Knight Arts in the News: Akron
Thursday’s announcement of a $717,500 Knight Arts grant is front-page news in today’s Akron Beacon Journal. Read below for the highlights and click here for the full article.
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Human Rites: Art and Rituals at the Bass
It’s officially summer, the very sloooow season for art. So what is this great show doing opening up at the Bass today, “Human Rites”? Combining 14th-, 15th- and 16th-century pieces from its collection along with contemporary works donated for the exhibition from local collectors, this is a smart, clean show that has both intellectual heft [...]
Continue →Placing Miami in American Dance
For the past week I have been in Durham, North Carolina at the American Dance Festival for an institute for dance critics hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts. In fact, there are two Miami-based critics here, me and Miami Artzine columnist and choreographer Letty Bassart.
Continue →Toward a School of South Florida Composers
Earlier this month, the noted critic Barbara Jepson wrote a piece in The Wall Street Journal about the rise of an American school of composers associated with the city of Atlanta. Perhaps the best-known of these composers are Jennifer Higdon, who just won the Pulitzer Prize, and Argentina’s Osvaldo Golijov, who surely has the broadest [...]
Continue →Florida Art Shines and Shimmers in The Sixth Borough
There is always something special about seeing site-specific artwork in intimate settings, outside of the white-cube gallery space. There is something really special about the amazing sculpture and installation in the rooms and halls of the abandoned old homes on Governors Island off the bottom tip of Manhattan. The show “The Sixth Borough” is produced [...]
Continue →KAC Winner Update: Miami Lyric Opera Presents La Boheme
A classic returns to the stage this summer as the Miami Lyric Opera presents La Boheme. The opera in four acts takes the stage at The Colony Theater July 15 & 17. Get a sneak peak with this video clip and show preview from the MLO…
Continue →Undershorts Really Is Adult Fare
City Theatre’s late night Undershorts really is adult fare. Just ask my 18-year-old son, who I had to pry off the couch along with his 17-year-old girlfriend, to get them to accompany his old mom to the theater. Now that he’s legally an adult, he can’t stand any silly, kid stuff. No one is more [...]
Continue →Movin’ On Up and Over At Snitzer
What was shaping up to be a gaping hole in the art scene of Wynwood with the departure of the Kevin Bruk Gallery has turned out to be the opposite. During last Second Saturday’s art walk, many a night stroller was surprised to find the gallery doors open — but filled with works from neighboring [...]
Continue →Thought-Provoking Fare at Summer Shorts
When the Summer Shorts Festival first moved to the Arsht Center what, four, years ago now, the crowds were sparse. Shorts, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year, needed time to build an audience in the new space. This season, it’s not always possible to get ticket on Friday or Saturday nights. The secret is [...]
Continue →Pianist/Composer Almazan ‘Moved’ by Cintas Prize Win
Pianist and composer Fabian Almazan. Since 1963, the Cintas Foundation has been awarding money to artists of Cuban descent living outside of Cuba, and earlier this month, a New World School of the Arts graduate was honored for his work as a composer. Fabian Almazan was the $10,000 prize winner of the Brandon Fradd Award [...]
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