Today’s ipod generation has lost out on at least this: Growing up with album covers that sometimes were as awesome as the tunes packaged within. In a crazy cool idea, CCEMiami (The Spanish Cultural Centre) is celebrating Latin album art, with an exhibit of 500 historic and contemporary covers and a month-long series of concerts [...]
These are troubling times for arts organizations. On May 18, the Arsht Center & the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation partnered to tackle the issue head-on in a one-day seminar Boldly Go. Arsht Center membership director Esther Park reports from the field…
2008 and 2009 KAC winner The Miami City Ballet was awarded grant money to bring a live orchestra to the stage at its performances. Today, MCB principal dancer Jennifer Kronenberg shares her excitement about the project…
Augusto Soledade likes to share the spotlight. His Brazz Dance Theater frequently shares the bill — as in last year’s evening with Letty Bassart. This holiday weekend, Soledade is bringing the Moving Current Dance Collective from Tampa for a shared slate of performance. Earlier this week, Soldade filled Knight Arts in on why he believes [...]
2008 KAC winner Gold Coast Jazz Society recently hit the big time as one of their regular First Friday Jazz Jams performers, Dillard High School student Partrick Bartley, took the stage at the 2010 Grammy Awards afterparty. Board member and freelance journalist Buzz Lamb reports on the event…
Anna Litvinenko. Time was when a cello soloist, either in recital or in front of an orchestra, was a comparative rarity; at least, it was that way when I was much younger. But these days, the cello has really come into its own as an instrument on which it’s possible to make a big career, [...]
Contemporary art — whether expressed in painting, sculpture, installation, video — could be summed up this way: what you see is not always what you think you do. Through the skillful manipulation of materials and perception, art works these days can change in meaning and even
Sometimes it’s nice to see your surroundings through new eyes. Last Friday at Inkub8, I had the pleasure of sitting next to a Miami native who has been away from home for a while. When I met Krista Miranda last summer in Zagreb, Croatia at the Performance Studies International conference, she asked me if there [...]
Dust off your portable radio and head over to Miami Beach’s Botanical Garden on Sunday to experience some serious sound art, and get your radio prepped for hurricane season, all in one. Subtropics.org, Miami’s long-lasting experimental music and sound art organization, is presenting “Emergency Radio Battery-Check,” in collaboration with Frozen Music and Talking Head Transmitters, [...]
When the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater returns to the Arsht Center this weekend, the revered company will be celebrating Judith Jamison’s 20th anniversary as artistic director. While duly paying homage to Jamison’s accomplishments, Miamians also are thrilled by the naming of a native son as her successor: Liberty City’s own Robert Battle. Battle began choreographing [...]
