Miami journalist & art critic Janet Batet reviews Vickie Pierre’s new exhibition at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. An intimate atmosphere, a kind of sorrow deeply rooted in the identity, order, sensuality and feminine psychology, surrounds Vickie Pierre’s oeuvre. Her delicate paintings evoke simple organic forms… where the sinuosity and the pastel-like palette accentuate the traditional […]

Pam Dearden, executive director of the Gold Coast Jazz Society, reports in with a look at the Gold Coast Jazz Society’s past year… “Last year was an exciting year for Gold Coast Jazz with the implementation of our newest outreach program, First Friday Jazz Jams. The Jams were held from January through June in the […]

Matthew Andress of Miami Dade’s Art in Public Places Program updates us on the department’s work since receiving a $30,000 grant in 2008… “No, you did not read the headline wrong. This entry is not about a funny beginning. This entry expounds a cone riddled beginning. You see, since winning the Knight Arts Challenge award […]

[NAME] Publications founder Gean Moreno updates us on his summer work… Over the summer, [NAME] Publications was invited to show its collection of multiples at Galerie Nouvelle Images in the Hague, The Netherlands. Constructed in 1492, the gallery is a strange and amazing building. It has gleaming black floors, interior gardens, odd dungeon-basement doors, walls […]

The New World School of the Arts was awarded $90,000 as a 2008 Knight Arts Challenge winner to create ArtSeen, a Wynwood studio space for seniors working on their final projects. Today, Christina Gast updates us on the project… A new academic year has begun, and at New World School of the Arts’ Artseen studios and […]

Scott Murray founded Miami’s Twenty Twenty Projects in 2006 as an alternative exhibition space designed to fuel the careers of local emerging artists working outside the traditional gallery system. In 2008, he was awarded $20,000 by the Knight Arts Challenge to provide a free display space for local artists at one of Miami’s December art fairs.  […]

Chana Sheldon, director of Locust Projects, reports on last weekend’s TM Sisters performance: “In their most ambitious performance to date, the TM Sisters performed an energetic production that included their personal athletic skills in synchronized swimming and roller-skating. There were moments of clashing and combination of cultures, animated video projections, and vivid Miami spirit… The […]

The Miami City Ballet runs a world-renowned intensive dance school throughout the year. Today, Caroline Murray reviews its recently completed summer session, which attracted over 200 students from around the world… “Miami City Ballet School’s Summer Intensive Program was an unqualified success this year. More than 200 students from around the world came to Miami […]

Print advertising and radio may seem unlikely compatriots. Jason Hughes of Classical Music South Florida (89.7 FM) argues otherwise in this exploration of the station’s most “It’s Alive” advertising campaign… “Classical South Florida 89.7 FM (101.9 FM in the Palm Beaches) welcomed another addition to our “it’s alive” print campaign.  Keeping in the spirit of […]