Last week, WPBT ran as a featured presentation during its pledge drive a film of the Christmas 1989 performance of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, played in what was then East Berlin, in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. This was one of Leonard Bernstein’s last [...]
Congratulations to Roselaure Mimi, who last Saturday was chosen by Jamaican-born New York-based artist, Dave McKenzie as the winner of a dinner date with the artist, all part of his interactive raffle piece titled “It’s a Date.” Anyone who’s been to MOCA’s summer long Convention exhibition, has probably noticed the unsuspecting clear plastic ballot box, [...]
Kathleen Carignan, executive director of LegalArt, reflects on Miami’s art in the public realm… “It was crowded and warm—this was a Miami summer afternoon after all–but everyone was excited to be at Gallery Diet for Brandi Reddick’s SeminArt on Art in the Public Realm. She showed examples of past work, walked the audience through [...]
The actors do not even get across the threshold into the post-premiere cocktail party before they are ambushed by an ebullient fan. “You were like Faust!” a literary type tells Greg Weiner, who plays mid-level movie exec Charlie Fox. “Especially with your little red handkerchief,” she adds, in a nod to costume designer Ellis Tillman’s [...]
Sometimes the most commonly overlooked object(s) can make the most beautiful sculptures. On 8 August, at Praxis-International Maria Ines Escobar created a field of sculptures from some commonly overlooked object(s). So many people around the world lace up their shoes and head out the door. Obviously shoelaces can be part of one’s stylistic presence with [...]
Rising up with Jumbo Ras and Prince Javed of Higher Trod A few years back, I asked dancehall star Beenie Man how a small island like Jamaica could harbor so many of the world’s musical treasures. His answer: “It’s magic!” Maybe. But a trailer for the documentary Rise Up reveals another secret: “There is a [...]
Chamber choir Seraphic Fire has been making local & national headlines since its 2002 debut. Awarded a Knight Arts grant in 2007, the choir debuted its Firebird chamber orchestra in 2008. As the orchestra wraps up its inaugural summer concert series, Seraphic Fire artistic and press associate Kenneth Merrill previews the orchestra’s final program – a [...]
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Palestrina presents a missal to Pope Julius III. I’ve been spending some time looking at the upcoming classical music season for 2009-10, and despite the loss in February of the Concert Association of Florida, it’s looking rather good. Some of that is because the organizations that are fiscally the strongest — the New World Symphony [...]
The second rotation of Miami Art Museum’s Recent Acquisitions exhibition opened to the public, Thursday, July 16, in conjunction with JAM@MAM, the Museum’s monthly happy hour with an artful twist. The exhibition will remain up until October 11, 2009 so you still have plenty of time to view it. This second rotation of works underscores [...]
I guess the best excuse I can give for not catching Mad Cat’s Viva Bourgeois earlier in its run was that I was in Paris. While I was away, all the other critics raved, rightly, about this inspired adaptation of Moliere‘s classic, The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670). There is much to like about the ensemble, the [...]
