Flags on the Waldorf, Childe Hassam, 1916 The Amon Carter Museum is holding a poll — both at the museum and online — asking visitors to choose their favorite painting or sculpture in the museum’s collection. They’re publishing select responses in the museum’s Works of Art website page, which keeps an updated tally on the [...]
American symphonies usually spend more than they take in, concludes a Stanford Graduate School of Business study. It examined the top 50 orchestras ranked in the U.S. over two years (63 orchestras total) — 46 ran deficits, 17 surpluses. Familiar news? Perhaps. But the author of the study points out that – many of the [...]
David Greenberg, Hiett Prize winner This past Tuesday evening’s talk on David Mamet by myself and University of Dallas theater chair Patrick Kelly was re-scheduled by the the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture when the rain and hail and flooding threatened to wash away us all. (A few people still showed up — my [...]
… if it meant you could see the full text of Adam Gopnik’s fascinating March 17 story in the New Yorker about the current state of stage magic. But only an abstract is available online. Like a box of wonders, Gopnik’s piece manages to contain a history of illusions an analysis of how we experience magic as [...]
Take a shot for art at the Amsterdam Bar — it’s a fundraiser for the Deep Ellum Association — while Dawn Hunter’s exhibition, Spectacle Spectacular, at the Mesquite Art Center, examines 20 years of fashion shots from Vogue. And Gini has more for you, including dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones at the Nasher Salon.
Guest blogger Bart Weiss, head of theVideo Association of Dallas, has great suggestions from SXSW and insider tips for upcoming AFI Film Festival. Notes from the dark It is always a pleasure to go to SXSW. This year was a bit different, since I came on Wednesday (5 days after it started), after all the workshops are [...]
… or anything, but you could read Adrian Searle’s wise yet acerbic essay in the Guardian about how art criticism has fared against the flood of money in the art world, read it and replace “art” with ”film” as needed, and you’d gain all the insights you need. For that matter, replace “art criticism” with “literary criticism” or “music [...]
OK, now it looks to be a serious outbreak. They used to be called “happenings” and then “performance art.” Now they’re “spontaneous acts of musical theater.” On the other side of the continent, in an innocent, unsuspecting food court in a Los Angeles shopping mall, actor-singer-dancers-improv artists with not enough paid employment top their frozen New York [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to encounter something like this while going about your day? If you have evidence of random acts of collective art taking place in North Texas, please share. We’ll be happy to post on them. Here’s a great example from NYC. (And thanks to Diane in Wisconsin for sending me the link…)
The Turtle Creek Chorale presents the Dallas premiere of the one-act opera, Night Passage, about the arrest of Oscar Wilde, while the Texas Visual Arts Association has a show at the Plaza of the Americas celebrating the Persian New Year. Is this a culturally rich area or what? And Gini has other riches to offer:
