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Knight Arts
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Akron Art Museum’s Digital Collection is officially ready for exploration
By Keith Freund, Akron Art Museum
The Akron Art Museum Online Collection is now available to explore. Thanks to generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we have completed initial design and implementation of our website and launched with approximately [...]
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Exploring Midtown with MOCAD
By Carlie Dennis, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Since MOCAD is currently closed for the installation of its next two exhibitions, Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory) and barely there (part two). We thought we’d use this month’s blog post to share [...]
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September means Bearden, blues and so much more
Today is the first day of September. The slight cool nip in the air is a foreshadowing of fall right around the corner. Most kids are back in school. It’s Labor Day weekend, three days off and the last hurrah of the summer for many. [...]
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Yara Travieso’s “SET” list
I interviewed director, choreographer and co-founder of the Borscht Film Festival (a Knight Arts grantee) Yara Travieso last May when “SET,” her latest work, premiered during the Metamoto Musician + Choreographer Forum at the New World Symphony. Travieso’s work is sonic, visceral and rich. [...]
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A very special student feels at home at “the home of arts4all”
By Evy Schiffman, Community School of Music and Arts
It’s Saturday afternoon, and the ceramics instructor at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) is prepping students for their first experience with throwing clay on the wheel. One of the teen students, Jordan, [...]
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New and old at the Wright
By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
August was quite a month for The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, as we used it to bring attention to the breadth of African culture with both new and old [...]
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McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes Susan Lee-Chun
By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art
McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to welcome the arrival of its newest Knight Artist-in-Residence, Susan Lee-Chun from Miami, Florida. Lee-Chun begins her residency on September 6, 2011 along with six other residents from across the country. [...]
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Behind the scenes: The Brothers Size at GableStage
By Neal Hecker, GableStage
It was a typical rain soaked afternoon, summer in Miami, as I stood, drying out in the empty theatre space at GableStage that would soon be transformed into a “mythical” Louisiana Bayou, courtesy of the imagination of Tarell Alvin McCraney. McCraney is [...]
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South Asian stories told stitch by stitch in “Beyond Peacocks and Paisleys”
There’s a fascinating little exhibition on view right now at the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum of Design: “Beyond Peacocks & Paisleys: Handcrafted textiles of India and its Neighbors.” The pieces in the gallery — a mix of manufactured and artisanal products, intended [...]
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A Tribute to the sublime Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
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By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer
Five years after Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s untimely death at 52, Harmonia Mundi releases a magnificent tribute to the lamented American mezzo-soprano. On two generous CDs, it’s a remarkable compilation of several recordings the singer made between 1989-1995 under [...]
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