Live from Orchestra Hall reaches over 150,000 viewers

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Live from Orchestra Hall reaches over 150,000 viewers

Published June 20, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Scott Harrison, Detroit Symphony Orchestra With the help of our friends at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, by the end of the summer our Live from Orchestra Hall webcasts will have reached 150,000 viewers in over 75 countries in less than a year and a half...

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Community Supported Art: Macon to hold first pick-up event for shareholders

Published June 20, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Shares for the CSA: Macon program will be packaged in canvas totes screen printed by the Macon-based design firm Modern Giant Design. Photo courtesy of Jason Frost Community Supported Art: Macon (CSA: Macon) will hold its first pick-up event for shareholders Friday, June 22 at The...

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The Drowsy Chaperone is rousing, laugh-a-minute comedy hit for Weathervane Playhouse

Published June 20, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Want to laugh, chuckle, and have wacky fun watching live theater? Go to Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, and see its current production of "The Drowsy Chaperone." There are lots of reasons why this show is successfully done – a slick and lively script for one from Tony Award-winning...

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A well-deserved nod to the Bass

Published June 19, 2012 by Anne Tschida

The park and the Bass Museum. Wynwood gets most of the attention these days as the art hub of Miami. And rightly so, as the amount of galleries and studio spaces far exceeds any other place not only here, but in the Southeast and likely any...

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Scott Kip’s “Illuminated Structures” at Marginal Utility

Published June 19, 2012 by CSchwartz

Marginal Utility is displaying the work of Philadelphia-based artist Scott Kip until July 29th as part of his solo exhibit “Illuminated Structures.” The title of the show is somewhat literal, as the entire show consists of a series of tiny architectural creations which stand orderly and neat atop pedestals, bathed...

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Jazzin’ on Jefferson brings the community together

Published June 19, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

Summertime and jazz go hand in hand here in Detroit, and this past weekend was no exception. Now in its ninth year, Jazzin’ on Jefferson — sponsored by the Jefferson East Business Assocation (JEBA) — once again brought the community together for two days of jazz performances by artists from...

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Locust Projects presents ONE NIGHT STANDS

Published June 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Locust Projects Locust Projects presents ONE NIGHT STANDS, a series of imaginative social events. For one night only at venues across the city, each event will feature a collaboration with creative producers and emerging entrepreneurs approximately every two months. We are pleased to announce the inaugural...

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Downtown Art Works Gains momentum through collaboration

Published June 18, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

The ongoing Downtown Art Works series launched by the Downtown Akron Partnership with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation continues to gain momentum as the deadline nears for entries for the first Akron Art Prize competition. The energy that surrounded the first Downtown Art Works event...

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Free hugs and upcycled art at NoDa Gallery Crawl

Published June 18, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

A diverse crowd mixed, mingled and paraded up and down North Davidson Street at the NoDa Gallery Crawl this past Friday. Much like a pub crawl, you can stroll through the shops, street vendors and galleries at your own pace. Stop in one of the many watering holes to have...

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Caligula wanted the moon

Published June 18, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

...but he gave the audience a performance worth all of the stars and celestial bodies in the cosmos instead. Directed and adapted for the stage by the magical Carlos Diaz and performed by a stunningly talented and hysterical cast from Teatro el Publico in Cuba, "Caligula" was an extraordinary gender-bending...

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Minnesota Museum of American Art finds a brick-and-mortar home – for now, anyway

Published June 18, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

There's big news afoot over at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (MMAA): Kristin Makholm, director of what has for three years been a ‘museum without walls,’ announced last week in a series of interviews with area media outlets that MMAA has found a brick-and-mortar home – at least for...

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Macon artist Bryan Finch holds first-ever exhibit at Contemporary Arts Exchange

Published June 18, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Bryan Finch sits in front of his work on display inside the gallery of the Contemporary Arts Exchange. Bryan Finch is a prolific artist, but until the opening of his first exhibit at the gallery inside the Contemporary Arts Exchange, his passion was something of a...

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The painter as musician and the musician as painter

Published June 18, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Two recent DVDs show the relationship between opera and the visual arts from different angles: The Magic Flute, a painter’s vision of Mozart’s opera, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser, where the musician becomes a painter. They both constitute two controversial and absolutely fascinating...

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The scapes of time told in fluid painting

Published June 15, 2012 by Anne Tschida

"Dune purple 2" at Alejandra von Hartz. The paintings of Lynne Golob Gelfman deserve close attention and inspection, for their incredible subtleties of color and movement. In fact, while used to illustrate this posting, the paintings on this page do not do justice to Gelfman's work,...

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Lunchtime jazz in downtown Detroit

Published June 15, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

Just yesterday, as I was biking through downtown on a perfect summer day, I had the pleasure of stumbling on a noontime jazz performance at Lafayette Greens, a gorgeous urban garden in the heart of Detroit. The garden is a recent and marvelous addition to the urban landscape, and well...