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• Happy New Year’s Eve at Summit Artspace in Akron

  
  
  

  By Jessie Raynor, AAAA Director

  Although construction on our Knight Foundation-funded project is a month behind schedule due to HVAC contractors, Summit Artspace is still able to present its first public event on our second floor, which is currently being renovated for performance space and arts [...]

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• Grantee Update: Gantt Center

  
  
  

  The Harvey B. Gantt Center launched a free lecture series, Conversations @ Gantt, with a two-hour discussion led by fine art consultant, B. E. Noel on November 18, 2010. Noel – as she is known throughout the arts community – ran her namesake gallery in [...]

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• Forbidden Broadway Opens At Arsht Center

  
  
  

  Tis’ the season for satire! This December 14th, the long-running uber-popular Off-Broadway Tony award-winning musical comedy Forbidden Broadway opens at the Arsht Center for a limited two-week run.

  Gina Kreiezmar in the Lion King photo by Carol Rosegg

  Forbidden Broadway lovingly roasts [...]

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• Patti Smith Interrupts Her Own Poetic Tribute at Miami Book Fair

  
  
  

  
  By P. Scott Cunningham/ Founder O,Miami

  On Nov. 19th, I was introducing Patti Smith at the Miami Book Fair when I was unexpectedly interrupted by…Patti Smith.

  The crowd saw her first—she’d walked on stage behind me—and some people began cheering as soon as they saw her [...]

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• How Mad, How Beautiful

  
  
  

  There is a very special world awaiting in the Dorsch Gallery. Fans of artist/performer/magician Clifton Childree will recognize this world immediately, although they might still be blown away by the depth

  "Orchestrated Gestures" at Dorsch Gallery

  and creativity of his latest [...]

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• Knight Arts Film Wins Regional Emmy

  
  
  

  Dennis Scholl, Chad Tingle and Marlon Johnson

  Knight Foundation’s Dennis Scholl and Miami filmmakers Chad Tingle and Marlon Johnson won a Suncoast Emmy this week for Sunday’s Best, a documentary on the elaborate hats African-American women traditionally wear to church.

  Commissioned [...]

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• Basel Expectations and the Unexpected

  
  
  

  Art Basel has moved off shore, but many remnants — and good ones — have been left behind, those created and put up by locals. Fortunately for us, we can have a closer look

  Laurent Harari at Arts for a Better World

  at [...]

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• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Comes to Miami

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  It’s short notice but this Saturday, Dec. 11, the innovative and awe-inspiring Hubbard Street Dance Company will take your breath away at the Arsht Center. Their imaginative international repertory includes works by the world’s greatest choreographers with repertory pieces by Ohad Naharin, Jirí [...]

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• Multiple ‘Messiah’ Performances Mark the Season

  
  
  

  I wonder whether anyone does an annual Handel Count at this time of year, tallying up the performances of Messiah that suddenly appear across the land like the red and green foil that magically appears in bags of Hershey’s Kisses.

  George Frideric [...]

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• Still a Gem: The Original Mint Museum

  
  
  

  After its grand opening in October that attracted 20,000 people during  its first weekend, the Mint Museum Uptown is now the center of attention for visual arts lovers in Charlotte.  And it is well deserving of the acclaim.

  But often lost in the hoopla is the [...]

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