Come visit with scads of arts organizations, watch performances and stop by to say hello to Art&Seek, at the mall Saturday.

Checking the league stats on art museum visitors in the 2011 season. How many at-bats did North Texas manage?

Arts education has been a ‘victim’ of standardized testing and No Child Left Behind (the arts pretty much don’t exist). But Sir Ken Robinson argues that our basic education set-up discourages the aesthetic and inventive thinking.

How many books have been added to the Dallas Museum of Art’s library? What’s the downtime on the Wifi there? Don’t know, don’t care? Ah, but there are some deets in the DMA’s new dashboard site that can be very revealing.

The premiere of a gay-bar raid documentary gets a special visitor, an unusual way to help fund the DMA, the ongoing funding saga of the Irving entertainment center — and a note of loss: They’re all in the Friday roundup.

The Dallas Bach Society will perform Bach’s St. John Passion, while the Dallas Symphony will perform his St. Matthew for the first time in 50 years. The one concert is church-ensemble small, the other’s symphonic-big. The one’s aiming for early-music authentic … and so’s the other one?

In the series finale, we invited scenic designer Beowulf Boritt and conceptual artist Nic Nicosia to discuss their evolving fields and the role of staging in both the visual and performing arts. Plus info about some panel discussions you might want to know about at CentralTrak and Dallas Art Fair.

Will Power, that is, the hip-hop playwright and performer who already was a Meadows Prize-winner at SMU. He’s got a new job now.

Fort Worth Weekly’s Visionary Award winners, Sarah Jaffe’s new album promo, a new jazz program, new work from Jon Flaming, kudos to Dean Fearing ….and ping pong! Is it Friday yet?

Congratulations to Brian Hamm from Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest!