Apr 26 Arts and Culture Opera Expects to Move Off ‘Unfair’ List The Louisville Orchestra and its players signed a labor agreement yesterday, ending the impasse that canceled the last orchestra season. By Erin Keane Apr 26 Arts and Culture Opera Expects to Move Off ‘Unfair’ List Erin Keane
Apr 26 Arts and Culture Ali Center Apppoints New CEO The Muhammad Ali Center has announced that Donald Lassere will be its new president and CEO effective May 14. Lassere has most recently served as senior vice president of Scholarship America, an education assistance program based in Minnesota.“Muhammad and I are grateful and excited to welcome Donald as the new CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center,” Ali’s wife, Lonnie, said in a release. By Rick Howlett Apr 26 Arts and Culture Ali Center Apppoints New CEO Rick Howlett
Apr 26 Arts and Culture Savage Rose Stages Reading of Marlowe’s ‘Edward II’ Savage Rose Classical Theatre Company ends their season Sunday with Christopher Marlowe’s “Edward II.” The company will present a staged reading of the Elizabethan history play as part of their Words, Words, Words play reading series. By Erin Keane Apr 26 Arts and Culture Savage Rose Stages Reading of Marlowe’s ‘Edward II’ Erin Keane
Apr 26 Arts and Culture Today Is Poem in Your Pocket Day By Erin Keane Apr 26 Arts and Culture Today Is Poem in Your Pocket Day Erin Keane
Apr 25 Arts and Culture It’s Over: Orchestra and Musicians Reach Agreement After 11 months of negotiations, the Louisville Orchestra musicians and board of directors have a signed employment contract. The two sides announced the agreement at a press conference at the Kentucky Center’s Whitney Hall today. By Erin Keane Apr 25 Arts and Culture It’s Over: Orchestra and Musicians Reach Agreement Erin Keane
Apr 25 Arts and Culture Kentucky Writers Gather at Capitol Dozens of writers gathered in Frankfort yesterday for Kentucky Writers Day. By Erin Keane Apr 25 Arts and Culture Kentucky Writers Gather at Capitol Erin Keane
Apr 25 Arts and Culture Author Re-imagines Poe Story as Steampunk Thriller In Louisville author Bethany Griffin’s young adult novel “Masque of the Red Death,” a plague has ravished Araby Worth’s city. Her brother is dead, and she seeks escape from her grief in the seductive diversions of the Debauchery Club. By Erin Keane Apr 25 Arts and Culture Author Re-imagines Poe Story as Steampunk Thriller Erin Keane
Apr 24 Arts and Culture Fund for the Arts Names Smith President, CEO The Fund for the Arts board of directors announced today their unanimous decision to approve Barbara Sexton Smith as president and CEO of the organization. By Erin Keane Apr 24 Arts and Culture Fund for the Arts Names Smith President, CEO Erin Keane
Apr 23 Arts and Culture Sculptor Prefers Sticks to Stone Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest visiting artist Patrick Dougherty will unveil the large willow sculpture he created on the Bernheim grounds this week.Dougherty has created more than 200 large-scale sculptures all over the world, from a piece for the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens to a Shinto temple in Japan. His raw materials are indigenous tree saplings and branches, like the locally-sourced willow, maple and gum branches that make up this sculpture, but Dougherty just calls them “sticks.” By Erin Keane Apr 23 Arts and Culture Sculptor Prefers Sticks to Stone Erin Keane
Apr 23 Arts and Culture New Speed Museum Exhibit Previews Expansion A new exhibit is open at the Speed Art Museum. Three interrelated installations form “Inside|Out,” a preview of sorts of the museum’s planned expansion.The exhibit demonstrates how nature and art will connect after the Speed’s three-year, $50 million renovation and construction project, which will include 9,000 square feet of new gallery space for contemporary art, is completed. By Erin Keane Apr 23 Arts and Culture New Speed Museum Exhibit Previews Expansion Erin Keane