Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne, the still-a-building Perot Museum of Nature & Science was one of 47 new projects selected for the American Architecture Awards. Also chosen: the Sustainable Urban Living Plan for downtown Dallas.
Today in the roundup: Rediscovering an Italian painting star, a Tony winner returns to Dallas and the Bush Library designer wins an award.
Today in the roundup: New KXT Live Sessions video, art along the Green Line and Cowboys Stadium art heads east.
Highlights from last night’s discussion with the Dallas Opera’s Graeme Jenkins and Theater Projects’ John Coyne: how to make the Arts District livelier, what the DO didn’t get that European companies do, building a Dallas Theater Center set on the fly.
Graeme Jenkins is The Dallas Opera’s music director. John Coyne is U.S. director of design for Theatre Projects, the firm that guided development of the Performing Arts Center. The two are up Thursday for the next State of the Arts discussion, interviews with leaders who are shaping Dallas’ cultural landscape.
On Thursday night, the Dallas Center for Architecture will hold its annual Rockitecture fundraiser. Tickets are $75-$125, but the DCA folks have generously handed over a pair to us to give away.
Today in the roundup: Highlights from Anna Bolena, Pinter’s problematic plays and food trucks invade the Arts District.
Today in the roundup: Motivation for writers, a look at Dallas Opera’s Don Giovanni and an update on the Kimbell expansion.
Where once there were nearly 400, there are now fewer than 20 drive-in movie theaters in Texas. And Granbury’s Brazos Drive-In is up for sale. But this particular story isn’t the familiar one about a fading entertainment-business format dying off in hard times.
Pecha Kucha wraps, Fort Worth artist Christopher Blay at Conduit, a playground in Rowlett, and video from Hadar Sobol.
