The Who perform “Pinball Wizard” fromTommy, live on the Isle of Wight. Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art. She is vice-chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission, a Public Art Committee member and the Office of Cultural Affairs Liaison to the Dallas Theater Center Board of Directors. The best theater in town this [...]
Video about Miro Rivera Architects from Austin PBS station KLRU The Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Restroom by Austin’s Miro Rivera Architects has been put on the shortlist for the first-ever World Architecture Festival’s award in the energy and recycling category. It joins 223 other buldings from 43 countries — a list that includes [...]
Art isn’t just what hangs in museums and galleries or what sells for millions in international auctions. As that art has become literally bigger in size and pricier, Internet-age counter-movements of small, affordable, personalized (and sometimes mass-produced) works have cropped up. The line between artist and appreciator has blurred in the process. Etsy Dallas, an [...]
It’s not possible to see how much Dallas-Fort Worth appears in the film — if at all. It was shot mostly in Louisiana: Shreveport’s Independence Bowl, for instance, stands in for Arlington Park. Written by Oliver Stone (briefly a Yale classmate of President Bush) and Stanley Weiser (Wall Street), W. has been described by Stone [...]
Speaking of real estate news (see “SCADs” below) … Late last year — after 16 years of wandering around to different performance spaces in Fort Worth — Stage West came back to its long-time home at 821 W. Vickery. The company left the old warehouse because the reconstruction of I-30 had made it perilous for [...]
The bottom item in Steve Brown’s business column in the Dallas Morning News on July 18 announced that “the Savannah College of Art and Design has considered the vacant West End Marketplace and an adjoining building for the site of a new downtown Dallas campus.” Here’s hoping it happens. It could be a huge addition [...]
As Manny mentioned, this weekend marked the first of five presentations in a series of video and new media art presented by the Video Association of Dallas at Conduit Gallery. The good news: If you missed Saturday’s opening reception at Conduit Gallery, you can still catch the installations, which will be on display this week. [...]
Rodeo Plaza in Fort Worth is being revamped to make the area more friendly to pedestrians. Improvements include pieces by Lubbock artist Steve Teeters – giant spurs and cowboy belts that double as bench seating along the sidewalks. (Steve also did the Buddy Holly glasses on display outside the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock.) KERA [...]
In the New York Times Book Review, Rachel Donadio’s column on author tours confirmed something I’ve argued for several years — that the rise of literary series such as Arts & Letters Live has been, in part, due to the lack of sufficient (and sufficiently big-name) promotional visits in other venues, particularly bookstore chains. In [...]
With the Amazon Wish List, I was vaguely aware that one can store the data for varioius desired items at the online retailer. But I was fuzzy on the fact that the list can be public. Anyone can log in and find out your heart’s desires. So imagine my surprise in learning that Archinect has [...]
