Welcome to the Knight Arts Blog Round-Up, a biweekly look at what's happening in the South Florida Arts community. This week - The Morning After Sleepless Night contest, [NAME] Publication Review & an update on ArtFormz.

Do You Haiku?

The Knight Foundation and the University of Wynwood are pleased to announce their inaugural haiku contest. We’re looking for a haiku that addresses the Miami-Dade County Commission’s review of public arts funding. Submit your entries now through Nov 21 at KnightArts.org & feel free to be as political and provocative as you like – no limits. Click here to apply & get additional details.

Morning After Sleepless Night - Massage Prize

As promised, I’ll be shelling out for a professional Thai massage for two lucky winners: the best review of a Sleepless Night event and the most reviews of Sleepless Night events by a single person. What you review is up to you. The culture mavens at Miami Beach selected more than 150 of the most exciting arts groups to entertain you. Make yourself a quick and easy profile at neverwatchalone.ning.com and post away. I’ll post links...continue reading

[NAME] Publications Review: Part 2

One of the advantages [NAME] art books have over the average art object is their ability for wide-spread dissemination (1,000 copies of each book printed) and their tactile nature. You can hold them in your hands, flip through the pages at your leisure. Much in the same way one used to appreciate music in the days of CD’s and albums, where the artwork and sleeve design was every bit as crucial as the music itself. Beatriz Monteavaro seems to have found a happy medium with her latest book Quiet Village, which includes a 30 minute long CD by her band Beings. No, it’s not the first ever such CD/Book hybrid, nor is it hardly the first melding of audio and visual. But it is interesting what an object like this signifies for our times, when music is consumed as...continue reading

Artformz Update

Next weekend we will be opening “Money Makes Art” our winter group show that will be up till January 5th. As such, our current show “Carnivale of Souls” is coming to an end this month. For “Carnivale,” artists Rai Escale and Gisela Savdie worked together to show a great body of new work each responding to the other’s style. We had a chance to chat while installing their show. (Rai had arrived from Barcelona and I caught up with Gisela between travels.) We sat down at the gallery and I asked each three questions...continue reading

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