that you start with his short story collection,...

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You decide who should win $20,000 for their Miami arts project

Published September 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad Schimel

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 for their Miami art project. Click here to watch profiles of the five finalists, then text to vote for your favorite. Voting runs Sept. 24-Oct. 22, 2012. The nominees are: 6th Street Dance Studio: A nonprofit studio in Little Havana Arts Garage: A cultural hub in Palm Beach FUNDarte: A multidisciplinary nonprofit producing multicultural exhibits and performances LAB Miami: A co-working space at the intersection of art and business Urgent, Inc.: A 501(c) 3 working in part with the arts to revitalize urban communities Vote today!

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Work begins on College Street mural

Published September 24, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Work has begun on a mural at a vacant building on College Street in Macon. What began nearly two years as an idea to improve the facade of a now-vacant building on College Street in Macon will soon be a reality. Artist Heidi Clinite began painting...

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Park Square Theatre opens the season with “Red,” a Tony Award-winning play about painter Mark Rothko

Published September 24, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Park Square Theatre (a Knight Arts grantee) has opened its new season with John Logan’s 2010 Tony Award-winning play, “Red.” The story takes place in 1958, inside the close quarters of painter Mark Rothko’s Bronx studio. By this point, the abstract expressionist has come into his own: respected if not...

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You decide who should win $20,000 for their Miami arts project

Published September 23, 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...

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In art, the remains of the global day

Published September 22, 2012 by Anne Tschida

"The Green Line." The very small, cardboard sculptures hanging on the walls of the Alejandra von Hartz Gallery don’t necessarily draw your eye immediately – you have to search them out a little when you stop in to the well-done, handsome exhibit from Ana Tiscornia titled...