From the Washington Post: You don’t hear panic from the directors of museums and theaters, nor has anyone started to cut back the number of productions or exhibitions they’re planning. Economic jolts take a few months, or longer, to reach budgets and schedules in Planet Arts, and gifts from corporations make up one of the [...]
Guest blogger Bart Weiss is Director of the Dallas Video Festival and president of Video Association of Dallas. This post is adapted from my column “bart chat,” which is part of videofest.news a weekly e-mail newsletter the Video Association sends out. In addition to the great blog that KERA is doing here, you can get [...]
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Quilts as an art form are getting quite a showcase in North Texas. Quilt Mania II is a staggered rollout of exhibitions at a dozen and a half venues from Plano to Arlington to South Dallas to Mesquite. It began last week at the Irving Arts Center with the opening of a show by Paul [...]
Janet Precourt (left) and Linda Chance knotting away. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator and blogger who writes for Art&Seek about people who gather to make things. This weekend I attended the Silk Knotting with Pearls class at Splendor in the Grass, a lovely beading boutique tucked away in Lakewood. Class instructor Sally [...]
Bloomberg.com reports that the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers was a major funder of non-profits, including arts organizations — to the tune of $39 million for more than 200 organizations. And that was just in 2007. image from blogs.citypages.com
Karen Garrett cardboard sculpture currently on display in Bryan Tower Guest blogger GAIL SACHSON is a member of the TSA 25th Anniversary Planning Committee and the Moderator of the Symposium Panel discussion. The Mayor of Dallas and the Governor of Texas have proclaimed September to be Sculpture Month. So don’t be surprised when you notice [...]
The Texas Observer has a thumbs-up review of Gary Hartman’s The History of Texas Music. Because Hartman, founding director of the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University, does not feel there actually is any single, so-called “Texas sound,” he approaches the field geographically and historically. In other words, his book goes beyond [...]
The Fort Worth Business Press has an editorial column that provides a summation of the Texas Ballet Theater’s finances: [When] a dry-dock period of dormancy and fiscal healing might appear in order, Texas Ballet Theater finds itself in a double-bind compulsion to perform through the Christmas season, in any event, when its annual Nutcracker blow-out [...]
The New York Times on Sunday featured a lengthy story about August 4, 1964, the new oratorio by composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer. Commissioned by the Dallas Symphony, the musical piece focuses on a pivotal day in Lyndon Johnson’s presidency: the day the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers were found in [...]
