Welcome to the Knight Arts Blog Round-Up, a biweekly look at what's happening in the South Florida Arts community. This week - Contemporary Art Meets Hialeah, Sneak Peak: Rumberos de la 8, Local High Schooler Heads to Washington & New Love for Old French.

Contemporary Art Meets Hialeah

When you think contemporary art, hardly do you ever think Hialeah. Well all that may change this month as the relocated Twenty Twenty Projects’ opens its first exhibition in its new Hialeah location. The show is curated by Twenty Twenty mainstay, Jay Hines and includes his work as well as work by a healthy mix of emerging and established artists. Whether the show succeeds, fails, or reaches somewhere in-between, it’s doubtless that anyone would have ever expected to see continue reading...

Sneak Peak: Rumberos de la 8

Over the years, DJ Le Spam (Andrew Yeomanson) has realized how much wondrous traditional Cuban music talent is just wandering about Miami — or playing easy gigs in commercial dance bands. So he formed Rumberos de la 8 with monster resident rumberos like Sonia Feldman, former Clave y Guaguancó member Boris Monterecy and longtime Spammers like Tomas Díaz, Lázaro Alfonso and Mercedes Abal. True to this mostly pure rumba project, Andrew recorded continue reading...

Local High Schooler Heads to Washington

youngARTS winner Ernest Felton Baker II boasts the ultimate arts success story. The Opa Locka native and Carol City High grad began martial arts classes at the age of 5, went on to win a Gold Award from youngARTS (which lead him to NY and MIkhail Baryshnikov) and this June, was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. This summer Ernest has performed at the Kennedy Center, met Joe Biden and continue reading...

New Love for Old French @ Cosford Cinema



After watching the autobiographical documentary “The Beaches of Agnes” at the Bill Cosford Cinema I’m ready to trade in my life for that of the octogenarian French filmmaker Agnes Varda. Oh, to be half so charming, a tenth as accomplished. The film is a deliberate muddle of the filmaker’s past and present, with footage from her films juxtaposed with present day reminiscences...And this is just the beginning of the Cosford’s New Wave Now: 50 Years of the French New Wave series, a delightful continue reading...

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