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• The art of the LEGO

  
  
  

  “Kiss.” Courtesy brickartist.com

  There’s still time to catch Nathan Sawaya’s LEGO creations at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (a Knight Arts grantee). Yes, his work has shown here twice before, but what has turned out to be a real summer blockbuster for the [...]

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• Darla Jackson’s Sculpture Gym is making headinlines in Philadelphia

  
  
  

  Philadelphia artist Darla Jackson was awarded $20,000 as part of the 2011 Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge to create a sculpture gym designed to help Philly sculptors by granting them access to heavy-duty tools, storage space and one-on-one help. Jackson & the gym are scoring a [...]

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• A community of artists at Papermill

  
  
  

  In the heart of Kensington stands a five-story former paper mill turned arts building named the Papermill Community of Artists. When it was purchased three years ago by Director Karyn Vetter, the building was in some degree of disrepair, its former napkin- [...]

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• A look at “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust”

  
  
  

  On a recent bike ride through the city I was floored to happen upon MBAD’s African Bead Museum, and the complex art installation called “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust” that sprawls throughout the adjacent field. Built by 2011 Kresge Fellow Olayami Dabls, it is easily [...]

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• “My Carolina Home” at the Charlotte Art League

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  “My Carolina Home Poster,” Charlotte Art League.

  Capturing Carolina is a challenge. Tourists try with their point-and-shoot cameras. Locals memorialize her in song. And visual artists interpret her landscapes and people through a variety of mediums. Carolina represents a vast number of things to a vast number [...]

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• Circus Juventas is back under the big top with the Wild West-themed “Showdown”

  
  
  

  Photo courtesy of Connie Shaver publicity and Circus Juventas

  We’ve just had one of those bittersweet, end-of-summer weekends in the Twin Cities. The seasons plainly pivoted in the last two days:  not only did the air turn a little cooler, along the river I saw an early-turning [...]

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• Pax madness

  
  
  

  Last Thursday night PAX (Performing Arts Exchange) hosted Velvet Glove, an underground circus held above ground because if you dig too deep in Little Havana, you hit limestone and then saltwater. The night featured local musicians, rappers, break dancers, spoken word artists and other creative creatures who [...]

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• Musicals and comedies galore at Macon Little Theatre

  
  
  

  The 2012–13 season at Macon Little Theatre focuses on escapism with its lineup of comedies and musicals.

  Macon Little Theatre’s 2012-13 season is called “A Season of Renewal: One To Grow On.” As the title suggests, there have been a lot of changes at MLT, including the [...]

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• The Twin Cities blend culture & art: A conversation with Speaking of Home participant Tri Sutrisno

  
  
  

  By Adrienne Kleinman, Forecast Public Art Intern

  Dancer Tri Sutrisno will be featured in Nancy Ann Coyne’s upcoming public art piece Speaking of Home project. The project explores what home means to 58 immigrants from around the globe. The downtown St. Paul public art installation will [...]

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• El Anatsui at the Akron Art Museum

  
  
  

  By Mitchell Kahan, Akron Art Museum

  The artist El Anatsui, (pronounced Ah-not-schwee) was born in Ghana and taught art at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka for 35 years. But in the past decade his impact and reputation have traveled far beyond those two countries. His large-scale metallic tapestries [...]

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