“Forever the Future” at Re:View Gallery

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“Forever the Future” at Re:View Gallery

Published April 6, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

The work currently occupying half of the Re:View Gallery, at 444 W. Willis St in the heart of the Cass Corridor, is “Forever the Future,” an exhibition of conceptual art by Detroit artist Megan Heeres. Her work seems to discuss the interplay between creator and creative mechanisms, boldly inviting the...

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Graham company to visit Akron

Published April 6, 2012 by EGuregian

Every year, Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival director Jane Startzman tries to stretch in a new direction. This time, she scored a dance coup by booking the Martha Graham...

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Vizcaya unveils installation by Italian artist Francesco Simeti as part of contemporary art series

Published April 5, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jenifer Mangione Vogt, Art & Italian culture writer Francesco Simeti is a contemporary Italian artist that was born in Palermo, Sicily and now divides his time between Sicily and New York. He’s primarily an installation artist, who creates large site-specific works that are imaginative and complex. His work is...

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Soprano readies for FGO, looks to future

Published April 5, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Last month, I sat down with the Mexican soprano Maria Alejandres for a discussion about her appearance with Palm Beach Opera in the title role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. As it happens, the day after the Palm Beach...

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“Beyond the Bones” with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers and Alison Stigora

Published April 5, 2012 by CSchwartz

If you attended the Painted Bride Art Center this past weekend, you could have been reborn. For three nights, March 29 through 31, the acclaimed Philadelphia dance company Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers graced the stage at the Bride for an evocative performance that drew audience members into a physical and primal world,...

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“Violins of Hope” explore the transformative power of music

Published April 5, 2012 by carmella.jarvi

“Violins of Hope” is a month-long, series of events and exhibitions of 18 violins that tell the powerful story of the Holocaust. Never before exhibited in North or South America, these violins share the history of this gruesome time through the experiences of its victims and its survivors. Their very...

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Experiment @ Inkub8

Published April 5, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

If you've ever wanted to move like a shape-shifter or create a new body language, the ongoing workshop series at Inkub8 is the place. Learn how to fly, spin, spiral, fall, leap, collapse and shout in new ways at the alternative, hybrid white box studio space in Wynwood. [caption id="attachment_36389"...

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Art in your backyard

Published April 4, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Michelle Hauske, Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Inside|Out program, now in its third year, brings 80 reproductions of masterpieces from the DIA's collection to the streets and parks of metro Detroit, pleasantly surprising residents of the participating communities. Where possible, the works are clustered...

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Miami Dade College wraps up its cultural series with 2 “show-stopping” performances

Published April 4, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Miami Dade College (MDC) will wrap up two of its successful cultural series this month with two show-stopping performances. MDC Live! Performing Arts Series closes its 2011-12 season with the Miami premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, created and performed by renowned American choreographer and...

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A mind-bending installation by John Fleischer at Air Sweet Air gallery

Published April 4, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Lowertown’s Air Sweet Air gallery has a new exhibition up — it’s a show with satisfying intellectual heft and conceptual depth. And I have no idea what it all means. Called simply “Δ,” John Fleischer’s multimedia installation is distinguished by both its austerity and deliberateness. As you’d expect from the...

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Too many notes

Published April 4, 2012 by EGuregian

In the 30 years since Peter Shaffer’s play "Amadeus" first appeared at the National Theatre of Britain, it has played to much acclaim in various productions and revivals in London and on Broadway. Many of...

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Crawl into “The Cave” and see the light

Published April 3, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Glexis Novoa, one of Miami's more prominent artists, has a studio in a just out of the way location north of Wynwood, where he will also start exhibiting art in the front rooms. The purpose, he says, is to give a...

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Three at PhilaMOCA make psychic waves

Published April 3, 2012 by CSchwartz

Three artists take the stage in a collaborative show of huge proportions at PhilaMOCA. David McShane, Willis Nomo and Paul Downie mostly display pieces of their individual work, but also join forces for a big three triptych of sorts, which dominates the front of the gallery space. While all of...

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Painting in the dark: new work by Jonathan Ryan Rajewski

Published April 3, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

Originally from Bismarck, N.D. — and having spent his formative years in Midland, Mich. — Jonathan Ryan Rajewski now calls Detroit home. I first met Rajewski at a reading for his literary press, called [sic] — which he co-founded with Achille Bianchi — but didn’t get to sit down and...

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Student Voices: Survey results from the Knight Artistic Engagement Fund

Published April 3, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Andrea Stevenson, Community School of the Arts As Community School of the Arts reviews the feedback surveys of the many financial aid and outreach students attending concerts and exhibitions through the Knight Artistic Engagement Fund, we cannot resist sharing a selection of their comments in their own voices. This...