Several years ago, during a public panel discussing the intellectual life of this city (held at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture), the talk had turned a little glum — along the lines of, ‘What can be done to improve things?’ One simple but significant improvement, I suggested, would be getting more spirited public [...]
Monday evening, TACA (The Arts Community Alliance) awarded 34 area arts groups $1 million in grants. The awards were announced at the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, with special guest Kimberly Grigsby, an SMU grad and Broadway musical director. Six of the 34 groups received the full amount they requested (they were [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. The 1999 drug busts in Tulia, Texas, were initially hailed as great progress in the War on Drugs, but became emblematic of the racial divides in Tulia and elsewhere. KERA will air the Independent Lens documentary Tulia, Texas on Tuesday at 9 p.m. To get you ready, [...]
Now that it appears that money for the arts has been competely dumped from the economic stimulus package, some of our national culture writers are hoppin’ mad. Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune wonders how the arts descended to this lowly spot on the government priority list. “The contrast in priority with the last comparable [...]
“Cymbal of Peace” by Kevin Obregon In 1988, PBS debuted Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, a series of conversations between Campbell, a scholar of comparative mythology, and journalist Bill Moyers. The transcripts from those conversations were adapted into the bestselling book The Power of Myth. Of the many themes discussed in the book, one chapter, “Sacrifice [...]
On Friday, the Senate passed an amendment to the economic stimulus package that would make sure that taxpayer money is not lost on “wasteful and non-stimulative projects” — such as funding museums, theaters and art centers. The amendment was proposed by Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. The vote was 73-24. Bad banks, yes. Car companies, [...]
Zach Mortice summarizes the buildings and aspirations that are going into the District. Two interesting points. I hadn’t known that the city’s Performance Hall will be an add-on-as-money-permits design: SOM’s City Performance Hall is organized as a series of sloping parallel concrete bands of varying heights and widths. Each band contains a single performance venue, [...]
Tonight, at the DMA’s Horchow Auditorium, TACA (The Arts Community Alliance) is giving $1 million to 34 North Texas performing arts groups — for only the second time since TACA was founded in 1966. For its arts grants, TACA raises funds via special events, including the Silver Cup Award luncheon, which was begun in 1979 [...]
The American Music Center and American Composers Forum have just released Taking Note: A Study of Composers and New Music Activity in the United States. Conducted by Columbia University, it’s the first major research study of its kind in decades. The researchers conducted more than 100 interviews in eight cities. The report also features 11 [...]
High stakes (l to r): Jim Covault, Chuck Huber, Matthew Stephen Tompkins, Chris Hauge and Jerry Russell in The Seafarer KERA radio review: Lawson Taitte’s review in The Dallas Morning News Mark Lowry’s review at Theater Jones Arnold Wayne Jones’ review in the Dallas Voice Jimmy Fowler’s review in the Fort Worth Weekly Director Rene [...]
