Rudi Goblen’s engaging one-man show, PET, examined the costs and consequences of that four-letter word we call love. Staged in a support-group-like setting, PET’s mission statement was conceived “with the purpose of sharing, listening, learning from and being supportive of each other—while
This coming Saturday, May 18, is International Museum Day. The Levine Center for the Arts’ partners are all participating; this means the Mint Museum of Art, the Harvey B. Gantt Center and the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art will offer a special “pay what you wish” admission fee. Additionally, special programming surrounding the Day’s 2013 [...]
At Old City’s Clay Studio, the gallery is brimming with diverse and unique creations from dozens of artists. This Knight Arts grantee is in the midst of three different but equally abundant shows in their exhibition spaces: “Small Favors VIII,” solo work by Mallory Wetherell, and “Plates & Platters: Salon Style.” All of the exhibits [...]
Macon’s musical heritage is the city’s claim to fame. Otis Redding refers to it in his hit “Dock of the Bay” when he sings, “I left my home in Georgia headed for the Frisco Bay.” Capricorn Records was founded in Macon. The Allman Brothers Band formed here, and a museum dedicated to the group is [...]
Minnesota History Center’s annual vintage dress-up party, RetroRama, is this week. This year’s shindig isn’t themed on a specific time period, but rather “classic” fashion: “a perfect pair of jeans, an heirloom hand knit sweater, a gorgeous belt burnished with age, or vintage khakis. …your grandmother’s little black cocktail dress, or [for him]… a great [...]
By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council The Arts & Business Council recently invited Robyn Perlman, Principal with Core Strategies for Non-Profit s to have a conversation with our board about corporate sponsorship. She started by discussing how corporations make donations. There are several ways corporations give back to the community. They give money, but [...]
If you go to see Coach House Theatre’s latest farce, Ken Ludwig’s “The Fox on the Fairway,” hang in there. Stay through the second act, cause that’s where most of the fun is. Farces aren’t great brainteasers, although in this case, you may have to ponder how three couples (two already or formerly married and [...]
Karen Rifas and Kerry Phillips have more in common than the first letter of their first names, although at first it might not seem so. Rifas’s work should be familiar to many – in particular her linear, site-specific installations that involve optical illusion and delicate interventions. Her pieces can be found at MAM, MOCA and, [...]
The highly anticipated “Mobile Homestead” by artist Mike Kelley opened on Saturday, becoming the first permanent exhibit at the MOCAD (a Knight Arts grantee). The project was conceived in 2010, and executed as a scale replica of Kelley’s childhood home in the suburbs of the Detroit Metro area. The homestead includes a detachable façade room, [...]
Two artists at the 3rd Street Gallery approach their (mostly) fiber-based artworks with similarly heavy-handed topics that are poignant and at times quite emotionally charged. Carol Wisker and Melissa Maddonni Haims split the space and fill the interior with textile creations which, although loosely related, address concepts that are not so easily put into words. [...]
