Jenny Larsson climbs a ladder

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Jenny Larsson climbs a ladder

Published March 22, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

“Är det här du föreställer en björk på fjälltoppen?” asks Henrik Skott. Unless you're Jenny Larsson, it may be a challenge to perform as if you're a small birch tree on a mountain top. “It's fairly close to what I had in mind,” she says of her latest work in...

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Tyler Olsen brings something “Happy” to St Paul’s Central Corridor

Published March 21, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

St. Paul artist Tyler Olsen has an easy, self-deprecating laugh, and he talks fast — as if his tongue is in a race with his mind. He’s the principal behind a veritable warren of projects, all at various stages of development. Chat with him for a few minutes, and it’s...

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YoungArts Miami celebrates South Florida’s best and brightest artists

Published March 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Rebecca M. Gentry, YoungArts From February 22-26, 2012, YoungArts hosted YoungArts Miami, a regional program bringing together the 57 national YoungArts winners from South Florida. Across the four-day period, the students experienced master classes and interdisciplinary workshops with visiting artists including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edward Villella, Maria...

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Talking “Notes” with Youngmoo Kim

Published March 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Vincent Geels, The Philadelphia Orchestra I recently sat down with Youngmoo Kim, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University, to talk about the genesis of “iNotes,” the orchestral performance companion mobile app. A graduate of Swarthmore College with dual degrees in music and engineering, Youngmoo has...

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Milkboy Philly hosts WXPN’s The Key Studio Sessions Live

Published March 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Thursday, March 15th Milkboy Philly played host to WXPN’s The Key Studio Sessions Live concert with three local bands; The Fleeting Ends, Turning Violet Violet and Chill Moody. The free event was the third live concert in the series and was recorded for videotaped for an upcoming audio profile of...

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McColl Center for Visual Art celebrates its Converge exhibition Friday, Mar 23

Published March 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art McColl Center for Visual Art is hosting a Gallery Reception from 6 to 9 PM on Friday, March 23, to celebrate the success of the Converge exhibition. The show highlights the conceptual visions of alumni Knight Artists-in-Residence Quisqueya Henriquez and Sonya Clark,...

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Sixth Floor Trio carries on

Published March 21, 2012 by EGuregian

“It’s not very often that you hear “Carry On” played on bassoon,’’ the high school student sitting next to me at Friday night’s Sixth Floor Trio concert said appreciatively. Darn right, you don’t. And if a Kansas song played...

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Return of an artist too long gone

Published March 20, 2012 by Anne Tschida

The Bridge Red alternative gallery continues to live up to its mission, and its 2011 Knight Arts Challenge grant, which supports that to "provide a space for exhibition, documentation and creative exchange of works and ideas by strong and developed local artists who...

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Philadelphia-based Pig Iron Theatre Company debuts in Miami Mar 23-24

Published March 20, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sue Arrowsmith, Pig Iron Philadelphia-based Pig Iron Theatre Company will take South Florida by storm for the first time with their OBIE-winning quirky melodrama Chekhov Lizardbrain at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Mar. 23 – 24, at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach, 1040 Lincoln Road. Presented by Miami...

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Quality programming at The Rotunda

Published March 20, 2012 by CSchwartz

At 40th and Walnut Streets in West Philadelphia, there stands a 100-year-old former church. Its early 20th century, neo-classical architecture makes it stand out among the surrounding buildings, but what the archaic exterior beauty doesn’t convey is the wealth of contemporary programming, which happens inside The Rotunda. [caption id="attachment_35391" align="aligncenter"...

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Caleb Gentry hosts the Puppeterium Playhouse Party at MOCAD

Published March 20, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

This past Sunday, Caleb Gentry, the most recent resident in "Depe Space" (Department of Public Engagement) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts Grantee) hosted “Puppeterium Playhouse Party,” a hands-on puppet party featuring free puppet-making supplies, performance stages and an unlimited supply of imaginative mirth. Said mirth...

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Erasing the Internet at the Bass Museum of Art

Published March 20, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kristin Korolowicz, Bass Museum of Art This week at the Bass Museum of Art artist Jillian Mayer will have a new collaborative project on view. Mayer’s practice investigates the intersections between art, media, entertainment and pop culture. She is best known for her successful viral video projects, which are...

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Take advantage of the sunshine by visiting some of St. Paul’s less traveled art parks

Published March 19, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

The weekend just past felt more like mid-June than mid-March, with temps topping out at 80 degrees -- and that followed more than a week of warm, sunshiny days. Twin Citians’ giddiness over the unseasonably mild...

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Jerald Melberg Gallery has stunning new Susan Grossman drawing exhibit

Published March 19, 2012 by carmella.jarvi

Jerald Melberg Gallery is currently exhibiting a body of beautiful new drawings by Susan Grossman. “Bright Lights, Big City,” running through May 19, is a group of her charcoal and pastel — mostly monochromatic — drawings of luminous and shimmering cityscapes. Though Grossman’s drawings reproduce very well, they should be...

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Cherilyn Marrocco is MAD Dance

Published March 19, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

If you're looking to hone your talents, then go to MAD. Cherilyn Marrocco's MAD (Marrocco Academy of Dance) is open to students of all ages with varying abilities who have the desire to a nurturing, non-competitive environment to develop their talents in various disciplines. Classes in ballet, theater, singing and...