The cultural heartbeat of Miami will be celebrated on Monday, as the city honors over 30 of its most influential artists and cultural leaders at the Serving the Arts Awards. Taking place at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre at 9:30 a.m., the event puts a spotlight on those who have continued to push arts…

On a small stage just beyond the second-floor rotunda of the state Capitol, Oklahoma City University theater students Kevin Alvarado, Maddy Grimes and Joy Noel Stachmus take turns portraying three real-life people connected by one of the most famous photographs of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. “The picture, it’s in our textbooks, the Oklahoma history…

If you’ve been strolling through the streets of Sacramento this month, you might’ve noticed a little more color and conversation around the city’s walls, plazas, and parks. That’s because April is “Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month,” and the city is keen to, quite literally, paint the town red, blue, green, and every shade in between…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of historical Detroit book to speak at The Station on Saturday Show Caption Hide Caption Inside look: Michigan Central Station restoration After a six-year restoration by Ford Motor Co., Michigan Central Station is reopening to the public on June 6, 2024. Here’s an inside look. Detroit Free Press Staff Michigan Central Station…

“Art Spiegelman is one of the most important cartoonists in the world working today. He tackled a subject that was enormous, and he established the medium as a serious literary form.” That’s what Joe Sacco says of his fellow cartoonist in “Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse,” a new documentary that explores the career and…

The Minneapolis Institute of Art’s 42nd annual Art in Bloom festival returns April 24-27, where more than 100 floral artists interpret different pieces in Mia’s collection with flower arrangements to welcome spring to Minnesota.  “It’s always been a popular event. It’s kind of the ‘hey, springs finally here.’ I moved to Minneapolis 23 years ago, and I used to…

The Las Vegas Valley certainly isn’t short on diversity, which is now in the spotlight at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum. The exhibit “Harmony in Diversity” is on display all month long. It features displays from more than 40 local artists, whose work showcases the connections between the city’s diverse community and nature. “Art…

It’s hard to imagine a time in Hawaiʻi without ABC Stores. The company under Paul Kosasa has made it a point to give back to the community through the Kosasa Foundation. The family has recently set aside $1 million to help strengthen Hawaiʻi’s nonprofit arts and culture sector. Kosasa and foundation CEO Christine van Bergeijk…

SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) — Former Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung on Friday vowed to make South Korea one of the world’s top five “soft power” countries, pledging to boost exports in the culture sector to 50 trillion won (US$35.2 billion). Lee, who declared his presidential bid last week and is leading opinion polls for…

Jared Bowen: History courses through Costantino’s work, not to mention its surroundings. This exhibition about buildings is in one of the city’s most historic, the Boston Athenaeum. Founded in 1807, it houses a vast collection of the nation’s literary and artistic treasures, including George Washington’s private library. Both the Athenaeum and Costantino are mindful of…