Thanks to Knight funding, Levine Museum of the New South is working with MorrisDesign to create two travelling panel exhibits affiliated with COURAGE: The Carolina Story that Changed America. PARA TODOS LOS NINOS/Fighting Segregation before Brown v Board explores the important but little-known Mendez v Westminster case of 1946, in which California parents sued successfully […]
Article · December 2, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Biscayne Boulevard becomes a bit more beautiful this week as the first Miami Sculpture Biennale arrives in town. Hosted by Wynwood-based gallerist Gary Nader and curated by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, the selection of sculptures celebrates the “importance of art in our everyday lives.” The 50-piece selection ranges from medium to monumental and spans indoor and outdoor […]
Article · November 30, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Rachel Pastan, ICA Curators spend a lot of time traveling to where the art is. ICA’s curators make studio visits and go to galleries all over Philadelphia and in New York. This summer one went to San Francisco and Tel Aviv, another got a travel grant for Paris, and a third flew to Munich […]
Article · November 27, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Random Acts of Culture ™ are making quite a national impression. After surprising shoppers with a 650-person performance of Hallelujah in Philadelphia (the YouTube video has 5 million hits and counting), Knight partnered with the Florida Grand Opera and the Arsht Center to surprise shoppers at the Macy’s shoe department in Miami with six performances of “Toreador” […]
Article · November 24, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
The University of Buenos Aires’ Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas has announced the winners of the 2010 prestigious “Teatro del Mundo” (World’s Theatre) awards. The book Paradigmas recientes en las artes escénicas latinas y latinoamericanas / Current Trends in Latino and Latin American Performing Arts (Homenaje al Festival Internacional de Teatro Hispano de Miami / A […]
Article · November 23, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Random Acts of Culture ™ arrived with a bang in San Jose last week as Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale surprised audiences with spontaneous performances of Amazing Grace, Simple Gifts and Shenandoah.
Article · November 18, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
The Minnesota Opera closed its production of Rossini’s Cinderella on November 7, 2010 to great critical and popular acclaim. Romanian mezzo-soprano Roxana Constantinescu made a triumphant American debut to standing ovations and packed houses. Only 167 seats went unused for the run, with standing room tickets sold to those willing to spend three hours on […]
Article · November 18, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Thanks to a grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, is recruiting nationally renowned artists to elevate the Center’s visibility in the Charlotte community, nation and world. Foundation support helped the Center convene a national Curatorial Advisory Board. The board, composed of Andrea Barnwell […]
Article · November 18, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Alan Rapp, Managing Editor for New City Reader For the past six weeks, a weekly newsprint publication, the New City Reader, has been produced on the gallery floor of New York’s New Museum. One of several projects installed in the context of the exhibition, “The Last Newspaper,” the New City Reader takes on fundamental […]
Article · November 15, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Here in Minnesota we are busy preparing for November 16th, which is “Give to the Max Day.” During last year’s Give to the Max Day, more than 38,000 donors logged on to GiveMN (a new online fundraising platform initiated by the Minnesota Community Foundation.) The result: over $14 million for 3,434 Minnesota nonprofits, whose missions range from […]
Article · November 15, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Bechtler Staff Open less than a year, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, in Charlotte, North Carolina has garnered national and international attention. Though a small museum, the Bechtler possess a stellar collection of modern art created by major figures of 20th-century modernism. Making a private art collection public involves myriad projects. An arts […]
Article · November 15, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad