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Art on a Deadline: Winners from Dallas 24-Hour Video Race

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Here’s a list of all the winners of the 24-Hour Film Race and a selection of their work. Each team had one day to complete their 5-minute video. The theme for this year’s race was “twist of fate.” The prop: a key. The location: anywhere a sport is played. And all had to include this [...]

Rainy-Day Mashup

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I realize mashups are so 2003, but I had to share in honor of the dark skies and rain in the North Texas area today. From Bay Area studio wizard Party Ben comes this cheery combination of 1984′s “Tenderness” by General Public (which featured former members of the English Beat and Dexy’s Midnight Runners) with [...]

Video: 'Tableaux' and more at the DMA

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Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, is the guest during the Scene segment of tonight’s Think. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the new exhibit “On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages.” Watch the full show (featuring a discussion with UNT professors Keith Owens and [...]

Think: 'Tableaux' and More at the DMA

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Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, is the guest during the Scene segment of tonight’s Think. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the new exhibit “On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages.” Watch the full show (featuring a discussion with UNT professors Keith Owens and [...]

Think: Onderdonk at the DMA

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Here’s the Scene segment from tonight’s TV version of Think (which airs Fridays at 7:30 p.m. on KERA 13). William Keyse Rudolph, Ph. D., The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, talks with host Krys Boyd about the museum’s current exhibition “Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American [...]

Think: Onderdonk at the DMA

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Here’s the Scene segment from tonight’s TV version of Think (which airs Fridays at 7:30 p.m. on KERA 13). William Keyse Rudolph, Ph. D., The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, talks with host Krys Boyd about the museum’s current exhibition “Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American [...]

Think, In Case You Missed it…

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Last Friday’s episode of Think on KERA 13 focused on the Fort Worth Circle, a group of influential citizens of Cowtown who helped put the city on the map as a destination for artists and those who appreciate good art. Fort Worth native, professor and critic Dave Hickey helps shed some light on this group. [...]

Think, in case you missed it…

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Last Friday’s episode of Think on KERA 13 focused on the Fort Worth Circle, a group of influential citizens of Cowtown who helped put the city on the map as a destination for artists and those who appreciate good art. Fort Worth native, professor and critic Dave Hickey helps shed some light on this group. [...]

AFI turns the camera on West Texas

Several years back, two filmmakers from Northern California descended on Tulia, TX to try and understand the story that unfolded beginning back in 1999 when 46 people, of which 39 were African-American, were arrested (and convicted) in a sting operation by undercover police in Tulia.  I was fortunate enough to introduce this thought-provoking film at the AFI Dallas Film Festival when [...]

Music commentary: 'Honey' and Vinyl

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David Okamoto is a content production manager at Yahoo in Dallas and a previous contributor to Rolling Stone, ICE magazine and the Dallas Morning News. You can hear this commentary here. In Erykah Badu’s dazzling music video for “Honey” — which can be found here — the Dallas-based singer is seen weaving through the aisles [...]

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