Michelle F. Solomon | ArtburstMiami

This year's FilmGate Miami Festival will be at the forefront of the latest conversation point: artificial intelligence or A.I as it pertains to immersive experiences.

The daughter of Italian opera singer Jose Todaro and Brazilian mezzo-soprano Maria-Helena de Oliveira is coming to South Florida to serve as interim general director of Florida Grand Opera.

More than 40 artists who have been part of Miami Beach's Oolite Arts organization will have their artwork featured in their latest summer exhibition, opening this week.

For the past six years, Dennis Scholl has been devoted to Oolite Arts as the president and CEO of the Miami-based non-profit artist support organization. Now, after years of being a supporter of artists and leaving the art-making to artists, Scholl says it is time to turn his attention to his own creative practice.

Grammy award-winning Cellist Zuill Bailey is set to perform with the South Florida Symphony Orchestra as part of its 25th anniversary.

Since joining the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2016, program officer Adam Ganuza has reviewed more than 11,000 proposals from artists vying for its Arts Challenge. There are three rules to apply: The idea must be about the arts; the project must take place in, or benefit, South Florida; and awardees must match the Knight Foundation’s commitment.

“The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM’s Collection” delves into the time period of the “Poème-Objet” (poem-object), a very particular moment in the 1930s and ’40s where Surrealist artists used found objects and mixed them with text. The exhibition opens March 25 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

The Bookleggers Library was one of nine nonprofit beneficiaries of a $2.2 million investment by the foundation, which has been creating grants to support arts groups during these unusual times.

NWS will open its 33rd season at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 with a special WALLCAST Concert at North Miami’s Dezerland Park Drive-In Theater.

In an effort to help keep one of the city’s most valuable assets viable, the mayor and City Commission - in partnership with the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council - approved distribution of $1 million in funds to 13 arts groups.

Edwidge Danticat was one of 29 authors (and one of two from Miami) tapped to write a short story for the magazine’s project, a 21st century pandemic bookend of sorts to Giovanni Boccaccio’s almost 700-year-old “The Decameron,” which was written in the midst of a global epidemic of bubonic plague that hit Europe and Asia.