Libby Larsen. (Photo by Ann Marsden) It’s shaping up to be a season of premieres here: Music from Richard Danielpour and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich later this season, works from University of Miami student composers (Oct. 7) and six 10-minute chamber operas from UM faculty (Oct. 13) during the upcoming Festival Miami, and on Oct. 10 [...]
Pre-orders are currently available for Daniel Newman’s WWW, the first book in the [NAME] Publications series. [NAME] Publications is the brainchild of writer/artist/curator Gean Moreno, and its main function is to serve as the book equivalent of an alternative art space for Miami artists. Aside from the book’s dimensions, artists have free-reign to create [...]
UEG, Inc, the parent organization of the Upper Eastside Garden has had a busy summer of engaging the community, adding new designs and making plans. Director Peter Rozek checks in with a few updates… Free admission. The Upper Eastside Garden is open to the public the last Saturday of every month. Putt putt is complimentary and [...]
Scheduled to launch next spring, youngARTS/Miami will provide 17-18-year-old students with professional development opportunities in nine disciplines, master classes with world-renowned artists, the chance to perform and exhibit at professional venues and the possibility to receive grants and college scholarship assistance. Local Opa Locka student Ernest Felton Baker, a national youngARTS participant, is one such [...]
The South Florida Youth Symphony has been nurturing the classical music talents of local kids aged 5-21 for 45 consecutive seasons. Today musical & executive director Marjorie Gould Hahn passes along a favorite video clip… This video features the South Florida Youth Symphony students with guest artists…
Arts critic Janet Batet reviews Layden Rodriguez-Casanova’s latest exhibition, currently on display at the David Castillo Gallery through October 3. You might sleep, but you will never dream is the title of the Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova solo show currently opened at the David Castillo Gallery. The show explores
Mia Leonin searches for her fairy tale origins Ever feel like you’re a minor character in someone else’s story? That’s exactly how I felt reading Mia Leonin‘s new memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press, 2009). Because that’s exactly what I am, a bystander and at times an enabler in the author’s [...]
Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist, founder and director of ArtFormz Alternative, checks in with a summer update… To present Year 1 of “Giants in the City” was a hectic race to the finish line. But finish we did, and to our great surprise on time – on budget – and to loud sound of a big hoorah. [...]
Despite what feels like near-record heat & humidity, the calendar is marching resolutely into fall – October is two weeks away (crazy, we know). An event for your calendar – Lotus Project’s Fifth Annual Hope Blossoms Art Happening on Oct 16. Come 8pm on that Friday, over 30 internationally renowned performance artists will gather at [...]
When you think contemporary art, hardly do you ever think Hialeah. Well all that may change come Saturday with the relocated Twenty Twenty Projects’ first exhibition in its new Hialeah location. The show is curated by Twenty Twenty mainstay, Jay Hines and includes his work as well as work by a healthy mix of emerging [...]
