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- CFCC Presents Arts Poetica 3 – Not your usual poetry show
WILMINGTON – April is National Poetry Month, and Cape Fear Community College is once again celebrating by presenting “Arts Poetica” a dynamic public performance of poetry to the Wilmington community.
Hosted by WAAV personality and performance artist Rhonda Bellamy, Arts Poetica will take place Tuesday, April 13th and Wednesday, April 14th, at 7:30 p.m. in the [...]
- “My Downtown Wilmington”
Wabi Sabi Warehouse describes a photo exhibit going on now through May 1st at the IAC Wabi Sabi Warehouse.
- Rumor mill: Corporate Canvas is shutting down
Inside sources reveal that downtown gallery Corporate Canvas is closing. Couldn’t pay their bills, apparently. Too bad—that was a really nice space, and kind of a bellwether for the south of Market area. We’ve been to a bunch for events, for Fourth Friday Gallery nights.
- Race & Art and Race as Art
Apropos of a conversation our very sophisticated wine group took up last night about race, in which both overt racism and deeper-down race fear sublimated into other parts of our lives figured prominently, the Sunday NY Times has a really well-written short history of race in the arts—and of race as itself a kind of [...]
- Stanley Fish on the use of the humanities
Duke U. postmodernist luminary and literary critic Stanley Fish has a blog at NY Times, and has started a great conversation about the “use” of the humanities with his posting Will the Humanities Save Us? and its follow-up yesterday, The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two. Great discussion about “art for art’s sake”, the instrumental [...]
- The problem of the Cameron
Rachel and I talk about the problem of the Cameron Museum.
We went last night and it was perfectly pleasant. The evening was a trifecta—some of the work was great; afterwards, we got burritos at the funky and incomparable Flaming Amy’s, then stopped by Harris Teater’s on the way home for a twelver of Amstel Light [...]
- An artistic visionary for the city: Q&A with Ruth Funk
My Wilmington magazine profile of Ruth Funk, head of the Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall (archwilmington.org), looks like it was just published.
Ruth Funk just laughs dismissively when her husband Frank says she is the world’s foremost authority on performance halls. But she may be. As she describes what a larger, high-quality venue would bring [...]