By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer A catastrophe. That’s how Alex Ross described the untimely death of Patrice Chéreau. The critic’s description could not have been more accurate. A screen and stage actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer and magisterial stage director. Chéreau was perhaps the last in a tradition that connects Jean Louis Barrault, […]
Article · October 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By David Devan, Opera Philadelphia On Saturday, September 28, nearly 4,000 attendees filled the lawn in front of Independence Mall to see the HD broadcast of our season opening production of Verdi’s Nabucco, the result of record-breaking registration and attendance numbers that confirmed the increasing public demand for our civic offering. Our guests for the […]
Article · October 8, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, MACLA At MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana), we see youth as cultural innovators on their own terms. They are the next generation and the voice of the future. We have an awesome responsibility to construct a safe space for them to gather and create. Perhaps most importantly, we offer […]
Article · October 5, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), proudly announces the 2014 AIRIE Fellows. This year, AIRIE boasts a creative group of local, national and international artists across several disciplines including painters, installation artists, new media artists, photographers, and writers, who will live and work in the Everglades for a […]
Article · October 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Charo Oquet, Edge Zones This year local performance artists participated in large numbers in the second annual Miami Performance International Festival from June 1– 30, 2013, M/P ’13 thanks to the support of a newly received John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant to support their production cost. More than 30 artists from Miami […]
Article · October 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Existence -as a conscious coexistence and survival- implies a constant redefinition of our condition as a subject amidst the human flow in which we imbricate or not. And this dilemma looms from the overwhelming pariah status that, one way or another, marks us every day. Existence, therefore involves a […]
Article · October 4, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Ranjana Warier is a 2012 winner of Knight Arts Challenge Miami. Below, she writes about her project, which showcases classical Indian dance through adaptations of Western fairy tales. By Ranjana Warier How would you describe cultural fusion in a word? “Magical” and “exotic” were among the adjectives used by those who attended the recent staging […]
Article · October 3, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Steven S. Klotz, Embrace Music Foundation The musical journey known as Rhythms of Africa / Music Around the World achieves its destination when 35 children, all musical novices, perform at Bailey Hall on the Davie campus of Broward College, Sunday afternoon, October 27th. A capacity crowd is anticipated. This iteration of the program features […]
Article · October 3, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Emily Parkinson, Miami City Ballet Miami City Ballet’s opening night of the 2013-2014 Season is just weeks away! Over the years, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been instrumental in helping the ballet bring new works to the stage, keep the magic of the orchestra alive at performances, and create unique […]
Article · October 1, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Brandon Nixon, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture As The Kinsey Collection comes to a close at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, all talk is centered on the new exhibitions slated for the fall. Question Bridge: Black Males — one of three new exhibits — will […]
Article · October 1, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Shearwater Pottery from the Hogan Collection Shearwater Pottery from the Hogan Collection Shearwater Pottery from the Hogan Collection In conjunction with the exhibition Shearwater: The Christopher and Kristen Hogan Collection at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Dr. Hogan gave a presentation and slide show about the history […]
Article · September 30, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad