The New York Times has profiled Knight Foundation’s Arts Program and its Random Acts of Culture series. The piece, written by Carol Kino, begins with a Random Act that popped up earlier this year in a Philadelphia market: It was just another winter Saturday morning at the Reading Terminal Market, an expansive food hall at [...]
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In 2007, Knight Foundation granted $5 million to the New World Symphony to create the Knight Media Center, helping NWS capitalize on technology and explore new performance formats. Today, Knight Arts’ classical music journalist Greg Stepanich explores some of the initiatives created from the grant… The New World Center is a welcoming home to recording [...]
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Some 50 people showed up at the Barnes & Noble in SouthPark on Jan. 27 to meet Charlotte author Tricia Martineau Wagner and purchase signed copies of her latest book, Black Cowboys of the Old West. The next day we spoke – writer to writer – about what drives her to write historical nonfiction for [...]
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The Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation, the John L. and James S. Knight Foundation and Broward College will present poet and author, Sapphire, on Friday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Cultural
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The Knight-funded New World Symphony opened its new performance space in Miami Beach last week, to great reviews for both the music and the Frank Gehry-designed building. Here Knight’s Dennis Scholl offers his thoughts. What if the alphabet ended at m? It does at the New World Symphony’s new venue. No seat is higher that [...]
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Run, Skip. Hop. Do whatever it takes to make sure you see the sublime Isaac Julien show at the Bass Museum—two or three times even.
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What do you believe in? What scares you? What turns you on? And what is beauty? These are just some of the questions the Jess Curtis/Gravity troupe posed on a chalkboard—or alluded to—during the arc of their performance of Dances For Non/Fictional Bodies at Inkub8 last
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Last fall, Enrique Martinez Celaya had four large canvases hanging in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine – a haunting and strange cathedral, a monumental structure never quite finished on a hill in Manhattan, considered the largest Gothic church in the world. But it’s a nice fitting for Martinez Celaya’s work,
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Frozen, the Tony Award-winning play now being presented by the Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius, is an experience to “shake the soul and let the glory out.”
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By BalletX Dance Colby Damon BalletX is a new Philadelphia dance company with an ambitious goal—to redefine ballet and bring it into the new century. The company, a Knight Arts grantee, debuted “Beside Myself” by Tobin Del Cuore in November 2010. Today dancer Colby Damon reflects on the performance… Beside Myself was quite a journey [...]
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