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• MDC Galleries open new doors

  
  
  

  Jaime Warren photographic collage.

  Few people may realize that Miami-Dade College’s Art Gallery System has more than 1,600 artworks in its permanent collection. But they’ve sometimes been hard to find and see. That could be about to change as the college transitions into the freshly named new MDCGalleries of [...]

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• Defiance, Ohio triumphs at the Trumbullplex

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  A Bay Area native, I spent the bulk of my free time as a disaffected high schooler either haunting coffee shops or catching triple-billed punk bands at Gilman St. in Berkeley, Calif., a tiny, volunteer-run club and launch pad for bands like Green Day and Rancid. No [...]

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• Dancing around the Bride and the Cage Centenary

  
  
  

  By Jaime Bramble Schell, Philadelphia Museum of Art

  While Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp doesn’t officially open until October 30 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 5 is also key date for the much-anticipated exhibition. It is the 100th anniversary of the [...]

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• Pakistani duo to perform at The University of Akron and Lock 3 in downtown Akron

  
  
  

  And now for something totally different – Pakistani pop. That might seem a flippant way to introduce cousins Zeb Bangash and Haniya Aslam, who hail from Peshawar, Pakistan, but it gets at the essence of why they will be performing in concerts on the University of Akron [...]

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• Elska Zeidel LAB at Inkub8

  
  
  

  In many ways, dance is the art of flight and finding a way to lift our bodies against the pull of gravity may be the closest we’ll ever get to freedom — at least that’s how I feel.

  Elska Zeidel at Inkub8, September 2012.

  If you want to [...]

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• Black, Jewish cultural links explored in Guava Rugelach recital

  
  
  

  Singer Lloyd Reshard.

  Growing up in the Florida-panhandle town of Niceville, Lloyd Reshard remembers hearing the spirit really move the older members of his Southern Baptist congregation.

  “They would just be completely a cappella, and they would be these long, drawn-out things. They would sing ‘Guide Me, O [...]

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• September 2012 in Downtown Akron’s arts district

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  By Sharon Gillberg, Downtown Akron Partnership

  Downtown Akron’s arts district will be bustling with activity September 1 courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Downtown Akron Partnership. Three exciting arts initiatives, Downtown Akron Artwalk, Downtown Art Works, and Akron Art Prize will combine to spotlight [...]

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• The DNC is coming! The DNC is coming!

  
  
  

  “Don’t Matter How Raggly the Flag, It Still Got To Tie Us Together,” Thornton Dial (American, b. 1928), 2003. Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Photo by Stephen Pitkin, Pitkin Studio; courtesy of the Mint Museum

  The Democratic National Convention begins next week (just in [...]

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• Visionary Woman Awards: Ellen Lupton and Victoria Hagan

  
  
  

  In the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, two women are being recognized for this year’s Visionary Woman Awards: Victoria Hagan and Ellen Lupton. Now in its tenth year, the recognition of the Visionary Woman Awards has [...]

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• TU Dance Center celebrates its first anniversary

  
  
  

  By Abdo Sayegh, TU Dance Center

  It was one year ago that we launched our educational program at TU Dance Center, — as the Center is bustling with the energy of our summer intensive students– we reflect on a remarkable first year of classes and training.   [...]

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