By Aaron Fiedler, Arts & Science Council Imagine thousands of people waiting for a convention to kick off when, from up above, an opera singer starts belting out an aria. This happened to a lot of very surprised people at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference in Charlotte this past month. Opera Carolina was [...]
O, Miami, with the support of the Knight Foundation, brings poet, essayist, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Anne Carson to the Moore Building in Miami’s Design District where she’ll perform two dance collaborations—Nox & Stacks—with Merce Cunningham Dance Company members
One of the first impressions that jump out when looking around at the group show “spillage: traces, evidence and presence” is the lack of color — no bright primaries, no tropical hues, despite the origins of the artists at the Carol Jazzar garage gallery, from the South, the Caribbean, and Ecuador. No, this is a [...]
Locust Projects announces an open call to South Florida high school students for a chance to participate in a collaborative exhibition at the organization’s 2,700 square foot exhibition space in Miami’s Design District. In furtherance of the organization’s thirteen-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the second year, Locust [...]
Teens and parents, get ready for an amazing week with Sunni Patterson. The fire-breathing New Orleans based performer and award-winning poet will take part in Tigertail’s WordSpeak, (March 28 – April 1, 2011) an ongoing spoken word project for South Florida teens that includes workshops, slams and open mike performances. WordSpeak provides Miami teens
If you haven’t visited the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art since it opened in the Sugar Hill Arts District last October, now’s an excellent time. The splendid, 16,000 square foot facility is currently hosting its first curated show, New Departures and Transitions:
On Thursday, February 3, the Miami Music Project’s brass quintet surprised attendees at the Florida Philanthropic Network Statewide Summit in Orlando. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To that end, we strongly believe in the potential of [...]
When it comes to the basic human love of music-making, it comes to the human voice. And there’s nothing quite as astounding as the kind of music that can be made from massed voices working together in a choir. This weekend and in the coming week is an important period for choral singing in South [...]
You can’t talk about the last 25 years of art in Detroit without talking about Tyree Guyton. His ever-expanding, internationally-acclaimed east side neighborhood Heidelberg Project (the subject of an upcoming Knight-funded retrospective exhibition at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History) has delighted, haunted, and inspired visitors since 1986. His colorful dots and boldly-drawn faces
Art most assuredly isn’t confined to Second Saturdays anymore — take this Saturday for example. There’s the Arteamericas fair. MAM is opening its latest show with a talk and reception. MOCA’s Optic Nerve films are unspooling in Bal Harbour. And some local artists have organized a silent auction for the hardest hit Prefecture Miyagi in [...]
