Kara Walker, Endless Conundrum, An African Anonymous Adverturess , 2001, on paper, Collection Walker Art Center, T.B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2002 Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and art conservationist. For another artist’s take on the Kara Walker exhibit, check out Matthew Bourbon’s commentary for KERA radio in Art&Seek’s feature content area. [...]
Justin Stanton at the North Sea Jazz Festival Because of the exchange rate and the high price of internet service in Europe (10 euros for 14 minutes, almost a buck a minute), the postings from the One O’Clock Lab Band’s tour through Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy have been thin the past several days. The [...]
The Dallas Morning News‘ coverage of the King Tut exhibition, coming to the Dallas Museum of Art in October, has been marked by a strong note of cheerleading — notably the breathless excitement when the exhibition was first announced. How often does a cultural event merit Mayor Tom Leppert’s personal involvement? (And I should add, [...]
The statue of Charles Tandy, the Fort Worth businessman and philanthropist, stands just north of the Tarrant County Courthouse in downtown Fort Worth. Because it’s surrounded primarily by cars and trucks going past, the Downtown Public Art Master Plan is recommending the statue be moved to the TCU Campus in front of Tandy Hall — [...]
UNT Jazz musicians Chris Bullock and Sean Foley Ja, ja, jazz mit bier ist gut: From clues cleverly hidden in this picture, how can we tell the One O’Clock Lab Band has made it to Germany? The Art&Seek Blog has been following the University of North Texas jazz group on its current tour of Europe, [...]
“Paris Hilton with looks and brains and talent.” That’s how the Dallas Museum of Art’s William Keyse Rudolph describes Sara Murphy in this entertaining interview with Krys Boyd taped today for Think. And he suggests today’s celebutantes could learn a thing or three from this friend of Fitzgerald, Picasso and Hemingway. She and her husband [...]
Guest blogger Lydia Regalado writes about people who gather to make things. The Pin Show (above) was the Greatest Show on Earth! At least that’s what it looked like from the line that was wrapped around The Door. Kind of like a three ring circus actually. There was the runway show, a staged area set [...]
Not very long ago, I was invited to spend some time working with a group of teenagers from the South Dallas area enrolled in a summer program called Sight and Sound. It’s one of the programs offered by an organization called Preservation LINK, the mission statement of which begins with the sentence, “Often we speak [...]
Bloggin’ with the Band: Through July 22, the One O’Clock Jazz Band from the University of North Texas is playing some of the major music festivals in Europe, including the Montreaux Jazz Festival. Freelance photographer and UNT student Michael Climents is following the tour, blogging about it and posting his photos on Flickr. We’ve been [...]
The first and the last: The University of North Texas offered the first bachelor’s degree program in jazz studies in 1947, and now Neil Slater, the third director of the program, is taking his last European tour with the school’s celebrated One O’Clock Jazz Band. He’ll be retiring in August after 27 years at UNT. [...]
