Random Acts of Culture™ hits Engaging Matters

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Random Acts of Culture™ hits Engaging Matters

Published February 2, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Random Acts of Culture™ gains a bit more national attention this month as Doug Borwick, president of the Board of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, writes about the program in Engaging Matters, a blog that explores community engagement and the arts community. Borwick calls the Random Acts of Culture™...

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St. Paul gets drawn in to posters and illustrations

Published February 1, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Two print shows that deserve your attention are going up in St. Paul this week . First, the College of Visual Arts Gallery will open its biennial illustration exhibition tomorrow, “Illo Minn: Volume Three,” for which it will showcase the work of 25 notable Minnesota illustrators. Each artist will exhibit...

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Art over at the high end

Published February 1, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Mexican gallerist, curator and dealer Nina Torres has a new home on Biscayne Bay, a stunning waterfront art center on North Bayshore Drive opened up during Art Basel. Torres, for the most part, globetrots the world putting on shows and exhibiting...

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Red Hook gets a little rural with Lauren Ladner

Published January 31, 2012 by CSchwartz

This past Friday at Red Hook Coffee and Tea was the opening of a show by artist and designer Lauren Ladner. There was also a live performance by blues musician Matthew “Mule” McKinley, for whom she designed the artwork on his just-released album, “Alone on the Orange Floor.” [caption id="attachment_32245"...

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The Michigan Arab Orchestra performs at Wayne State

Published January 31, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

With considerable shame, I must confess my experience with “Middle Eastern music,” if such an enormous and diverse cultural heritage can be reduced to that designation, comes almost entirely from brief fragments heard through tinny radios in the back of specialty grocery stores or as ambience in the background of...

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The Miami-Dade Public Library honors the Library’s Three Graces in the Arts

Published January 31, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Next February 10, The Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library will be hosting Miami Moments, its first annual fundraising event and under the suggestive title, The Three Graces, this inaugural evening will be dedicated to three exceptional women: Margarita Cano, Helen Kohen and Barbara...

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Take an otherworldly “Voyage” with sculptor Alonso Sierralta

Published January 30, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

“These look like something out of a fairytale.” That’s the first thing I heard as I walked into the intimate confines of the Gordon Parks Gallery last week...

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Art is part of healing Charlotte’s chronic homeless

Published January 30, 2012 by carmella.jarvi

Yesterday celebrated a milestone in the fight to end homelessness in Charlotte. Moore Place is a brand new community of one-bedroom efficiency apartments with on-site special services for individuals with a history of chronic homelessness. Jan. 29 was its grand opening and community open house. Moore Place will utilize a...

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Alice gets around

Published January 30, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

We all think we know the spunky English girl who falls down a rabbit hole and emerges in a trippy dream world. Fernando Calzadilla, who co-wrote an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic English fairy tale "Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland" with Stephanie Ansin, agrees that the actor is “an athlete of...

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Introducing the Heritage Spotlight Series at HistoryMiami

Published January 30, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Michael Knoll, South Florida Folklife Center, HistoryMiami The South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC), a division of HistoryMiami, is pleased to announce the launch of the Heritage Spotlight series, an annual artist-in-residence program. The series showcases local traditional artists, cultural expressions, and the area’s diversity. Over the course of 2012,...

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The transporting power of Philadelphia Theatre

Published January 30, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Ned Warwick, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia It is awfully easy to take for granted the cultural riches that abound in Philadelphia. Vaguely, we assume they have always been here—a natural and inevitable part of our heritage—and that every community is similarly blessed. But listening in for the past...

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Schubert songs come home to salon, as part of hotel’s music series

Published January 28, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Classical music concerts haven’t always been in big, imposing halls with sound baffles, ushers and clearly marked exits. Like music of every kind down to the present day, much of it was written for intimate...

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An artist who sets the stage

Published January 27, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Miami native and now New York-based artist Daniel Arsham is having a pretty good week nationally, as works that reveal his broad reach into artistic exploration will be on show from coast to coast. Arsham's first Los Angeles solo...

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Now playing at DIA: “plant (3D)”

Published January 27, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

The Packard plant, at one point the most advanced automobile plant in the world, was shuttered and abandoned in 1958, and since then has become one of the more notorious ruins in the country. A vast and sprawling structure, it remains a definitive symbol of Detroit’s economic decline. It has...

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Walker West Music Academy presents new artist development programs

Published January 26, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Petet Leggett, Walker West Music Academy In February, Walker West Music Academy will be offering two new programs intended to help support the development of emerging artists. The Young Artist Professional Development Training Program (YAPTP) will provide students the opportunity to compose, record and promote their own original music...