By Priscilla Gomez, HistoryMiami In an effort to promote the arts and raise funds for our educational programs, HistoryMiami has created a unique happy hour that is quickly becoming the talk of the town. Each Wine Down Wednesday offers the community the opportunity to explore our museum galleries free of charge and enjoy live entertainment […]
Article · July 6, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mahler’s birth and his 45-year collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra, composer-conductor Pierre Boulez directed a Mahler-only concert at Ohio’s Severance Hall. The DVD was released this summer, today classical music writer Sebastian Spreng offers his thoughts on the work… By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer It […]
Article · July 6, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Chris Harrington, Detroit Jazz Festival With less than two months until the 32nd annual Detroit Jazz Festival, we’re hard at work on the Jazz Planet. This year the Planet will stream live performances, backstage & after-hours interviews and the first ever live video stream of the infamous Downbeat Blindfold Test. The Blindfold Test challenges […]
Article · July 6, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Matthew Jaber Stiffler, PhD, Arab American National Museum In order to advance the Arab American National Museum’s (AANM) project working with Arab and Muslim communities in Michigan, the AANM’s researcher, Matthew Jaber Stiffler, spent two days in the Grand Rapids/Holland area meeting with Arab American community leaders, connecting with cultural organizations, and celebrating diversity […]
Article · July 6, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Zabel, Community Supported Art Saint Paul Last week we held the first pick-up event of our third season of CSA: Community Supported Art. It’s hard to believe all that has happened since we started this program a little over a year ago. In just one year we’ve paired 200 shareholders with 36 artists and […]
Article · July 6, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Dancer Silas Riener is currently on tour with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour, a Knight Arts granteee. Today he checks in with his first (of several) reports from the field. I begin here a series of missives from the last six months of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Legacy Tour. I will do […]
Article · June 30, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Tiffany Du, Arts & Science Council Thanks to a Cultural Innovation grant from Knight Foundation and the Arts & Science Council, the Carolina Actor’s Studio Theatre (CAST) can now call a spacious facility equipped with efficient lighting, expanded seating and innovative tools its new home. From 2003 until recently, CAST’s home was a building on Clement […]
Article · June 30, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
“Mujeres de Shakespeare” (Shakespeare’s Women), written and directed by Neher Jacqueline Briceño, opens July 8 during Teatro Avante’sXXVI International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which runs from July 7 through 24. According to Briceño, Mujeres de Shakespeare is inspired by and a tribute to Shakespeare’smost beloved female characters. In this interview, Briceño talks about Mujeres and what work […]
Article · June 30, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Wing Young, Wing Young Huie Photography Gallery The University Avenue Project (UAP), a six-mile exhibition of photographs taken by me and produced by Public Art Saint Paul, officially ended Halloween night 2010, but the ripple effects continue. In December, I traveled to Beijing, China for the opening of an 80-piece traveling retrospective reflecting my […]
Article · June 29, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Locust Projects‘ The LAB (Locust Arts Builders) is officially under way! Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters. Thirteen South Florida high schools students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks. Stop by Locust Projects Monday – Friday 9am-1pm to meet this year’s […]
Article · June 29, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Candice Hardie, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts Introducing new audiences to classical music, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts will bring music fans of all generations together this season with “Cross-Over Classical.” Thanks to support from the Knight Arts Challenge, these performances will feature classic rock repertoire with full orchestra, larger-than-life […]
Article · June 29, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad