Mario Botta at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art’s “Architecture and Memory” opening. The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art occupies a prominent space at the Levine Center for the Arts, and has become a noted façade within the Charlotte cityscape. Ever wonder how it was built? Who designed it? Or what went into its construction? […]

Knight Sounds. Carnivale comes to the Queen City with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” and an excerpt from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” on May 9th at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Theater. Tickets are $29 and include a free drink. A shortened matinee version will be performed at 12 p.m. […]

Party in the Park. At the end of last summer Mecklenburg County’s Park and Recreation department opened Romare Bearden Park at 300 South Church Street in Uptown Charlotte in homage to Charlotte-born artist, Romare Bearden. Known for his textured collages and modernist blending of abstraction and representation, Bearden often portrayed nostalgic recollections of the rural […]

Aurora Robson “Hesperus” 2011, part of “Stayin’ Alive” at the McColl Center. Get ready to “party like its 1999” at the McColl Center for Visual Art this Saturday, May 3rd from 7-10 p.m. as the McColl Center throws its annual Studio Party. The McColl Center’s gala is unlike any other in town, featuring one of […]

After 44 years, the North Carolina Dance Theatre sheds its cumbersome name in lieu of a more concise and appropriate appellation: Charlotte Ballet! Announced at the opening of Dwight Rhoden’s “Othello” on April 24th, the change in name was met with raucous cheers and applause. Officially, the new name went into effect on April 27, […]

NCDT’s 2009 production of “Othello.” Photography by Peter Zay Tonight the North Carolina Dance Theatre revives a dramatic ballet from its repertoire: Dwight Rhoden’s adaptation of “Othello.” Full of deception, desire and tragedy, “Othello” has not been performed by NCDT since 2009. Done in a musical theater style with original music by David Rozenblatt and […]

Photograph of Milton Esterow courtesy Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Milton Esterow, ARTnews editor and publisher, will speak at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art on April 24th at 7 p.m. Esterow will discuss “How to Look at Art without Feeling Inferior,” sharing his ample knowledge and experience with the art world garnered over 60 years as an […]

Blumenthal Performing Arts brings renowned pianist-composer and 20-time Grammy winner Chick Corea to the Queen City. Corea will perform April 19th at 8 p.m. in the Knight Theater at the Levine Center for the Arts. Playing with musical greats the likes of Sarah Vaughn, Blue Mitchell and Miles Davis, Corea established himself early on as […]

“Spring Awakening” at UNC Charlotte. Photograph by Gordon Olson This past weekend UNC-Charlotte theatre students tackled a difficult play both in content and technical ability with finesse and talent. The play, “Spring Awakening” a musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 controversial “Frűlings Erwachen,” is an expressionist portrait of teenage sexuality amidst bourgeois repression of late […]

Dessau, das Bauhausgebäude, 02/09/2009. The Bauhaus influence has reached almost all of us in our material worlds, whether it is the streamlined, functionality of a chair or the steel-frame construction of a building. The documentary Bauhaus: Model and Myth (103 minutes, German and English with English subtitles) will be screened at the Bechtler Museum of […]

David Russell, Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin. In the Anne R. Belk Theater of Robinson Hall, J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 and 6 will be performed at UNC Charlotte as part of the University’s Faculty and Friends Concert Series. On Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m., Department of Music faculty David Russell, […]