Enjoy art, conversation and mingling Friday, May 7 from 6-9pm as the University of Wynwood and Gallery Diet present a poetry reading by Zachary Schomburg and the opening of The Sunday Painter, a solo exhibition by NY artist JJ Peet. Schomburg, author of The Man Suit and Scary, No Scary, is the last visiting poet [...]
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Georges Bizet’s Carmen is the biggest brand in opera, and of the best known in all the performing arts. It’s got gypsies, girl fights, love triangles, and great songs everyone knows. So it’s no surprise that the Florida Grand Opera‘s production has been selling out during it’s current run at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Go, [...]
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Local arts supporter Made in Miami Music recently won tickets to the Florida Grand Opera’s performance of Carmen at the Ziff Opera House via a contest facilitated by a Knight Foundation grant. Read about all the fun here…
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Tonight, performance artists from across the globe will take to various venues and strut their stuff, to be broadcast via the Internet and shown real-time in galleries, in an exhibit called “Low Lives 2.” Here in Miami, the performance will feature Alexis Caputo and will take place at the Diaspora Vibe Gallery. Organized by El [...]
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After a steamy month or two on the Miami stage, the inspiration for our local theater seems to have shifted from violent carnality to pop music. Starting tonight Mad Cat Theatre reprises Hialeah-boy-made-good’s play Broadsword, with actor/director Paul Tei returning from his star turn in Hollywood (California, that is) to join Mad Cat favorites Erik [...]
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Classical DJ Julie Amacher, frequently heard on Miami’s WKCP. Earlier this month, the Classical South Florida radio station, which broadcasts at 89.7 FM, bought WXEL-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate in Boynton Beach, for $3.85 million from its current owners, Barry University. That will mean two American Public Media stations in the area, and for [...]
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What’s in a [NAME] Publication? Thanks to a $30,000 2008 challenge grant from the Knight Foundation, NAME is now three artist-oriented books – with more to come. The three books are: “WWW” by Daniel Newman, part of the Miami Artists Series (and reviewed here); “Quiet Village” by Beatriz Monteavaro, also part of the Miami Artist [...]
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William Carlson is willing to see what transpires. One of the foremost studio artists working with glass, he can never completely control what he creates. “Glass art has an undetermined or open future,” Carlson observes. “There’s not as much in the way of predictable expectation.” That’s what makes his finish work all the more breathtaking.
Continue →Finalists in the 2010 KAC will be announced shortly and they’re in luck. The Knight Arts Challenge has partnered with the University of Miami’s LaunchPad to help guide finalists in creating their detailed budgets, projections and complete applications. One of last year’s finalists reached out to LaunchPad on her own last year and became a [...]
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And also don’t call my art “feminine” Or, do. That is the crux of the show at Pan American Art Projects, “Don’t Call Me Pretty,” which opened up on Thursday night with a panel discussion (to a packed house) on women and art.
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