Opera returns to Lincoln Road this month as the Miami Lyric Opera presents Don Pasquale. The opera in three acts will be performed April 22 and 24 and feature all the good stuff – love, marriage, deceit and family drama aplenty. Raffaele Cardone, general and artistic director of the MLO, checks in with some insider […]

It takes bold moves to make it as a nonprofit arts organization in today’s economy. Learn from some of the best at Boldly Go, a one-day seminar being developed for South Florida nonprofit arts groups. Mark May 18 on the calendar – the agenda includes: How to use new technology for marketing How to develop […]

Fancy yourself an art aficionado? Put your eye to the test Saturday, April 17 at Locust Projects’ annual Spring Fling fundraising gala. Enjoy cocktails, conversation & some friendly competition as you bid on 8×10 works by established and emerging artists. The catch? Each piece is signed on the back and artists’ identities will remain secret […]

Congratulations to the team behind Sunday’s Best – the eight-minute film was just accepted to the Aspen shortsfest. Conceived and commissioned by the Knight Foundation, Sunday’s Best blends interviews, vintage and contemporary photography and local gospel music to document the Miami black community’s rich tradition of wearing elaborate hats to church. Sunday’s Best made its […]

Food meets the arts this week as local chef, restaurateur & culinary icon Michael Schwartz is celebrating the Knight Foundation’s Dennis Scholl with a special menu addition. Scholl, the Foundation’s Miami Program Director, was recently awarded the Big Heart Humanitarian Award in the Arts by the American Heart Association at its annual Miami Heart Ball […]

Art Center/South Florida recently debuted a new exhibit at its Lincoln Road gallery. Until March 28 Ritual and Process, a guide to sanity and survival in the soon-to-be present will explore & deconstruct our age of consumer capitalism. Generation Y Miami artists Orlando Estrada, Rosemarie Romero and Kacey Westall Keogh have combined their work to depict […]

Think the Knight Arts Challenge is only for established artists and aspiring adults? Think again and think younger – way younger. A first grade class from Seminole Elementary School recently got to spend an afternoon with the Wizard of Oz courtesy of the Challenge. WSVN channel 7 met up with the kids and Dennis Scholl, […]