By Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight Foundation Today, Knight Foundation and the NEA announced the winners of its Community Arts Journalism Challenge. Here, Knight’s Eric Newton gives some insight into why both organizations decided to fund innovations in arts coverage and criticism. Update: Two of the winning projects, CriticCar Detroit and the Charlotte Arts [...]
The Bridge Red alternative gallery continues to live up to its mission, and its 2011 Knight Arts Challenge grant, which supports that to “provide a space for exhibition, documentation and creative exchange of works and ideas by strong and developed local artists who do not get the exposure their work merits.” The latest example is “Sherri [...]
Way way back in the day, when I inherited some albums from my uncle, the world changed. As a kid, the music I could hear after putting a record on my dad’s turntable, moving a needle back and forth over and over, would leave me forever mesmerized by songs from Santana, David Bowie, The Velvet [...]
