How does the way you decorate your home influence the way people think about you? A photography exhibit at Richland College merges sociology and art to try and answer that question. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports:

She helped get the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library built. She expanded the entire library system and built up its notable collections in first editions. She fought city council members who wanted to ban books. Yep, Lillian Moore Bradshaw was one smart, tough librarian. Feel free to leave your own memories of the first American woman to run a big-city library system.

Congratulations to Oscar Duran of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. What is this a picture of? Click through to find out.

AT&T PAC CEO Mark Nerenhausen told the Dallas City Council that, so far, the city’s new performing arts complex is doing very well — in ticket sales, audience reach, even in cooperating with other arts groups. All this, despite a bad economy. B. J. Austin reports.

Dallas Contemporary was going to launch its ambitious new home this past weekend with a gala opening but it got delayed. We talk to director Joan Davidow about why, about that premiere show, about why she chose this sprawling new space near the Design District and about how it will shape the Contemporary’s future directions.

A holiday tradition. KERA executive producer Rob Tranchin’s Emmy Award-winning short tells the story of the imposing 145-year-old pecan tree that stands at one of the entrances to Highland Park. The video traces the tree’s history back to the cornfields that once lined Preston Trail, how it escaped destruction as a city grew around it, how it lives through the seasons and has become a beautiful landmark. Enjoy.

A hard-hat tour of Dallas Contemporary’s new home next to the Design District finds a vast, raw warehouse space that does have some great potential. It opens next month with a risky, large-scale show, complete with a wooden mockup of an airliner — “part-disaster area, part-playground.” Just the kind of show such a space calls out for. But will it fly?

How do today’s arts education programs prepare students to make a real living in the arts? Jose Antonio Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts and Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music at Southern Methodist University, discusses the topic on a recent episode of Think.

For the second week in a row, a photo from the Dallas Arts District takes the Flickr Photo of the Week title.

The new Legorreta + Legorreta-designed Fort Museum of Science and History is open — a major upgrade in the Cultural District. It features a new planetarium, dinosaur exhibitions and mini-museums devoted to cattle, Fort Worth history, energy (basically, the oil and gas industry) and even the science of CSI. We talk with vice president of development Carl Hamm about balancing education with entertainment.