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• Photojournalist Corky Lee at the Asian Arts Initiative

  
  
  

  Today, Chinatown’s Asian Arts Initiative opens its show “Into the Picture: Images of Asian Pacific America” by Corky Lee. From now through October 5, visitors to the 12th and Vine Asian Arts Initiative can view photographs by Lee, which powerfully illustrate the evolution [...]

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• Labor Day Institutions: The Detroit Jazz Festival & Outrageous Cherry

  
  
  

  Over a Labor Day Weekend jam-packed with cultural events, this blogger had occasion to ponder the question of what makes something an “institution.” The Detroit Jazz Festival, still thriving in its 33rd year, is nothing if not a Detroit institution, and this year’s lineup featured a dazzling [...]

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• Downtown, everything is bright, Downtown, everything is right

  
  
  

  There will be trolleys going north and south, from the west end of the Venetian Causeway to Flagler Street, shuttling you and whomever else to more than 20 main venues, studios events, film screenings and some one-off art stops as part of the inaugural “Dwntwn Art Days.”

  Downtown, [...]

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• Random Acts of Culture™ takes over Lincoln Rd

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  Knight Foundation is celebrating its 1,000+ Random Acts of Culture™ with four big, blow-out performances in San Jose, Detroit, Miami and Philadelphia. The fun kicked off Sunday, Aug. 5 with a 250-person surprise performance in San Jose, continued Friday, Aug. 10 with a 150-person performance at Detroit’s [...]

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• Welcome to your Thought Loom

  
  
  

  By Letty Bassart, Thought Loom

  The idea for Thought Loom began with my memory of James Burke’s Connections. It was circa 1980 when I first watched him urgently address the camera and describe the connection between the hulls of massive ships and Strauss’ Indigo.  It changed my [...]

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• Aaron Dysart’s bitingly clever display of natural enhancements opens in “That’s Better” at CVA

  
  
  

  Aaron Dysart‘s work plays on the tension between human-made and “natural,” reflecting the uneasy interplay between the built and wild spheres. Like his voyage on the U.S.S. Soap Boat down the Mississippi to “clean up the river” a few months ago, Dysart’s work is instantly [...]

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• An intimate look at 20th-century art titan Alberto Giacometti

  
  
  

  The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (a Knight Arts grantee) has a new exhibition, “Giacometti: Memory and Presence,” that presents an intimate look at Alberto Giacometti’s life and career, exploring his artistic successes as well as familial relationships and inspirations. The exhibition will remain on [...]

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• New exhibit seeks to find the message of peace within the chaos

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  This painting by Carol Dodd Porter contains a quote from Albert Einstein.

  The September exhibit at The Gallery at Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) is special for me, because I am guest curating the exhibit. Heatherly Wakefield is MAA’s director of fine art [...]

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• It’s an act of culture

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  I read Ruth Benedict’s “The Individual and the Pattern of Culture” while sipping iced coffee at Starbucks on the corner of Lincoln Road and Pennsylvania Avenue while I waited for the Knight Foundation’s 1,000th and final Random Act of Culture to commence. As I read, I wrote [...]

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• Susan T. Danis to steer Florida Grand Opera’s course

  
  
  

  By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer

  As in an opera, the curtain has risen and the mystery has been revealed: the Florida Grand Opera has a new CEO. After a months-long worldwide search and lengthy deliberations, the company announced Susan T. Danis, currently executive director [...]

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