By Locust Projects Locust Projects is pleased to announce a new public art project by New York-based artist Anya Kielar. Yellow Lines, a “sprayogram” resembling a ghostly clothesline displaying dismembered apparel, will be featured on over 30 bus shelters around Miami Beach and the Design District in April and May 2012. Kielar’s work draws upon sources including [...]
By Locust Projects The countdown to Locust Projects’ tenth annual Spring Fling at 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage on Miami Beach is on. This signature event is not to be missed. Celebrate the non-profit exhibition space (dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales) at the Locust [...]
The theater company Tiny Dynamite has a smashing success with its productions as part of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint,” thanks to its 2011 Knight Arts grant. The idea is that the audience gets to see an entertaining play at a non-traditional time of day (often happy hour) aside a slice of pie and [...]
Every city has its things, people and places that are unique to that area. Charlotte’s stories — its culture — are scattered throughout our many diverse neighborhoods. Twenty twelve is a big year for the Queen City. In early September, Charlotte will host the Democratic National Convention, which puts us in the national — and [...]
By Kirstin Wiegmann, Forecast Public Art Olga Zoltai is a Twin Cities resident who originally emigrated from Hungary after World War II. Olga’s story, excerpted below, is one of 58 that will be installed as part of the Speaking of Home-St. Paul public art installation, a project by Nancy Ann Coyne. “Right before the Second World [...]
It was nearly 30 years ago that composer Wendy Mae Chambers assembled 10 pianists on the Lincoln Center Plaza in New York for the premiere of her piece, “Ten Grand,” a multimovement work accompanied by a laser light show. This Saturday evening, the piece gets what is most likely its Florida premiere when it is [...]
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer If it’s not easy to objectively review the recital that took place on Sunday April 15 at the New World Center (NWS). A review might be virtually pointless. That’s often the case when Evgeny Kissin plays onstage alone with a piano, his vital link to the rest of [...]
Minnesota Opera’s artistic director, Dale Johnson, must be feeling 10 feet tall this week. Composer Kevin Puts was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for “Silent Night: An Opera in Two Acts,” which was commissioned and premiered by Minnesota Opera (a Knight Arts grantee) this November as part of company’s New Works Initiative. “Silent [...]
By Roofless Records Roofless has been burning some serious fuel as we prepare for Spring/Summer. In addition to producing a slew of events and planning our upcoming catalogue of releases, we’ve been ramping up our fundraising efforts to match our Knight grant – including a Kickstarter campaign, partnerships with New College of Florida and the [...]
How can brown, monotone sculptures made from burlap talk to you in such a vivid way? The answer lies in visiting Christy Gast’s exhibit “Out of Place” at Gallery Diet. Her first solo show at this gallery, called “Batty Cave,” was a melancholy video exploration of a desolate world in Utah, based around a cave [...]
