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• “Nutcracker”: a holiday tradition

  Phoebe Klett as Clara. Photo by Peter Zay

  I am going to see the Nutcracker this coming weekend for the first time. Of course I am familiar with the story: how young Clara is magically transported to another realm by Herr Drosselmeyer and the Nutcracker Prince comes to life to [...]

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• Carol Connolly’s Third Tuesday ‘Reading by Writers’ has a knockout lineup

  University Club, 420 Summit Avenue, tinted postcard circa 1920 from the MInnesota Historical Society photography collection.

  On the third Tuesday of every month for more than 13 years, St. Paul Poet Laureate and Kay Sexton Award-winner  Carol Connolly has hosted a collegial gathering of local poets, writers and bibliophiles [...]

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• Three concerts to enjoy this week in Macon

  Music is often called a “universal language.” The correct combination of notes in a simple harmony, or complex melody, can move one to tears. Spirits can be lifted with music. With such vast complexity and power, it should come as no surprise that the seasons of one’s life are often [...]

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• Off and on the Walls

  Ron English

  The weather behaved so well this year for Art Basel, making the outdoor strolling, brunches and parties easy to enjoy. But there may not have been a better atmosphere than at the “opening” of the Wynwood Walls on a Tuesday night. That may sound strange considering that the [...]

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• MOCAD’s Monster Drawing Rally a monster opportunity for art investors

  Detroit artists working assembly line-style.

  On Friday, December 7th, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts Grantee) held the Monster Drawing Rally, which acted as a fundraiser for annual MOCAD programming.

  Artists were given one hour to produce one or multiple pieces for the rally.

  The event was a smash [...]

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• Apollo’s Fire to present “Messiah” at Westminster Presbyterian Church

  Ever wonder how Georg Friedrich Handel’s Messiah would have sounded when it was first performed? I did, especially after listening to the 500-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing “For Unto Us a Child Is Born,” and thinking how majestic and overwhelming that would have been back in 1742. All that, [...]

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• Everglades diary by Trong Gia Nguyen, Artist in Residence in the Everglades

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  By Trong Gia Nguyen, AIRIE

  We arrived at the AIRIE residency late Sunday morning on November 25, over two weeks ago.  So apologies for this belated post, which comes right after Art Basel week in Miami, where I worked organizing a room exhibit at the satellite fair Aqua, and also helped [...]

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• Asian Arts Initiative ends 2012 with a busy schedule

  Chinatown North’s Asian Arts Initiative, a Knight Arts Grantee, has a lot going on this month. With a newly opened show about censorship and power entitled “Shut Your Trap!!: A Study on Authority in Art,” the soon-to-open Visual Artists [...]

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• What can we learn from Art Basel’s successful marriage of art & business

  By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council of Miami

  The 2012 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach which ended on December 9th featured the perfect marriage of arts and business. Hundreds of high end companies hosted private parties; pop up exhibitions and roving ads on cars, carts and even people. [...]

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• Thriving Center City offers Janet Echelman’s ‘Pulse’ increased prominence

  By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia

  For the first time in 60 years, Philadelphia’s population recently increased, with downtown neighborhoods growing by 16.3% in the last decade, according to the U.S. Census. Center City now has 181,000 residents  and hosts 265,000 workers daily. Another indication of Center City’s vitality is the [...]

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