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    A fond farewell to an artistic voice

    Published June 22, 2012 by

    Paula Harper. Back in 2001, when I first moved to Miami, the University of Miami Art History professor and writer Paula Harper was crafting a piece for Art in America about the latest crop of artists who were making a huge splash, and had a show...
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    Turning Music InsideOut

    Published June 22, 2012 by

    Mark D'Angelo is the director of instrumental music at Roosevelt High School (RHS) in Wyandotte, MI. He recently led two RHS ensembles in performances at the DIA during Wyandotte’s InsideOut community free day. In this post, D'Angelo shares his experience of being involved in InsideOut as a community member. On...
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    Random Acts of Culture™ returns to Intel

    Published June 22, 2012 by

    Random Acts of Culture™ surprised employees and guests at Intel's corporate headquarters Monday June 18! Dancers Karen Gabay and Maykel Solas from Ballet San Jose burst into the lunch room with a bold and beautiful ballroom dance number. Intel requested the event on June 18th so they could include a...
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    Liquor cans and high art

    Published June 22, 2012 by

    One man's trash is another man's treasure. That's a concept that Ghana-born abstract artist El Anatsui seems to thrive on. Twelve of his best pieces are being shown at the Akron Art Museum (AAM), a Knight Arts grantee, in a mammoth display called "Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El...
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    Minimal work by two artists at Grizzly Grizzly

    Published June 21, 2012 by

    Throughout the month of June at Grizzly Grizzly the artwork of California sculptor John Chwekun and Brooklyn painter Mark Sengbusch is on view as part of the show “Inside Space.” The exhibit is an exploration in the minimal, from Sengbusch’s black and white patterned paintings to Chwekun’s tiny, sometimes barely...
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    A Southpark classic!

    Published June 21, 2012 by

    Where can you feel the fire of Lecuona’s “Malaguena,” enjoy the romance of Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” and blast into outerspace with Williams’ “Across the Stars” outside a movie theater? Why, at Symphony Park, where the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is performing its Summer Pops Concert Series. With only...
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    May the force be with Tigertail’s WordSpeak Team

    Published June 21, 2012 by

    This year the Tigertail WordSpeak team, coached by director/performer/writer Teo Castellanos and poet/educator Angela Kardos, will compete again in Brave New Voices, the Olympics of international youth poetry slam festivals.Competing across the country in the San Francisco Bay area from July 17 to 21, 2012, the Tigertail team will represent...
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    Not just for dance lovers

    Published June 20, 2012 by

    By Kate Durnan, The Philadelphia Dance Company Since its release this winter, Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance (December 2011) by dance scholar Brenda Dixon Gottschild has propelled PHILADANCO and its Founder, Brown, into the public eye through numerous interviews,...
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    Summer gets going with two music series

    Published June 20, 2012 by

    Guitarist Andrew York. Although summer officially begins tonight, and much of the country’s classical music activity has moved on to cooler climes, there are some venues willing to put on things in the more oppressive months. One is the Community Arts Program at the Coral Gables...
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    Sustainability in theatre: New administrative paradigms

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    By Amy Poulson, Teatro del Pueblo Teatro del Pueblo is charting a course to sustainability in the theatre. Starting in 2009, Teatro del Pueblo began a formal collaboration with Pangea World Theater. Both organizations have missions that are oriented to developing and producing high quality fine arts that reach across...