By Angelica Arbelaez, Locust Projects Locust Projects will produce a major new installation by New York-based artist Daniel Arsham in his hometown, Miami. For the installation, entitled Welcome to the Future, Arsham transforms the gallery into an excavation site, digging a trench in the gallery’s floor that holds thousands of calcified artifacts—a muted cacophony of […]
Article · November 9, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Christina Catanese, Director of Environmental Art, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education The action of going forward or onward in space or time. A method of doing or producing something. A continuous series of actions meant to accomplish some result. A movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage. Advancement, growth, or […]
Article · November 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Ann Mintz, Reading Terminal Market An exciting mixed bag of performances took place at Reading Terminal Market during October including a popup dance performance, the winner of Philadelphia Magazine’s award for “Best of Philly” street singer, the 30th anniversary celebration of the longest running free jazz performance series in town, and a 10 piece […]
Article · November 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Steven S. Klotz, Executive Director, Embrace Music Foundation The musical journey known as Rhythms of Africa / Music Around the World has found its way back to Miramar, where 50 children from Somerset Academy, all musical novices, embrace the intricacies of African-based rhythms and the varying cultures, customs, and languages of pre-Diaspora populations that […]
Article · November 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By J.C. Pérez-Duthie, Miami-based freelance writer To dance. Uri Sands has carried that desire deep within his heart since he was a kid in South Miami-Dade. As he grew up, he transformed the great passion of his youth into a way of life. Like so many other burgeoning artists from South Florida looking for opportunities, […]
Article · November 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Michelle Weinberg, Art and Culture Center Beginning Wednesday, Nov. 5, Los Angeles-based artist/DJ/record collector Dave Mullerwill be in residence for 13 days at the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood’s main gallery to create the colorful, mixed-media installation, Rock ’n’ Old, which incorporates site-specific murals, recorded music, and a new painting based on a […]
Article · November 4, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
The Opa-locka Community Development Corporation (OLCDC) presents the 3rd Annual Art of Transformation (AOT) from Nov. 12 to Dec. 14, 2014. For the first time this annual celebration of the revitalization plan of Opa-locka will be a countywide series of arts events – including performance and visual art, an interactive workshop, exhibit, and Art, Food […]
Article · November 3, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Stephen Sokolouski, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Leopold, the host of next week’s SPCO Family Concert on November 15 at the Ordway Music Theater, is a leopard obsessed with the movie Frozen. He’ll be joined by a talking tree named Tree to recount the tale of The Great Chipmunk Picnic, taking our young audience members on a journey through […]
Article · November 3, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Joann Yarrow, director of Teatro Promoteo Teatro Prometeo is getting ready to present one of the most exciting international children’s theatre festivals in Miami this fall during the Miami Book Fair International! Companies arriving from from Italy, Colombia, Chile and Argentina are joining three amazing Miami-based groups who have partnered with other local arts […]
Article · November 3, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Rhett Del Campo, managing director of Seraphic Fire cross-pol·li·na·tion noun: 2. Influence or inspiration between or among diverse elements I stood at a panoramic wall of windows in the new and stunning Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). My gaze alternated between thought-provoking works of art and the colorful, trance-inducing Miami skyline as it reflected […]
Article · November 3, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Emily Bromberg, MCB corps de ballet dancer One of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters, Juliet, is a young girl who believes in eternal love, so much so that she trades her life for it. She is a girl we all know well, but what does it mean to a ballet dancer to get to become […]
Article · October 30, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad