By Akron Art Museum Staff Creating interesting material to accompany the art object records for the Akron Art Museum’s online collection is one of the most inspiring parts of our project. Since the curatorial staff had already been doing an excellent job keeping basic digital records of the museum’s permanent collection before the Knight Foundation’s [...]
It’s progress when cool and quality galleries are opened by apprentices of established ones. Such is the case with Gallery Diet, whose owner and director, Nina Johnson, was assistant director at Bernice Steinbaum. The latest entry: The Christopher Miro Gallery, unveiled this fall
The Random Acts of Culture™ continue to roll along in Charlotte! We had performances in two more venues this month. On Monday, October 18, we took a string quartet from the Charlotte Symphony and two very talented tango artists to concourses D and E at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Using lessons from our first airport [...]
Are you ready to rock for a great cause? Then set your calendar for Saturday, Nov. 20. That’s when Bayfront Park hosts the inaugural Bayside Rocks Music And Arts Festival celebrating multicultural unity and hope with an eclectic line up of international music featuring
Tonight and tomorrow (Oct. 27 and 28) mark the first two concerts in Miami to be sponsored by the new Florida International University chapter of the American Liszt Society, which is dedicated to advancing knowledge about Franz Liszt, the great Hungarian pianist and composer. The bicentenary of Liszt’s birth in 1811 falls next year, and [...]
Writing about the visual arts can be a suspect exercise — how can you convey in words what is being said with image? When trying to describe abstract painting, the ground gets even shakier. But here’s an attempt, about the exhibit up at the Center for Visual Communication, “Abstract Miami.”
Miami-based visual artist Jillian Mayer has hit it big. Her short film Scenic Jogging is being showcased in YouTube Play: A Creative Video Biennial, a special exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which will also be seen at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice. Mayer’s Scenic Jogging was selected as one [...]
Knight Foundation donated $77,000 to six Macon organizations last week as part of its national Arts grants. Today Macon.com reports on the mission & impact of the donation at large as well as one specific grant project, From Macon.com: “In Macon, Knight Foundation works to help create a sense of place and belonging through initiatives [...]
By Susan Patterson, Knight Charlotte Program Director The Charlotte Symphony hit a home run with its first Knight Sounds concert. You could tell as soon as the audience started pouring out of Knight Theater. I’d waited too late to get tickets to the sold-out concert, so decided to go downtown and take a look at Jupiter through the Amateur [...]
Nicolas Espinosa and Sean Wouters are the binary stars who power the Deaf Poets, a two man garage blues and rock band from Miami Beach that formed about a year ago. The duo met in elementary school but their music is anything but elementary. It’s passionate, raw, complex
