Never much liked Dallas, the TV show. Not because of any sense that it was a false representation of the city. It was just a primetime soap about the oil rich and not to my taste, even as a camp in-joke. I watched one of the first episodes (barely) and never sat through another. So [...]
“Epineaux” by Shawn Saumell (silver gelatin photohybrid) “Take your time,” organizer Dean Odle told the first artist at last week’s Pecha Kucha event in Frisco. “Talk about yourself a little bit.” Hey wait a minute. Or actually, don’t. We’re supposed to be on a tight schedule here. Pecha Kucha is a 5-year-old international phenomenon conceived [...]
Lee Cullum interviews Bill Lively, CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Lively has led the campaign to raise more than $300 million to build the facility. At Art&Seek, we’re happy to bring you the full program, which first aired Monday night on KERA Television: Get the Flash Player to [...]
Guest blogger Bart Weiss is president of the Video Association of Dallas and an associate professor at UT-Arlington. Last week I went to see The Happening which I enjoyed more than I think any living critic did. But what amazed me most was the theater. The Inwood Theater holds lots of cinema memories, and back [...]
Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is Executive Director of La Reunion TX. Last Friday evening I had the opportunity to volunteer with local artist Nancy Rebal in the Dallas County Jail through local non-profit Resolana. We created art alongside female inmates who are in for everything from prostitution to drug use. Resolana is fearlessly led [...]
Guest blogger Gail Sachson is Vice-Chair of the Dallas Cultural Affairs Commission and an arts educator and advocate. The DMA is for Swingers: Swingers who bounce and bop and hop! Celebrating the Sara & Gerald Murphy exhibition and the life-style of the 1920s, Friday’s Late night at the DMA featured Trella Hart singing the music [...]
Putting up paper cut-outs on the gallery walls probably doesn’t provide quite the visceral drama of hauling in giant sculptures and re-constructing them onsite. So, as hoped, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s blog offers a different sort of behind-the-scenes visual tidbit for the installation of its new Kara Walker exhibition of controversial paper [...]
The McClatchy Company, the newspaper chain that owns the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, announced hefty layoffs last week — 1,400 jobs nationwide — which led to 130 jobs getting cut at the Star-Telegram, about 10 percent of the workforce. What I’ve yet to see anywhere, even a week later, is whether these job losses will directly [...]
Did any arts leaders from the North Texas area attend the recent National Performing Arts Convention in Denver — the one that brought together more than 3,000 people from dance, theater, opera and music? Just curious about any local response/connection to the many panels, the ArtsJournal blog about the conference and other online responses. But [...]
Although the red glass that will cover much of the Winspear Opera House will be one of its most distinguishing features, both the Winspear and the Wyly Theatre break with Dallas’ tradition by prominently using clear glass on their exteriors — not mirrored or tinted or smoked glass. But performance halls wrap their arts in darkness. What will they do with all that murderous Texas sunlight?
