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    Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art: Wine, Women & Song

    Published August 17, 2011 by

    By Holly Zinner, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art On Saturday, August 13, over 200 people came to the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art to celebrate Mississippi Women Artists at the museum's Wine, Women & Song event. The Museum hosted 11 female artists from the great State of Mississippi who gave demonstrations of...
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    A “gathering of gypsies” in Lowertown

    Published August 17, 2011 by

    One of the things I love best about my job is that, years and years into covering the arts beat around here, I still regularly get the delightful surprise of stumbling onto new-to-me cultural enclaves. For example, I’ve long favored the arts-friendly Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar for lunch...
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    Let’s cross that bridge

    Published August 16, 2011 by

    There is an unmistakable quality that often emerges from exhibitions of Cuban artists; serious, intellectual, with a mastery of craft that can be missing from those educated in looser educational systems. Such is the case with the excellent solo show that just...
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    Chiptunes at home in Philly

    Published August 16, 2011 by

    Philadelphia has a phenomenon — some may say epidemic — of electronic music sweeping the city. From Studio 34 on 45th and Baltimore Avenue, blips and beeps can be heard echoing at street level before even glimpsing the psychedelic blast of pixels inside. For anyone familiar with the 8-bit scene,...
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    Art, parks and bikes

    Published August 16, 2011 by

    With Detroit under the national spotlight as a hub for creativity, many people are chomping at the bit to see what the buzz is all about. As Forward Arts rounded out its first year as an organization, it added Art Ride to its repertoire of projects that use art to...
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    The Mint Museum does it again

    Published August 15, 2011 by

    The Mint Museum may have a shiny new uptown location in the Levine Center for the Arts campus on South Tryon Street, but the original Mint Museum on Randolph Road has not been forgotten. Yesterday was a monumental testimony to that with the unveiling of the new Tetsunori Kawana ikebana...
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    The Bakehouse is back

    Published August 12, 2011 by

    The Bakehouse Art Complex has been doing a good job lately of staying on the art map, with new shows and lectures and events — appropriate timing as it is the nonprofit Bakehouse Art Complex's 25th anniversary. The...
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    The secret to “Stone Soup”

    Published August 12, 2011 by

    "Stone Soup" is an exhibition of varied tastes at Work Detroit, a gallery in Midtown Detroit facilitated and operated by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. "Stone Soup" is a folk story about a group of strangers that convince a town to cook with them a feast...
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    Documentary photos at Center for Emerging Visual Artists

    Published August 11, 2011 by

    The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) has an upcoming documentary photography show entitled "Displaced." Two photographers are showcased in this exhibition: Noah Addis and Bohyun Yoon. The opening will be on Thursday, Aug. 25 from 5 to 7 p.m. and will also feature a reception and talks by the...
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    Recess Fest #3: Four days of music

    Published August 11, 2011 by

    Some may still think Charlotteans have limited options when it comes to music, but one just has to dig a little deeper. In a city our size, with all its funky cultural pockets, we do have a wide variety of live musical offerings. Recess Fest #3 gives the Queen City...
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    Tango Ocho on Calle Ocho

    Published August 11, 2011 by

    I wanted to do something different last weekend, so I did. I ventured out to Tango Ocho, a traditional Milonga, or tango event, that was once banned by the military government in Argentina. Held every Friday night on the second floor of a nondescript building, Tango Ocho thrives in a...