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    How many people does it take to create a neighborhood?

    Published May 3, 2012 by

    By Arsht Center Staff What will we call it? How will people get there? What needs to happen to encourage people to live, work and play there? As the Adrienne Arsht Center leads an ongoing community-wide discussion about the evolution of its downtown Miami neighborhood, the questions – and possible...
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    UNfestival screened local filmmakers at PhilaMOCA

    Published May 3, 2012 by

    UNfestival is a short film and music video show with an emphasis on Philadelphia filmmakers. The third manifestation of the festival screened videos at PhilaMOCA on Friday, April 27th to a standing-room only crowd. The event is presented by Fractal Circus, a local filmmaking and video consultation group. [caption id="attachment_38522"...
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    Miami made Marquez

    Published May 3, 2012 by

    Flamenco, like art and human nature, is unpredictable. But Google “flamenco images” and predictably you'll see a fiery red tomato kaleidoscope of traditional and outrageously trained and ruffled flamenco gowns explode on screen screaming drama. The gowns are so lush and overpowering one forgets there is a dancer wielding those...
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    The inexorable embrace of Bluebeard

    Published May 2, 2012 by

    By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Last Friday and Saturday, lovers of music and the visual arts were treated to a fascinating interdisciplinary production that showed off the possibilities of Miami Beach’s New World Center and restored the glory of Béla Bartók’s sole, magisterial opera: Duke Bluebeard’s...
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    Inside Janet Echelman’s Dilworth Plaza art commission

    Published May 1, 2012 by

    The 2012 Knight Foundation's Philadelphia Arts Challenge has awarded a $400,000 grant to Center City District to construct the innovative public artwork of artist Janet Echelman to help transform historic Dilworth Plaza (Philadelphia City Hall) into a focal point for the city’s thriving downtown. Echelman created "Pulse", an artwork inspired...
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    Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents “Remainder”

    Published May 1, 2012 by

    Through June 10th at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, you can catch the show “Remainder.” Four artists make up this group exhibition of photographic abstractions: Amy Beecher, Aspen Mays, Klea McKenna and Brent Wahl. All of the artists wield process in intriguing, yet entirely divergent ways. [caption id="attachment_38189" align="aligncenter" width="619"...
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    Open air poetry at Lafayette Greens

    Published May 1, 2012 by

    The prototypical poet is a creature of the dark, naturally to be found haunting lowlight bars and passing days shuttered behind drawn curtains. The prototypical poetry reading is a heavy affair, most usually held in a drinking establishment and lubricated on all sides by “poetry juice.” [caption id="attachment_38146" align="aligncenter" width="600"...
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    The power of children’s theater

    Published April 30, 2012 by

    By Margie Salvante, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia This past winter, the Arden Theatre’s hugely successful production of Charlotte’s Web completed a run of 98 performances. It set records for attendance and revenue—not just for the Arden’s children’s theatre but for all its theatre. Thirty-four thousand people came to see...