Olympic Games, Marginalized Community and Curling Games
OMAHA – Given the fact that Omaha hosts the Olympic curling trials in November this year, should Omahans be boycotting that event?
Road to Omaha – Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
Omaha, NE – On today’s episode of “Road to Omaha,” KVNO’s Brandon McDermott spoke with Oral Roberts head coach Ryan Folmar.
Tiffany Williams Performs for Vesper Concert Series
This Sunday, Vesper Concert Series will present Tiffany Williams’ Can You Hear Me Now?: Giving Voice to the Black Art Song and Spiritual. Williams performed on a Vesper Concert of Gospel Music in 2019, and this will be her first solo performance with the series. Williams has a diverse background in music, learning both gospel and classical, eventually double majoring in voice and piano.
Maple St. Construct Opens ‘A Surfer’s Time’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—LA architect and artist Robin Donaldson will show work tonight at Benson’s Maple Street Construct in, titled A Surfer’s Time. The gallery highlights the art of architecture at the same time bridging Omaha to the rest of the nation’s creative hubs. The title and the show itself might not have come together, though, if weren’t for a colleague’s suggestion.
Eko Nova Presents ‘The Forces Inside’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Clarinetist John Klinghammer returns to Omaha for Eko Nova’s concert at Kaneko on Monday, The Forces Inside. He’s no stranger to the series, since he is its co-founder and first Artistic Director. Klinghammer has since accepted a chair in the Kansas City Symphony, but Eko Nova and its dedication to innovative chamber music survive.
POST-NOVIS, ‘Narrative Architecture’ Opens on Maple Street
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—While many institutions are gearing up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the German Bauhaus Movement in art and architecture, Maple Street Construct’s exhibition opening tonight pays homage to to the parallel but lesser known movement, UNOVIS, from Vitebsk, Belarus. Architects and Professors Cruz García and Nathalie Frankowski of the University of Nebraska Lincoln have collaborated with their students to imagine a renaissance of the lost art school, titled, POST-NOVIS.
‘One New Big Painting’ at Project Project
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Tonight on Vinton Street, Project Project Gallery will open a new exhibition, One New Big Painting, which is in fact a single new big painting by local artist and recent UNO graduate, Anne Dovali.
Read MoreEko Nova Season Opens with ‘Quartet’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Eko Nova, Omaha Chamber Music Society’s series for new music, often features innovative, though not always well known contemporary music and sometimes some unusual instrumentation.
Their next performance on September 24th, Quartet, will feature one of the most popular classical arrangements—the string quartet, of course—but the evening still highlights a unique framing of classical music, featuring Shostakovich, Beethoven, and later 20th century Soviet-German composer Alfred Schnittke, whose work draw directly from the former composers.
Read MoreMaple Street Construct Opens ‘Wall Assembly’
By Corbin Hirschhorn
Omaha, NE—Simply put, the Duck vs. the Decorated Shed a theory of architecture put forward by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. For them, all structures fall into one of those categories, either resembling an object as a sculpture, like a duck, which is a reference to an actual structure in Long Island, or a more standard structure with a façade to give a certain impression.
Architect and assistant professor at UCLA, Andrew Kovacs has unpacked this dichotomy in his work, some of which will be shown this weekend at Maple Street Construct. He begins with scaled down sculptures, often resembling complex 3-dimensional collages of pieced together objects and architectural styles, sometimes challenging the limits of perception.
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