Congratulations to Jacob Rasmussen, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Jacob is an amateur photographer who spends a lot of time taking pictures of interesting sites around Euless, where he lives. Jacob follows last week’s winner, Teresa Rafidi. If you would like to participate, all you need to do is upload [...]

It’s the last Roundup of the year — and it will have to last. The first one for 2009 won’t come until Monday as The Roundup takes a few days off to ring in the new year. THIS IS NOT THE SOLUTION: Dallas Independent School District’s $84 million budget shortfall has been well-documented. As the [...]

If you’re about to head into a four-day mini-vacation, you might consider taking advantage of a few museum deals. First, if you are a Bank of America cardholder, you can flash your card and get free admission to the Dallas Museum of Art, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Museum of Nature [...]

We’ve hit that time of year again – the time for lists. It’s a fun way to look back at the year that was, and a good exercise to see how the current year stacks up against years past. Lists of the top 10 movies of the year are the most prevalent each year, so [...]

Tony Cragg’s “Line of Thought” in front of the Rosewood Court complex at Pearl and Cedar Springs has become my favorite piece of public, outdoor sculpture in North Texas these days. Which isn’t saying a lot, actually, considering much of our outdoor art, which mostly consists of generic abstract corporate sculptures or popular but conventional [...]

R.I.P., ROBERT GRAHAM: It has been busy couple of days for deaths in the arts. First, Harold Pinter on Christmas Eve, then Dale Wasserman, who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, on Sunday. Those were followed Monday by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who collaborated with Fort Worth native Ornette Coleman. Add to that list [...]

Joel Shapiro, 20 elements Never has there been a greater demonstration of meanness than the parking garages of Northpark Center on the Saturday after Christmas. Mimmo Paladino, A Surrounded Figure (Assediato) But it’s worth it, not just for the shopping, but for the generous supply of museum-grade art on view throughout the mall. Frank Stella, [...]

The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: The choices artists make sometimes are as interesting as the work itself. Take Doubt. It follows a ruthless nun accusing a priest of an inappropriate relationship with an altar boy. It won a Pulitzer as a play before becoming a film. The movie stars Meryl Streep as [...]

Has everyone recovered from the four-day holiday weekend? No? Us neither — but we’ll get on to the Roundup anyway: THE BOY NEEDS TO GROW UP: The Morning News checked in on the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art on Sunday, wanting to know how the Boy King is doing financially. From [...]

While doing a little research on the Doubt commentary I did for the radio, I came across a trio of videos that Entertainment Weekly did with the cast of the Doubt movie. Three of the four main cast members — Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams — said they had seen the play [...]