A poster for this year’s Vintage Charlotte Winter Market. Vintage Charlotte is back with their Winter Market just in time for that pesky holiday shopping. Featuring locally handmade goods and unique vintage finds, this is the perfect event to fulfill that shopping list while supporting local artists, craftspeople and retailers. The Winter Market will be […]

Actors Finn and Blamy in Theatre Charlotte’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The Queen’s City community theater, Theatre Charlotte, has succeeded again in presenting a stirring production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Harper Lee’s novel is one of the most popular coming-of-age stories in Southern literature, and therefore any adaptation–whether for the stage or screen–has much […]

Art fairs have exploded in recent decades; they attract some 70,000 artists, dealers, collectors, enthusiasts, curators and glitterati per show. Miami in particular has become a key hub as the global art world gathers there in December for Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Miami. Nick Korniloff, Show Director and Executive Vice President of Art […]

Alson Skinner Clark (American, 1876-1949). In the Lock, Miraflores, 1913, oil on canvas. Private Collection, Princeton, New Jersey. The Mint Museum reflects on the building of the Panama Canal, its global impact and remarkable history through art in this the centennial year of the canal’s opening with the exhibition: “Connecting the World: The Panama Canal […]

“The Merry Wives” by UNC Charlotte’s Department of Theatre. Shakespeare’s hilarious and witty satire, “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” gets a new twist in an updated staging by the UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre this coming weekend, October 30 through November 2. This play was adapted by dramaturg Dr. Andrew Hartley, Robinson Distinguished Professor of […]

The Light Factory, organizer of “Moment Mile.” On November 1, 2014 at 6:15 p.m. in Uptown Charlotte, a groundbreaking photograph will be taken. One hundred and fifty photographers will gather on Tryon Street and line up every 36 feet to take simultaneous photos that will capture both sides of the street in one unique panorama […]

“Looking Forward/Looking Back” by Nancy O’Neill at the Levine Museum. Transportation – it moves us forward toward some destination, some goal, or maybe someone. We hear this word, and we think about the future and what is ahead. Rarely do we hear this word and think about what gets left behind or the past. But […]

If the rainy weather kept you at home this weekend, then you missed Charlotte Ballet’s dramatic re-envisioning of “Dangerous Liaisons.” This is the second production of Sasha Janes’ choreography, which premiered in 2012, and brings the 1782 French novel “Les liaisons dangereuses” to contemporary ballet. This passionate tale of greed and lust was accompanied by […]

Jim Leatherer, with one leg, marches on crutches to complete the entire journey from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Photo by Spider Martin “Destination Freedom: Civil Rights Struggles Then and Now,” a commemorative project of the Levine Museum of the New South, continues with an exhibition of photographs by Spider Martin. The exhibition, “Selma to […]

“British Invasion” at the Bechtler Museum. The phrase “British invasion” has many connotations. For most of us, it alludes to the transfer of British pop and rock bands like The Beatles to America. But not so long ago, it might have conjured up thoughts of war, the British Empire and colonial power, or conversely the […]

“Warm Glass” by 2014 ArtPop artist Carmella Jarvi. Have you noticed the amazing artworks on billboards in and around the Queen City? Are you an artist interested in getting your work more exposure? If so, then you need to learn more about the exciting partnership between Adams Outdoor Advertising and the Arts and Science Council: […]