Uptown Players offers their ‘Regrets,’ Steve Miller remembers Dallas, Jaap van Zweden recovers, the head of the Globe Theatre visits and a former North Texas actor speaks frog.
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Archive for June, 2010
It’s Sunday night, which means, time to blog along with Paul. Bring on your suggestions or just sound off on the show.
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember a singer who narrowly escaped death before going on to become a Texas music icon.
In the Saturday spotlight, we’re cuing up the dance beats.
Jerome’s nominated for a Lone Star Award from the Houston Press Club!
Newark Museum associate curator Mary Kate O’Hare talks about “Constructive Spirit” — the exhibition opening at the Amon Carter. When it premiered in New Jersey in February, The New York Times greeted the show as if it were almost a revelation. From the ’20s through the ’50s, artists from Buenos Aires to Brooklyn were influencing each other in adapting geometric abstraction. “Constructive Spirit” is the first survey of these artists from Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil and New York, ranging over photography, painting, films and sculpture.
SEED, the annual fund-raiser for Art Conspiracy, is coming soon, and guess what object artists will have their way with this year….
World’s best double bass players are duking it out in Denton; Marshall, Texas stakes claim as boogie woogie birthplace; last chance for the summer’s coolest giveaway, and more.
In February, the Dallas Contemporary moved into its new warehouse space. That’s one reason its new show is called “Seedlings.” Another reason, the artists themselves are young ’seedlings.’ And then there are the artworks — different takes on nature and art, nature and machine, confrontation and collaboration.
Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven College School of the Arts.
In February, I spoke with Denton cartoonist Jeremy Smith about his art. And this month, he was named the recipient of a Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant. The Dozier Travel Grant, established in both artists’ honor in [...]