Perhaps the best critic ever to come out of Texas — certainly the wittiest – Dave Hickey will be lecturing March 29 at the Amon Carter Museum in connection with the current exhibition, Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s.
Author of the terrific essay collection, Air Guitar, and an art and literary critic whose [...]

The Herd Dance, by Palbita Velarde, mural
More than 100 artists in New Mexico, including 30 Native Americans, worked on New Deal art projects in the ’30s. Mostly, their work has not been researched.
As part of the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, that’s changing, reports the NYTimes. Through August, a group show of indian artists who [...]

… when I wrote about American museums trying to adapt, make themselves more accessible? And how I was concerned that mostly what they were doing was upgrading their websites for podcasts? When what they also should do is re-think how their exhibitions work — as theatrical, artistic, educational experiences?
Well. The NYTimes reports that many museums [...]

The original line-up of the landmark punk band X plays the House of Blues, author Anne Lamott is presented by Arts & Letters Live while Cara Mia Theatre is at the Latino Cultural Center with Petra’s Pecado by Rupert Reyes — so says Gini.
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One of the Texas-based documentaries at this month’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival is Austin director David Modigliani’s Crawford, a look at a town that was drying up until a certain president came to live nearby. Crawford is –
a municipality with one stoplight, two gas stations, and—because of the attention lavished on it due to [...]

Virtuoso pianists? They’re like risk-taking jet pilots. They can be a little odd, says Michael Church.
Between eccentricity and madness lies a whole spectrum…. When we learn that the Russian maestro Grigory Sokolov takes each piano apart before playing it, and notes his findings in a book, we see this as a facet of his infinitely [...]

When I stayed in Barcelona a few years ago, I was surprised to see how much more sophisticated (and theatrical) even smaller museums were than their American counterparts — in the use of video, reconstructed scenes, the stylish displays of artifacts, even just their layouts. Hurrah, American museums are slowly changing, says the Mercury News .
But [...]

Actor Forest Whitaker will be speaking at UT-Arlington, the Professor’s Corner literary discussion group will be talking about Louise Erdrich and Native American women authors in Denton while the North Mississippi All-Stars will hold forth at the House of Blues. And you can hear Gini talk about other events:
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Hillary Jordan will be reading and signing copies of Mudbound tonight at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in the Preston Royal Shopping Center.
You can listen to this review here.
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Author Hillary Jordan spent her childhood in Dallas and Oklahoma, but her debut novel, called Mudbound, is set on a Mississippi cotton farm in 1946. [...]

It’s Roxy Paine’s Conjoined, and you can read about it here.