This past Friday at Red Hook Coffee and Tea was the opening of a show by artist and designer Lauren Ladner. There was also a live performance by blues musician Matthew “Mule” McKinley, for whom she designed the artwork on his just-released album, “Alone on the Orange Floor.” Ladner’s sampling of work is in a few different [...]
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With considerable shame, I must confess my experience with “Middle Eastern music,” if such an enormous and diverse cultural heritage can be reduced to that designation, comes almost entirely from brief fragments heard through tinny radios in the back of specialty grocery stores or as ambience in the background of restaurants. This is why I [...]
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By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Next February 10, The Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library will be hosting Miami Moments, its first annual fundraising event and under the suggestive title, The Three Graces, this inaugural evening will be dedicated to three exceptional women: Margarita Cano, Helen Kohen and Barbara Young, who for more than forty [...]
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“These look like something out of a fairytale.” That’s the first thing I heard as I walked into the intimate confines of the Gordon Parks Gallery last week to see “Voyage,” Alonso Sierralta’s new sculpture exhibition. I’ve admired his work for years, but puzzled over it, too. His pieces exude an innate otherworldliness, an almost-of-this-world [...]
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Yesterday celebrated a milestone in the fight to end homelessness in Charlotte. Moore Place is a brand new community of one-bedroom efficiency apartments with on-site special services for individuals with a history of chronic homelessness. Jan. 29 was its grand opening and community open house. Moore Place will utilize a number of integrated components, including [...]
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We all think we know the spunky English girl who falls down a rabbit hole and emerges in a trippy dream world. Fernando Calzadilla, who co-wrote an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic English fairy tale “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”
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Classical music concerts haven’t always been in big, imposing halls with sound baffles, ushers and clearly marked exits. Like music of every kind down to the present day, much of it was written for intimate settings, such as a modest home or a small coffeehouse. Tomorrow night, the Miami Beach hotel The Betsy is holding [...]
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Miami native and now New York-based artist Daniel Arsham is having a pretty good week nationally, as works that reveal his broad reach into artistic exploration will be on show from coast to coast. Arsham’s first Los Angeles solo show just opened up at OHWOW, “the fall, the ball, and the wall.” As has become [...]
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The Packard plant, at one point the most advanced automobile plant in the world, was shuttered and abandoned in 1958, and since then has become one of the more notorious ruins in the country. A vast and sprawling structure, it remains a definitive symbol of Detroit’s economic decline. It has been thoroughly explored and photographed, [...]
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To kick off 2012, Grizzly Grizzly introduces the show “Duett: Alanna Lawley & Matt Giel.” The project, initially proposed and facilitated by art writer Becky Hunter, has two artists working together on a long-distance, collaborative installation in response to a location and to one another. Alanna Lawley is a British, Berlin-based artist, and Matt Giel [...]
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