“Jazz has no promo, there’s plenty of good jazz out here, but no one promotes, starting with the record companies. But we cannot stop fighting status quo, keep playing, singing and improving. Jazz is Art for the Ear !!!” -Wendell Sneed’s Facebook status on Monday, June 29, 2009
One of the most significant collections of African-American art in the world was assembled not by a wealthy patron but by a middle-class couple from San Antonio. In the 1980s, Harmon and Harriet Kelley began buying the occasional painting of a Texas landscape. But in 1986, the San Antonio Museum of Art brought in the touring exhibition, “Hidden Heritage: Afro-American-Art from 1800-1950.”
PIECE BY PIECE: If you want to see how a piece of art literally comes together, stop by the Irving Arts Center today or Wednesday as a team will be assembling the Ten Thousand Spring Pavilion. Here’s the catch: it’s in 3,000 pieces and will be put together without using any nails. The work is [...]
Here at Art&Seek HQ, we are throwing confetti and congratulations at reporter/producer Jerome Weeks and videographer/producer Ivey Suber. They won first place for Feature Story, Internet-Based News, from the Houston Press Club. The award recognizes their reports on the red glass and the canopy at the Winspear Opera House. More huzzahs for Jerome: He also [...]
Photographer Christi Nielsen, a UT-Dallas alum, has just wrapped up curating SecondHand, a new media exhibition online, in preparation for a second show later this summer at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Using the social media sites Twitter, Facebook and 12 Seconds, Nielsen selects a “prompt” – a short, unusual phrase found on a social media site – [...]
For the next few days, more than 100 arts researchers from around the globe are gathering at SMU for the 10th International Association of Arts and Cultural Management Conference. The conference alternates between a location in Europe and a location in the rest of the world and gives the researchers a chance to present their [...]
Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. High temperatures, conservative spending habits and the need to stay cool is prompting a Stay-cation Summer! This summer I am staying close to home, exploring parts of my city, some of them for the first time. [...]
The extreme heat of the Granada Theater didn’t prevent a thick crowd from forming near the stage Friday night as Texas native Ben Kweller played the penultimate show of his yearlong tour. I was accompanied by a rather aggressive group of concertgoers, so I found myself in the front row with the perfect view of [...]
Dust off those jazz shoes…well, at least that’s what I’ll be doing. I took the plunge and signed up for the one day dance workshop on July 18 with pros from the national tour of A Chorus Line (coming July 7 to 19) through Dallas Summer Musicals at the Music Hall in Fair Park. Yes, a future blog on Art&Seek will [...]
ERYKAH REMEMBERS MICHAEL: We can probably expect a summer filled with Michael Jackson covers. So kudos to Erykah Badu and the Roots for taking the path less traveled in their cover of “I Wanna Be Where You Are” from 1972′s Got to Be There. The song was recorded when Badu was in New York to [...]
