- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Author Archives: Nick Smith
After the Deluge
September 6, 2007 – 11:03 pm
After spending all day staring at a computer screen, it takes a lot to drag me in front of one again. My tired eyes aren’t used to reading books or comic strips on a monitor.
Sometimes, though, a story comes along that makes it worth switching my computer back on after supper. Brooklyn comic artist Josh [...]
South Windermere Wraps
September 4, 2007 – 12:35 pm
It’s official: South Windermere Cinemas, West Ashley’s only family-run moviehouse, is closing for good. A bunch of fans of the $3-a-ticket venue will be saying farewell to the managers with a party on Wednesday, September 12 from 6-9 p.m.
Everyone who’s ever caught a cheap flick there is invited, as well as all the people who kept [...]
Floating Show
August 31, 2007 – 11:03 am
A few of our theatre companies are without a home to call their own: Actors’ Theatre of SC, Theatre/verv, Art Forms & Theatre Concepts and, at the end of the year, PURE. But the recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a reminder that you don’t need a stage to put on a show. Street corners, park [...]
Campus Media Tour falls together
August 27, 2007 – 10:40 am
Organic Process is an organization founded two years ago by Charleston-based artist/filmmaker Farrah Hoffmire and her husband, BookSurge instigator Mitchell Davis. The Process is dedicated to setting up memorable art and media projects such as 2005’s Pieces of Sanity, a group multimedia show at the Humanities Center on Rutledge Ave.
Recently, Hoffmire and Davis have been highlighting [...]
Furry News
August 22, 2007 – 1:38 pm
The John Ancrum SPCA’s Furry Affair art auction won’t be held until Friday night at 6 p.m. But the art’s on display right now at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, and the organization is taking bids.
Here’s a chance to see the lots without having to worry about having to negotiate crowds of patrons, autograph hunters chasing [...]
Bike Pix
August 20, 2007 – 2:03 pm
Just checked out the bEYEcycle photography exhibition, up through the end of the month at Charleston Civic Design Center on Calhoun St.
It shows the winners and other notable submissions to the bEYEcycle competition, which ran with very little fanfare during the summer.
The Civic Design Center is a City initiative to “promote a positive vision for [...]
Peach Boy
August 14, 2007 – 8:08 pm
For those who like out-of-the-ordinary music shows, local multimedia-loving singer/storyteller Yukari Yucca will present “Peach Boy” at the Map Room, 1650 Sam Rittenburg, West Ashley on Thursday night (Aug. 16).
Yucca will relate “amazing stories from far away for the young and old.” Peach Boy’s an acquired taste - a Japanese take on heroes and happiness [...]
Last Day for Rodin
August 12, 2007 – 10:50 am
The Gibbes Museum of Art on Meeting St. has been looking to the future since Todd Smith took over as director just over a year ago.
A Now! exhibit of contemporary work by young artists featured digital photography, video art and macrame scultpures last October. This Summer, the Rotunda has been filled with another piece of [...]
Open Auditions: Second Round
August 8, 2007 – 12:31 pm
Further to our earlier post of Footlights Salt and Battery auditions, more details have been released about the cast search for ”Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight,” Peter Ackerman’s first play. It’s a bed-bound comedy concerning three sets of partners saying things they shouldn’t say in the wee hours of the morning.
Director JC Conway hold the auditions [...]
Still Unscripted
August 6, 2007 – 10:19 am
With A&E editor Patrick Sharbaugh off to Japan, I’ll be crashing his Unscripted blog for a while, as well as handling some of his newsgathering duties for the CP.
While the inestimable powers of Patrick are impossible to replace, I’ll do my best to keep you abreast of what’s going on in the arts around town [...]
