When I think about the question “what brings a poem to life”, Tigertail and the Miami Poetry Collective (MPC) have answered it with their new poetry annual. On Thursday, October 14th, Tigertail and the MPC will celebrate the launch of their 8th…
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The Miami Herald dedicated its Sunday arts section to profiling “20 under 40,” a group of up-and-coming South Florida artists who have helped transform the local arts scene. Three are winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. They are: Patrick Dupre Quigley, whose choral group Seraphic Fire’s chamber version of Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin topped the [...]
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In a time when many composers have to spend as many days making sure they keep the publicity going as they do actually writing, Thomas Sleeper has enjoyed steady releases on established classical labels, including a Naxos disc of wind music and a just-released disc of orchestral pieces on Albany. The new Sleeper collection includes [...]
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Can something be lovely — no, delicious — looking, and still be edgy? Yes, unequivocally, if the subject is Gavin Perry’s latest solo outing, “Glacier.” Anyone up on Miami’s art scene will be familiar with this artist’s work; his distinct styling
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Big smiles and high fives dominated the Fall for the Arts Festival on Sunday. Despite scorching heat, parents and kids swarmed Arsht Center grounds and were treated to a host of performances, acting and dancing workshops, seminars and arts & crafts tables. “This is awesome,” said Lani Lue when asked about the Breakdancing Workshop where [...]
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The Kennedy Center arrives in Detroit this month courtesy of Capacity Building: Detroit, a two-year arts management training program for arts organizations in the Detroit metro area. Knight Foundation is partnering with the Kennedy Center, the Kresge Foundation and the Michigan Nonprofit Association to bring the initiative to life and help 51 local arts organizations [...]
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When there is so much going on in one weekend, stuff that really seems worthy of attending and seeing, it can get overwhelming, actually confusing, to try and preview it. Oh well. This is one of those season-opener
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Want to have fun with Pablo Picasso, Steve Martin and Albert Einstein? Well, let’s go. Meet them (at least in spirit) on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. That’s when Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Kendall Campus kicks off its 2010-11 theater season with Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the first full-length play written by legendary [...]
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This Saturday night at the University of Miami, you have two chances to take in an intriguing chamber music concert: one from an Illinois-based string quartet on the cutting edge, and the other from a new, homegrown trio of guitarists. First, there’s the Pacifica String Quartet, which despite its Californiac name is based in the [...]
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You may not recognize the name Robert McKnight, but you may know some of his work. The artist has designed landscapes at the Metrozoo (oops!, it’s been renamed Zoo Miami) and Disney World, contributed murals and mosaics to parks, libraries and apartments, even built an environmental interactive sculpture
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