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    Preparing for “Open Air” in Philadelphia

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    By Susan Myers, Project Manager, Fairmount Park Art Association In preparation for the Knight-funded public art project Open Air by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, the Art Association’s Project Manger and Development/Communications Manager recently had the opportunity to travel to Montréal and view Lozano-Hemmer’s installation, Articulated Intersect, commissioned as part of the...
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    “Duett: Alanna Lawley & Matt Giel” at Grizzly Grizzly

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    To kick off 2012, Grizzly Grizzly introduces the show “Duett: Alanna Lawley & Matt Giel." The project, initially proposed and facilitated by art writer Becky Hunter, has two artists working together on a long-distance, collaborative installation in response to a location and to one another. Alanna Lawley is a British,...
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    Arts & Science Council is transforming Charlotte

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    The Arts & Science Council (a Knight Arts grantee) is transforming our city through its creative and innovative programming. Some Charlotteans may not realize the magnitude of what this organization is doing in their own backyard. Or, they know them by name but not really what they do. As we...
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    Application period for 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Miami

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    Highlights from the 2011 Knights Arts Challenge Miami awards ceremony Dream big South Florida - it’s almost time to send in your best ideas for the South Florida arts! On Tuesday, Feb 21. the application period for the next round of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami will officially open. The challenge, now in its fifth year, is a community-wide contest to find the best ideas for the arts. It was created as a way to bring the South Florida community together through cultural opportunities.   
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    Inside Mu Daiko’s 15th anniversary concert

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    By Iris Shiraishi, Mu Daiko Artistic Director Mu Daiko is three weeks from the opening of its 15th anniversary concert at the Ordway’s McKnight Theatre! Rehearsals are in full swing - we're premiering three new works and are in the process of resurrecting and polishing long-standing audience favorites. And, we're...
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    Living life outside the circle

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    By Nora LeRoux, Teatro del Pueblo This March, in collaboration with Pangea World Theater, Teatro del Pueblo will bring the Twin Cities theater community, Outside the Circle, a new play by Andrea Assaf and Samuel Valdez, examining the nature of love, and what happens to love when we internalize society’s...
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    Don’t just watch the show. Be the show.

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    By Robin Barnes, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe Headlong Dance Theater will premiere their newest work This Town is a Mystery at the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. But first, they must find four Philadelphia households to participate. It could be in your home. You could be the...
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    Finding Miami Beach’s “Pulse”

    Published January 26, 2012 by

    If you haven't been to “Pulse” at the New World Symphony, you haven't experienced one of the most exhilarating and energetic fusions of live electronica with classical music anywhere. For four hours last Friday night, the famed New World Center turned into a mega nightclub, a new age spacecraft, where...
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    Staring down the apocalypse

    Published January 24, 2012 by

    The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) sits as the sole remaining building on its block at Warren and Rosa Parks, in a seemingly abandoned neighborhood in a city that, until very recently, had been all but forgotten beyond its borders. A fitting venue for "The Apocalypse Show," a wild...
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    Women create ethereal landscapes for Summit Artspace show

    Published January 23, 2012 by

    By Jessie Raynor, Akron Area Arts Alliance Director Summit Artspace Gallery opened its 10th anniversary season with Unmonumental Landscapes, an exhibition by emerging artists Debra DeGregorio, Coe Lapossy, Sommer Tolan and Chelsea Blackerby. The young women explore personal understandings of the contemporary world through landscapes created from collections of ideas,...