The Adrienne Arsht Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) will host the premiere of REPLICA, a multi-disciplinary exhibit sponsored by Knight Foundation and composed of work by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz and Taiwanese dancer CC Chang. The work will be performed…
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 [...]
Whether hauntingly strange, surreal, or sublime, true art, when it happens to us, reinvigorates and challenges our preconceived notions of the contemporary world. It confronts us and offers us more than just cheap entertainment, unlike the flippant antics carried out by today’s reality television ‘stars’. True artistry is…
NEWS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Knight Foundation Awards Infuse Local Arts Scene with $3.7 Million Miami City Ballet Regains Live Orchestra; Wynwood Gets Arts Incubator; Indie Record Store Expands Community Programming MIAMI (Nov. 30, 2009) Emerging from 1,562 applications, 20 winners today received $3.7 million in the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest [...]
We’re about two weeks away from the start of the new season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County — and I’m not exactly counting down the days. Not that this looks to be a bad season. Oh, no. There is absolutely, 100 percent, no risk that this season will [...]
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Palestrina presents a missal to Pope Julius III. I’ve been spending some time looking at the upcoming classical music season for 2009-10, and despite the loss in February of the Concert Association of Florida, it’s looking rather good. Some of that is because the organizations that are fiscally the strongest — the New World Symphony [...]
The biggest show in town this pre-season is the showdown between the arts community and Miami-Dade officials forced to slash $427 million from the county budget in the face of falling property tax revenues. With more than $11 million out of the $14.8 million annual arts budget on the chopping block, arts advocates are taking [...]
On Tuesday, June 23 Knight Foundation staff members and summer interns attended a performance of FUERZABRUTA at the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center as guests of Dennis Scholl, the Communities Program Director for Miami.
