Tonight at 6 p.m., we’ll be announcing the 2010 winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. This year’s winners have innovative ideas for bringing South Florida together through the arts. Find out all about them by visiting KnightArts.org after 7 p.m. See you then! Note: an earlier version of this post erroneously stated that the [...]
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Random Acts of Culture ™ are making quite a national impression. After surprising shoppers with a 650-person performance of Hallelujah in Philadelphia (the YouTube video has 5 million hits and counting), Knight partnered with the Florida Grand Opera and the Arsht Center to surprise shoppers at the Macy’s shoe department in Miami with six performances of “Toreador” [...]
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A couple of public art works have blown in, or crawled up, to Miami Beach in time for Art Basel, one of which will be here to stay, the other will recede. The permanent installation comes courtesy of an artist known for his public works, New York-based Brian Tolle, who created
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William Kentridge: Anything is Possible: William Kentridge’s work is amazing. I saw an exhibition of his work earlier this year at the Museum of Modern Art. Reserve space right away for this captivating documentary film. On Saturday, Dec. 4, the Miami debut (and outdoor screening) of PBS Art:21′s documentary about Kentridge gives viewers an intimate [...]
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It is almost impossible to attend every fabulous Art Basel event unless you have a time-space travel machine from Star Trek. However, when your feet begin to hurt from all the gallery hopping, just keep in mind it is worth it. Over the next week, I will suggest several Art Basel events that will feature [...]
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The most stunning and riveting photographs in Bruce Weber’s series on Haitian Miami, which just opened at North Miami’s MoCA, are the black-and-white portraits. The expressions captured on the faces, especially of the young girls, form the storyline of “Haiti/Little Haiti,” revealing so much
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Random Acts of Culture ™ arrived with a bang in San Jose last week as Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale surprised audiences with spontaneous performances of Amazing Grace, Simple Gifts and Shenandoah.
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Joshua Habermann This weekend’s performances by the Master Chorale of South Florida of Haydn’s epic oratorio The Creation mark the welcome return to area concert halls of a great Classical-era masterwork. But they also are significant for another reason. The concerts are part of a unique resource-sharing move that involves three different arts organizations in [...]
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The iconic Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) returns to the Arsht Center December 2-4, 2010, with the Legacy Tour, a performance installation that pays homage to the ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary collaboration between Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. Exclusive to the Miami engagement, dancers will
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The Adrienne Arsht Center continues forging its successful path to becoming the town square for artistic programing — not just for performing arts, but all disciplines — with the unveiling of the year-long exhibit, “The Lincoln Center List Collection in Miami.” Over 30 prints from some of the most important hands
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