Contemporary art in America is often apolitical. While artists don’t shy away from shocking content — violent or sexual or otherwise — there is a tendency to circumvent the overtly political, Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster aside. Maybe it seems quaint, maybe it is to avoid comparisons to work made during the 1960s. But recent dramatic [...]
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This Saturday at the American Airlines Arena, the Rhythm Foundation is promising to bring us “Brazil’s biggest star” : Ivete Sangalo.
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In June 2010, the Knight Foundation awarded the Akron Area Arts Alliance a generous $200,000 grant allowing this non-profit, arts advocacy organization to take an important next-step in converting a historic building into a headquarters for the local arts community. Today AAAA director Jessie Raynor checks in with an update…
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From September 16-19, 2010 Silicon Valley will morph into a biennial playground as contemporary artists, engineers, designers, musicians, and creative thinkers from around the world participate in the 2010 01SJ Biennial taking place in San Jose, CA the heart of Silicon Valley. Today Doniece Sandoval, of ZER01, checks in with a preview. Read below for [...]
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Last year the Knight Foundation made a $1,000,000 grant to United States Artists, an organization that celebrates and supports the individual artist in America. Each Knight award comes with an additional $5,000 grant for the artist to create a community engagement event. Today, our United States Artist Knight fellow Sophiline Cheam Shapiro checks in with an [...]
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The symphony orchestra wears a coat of many colors, but a good concert organ can give even the biggest instrumental assemblages a run for their sonic money. On Sunday, the organist of Miami’s Trinity Cathedral will give a vivid demonstration of that as he plays transcriptions for the organ of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an [...]
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Get your Sunday best ready – Free Gospel Sundays are Back. The fourth seasons of free concerts featuring gospel music greats returns to the Arsht Center this fall courtesy of the Arsht Center, the Knight Foundation and WMBM 1490 AM. As in past seasons, each performance will be free and incorporate a gospel great. This season’s [...]
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We don’t know what Don Draper and Roger Stirling would think about these ad campaigns from the 1960s, but then, they are fictional characters and the exhibit “Not Just Mad Men” is very real, very timely, and potentially very interesting. Opening up tomorrow night at Miami International University of Art & Design, the exhibit will [...]
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The Conjunto Folklórico Nacional, Cuba’s national folkloric dance troupe, was founded in 1962. And for nearly that long, Miami has enjoyed performances by troupe members who have defected to our stages: most notably choreographer Elena Garcia, who for many years ran the Iroko Afro-Cuban Dance Theater Company and dancer Yofvani Gonzalez, who arrived in United [...]
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By the Charlotte Arts & Science Council After weeks of work and preparation we were able to pull off our first Random Act of Culture on August 17! And judging by the surprise and smiles, we were thrilled with how it went. The site of this first RAC was at the Atherton Mills and Market in [...]
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