Tubman African American Museum to be first to display artist Alfred Conteh’s ‘Pimp Series’

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Tubman African American Museum to be first to display artist Alfred Conteh’s ‘Pimp Series’

Published July 11, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

The artist's representational works use pop culture and historical imagery to comment on African American culture. The Tubman African American Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, will be showcasing the compelling and sometimes controversial work of Atlanta-based artist Alfred Conteh. The exhibit, which runs July 13–August 10,...

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M-DCPS Cultural Passport students attend DocMiami film screenings

Published July 11, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Monica Rosale, Miami-Dade County Public Schools The 2011 DocMiami International Film Festival launched its "DocMiami Save the Arts in Public Schools" initiative with special screenings for public school students. In partnership with Miami-Dade County Public School's Cultural Passport program, students from Westland Hialeah Senior High School were able to...

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Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival & Eisenhower Dance Ensemble host Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

Published July 10, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jill Overacker, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival The 2012 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival ran June 9-24 in venues throughout metro Detroit. The Festival presented more than 20 performances of chamber music with a focus on music from Russian composers. With the support of a $20,000 grant from the...

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Philadelphia Sculpture Gym settles into new Frankford home

Published July 10, 2012 by CSchwartz

The recently relocated Philadelphia Sculpture Gym is beginning to thrive at its new home on Frankford Avenue in Fishtown. This Knight Arts grantee began its move back in March after receiving a $20,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant in 2011. In the works for the new location are gallery space, lockers,...

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“Warhol Is Over?” No way

Published July 10, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Simon Thompson "Me and You and You and Me Baby." It was in the late 1960s when Andy Warhol pronounced: "In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes," his commentary on the celebrity-soaked, pop-world culture that America had become. But in a twist...

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Gustafer Yellowgold comes to the DIA

Published July 10, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

This past Sunday, the Detroit Institute of Arts (a Knight Arts grantee) hosted Gustafer Yellowgold as part of their Sunday Music Bar Series. The show is a combination of storytelling, live musical performance and illustration, following Gustafer Yellowgold, who leaves his life on the sun to live in Minnesota. The...

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Educational opportunities abound at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum

Published July 9, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum held its children's summer program, SOOMA Kids, on the new Museum campus. With the opening of the City of Biloxi Center for Ceramics, the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art (OOMA) was proud to announce the beginning of the annual SOOMA...

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EyeMinded and The Colored Waiting Room

Published July 9, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art During Open Studio Saturday on July 14 from noon to 1:30 PM, McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to present a free lecture and reading with author and Knight Artist-in-Residence, Dr. Kellie Jones. The presentation will feature selections from her book...

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Sophisticated Surfaces at the Mint Museum Randolph

Published July 9, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

The first ever solo exhibition of master ceramicist, Herb Cohen, is currently on view at the Mint Museum Randolph (a Knight Arts grantee) through January 6, 2013. The exhibition explores Cohen’s seven-decade-long career, displaying pieces from his first manipulations of clay at the Henry Street Settlement in the 1940s to...

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When art worked: New Deal-era paintings at the Minnesota History Center

Published July 9, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

In the space of just a few months in the depths of the Great Depression, from December 1933 to June 1934, the newly formed and short-lived Public Works of Art Program (PWAP), using taxpayer funds, directly commissioned in excess of 15,600 pieces of art from 3,749 American artists and craftspeople....

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Farewell Queen Lear

Published July 9, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer In a year of significant losses for the world of music, the death of soprano Evelyn Lear at 86 closes a vital chapter in the interpretation of singing. And the term “vital” will always be associated with her irresistible temperament and...

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Concert series successfully combines music and community revitalization

Published July 9, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Community members enjoy a picnic on the lawn at sunset in Washington Park. Yesterday was the second Sunday of July, and for residents of College Hill and the InTown Neighborhood in Macon, that means one thing — Second Sunday in Washington Park. It's the signature event...

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Marie Whitman on the yumminess of the body dancing

Published July 9, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

When all else fails, dance. That's what I do when the world seems out of whack or wacky. When I dance, everything disappears, including myself. Unfortunately, there's always someone there to remind me that people are watching and that I should settle down.Thanks to Marie Whitman's NOMAC (North Miami Arts...

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A variety show that’s good for the summer soul

Published July 6, 2012 by Anne Tschida

"Goldenage" gown from Sophie DeFrancesca. The six gallery spaces spread over two floors in the 12,000-square-foot space that makes up the impressive Zadok Gallery in Wynwood can hold a lot of art. It does, and its good stuff. Zadok has displayed a wide variety of works...

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The Donkey Show features disco balls and local talent

Published July 6, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

There's much ado around town about off-broadway hit "The Donkey Show," and the buzz is almost deafening. The critically acclaimed supersonic disco extravaganza, inspired by Studio 54 and Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," opens next week on July 13. The show will transform the Arsht Center into a 70s nightclub...