By Tracy Belcher, Miami Art Museum The new Miami Art Museum, which will be an anchor of the 29-acre Museum Park overlooking Biscayne Bay, is already 20 feet out of the ground! To document its rapid progress, MAM has set up a live webcam with a view of the Museum Park site, updating every 15 [...]
The soft, yellow light blanketing the center gallery is almost as much a part of the exhibit “Marvelous Punishment” as the all off-white, woven and embroidered works of Natasha Duwin, the first solo show at the new home of Hardcore Art Contemporary Space. Shadows are cast on the makeshift white walls, and the whole subdued [...]
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, a Knight Arts grantee, hit the road Sept 29 as Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra performed “Go Get ‘Em Tigers” at the Somerset Collection. Enjoy the video above!
By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to welcome Margarita Cabrera as the next Knight Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art who will begin her term at the Center on January 9, 2012. Before she arrives at the Center, her work can be seen in “The [...]
By Robert Bush, Arts & Science Council Last year, ASC selected the first round of Cultural Innovation Grant recipients – Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST), Charlotte Artery and Charlotte Viewpoint. Again this year, through the support of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ASC is able to invest in building [...]
By Vivian Fung I recently had the opportunity to pen a few words for NewMusicBox about my identity in relation to my work as a composer (see here). In that piece, I wrote about my experience as a “banana” – “yellow as a product of Chinese parents; white as a result of my being born in [...]
Back in 2008, the British journalist Jasper Rees wrote a charming book called (in the U.S.) “A Devil to Play,” the funny story about his quest to play a Mozart concerto on the French horn — an instrument officially known these days simply as “horn,” with the Parisian taint removed. Those of us who’ve played [...]
The TAP Gallery, aka The Alley Project, consists of a garage that serves as a studio and gallery, as well as two lots fitted as common space for artists and neighbors and an alley that has been transformed into a walking gallery. TAP presents graffiti as art and gives producers safe and legal places to practice, [...]
By Toby Barlow, executive producer People Mover! Detroit “Whoever has the most fun wins.” is one of the mantras driving the resurgence of Detroit today. To celebrate the vivacity and the richness of the city, a group of musicians, cooks, dancers and singers took over Detroit’s downtown monorail for an entire day, with 24 performers [...]
Who among us cannot use more laughter these days? It’s no secret that laughter keeps us feeling younger, and Charlotte is fortunate to have our very own improvisation troupe. Founder Scott Pacitti has several improv groups under his direction and leadership. The Chuckleheads are the Charlotte improvisational theatre group portion of the Actor’s Crib, Inc. [...]
