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The Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks exhibit at Discovery Place offers something fun for all ages
By Rachel Laurie June 4, 2019 If you’ve ever wanted to be in the same room as the world’s most fantastic skyscrapers all at once, now’s your chance: the LEGO Towers of Tomorrow exhibit is now open at Discovery Place Science until September. The exhibit...
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Alexandra Loesser Schoen’s art uses nature to examine the beauty of vulnerability
By Matt Cosper February 25, 2019 Painter Alexandra Loesser Schoen is an alchemist of image and color, working in oils to create dynamic aethers and dream-like images of animals, humans, and creatures somewhere in between. By placing symbolically rich figures into fields of pulsating color,...
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The Mint Museum will host Nike and Jordan Brand pop-up shop and experiences for NBA All-Star Weekend
By CLTure February 7, 2019 (Updated) The Mint Museum has partnered with Nike and Jordan Brand to host events during NBA All-Star Weekend and to activate a pop-up shop from February 14-17. Nike and Jordan Brand have taken over the event spaces at Mint Museum...
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Condom Couture gears up for final year with Carnivale themed fashion show
By Shirley Griffith Cover photo: Deborah Triplett January 28, 2019 The annual institution that is Condom Couture is gearing up for its fifth and final hurrah on February 9 at the Fillmore in Charlotte. Normally, when condoms are involved clothes are not, but Condom Couture...
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The history of The Mint Museum exhibits true dedication to the arts in Charlotte
By Brandon Lunsford January 11, 2019 In an interesting coincidence, the two locations of the Mint Museum in Charlotte opened their doors to the public during a period of almost 75 years that bookended two of America’s most critical financial collapses. The Mint Museum of...
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Charlotte visual artist HNin Nie’s work is imaginative, vulnerable, and saturated with emotion
By Matt Cosper January 6, 2019 Born in Vietnam but living in Charlotte’s West Side since infancy, 26-year-old visual artist HNin Nie creates visionary works in painting, sculpture and video. After a recent slew of successful gallery exhibitions, a residency with Goodyear Arts, Nie is...
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Jeff Jackson’s latest novel ‘Destroy All Monsters’ is a punk rock lullaby for the wasted youth
By Matt Cosper October 25, 2018 “Watch out for the quiet ones” is what they always say, right? Local writer/musician/visual artist and critic Jeff Jackson is no exception to that rule. To look at him, mild mannered and neat (a little like a bookish techno...
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The History of The Excelsior Club
By Brandon Lunsford October 18, 2018 (updated) Cover photo: James Peeler Collection at the Inez Moore Parker Archives at Johnson C. Smith University When the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission announced it would seek approval from the City Council for an option to purchase the Excelsior Club at...
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‘Talking Walls’ is a citywide public mural festival enhancing the visual appeal of Charlotte through thought-provoking murals.
Powered by the Mint Museum By Matt Cosper October 6, 2018 The walls are talking in Charlotte, if you know how to listen. Open your eyes and look around you. All over the city, muralists are magicians articulating a spectrum of fantastic dreamscapes, sly humor...
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‘Welcome to Brookhill’ photo exhibit at The Gantt is raising awareness about Charlotte’s affordable housing crisis
By Matt Cosper Cover photo: Alvin C. Jacobs, Jr. / Harvey B. Gantt Center September 25, 2018 (updated) Under the surface of our current gilded age there are rampant problems that affect vast numbers of Charlotteans in the most essential of arenas: what we eat,...
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