By Akron Art Museum Staff The Akron Art Museum has a bestseller: Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, co-published by the museum and Damiani, an Italian publisher. The book, produced for an exhibition organized by the museum last summer, is in its third printing just 8 months after its release. It was just named one […]
Article · December 14, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Winners of the 2010 DawnTown architecture competition, which invited innovative designs for a seaplane terminal on an island in downtown Miami, have been announced. The award ceremony featured remarks by world-famous architects Chad Oppenheim and Terry Riley. Here’s a bit of info about the winners and their submissions 1st Prize: Team “CA Landscape,” including Trevor […]
Article · December 14, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jessie Raynor, AAAA Director Although construction on our Knight Foundation-funded project is a month behind schedule due to HVAC contractors, Summit Artspace is still able to present its first public event on our second floor, which is currently being renovated for performance space and arts offices. On New Year’s Eve, as part of the […]
Article · December 13, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
The Harvey B. Gantt Center launched a free lecture series, Conversations @ Gantt, with a two-hour discussion led by fine art consultant, B. E. Noel on November 18, 2010. Noel – as she is known throughout the arts community – ran her namesake gallery in Charlotte for nearly 20 years before moving to New York […]
Article · December 13, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
United States Artists is closing out 2010 with big news: the group is giving out 50 USA fellowships to artists, which involves a $50,000 unrestricted grant to further their work. The fellows, selected for the impact and caliber of their art, hail from 18 states and Puerto Rico, range in age from 32 to 71 […]
Article · December 8, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Holiday travel kicked up a notch this year as Random Acts of Culture ™ arrived at Miami International Airport. On Monday, November 22 (Thanksgiving week), five performers from the Miami Music Project surprised travelers with spontaneous performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Maria and America from West Side Story. MMP performed eight separate Random Acts of Culture […]
Article · December 7, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Rebecca King, Corps de Ballet It is Miami City Ballet’s 25th anniversary and what better way to start this season than by bringing the orchestra back! If you have attended any of our performances so far this season, you have experienced the delight of Opus One Orchestra. However, there has been a change in […]
Article · December 5, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Akron Art Museum Staff In our update last month we discussed generating new digital material to accompany art objects in the Akron Art Museum’s collection. We’ve also been using new technology to digitize older analog material from our archives. The Akron Art Museum has been adding new works to the collection for 87 years, […]
Article · December 5, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
The 2010 Knight Arts Challenge has officially ended and 27 winners are hard at work celebrating and infusing $3.8 million into the local arts scene. The Borscht Film Festival has earned $150,000 of the total to help “shape Miami’s cinematic identity” by creating and showcasing original films that tell unique local stories. The Knight-funded community […]
Article · December 4, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
ASC is hard at work planning our ninth Random Act of Culture (RAC). Though the location will remain a closely guarded secret until that date, the upcoming RAC will feature two musicians from the Charlotte Symphony. This is our second RAC with symphony musicians and their third performance for the initiative. We’re looking forward to […]
Article · December 2, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Welcome to a new day in the Miami art scene. The Miami Art Museum (MAM) officially broke ground on its new building in Museum Park this week (Nov 30). The building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013 and MAM’s chairman of the board of trustees, Aaron […]
Article · December 2, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad