I am assured that “no one’s getting in” who doesn’t already have a ticket to the sold-out Ramsey Lewis show at the Coral Gables Congregational Church on Thursday night. But just in case you are going to be there, or can talk someone out of a ducat, it’s worth noting that this appearance will be [...]
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A woman going through her shoe closet, seeing just how many shoes she has, what to do? — a pretty ’90s Sex and the City scene. But then the woman starts depositing these shoes all across town, at a bus stop, in front of buildings, to the surprise of locals standing or sitting nearby. That [...]
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Levine Museum of the New South currently benefits from two Knight Foundation grants. One provides major underwriting of the exhibit Changing Places: From Black & White to Technicolor which explores Charlotte’s new diversity. The other is helping the Museum re-imagine COURAGE: The Carolina Story that Changed America, an exhibit on Civil Rights and education which [...]
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It took me a long time to get around to catching Ground Up and Rising‘s production of Martin McDonagh’s provocative play, The Pillowman. The raw, young company has already presented two versions of the play over the past year, one down in Homestead and the other during the Miami Beach Sleepless Night. While I can’t [...]
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Video holds a unique position in contemporary art. On one level, it is the newest medium, one totally based on technology that was nonexistent a century ago. But it also seems to be the most immediate of vehicles — a video can express a snapshot of time, and its Zeitgeist, like no other form. MoCA‘s [...]
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Ever since I saw a brief performance by the Peruvian dance troupe Afro conTempo the other week, I’ve been itching to know more about this group. I’d never heard of conTempo or Marcela Díaz before, yet here they were on stage, fully formed. I’d scoured the city for an Afro-Peruvian troupe last year — how [...]
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2008 Knight Arts Challenge winner The Miami Music Project is looking for six musicians to join its string quartet and brass quintet for the 2010-11 season – read below for details and click here for audition information. Auditions will be held Sept 7 and 8, applications must be received in the MMP office by Tuesday, [...]
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The Miami Poster Project is not about changing the way people see Miami. People already see Miami in all sorts of ways. The issue is representation. Miami is typecast. It’s stereotyped. It’s got an image issue. Can something be simultaneously stale and moldy? Because that’s what we’re dealing with when it comes to visual representations [...]
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By Miami City Ballet This season, Miami City Ballet celebrates its 25th anniversary with the return of live music and the Opus One Orchestra led by award-winning principal conductor Maestro Gary Sheldon. Orchestral accompaniment was cancelled halfway through the 2008-09 season due to lack of funding. The orchestra returns to MCB courtesy of a $900,000 [...]
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The upcoming concert season in South Florida will see the debut of a local ensemble devoted to the performance of Baroque music. The group, named Arcanum, has been formed by tenor Tony Boutté and Baroque flutist Colin St. Martin, and will be featured in the Miami Bach Society’s Tropical Baroque Festival in March. But before [...]
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