East Coast. West Coast. Dirty South…Montreal? That French Canadian city may be known for supporting the arts, but it’s not exactly the first joint that comes to mind for urban music and dance. But then Quebec’s own Blueprint Cru made it to the finals on America’s Best Dance Crew this season. And last Thursday at [...]
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Have you heard anyone slip up and say “the hurricane in Haiti,” when they meant to say “the earthquake”? Hurricanes and earthquakes are both disasters, but could these words become interchangeable? Under the Sun, a new public radio series on WLRN takes a closer look at the linguistics and implication behind the language. Click here [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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…
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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