We like to mix our art with some parties; it goes a long way to explain why Art Basel Miami Beach is here. And Saturday night is no exception: ArtCenter/South Florida (a multiple Knight Arts grant winner) is throwing its annual fundraiser and raffle, winningArt. What’s always great about this event is that it is so reasonably [...]
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Heinz Poll, who co-founded and directed the Ohio Ballet for nearly 30 years, received posthumous honors recently. Verb Ballets paid tribute to the late company director with a performance titled “Honoring Heinz Poll” at the Akron Civic Theatre (a Knight Arts grantee). Poll’s Ohio Ballet had significant impact on the arts in the Akron area, and on contemporary dance nationwide, as the [...]
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In just one week, on March 25, we’ll start accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit. This year, we’ll be giving away up to $3 million to arts and cultural projects that engage and enrich the city. The deadline is April 22. Get Detroit Arts Email Updates Email (required) First Name Last Name [...]
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Tigertail Productions always brings innovative, cutting-edge performing artists to Miami that challenge our preconceived notions of what performance art is and can be. These artists push the conceptual
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There are few issues in Detroit more politically or emotionally fraught than the state of the Detriot Public School system. In this regard, Detroit is perhaps an extreme example, but by no means the sole instance of breakdown of the concept and execution of public education. As of this Saturday, March 16, 2739 Edwin Gallery in Hamtramck [...]
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Tonight, the Cleveland Orchestra opens a series of three concerts that celebrate love between two humans as well as the love of humanity in general. The love story of composer Peter Lieberson and his wife, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, is told in the Neruda Songs, which Lieberson based on five of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s [...]
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The Center for Art in Wood in Old City (formerly the Wood Turning Center) is a non-profit community space that, since its inception in 1986, has provided wood turning, woodworking and exhibition opportunities for local artists working in the medium of wood. Currently, the Center is hosting a two-part show in its first-floor gallery, featuring [...]
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Full disclosure: I’m (tangentially) affiliated with what I’m writing about today, but it’s significant enough to the St. Paul arts-and-culture scene that I’m going to mention it anyway. The Walker’s hugely popular Internet Cat Video Festival (a.k.a. #catvidfest) is returning for a second year, and the festivities will be held at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on [...]
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In case you missed “The Intimate Bach, Part I” from Apollo’s Fire, a Knight Arts grantee, here’s your chance to redeem yourself, for the celebrated Baroque orchestra will be coming again to appear at Fairlawn Lutheran Church on Thursday evening. This performance has the subtitle “with his friend Telemann,” referring to Georg Philipp Telemann, who [...]
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Those who read my previous post about the Macon Film Guild already know that I am a fan. Their efforts to bring independent and foreign films to Macon provide audiences with a vital option for enjoying movies that might not make it to the local multiplex. Sunday, April 14 is your next chance to support [...]
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