Genuine Insights on Random Acts of Culture™

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Genuine Insights on Random Acts of Culture™

Published September 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Gina Rudan, Genuine Insights Gina Rudan, the president of Genuine Insights Inc, witnessed her first Random Act of Culture® at the 2011 TEDxMIA conference. She posted about the experience this month on her website. Click here to read the entire post and enjoy an excerpt...

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Historically speaking with Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

Published September 28, 2011 by Susannah Schouweiler

I love living in a college-rich town. If you’re in the market for smart conversation and a little painless education — on culture, politics, scientific breakthroughs, historical oddities, you name it — you need look no farther than the lecture line-up on nearby campuses. [caption id="attachment_25203" align="aligncenter" width="594" caption=""A New...

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Viernes Culturales celebrates South Florida’s youth

Published September 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Yvette Rodriguez, Viernes Culturales Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, a Knight Arts grantee, is known to be a monthly festival showcasing the arts and culture to South Florida’s residents and beyond, but the celebration doesn’t end there. For September’s festival, Viernes Culturales has added an element that will cater to South...

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Opera hits the great outdoors

Published September 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

Opera hits the great outdoors Friday, Sept 30 as the Opera Company of Philadelphia, a Knight Arts grantee, celebrates the opening of its 2011-2012 season with an al fresco live simulcast of Georges Bizet's Carmen. "Opening Night Philadelphia" is the first ever simulcast at Independence Mall and will feature an...

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A “Tip” to the latest Frost exhibit

Published September 27, 2011 by Anne Tschida

What is a tipping point? The moment when we tilt to one side after being neutral? Or, maybe, when we decide something is not what it initially seemed? It's an exploration that is being asked at the FIU Frost Art Museum in the...

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Bruce Conner films at International House

Published September 27, 2011 by CSchwartz

This weekend, Sept. 23 and 24, International House Philadelphia hosted "Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage," two nights of films by Bruce Conner projected in their original 16 millimeter format. Conner, known for his use of black-and-white images and a pioneer in the use of found footage, is one of...

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World-class gallery breathes life into downtown Detroit

Published September 27, 2011 by vmiller

Last Saturday night at the opening of Russell Young's “American Envy III,” the premiere exhibition to take place at the brand new Long-Sharp | Curis Gallery for Modern + Contemporary Fine...

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Community School of the Arts launches new ticket access fund

Published September 26, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Andrea Stevenson, Community School of the Arts Community School of the Arts is preparing to launch the new Knight Artistic Engagement Fund, which will bring hundreds of low-income music and art students to professional concerts and exhibitions at no cost to the children or their families. Founded in 1969,...

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Minnesota Opera’s season opens with Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte”

Published September 26, 2011 by Susannah Schouweiler

This weekend Minnesota Opera, a Knight Arts grantee, opened its season with a charming version of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte.” Under the savvy direction of Theater Latte Da’s Artistic Director Peter Rothstein and maestro Christopher Franklin, this iteration of the opera, which first debuted in 1790 Vienna, feels at once...

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The Light Factory highlights local talent Mitchell Kearney

Published September 26, 2011 by carmella.jarvi

The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film is one of only four museums for photography and film in the country. Since 1972, The Light Factory, a Knight Arts grantee, has celebrated the power of image through photography and film with visionary programming and cutting-edge art. This fall’s exhibitions...

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Prize-winning poet Traci Brimhall to visit University of Wynwood

Published September 26, 2011 by Neil de la Flor

Traci Brimhall is the author of "Our Lady of the Ruins" (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Rookery" (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She will be in town next week, on Oct....

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A gallery with room for a view

Published September 23, 2011 by Anne Tschida

As art centers more and more in Wynwood and the Design District, sometimes an original art outlet and developmental space, the ArtCenter/South Florida, a Knight Arts grantee, can get lost in the crowd. It's always a nice reminder to see how...

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The Sphinx Virtuosi brings diversity on classical music to Miami

Published September 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Afa Sadykhly Dworkin, Sphinx Music On Wednesday night, by 7:00 pm, school buses surrounded the New World Symphony. One could barely help hold a smile back, looking at a sea of young faces, full of excitement and curiosity. As I followed them into the hall, I was faced with...

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Reports from the field: Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour

Published September 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

Dancer Silas Riener is currently on tour with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour, a Knight Arts granteee. Today he checks in with a report about the tour's recent stop in Mexico City. By Silas Riener, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Hello all, I'm writing from Berlin, where we are...

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Inside the Light Factory’s Luminaries: Artists Behind the Viewfinder

Published September 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

This fall, The Light Factory will launch a distinguished lecture series called Luminaries: Artists Behind the Viewfinder, which will recognize masters in the fields of photography and filmmaking. The series will not only celebrate the individual artist, but will use that artist to expose the Charlotte community to the aesthetic...