Guest blogger Cindy Schwartz is the founder of Cynthia C. Schwartz Fine Art and the president of the Dallas Architecture Forum. Once again, the Dallas Architecture Forum will bring to Dallas the most distinguished, outside-of-the-box-thinkers for their second annual Design Symposium. The fact that the speakers are all pals makes the prospect of animated conversation [...]
The Rose Marine Theater, and the history of Latinos in Fort Worth, both get a closer look tonight on KERA with The Rose: A Sense of Place. The theater served as a cultural center for the city’s Latino community, even hosting big Mexican movie stars like Cantinflas and Pedro Infante. Watching it, I learned a [...]
THE WRITING ON THE WALL: When you spend more than $300 million constructing a pair of buildings, there are lots of details to consider. One of them is how you are going to inform people about the building they are entering. Signage takes all forms, from the chest-thumping grandeur of a team logo on a [...]
… but has anyone mentioned the company’s Art Deco-y new sign? The black box on the bottom is a programmable electronic display for the name of the current show.
A LOOK AT THE FUTURE: What will the Dallas Arts District be like in 50 years from now? It’s hard to imagine considering the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts doesn’t even open for another six months. But if you want a glimpse of what the future could hold, Lincoln Center in New York is [...]
For the Wall Street Journal, SMU’s Willard Spiegelman reports on the exhibition, From the Temple and the Tomb, at SMU’s Meadows Museum of Art. We don’t know much about the Etruscans in northern-ish Italy (i.e., Tuscany). In fact, Etruscan or Tusci is the term for them used by the Romans, who more or less supplanted [...]
WIN TICKETS BEFORE YOU CAN BUY ‘EM: The Lexus Broadway Series will take up residence at the new Dallas Center for Performing Arts this fall. Which shows will be coming to town is anyone’s best guess – and that’s the point. The DCPA is holding a contest, asking you to guess what the first four [...]
… which I was, down there in the post about the Stanley Marcus home. But over in the DMN’s Arts Blog, theater critic Lawson Taitte was also speaking about the architect, specifically the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Kalita Humphreys Theater (left), and what the city plans to do with it, now that the Dallas Theater Center [...]
FROM TODDLERS TO TEENS: Casa Manana opens its production of High School Musical tonight with a familiar face calling the shots. Alan Muraoka, who you might (and your kids definitely will) recognize from his role managing Hooper’s Store on Sesame Street, is in town to direct. DFW.com caught up with Muraoka, who says that he’s [...]
Noted Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells (author of Shakespeare: For All Time and co-editor of the Oxford Shakespeare) believes he has found the only portrait painted of William Shakespeare while he was alive — in 1610 when he was 46. The so-called “Cobbes Portrait” (left) was acquired in the 18th century from Elizabeth Norton, the great-granddaughter [...]
