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    Basel has a big menu – take at least a bite

    Published December 6, 2014 by

    Author/artist Dave Eggers at Electric Works from San Francisco, Miami Project. All the hype surrounding Art Basel, all the emphasis on big ticket items and yachts and celebrity sightings (which are annoying, but this is a commercial fair week after all), does obscure what can be...
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    Art can cure construction headaches

    Published December 5, 2014 by

    St. Paul-Minneapolis artists worked with the Center for Hmong Art and Talent and transformed materials found along the construction of the new light-rail Green Line, such as origami and glass jars, into fashion for a performance. This article is cross-posted with permission from Next City.  Imagine a big infrastructure project coming to your main street. Imagine how a streetcar will bring new visitors to your city’s commercial strip, spending money and spreading the word about how cool your neighborhood is. Imagine how that new bus shelter will lure people out of their cars and onto public transit, or how that parklet in what was once a barren median will brighten the day of passersby. Now imagine the months of work it takes to get that project built. The road closures. The traffic. The scaffolding blocking your favorite coffee shop’s facade. A new initiative from a St. Paul-based arts organization can help to make sure those months aren’t miserable — and are in fact pretty enjoyable.
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    Akron’s Boiling Point, where the play’s the thing

    Published December 5, 2014 by

    Akron area actors, would-be actors, and play lovers have a good thing going. Wandering Aesthetics, a small but highly active theater company, has a play-reading series called Akron’s Boiling Point. Anyone interested – in either participating by reading a role or two, or simply listening to some exciting and contemporary...
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    The winners of ArtPop 2015 are…

    Published December 5, 2014 by

    The 2015 ArtPop artists. ArtPop 2015 is fast approaching, and the winners were announced last night at a swanky event at the soon to be Le Méridien Hotel. It was quite a crush as journalists, artists, Arts & Science Council staff and Adams Outdoor Advertising employees...
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    S. Florida arts groups receive share of new NEA funding

    Published December 4, 2014 by

    Jane Chu at the 2014 Knight Arts Challenge South Florida. Photo by Patrick Farrell. South Florida arts organizations received a share of more than $29 million handed out Tuesday by Jane Chu, director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), during a visit to Pérez Art Museum Miami. Twenty-seven organizations across Florida received $650,000.  The awards included many Knight Foundation grantees, such as: PAMM, which received $25,000 for a retrospective of the work of Catalan artist Antonio Tapies. Cannonball Miami, $15,000 to support artist residencies for artists and scholars. FUNDarte, $25,000 to support Out in the Tropics. 
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    Belaxis Buil at &Gallery

    Published December 4, 2014 by

    Last year, I interviewed artist Belaxis Buil. Her responses, like her explosive personality, overwhelmed my senses. She is the proverbial force of nature to be reckoned with, and that makes me happy. Her work challenges the viewer and makes him or her sit up and listen, even if it makes...
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    Taking a journey to the past with Inside|Out

    Published December 3, 2014 by

    By Roza Maille, Akron Art Museum The Akron Art Museum is beginning a new project, based on a successful effort in Detroit, that will bring its collection into the city’s neighborhoods. Below, Project Manager Roza Maille writes about the first installation. This item is cross-posted from the Akron Art Museum’s...
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    Taking a journey to the past with Inside|Out

    Published December 3, 2014 by

    Raphael Gleitsmann, “Winter Evening,” c. 1932, Oil on fiberboard, 39 x 44 in., Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Gift of Joseph M. Erdelac. Photo courtesy of the Akron Art Museum. The Akron Art Museum is beginning a new project, based on a successful effort in Detroit, that will bring its collection into the city’s neighborhoods. Below, Project Manager Roza Maille writes about the first installation. This item is cross-posted from the Akron Art Museum’s blog.   Picture this: You’re walking down the street and then suddenly…whoa!  Is that the painting I saw at the Akron Art Museum last week?  How did it get out here? Don’t worry.  It’s not the real painting, but a reproduction so realistic it’ll make you do a double take.  That is just one of the ways the Akron Art Museum will engage the community with its new public project, Inside|Out.