— Photo by Tadd Clarkson
Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and Norte Maar, a nonprofit arts organization based in Brooklyn, N.Y., host a night of collaborative performance, poetry, music and dance at the Masonic Temple Saturday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m. The show’s title remains prospective: Untitled (as of yet). They’d better hurry! The event is tonight!
Xpress visited the Bele Chere Arts Park, a restful eddy on Patton Avenue.
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It’s time once again to vote for the Best of Western North Carolina.
Bele Chere Island is as dense with revels as it is flush with inhabitants, and twice as strange. In the early morning hours during the last weekend in July, downtown becomes a kind of stage, pacific yet ripe for the early afternoon to part the curtains, bringing on a swarm of extras, unified within festival […]
Who will be this year’s local marvels? Voting begins Friday, July 29.
Classicopia calls itself “Asheville’s newest chamber music organization,” which is an apt description of the group’s originality, as much as a measure of how long it’s been in town. Pianist Daniel Weiser moved to Asheville from Vermont in September 2009. He’s forged the organization with a distinct, if iconoclastic purpose. “I try to avoid ‘sophistication,’” […]
Charles D. Thompson Jr., the curriculum and education director at the Center for Documentary Studies and a lecturer of cultural anthropology at Duke University, will discuss his latest book, Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World, on Sunday, July 17, at the FBI, the “church building across the street from the firehouse” (or 68 N. Main St. in Marshall).
Local painter and Xpress arts writer Ursula Gullow’s exhibit, Speaking in Tongues, is up through July 30 at Atelier 24. About the title, Gullow says, “I researched what speaking in tongues is all about. Basically, it’s a nonsensical abstract language coming from a higher place. I see the creative process as that. The language is universal.”
Mr. Whipple is coming to Montford Books and More. Does that mean you can’t squeeze the Charmin? (Let’s hope not.) We’re talking about Mr. Lee Whipple, of course, the local author and singer with a penchant for Grunge-era angst enclosed in the streaked Chrysanthemum-burst aurora of intergalactic travel. Don’t squeeze the nebulae.
Local artist Stephen Lange sent Xpress a note that a work in progress, a “2-foot by 6-foot diptych, brown stained wood towards the periphery with 8 red zigzag sunrays/lightning bolts in the center,” was taken from the area outside of his Wedge-building studio in the River Arts District. Lange asks that “If anyone sees this painting, please let the artist know. I’m on the second floor of the Wedge building.” See Lange’s full bulletin in this post.
Click the PDF below to view full screen Rob Mazurek's Starlicker Wednesday, May 11 9 p.m. Bobo Gallery Starlicker is Rob Mazurek (cornet), John Herndon (percussion) and Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone). Deeply rooted in the Chicago and international avant garde, jazz and post-rock scenes, Starlicker expel sound with pervading energy and otherworldly delicacy. Rob Mazurek leads, […]
There is a lot of hay in the Asheville music scene. The traditional sound in these mountains is more than a little country. Considering that North Carolina is a major hub for bluegrass and old-time, if not the origin of those modes, the prevalence is not inappropriate. The Open Letter Music Series, curated by Asheville […]
The Asheville Chamber Music Series concludes its season on Friday, March 25 with the Miro String Quartet from Austin. The program includes “Quartett-satz” by Franz Schubert; String Quartet No.1, Op. 51 in C minor, by Johannes Brahms; and, departing the Romantic period with a piece from 1991, Phillp Glass’ String Quartet No. 5.
The Asheville Chamber Music Series continues its 58th season on Friday, Jan. 21, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville with The Peabody Trio. The program includes four pieces of varying instrumentation from the Romantic, modern and contemporary periods.
Classical music had an active year in Asheville in 2010. The Asheville Symphony began its 50th season; the Classical Guitar Society began hosting concerts; the Chamber Music Society continued performances in its 58th season; and the Asheville Area Piano Forum hosted its 10th annual Fall Benefit Concert. My first story for the Xpress, “Eighty-Eight Keys, […]
There are many reasons why Christmas may not be a cause for distinct celebration to some. Judaism, for one. Or maybe it’s just not something one does. Even if the day itself is not directly relevant, usual life is still effectively on hold and a certain solemnity is in the air. I was going to […]
The winter months can be hard on people. And when the season gets dark and cold, people can be hard on each other. When a situation between partners or spouses turns abusive, Helpmate, a crisis center for victims of domestic violence and their children, has a team of specialist-volunteers to help. Wish List Ongoing client […]
Asheville painter Dustin Spagnola and a carload of local colleagues descended upon Miami, Fla. on Nov. 27 to join the visual carnival that is Art Basel. As Xpress reported in the Nov. 17 story, Basel Bound, “Spagnola wants to go to Miami ‘to paint a giant image.’ Specifically, he wants to paint a mural.” So how is the giant image progressing?
Presents give presence. A small wooden horse with a felt saddle, a hand-drawn picture of a grinning snowman or the perhaps more-exciting PlayStation communicate something far beyond the immediate thrill of a new gadget: You are not alone. For children at Eliada Homes — a 107-year-old child/family services organization providing residential care for abused, neglected […]
The French writer Raymond Queneau, a founding member of the “Oulipo” literary salon, explored 99 variations of an apparently insignificant experience on a city bus in his 1947 book, Exercises in Style. A tall man wearing a hat boards a bus. A dispute ensues about a seat. This event is observed by the passenger/narrator who, […]
There’s plenty of Florida in Asheville — even if a large measure of that presence is seasonal, senior or citrus. Local big-scale artist Dustin Spagnola, himself a Florida native, wants to return the favor, or the presence at least, and bring Asheville art to Miami. Actually, he wants to put Asheville art somewhere on Miami, […]
