Miami City Ballet on why it’s important to commission new works

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Miami City Ballet on why it’s important to commission new works

Published February 28, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Last November, Miami City Ballet received a Knight Arts Challenge grant to support the ballet’s new works fund. Knight recently interviewed Pamela Gardiner, Executive Vice President, Artistic Affairs, at the Miami City Ballet to learn more about why it’s important to commission new works and how they’re approaching their efforts...

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Cafe d’Mongo’s Speakeasy keeps culture alive downtown

Published February 28, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

Only in Detroit could a music club be open twice a week and stay in business, but that’s the beauty of Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy, an enduring and idiosyncratic hub of culture downtown. The club’s owner — Larry Mongo — insists on being...

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Inside TU Dance’s first-ever Summer Intensive program

Published February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Julie Sand, TU Dance In August 2011, and with significant support from Knight Foundation, TU Dance launched its educational programming with its first-ever Summer Intensive at the new TU Dance Center in Saint Paul. Artistic Directors Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands welcomed over 40 students, almost one-fourth of them...

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Dawn Upshaw, an American treasure

Published February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Dawn Upshaw defies all definitions, particularly that of “lyric soprano” simply because her voice is many voices. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and in 2007 she won the MacArthur Fellowship, the first classical...

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Minnesota artists gather for Arts Advocacy Day 2012

Published February 27, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Every midwinter, legions of artists and arts supporters from around the state head to downtown St. Paul for a day at the capitol, lobbying state legislators about issues important to the Minnesota arts community. The time has come around again: this Wednesday, Feb. 29, is Arts Advocacy Day 2012. This...

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James Klosty’s inside view on Merce Cunningham: 65 Years

Published February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Melissa Harris, Aperture Foundation James Klosty traveled with and photographed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) from 1967 to 1972. As the partner of dancer Carolyn Brown, he had unprecedented access to Cunningham, John Cage, and the Company as a whole, and his stunning photographs—first published in his 1975...

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Ulysses Spring Festival of the Arts brings lots of Tchaikovsky

Published February 27, 2012 by carmella.jarvi

Whether Russian films or music by Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the Ulysses Spring Festival of the Arts is about all things Russian. The culture, art and music are expressed through a number of different venues — the combined creative efforts of many Charlotte arts organizations throughout the month of...

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Roofless Records’ top 11 in 2011

Published February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Dana Bassett, Roofless Records 11 "So Roofless" moments from 2011... Recipient of the Miami New Times 2011 Mastermind Award in the SOUND Category Experience Sobriety CD + Book Release (3-05-11). The President...

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Pilobolus entwined

Published February 27, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

I’ve always found sweaty, entwined (possibly naked) bodies one of the most challenging forms of artistic expression. Sometimes things can get awkward, but not when said bodies belong to the incredibly talented dancers from Pilobolus. Pilobolus is an experimental dance company created out of Dartmouth College in 1971. In case...

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Season 2: ‘a Play, a Pie and a Pint’

Published February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Emma Gibson, Tiny Dynamite Productions 2011 Knight Arts Challenge winner Tiny Dynamite Productions is getting ready for the second season of ‘a Play, a Pie and a Pint,’ which will begin on March 6th 2012 at The Red Room of The Society Hill Playhouse. The season will run for...

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How to win the Knight Arts Challenge: Tips from the inside

Published February 26, 2012 by marika.lynch

If you're thinking about applying for the Knight Arts Challenge Miami, you will want to read this Q&A with Knight Foundation Arts Associate Tatiana Hernandez in the Miami New Times's Cultist. Hernandez gave some insider tips, including the following: Cultist: What specifically do you...

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The lush art life

Published February 24, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens (a Knight Arts grantee) has seriously stepped up the the quality of the art they have...

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Actor John Lithgow meets Random Acts of Culture™

Published February 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By the Adrienne Arsht Center staff The Random Acts of Culture™ team is used to surprising the public with performances by Miami-based professional artists, but this month it ran into its own random surprise when actor John Lithgow appeared in the crowd of spectators at Miami International Airport. Lithgow, known...

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Public art in Miami Beach

Published February 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kristin Korolowicz, Bass Museum of Art This past December marked the first edition of the Bass Museum’s public art program initiative Temporary Contemporary. Organized in collaboration with Art Basel Miami Beach and curator Christine Y. Kim, the outdoor exhibition featured a diverse range of practices from internationally renowned and...

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“Grown in Detroit” screens at the Detroit Institute of Art

Published February 24, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

On Thursday night, the Detroit Institute of Art (a Knight Arts grantee) screened “Grown in Detroit” as part of its "Detroit Revealed on Film" exhibit. The film is a close look at the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a public school for pregnant and mothering teens that incorporates hands-on agricultural practice into...