Onwards and upwards. Timothy Potts — moving from Fort Worth to Cambridge to California.

Tuesday at the Meyerson, George Gershwin won’t be living and breathing – still. But he will be playing his Rhapsody in Blue with the Dallas Wind Symphony. Yes, it’ll take a couple of rehearsals. And some remarkable digital technology.

What can be beautifully fluid yet randomly scattered? Choreographed human motion given an amazing edit job.

Last August, UNT announced it was creating an annual poetry prize worth ten grand. The Rilke Prize is to be awarded to a ‘mid-career poet’ who’s written a work the past year of “exceptional artistry.” And now they’ve found one.

Street artist Shepard Fairey got a lot of media attention while he was here this past week, painting wall murals around town. But he was also signing books, selling clothing and spinning tracks at a dance party. Welcome to the Dallas Contemporary’s New Model Art Museum: part-nightclub, part-style magazine, part idea factory.

Afternoon Delight is offering a twofer today — because no single video can convey the visual splendors of last month’s Ghent Light Festival in Belgium.

Plus a photo walk-through of what the still-under-construction Museum of Nature & Science looks like now — about a year before it opens.

Two years were added to the ebullient Woods’ current contract as general director of FWO — the third consecutive time the board has extended it. Someone must like him and/or he must be doing something right. You think?

‘Giant’ means big, of course – as in the biggest world-premiere the Dallas Theater Center has ever attempted. And composer Michael John LaChiusa’s musical adaption of Gient certainly looks and sounds splendid. It’s the story that’s the trouble – always has been.

… which doesn’t really lead to a punchline because Thursday’s roundtable, sponsored by Art & Seek and the Dallas Museum of Art, actually led to a wide-ranging, intelligent conversation about the local contemporary arts scene.