By Christine Cox, BalletX We launched our *eXpand the eXperience* program with our November dance series and it was a huge success. In addition to presenting two original new ballets and a work from our repertoire, we wowed audiences with unexpected performances in the lobby of the Wilma Theater before the shows and in the theater during intermissions. The feedback [...]
By Grela Orihuela & Bill Bilowit, Founders, Wet Heat Project During Miami’s art fair week of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011– as a companion event to our annual “HOTBED MIami” exhibition of large-scale installations by graduating MFA seniors– we launched “A Piece of Me” to feature a unique cross-generation aesthetic dialogue between New World School of [...]
By Robin Barnes, Philadelphia Live Arts Philadelphia Live Arts announces the launch of Scratch Night as part of the organization’s year-round programming at the Live Arts Brewery (LAB). Beginning on January 12, 2012 Scratch Night is a monthly salon designed to foster the social, interactive, and accessible qualities of art-making while investing in artists’ creation of [...]
One of the best things about the holiday season is the abundance of good music — cheesy pop Christmas albums aside, this time of year there’s nothing like a terrific show to bring a glow of good cheer to your cheeks. Below, I offer you three very different but equally tuneful options, to warm your [...]
Sometimes a painting is just beautiful. It can have deeper meaning or a complex make up, but some works just hang there and say, look at me, I am so good-looking. That’s the case with the nature-inspired pieces of Greg Lindquist in the group show of New York artists, “you are here forever….” curated by [...]
Opening at Space 1026 on Jan. 6 will be the show “Unsustainable” by Jay Hardman. In the exhibit, Hardman’s work explores contemporary building practices and their effect on communities through construction of small-scale installations. By far the most inviting aspect of the work is its building material. What does Harman use to create his scenes of [...]
By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Under the Bridge is the name of the new art space recently added to the Miami art circuit network. Located in North Miami –just below the Red Bridge Studios– and under the direction of Lou Anne Colodny, founding director of MOCA North Miami and for fifteen years director of it’s [...]
Recently, playwright and raconteur Kevin Kling was named “artist in residence” for Minnesota Public Radio. It’s a three-year position, for which he’ll develop original live programming, write some commentary for broadcast and host storytelling workshops around the state. His first commission for MPR is “Of Mirth and Mischief,” a staged musical-theater production, which premiered at [...]
On Wednesday, Dec 14 resident teaching dance artists from Ordway Center for the Performing Arts surprised travelers and diners at MSP International Airport with four classical performances choreographed to the blues. Enjoy the performances above. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on [...]
Painters Ruth Ava Lyons and Katherine Ace have an exhibit through this Friday, Dec. 23 at Hidell/Brooks Gallery in Charlotte that encourages contemplation. At first glance these two artists are quite different. Yet look deeper and see there are similarities between their work. Both explore dichotomies and have metaphors embedded within their paint layers. Although [...]
