As I looked back over the 75 or so films I saw this year, a common theme emerged: disappointment. Could it be that I didn’t see the right ones? Did I build up the ones I did see so highly in my mind that they couldn’t possibly deliver? Perhaps. But time after time this year [...]

Guest blogger Bart Weiss is the Artistic Director of VideoFest. This time of year, we’re deluged with best-of-the-year and best-of-the-decade lists.  And while those things are interesting to read, think about and jog our memories, most of it is just stuff to fill the empty spaces of the pages and our lives, which around this [...]

THE YEAR IN ARCHITECTURE: With no full-time architecture critic at either of our major metros, the Dallas Center for Architecture is filling the void with a compilation of year-end lists from critics around the country. The DCA blog is less than a year old, so the bloggers there felt it was a bit too young [...]

Guest blogger Bryan Engram is the Director of Animation at Reel FX Creative Studios. He concludes our look back at major innovations in the arts during the ’00s with his thoughts on how crowd sourcing has changed filmmaking: Over the last 10 to 15 years, we have seen great advancements in CGI and computer animation. [...]

This week, Art&Seek will look at some of the biggest innovations in the arts over the last decade. We’ve asked local experts to blog each day about a significant advancement in how art is created or consumed. By the end of the week, we think you’ll see that things have changed quite a bit in [...]

Congratulations to Angela Wright of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. Angela’s on quite a streak – she won just three weeks ago.

THEATER, PART DEUX: On Tuesday, we pointed you to the major dailies’ year in theater lists. But they aren’t the only ones who can count to 10. Dallas Voice critic Arnold Wayne Jones has posted his list of the top 10 theater moments of 2009, topping it with Theatre Britain’s Vincent River. Meanwhile, theaterjones.com has [...]

The Challenge: La Reunion TX (LRTX) is an artist residency in the making that currently exists as a 35-acre urban forest engaged as studio and gallery space. Each winter we jury-select four to seven artists (or teams of artists) to create site-specific installations. In the past, to embrace La Reunion’s commitment to making the space [...]

This week, Art&Seek will look at some of the biggest innovations in the arts over the last decade. We’ve asked local experts to blog each day about a significant advancement in how art is created or consumed. By the end of the week, we think you’ll see that things have changed quite a bit in [...]

One thing we know for sure: this month’s ArtCon5 raised a ton of money for Resolana. Just how much is still in question. We should have that total any day now. But while we wait, please enjoy these interviews with artists whose work was auctioned off to raise all that money.