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    Yara Travieso’s “SET” list

    Published September 1, 2011 by

    I interviewed director, choreographer and co-founder of the Borscht Film Festival (a Knight Arts grantee) Yara Travieso last May when "SET," her latest work, premiered during the Metamoto Musician + Choreographer Forum at the New World Symphony. Travieso's work is sonic, visceral and rich. It is also unexpected. In this...
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    New and old at the Wright

    Published September 1, 2011 by

    By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History August was quite a month for The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, as we used it to bring attention to the breadth of African culture with both new and old traditions. I am not usually fazed...
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    McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes Susan Lee-Chun

    Published August 31, 2011 by

    By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to welcome the arrival of its newest Knight Artist-in-Residence, Susan Lee-Chun from Miami, Florida. Lee-Chun begins her residency on September 6, 2011 along with six other residents from across the country. Fascinated with the power...
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    Behind the scenes: The Brothers Size at GableStage

    Published August 31, 2011 by

    By Neal Hecker, GableStage It was a typical rain soaked afternoon, summer in Miami, as I stood, drying out in the empty theatre space at GableStage that would soon be transformed into a “mythical” Louisiana Bayou, courtesy of the imagination of Tarell Alvin McCraney. McCraney is a product of Miami,...
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    A Tribute to the sublime Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

    Published August 31, 2011 by

    By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Five years after Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s untimely death at 52, Harmonia Mundi releases a magnificent tribute to the lamented American mezzo-soprano. On two generous CDs, it’s a remarkable compilation of several recordings the singer made between 1989-1995 under conductor Nicholas McGegan...
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    Miami’s Seraphic Fire soars with Brahms’ German Requiem

    Published August 31, 2011 by

    By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer For the Miami ensemble’s second CD, Patrick Dupré Quigley, Seraphic Fire’s founder and artistic director, could have picked a “lighter,” easier work. Instead, he accepted the challenge of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Many will be surprised that this somber masterpiece comes...
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    La violencia as the new norm

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    Inside the 6th Street Container — a Knight Art Challenge finalist — in Little Havana is a little room. In fact, the Container, while elongated and appearing like a shipping container, is really a funky gallery with an alleyway entry. The exhibit...
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    The “Making and Meaning” of Mark Garry

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    Upon researching Dublin artist Mark Garry for this article, I was comforted to find that I am not the only individual who had a difficult time defining his work. The artist uses his gentle and delicate sculptures skillfully placed around Detroit’s Cave gallery to make viewers consider how to navigate...
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    Fourth Wall Salon at Philadelphia Museum of Art

    Published August 30, 2011 by

    This Friday, Sept. 2, Fourth Wall Arts will be hosting its 15th Salon from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There are a wide array of artists and performers making an appearance at this Salon event. From poets and sculptors to music, dance and magic tricks,...
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    Inkub8 open call for artists

    Published August 29, 2011 by

    It's that time of year again, when the creative minds and open arms at Inkub8 unlock their doors for Miami-based artists during the 2011- 2012 Inkub8r Open-Studio Series. This year, like every year, the incubator series accepts applications from performance-based artists and filmmakers whose work is hybrid, experimental, sound, physical(theatre)...
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    Set your DVR: PBS Fall Arts Festival

    Published August 26, 2011 by

    Arts television kicks up a notch this October as PBS launches its nine-part PBS Arts Fall Festival. Sponsored by Knight Foundation, the Fall Festival explores the art scenes in the Blue Ridge Mountain, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Look for full-length performances, artist...