Akron Symphony Orchestra aims for harmony in big musical line up for 2012/2013

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Akron Symphony Orchestra aims for harmony in big musical line up for 2012/2013

Published August 24, 2012 by Roger Durbin

The Akron Symphony Orchestra is in full gear and heading into a brand new season. One of the ways you'll know that is from its great new poster. Everything is on it — a well-drawn summary of its "Classic," "Pops" and "Specials" series, and a great lead-in to maestro Christopher...

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Janet Echelman’s sculpture will be a font of information

Published August 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia Janet Echelman’s columns of atomized water that are featured in her public sculpture Pulse will be more than beautiful and imaginative public art once the $50 million transformation of Dilworth Plaza is completed in 2014. The unique artwork will communicate in real time the...

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Summer 2012 at the Philadelphia Orchestra

Published August 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Vincent Geels, The Philadelphia Orchestra Though the summer is traditionally considered downtime for most, The Philadelphia Orchestra has been keeping busy with out-of-state residencies, performances at the Mann Center, and free Neighborhood Concerts in Cheltenham and at Penn’s Landing. The iNotes team has been keeping busy, too, with July...

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Knight Arts Challenge Philly makes Comcast Newsmakers

Published August 23, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Philadelphia Program Director Donna Frisby-Greenwood chats about the ins and outs of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia on Comcast Newsmakers. Enjoy the video above

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“We are Charlotte”: a unique perspective

Published August 23, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

A thought provoking and honest photography exhibition, “We are Charlotte,” opened this week at the Light Factory (a Knight Arts grantee) in Uptown Charlotte. It is the culmination of a Student Art Exchange program that high school students from Myers Park, Northwest School of the Arts, West Charlotte and Rocky...

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O Cinema presents a free night of short films by local directors

Published August 23, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

It's right there, he said. O, I said. Cinema? It's easy to get lost in the jungle of Miami's booming and ever-expanding performing arts scene. It's a kaleidoscope of color, sound, movement and magic with so many spokes — performances staged here, there and everywhere — that it creates a...

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Ryan Parker provides a lot to find at Space 1026

Published August 23, 2012 by CSchwartz

Ryan Parker is displaying a number of prints at Space 1026 for his show “Finder,” which is nothing short of a-maze-ing. Contrived puns aside, the black-and-white structures Parker creates are both eerie and inviting in a way that only the puzzle of a labyrinth or ancient structure can be. [caption...

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Random Acts of Culture™ at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

Published August 23, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Staff and visitors at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi were surprised by a Random Act of Culture on August 16, 2012. A very talented musical chamber group called the Sixth Floor Trio received a grant from the John S....

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Twenty teens selected to be part of Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Young Adult Writer-in-Residence program

Published August 23, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Victoria Galan, Miami-Dade Public Library System More than a hundred teens representing fifty-five different schools from around the County submitted their writing samples and applications for their chance at a spot in Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Young Adult Writer-in-Residence Program. Over the summer, Young Adult author and writer-in-residence Kekla...

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For MISO conductor, new music is vital to the project

Published August 22, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Eduardo Marturet and the Miami Symphony Orchestra. Eduardo Marturet uses a computer metaphor when he talks about the impact of new music on listeners. “I love to give you music, that when you come in and sit in your chair, and you’ve come in from your...

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Longtime arts journalist Matt Peiken to launch MNuet, a comprehensive Twin Cities classical music resource

Published August 22, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

“I love starting things. I love the challenge of building something new that really works,” says Matt Peiken, longtime arts journalist and founder of a new online hub for Minnesota classical music coverage, MNuet.com, which is set to launch September 4. The impresario behind MNuet, a...

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New conductor aims to widen appeal of Macon Symphony Orchestra

Published August 22, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

With the announcement of new musical director and conductor Ward Stare, the Macon Symphony Orchestra, a Knight Arts grantee, has set the stage for one of its richest and most exciting seasons in recent memory. When talking to Stare, one quickly notices his ambition to appeal to a wide audience,...

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Food makes art in exhibit in Little Box gallery at Summit Artspace

Published August 22, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Logo of Artists of Rubber City. Photo courtesy of organization Tucked in a corner of the third floor of the Summit Artspace building are two Box galleries, as they have been named, that are used by the Artists of Rubber City. The larger, or Big Box,...

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“Ornament and obsession” and Miami in Venice

Published August 21, 2012 by Anne Tschida

"El Portal 1," photo-collage. The city of Venice’s location in the north of Italy, as a port on the Adriatic, likely was the reason it became a magnet for migrants and refugees throughout its fabled history, and the reason it became a hotbed for creativity and...

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Three new additions at Napoleon

Published August 21, 2012 by CSchwartz

Napoleon is “Pleased to Meet You” in August with a show by its three newest members: Matt Ziemke, Alexis Nutini and Christina P. Day. The artists all have quite divergent processes, and yet the objects they create alternate in the gallery for a visually stimulating introduction to three fresh, new...