Did any arts leaders from the North Texas area attend the recent National Performing Arts Convention in Denver — the one that brought together more than 3,000 people from dance, theater, opera and music? Just curious about any local response/connection to the many panels, the ArtsJournal blog about the conference and other online responses. But [...]
Photo by George Wada My friend Tom Sime, a painter, former Dallas Morning News arts critic and KERA commentator and lately playwright, has one of his plot-thick rides premiering in the Teatro Dallas space on Record Crossing Road right now. Tom’s stage work, however complex, is meant to entertain, and Bloodletters, which is moving to [...]
Kara Walker One of our favorite local art blogs – the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s — pretty much stopped dead this spring. We especially missed any fresh additions to what had become a signature series of behind-the-scenes photos on the Modern’s flickr page: images of contemporary sculptures getting reconstituted by construction crews and [...]
Next week, Art&Seek presents Conversation with Bill Lively, hosted by Lee Cullum. Lively is the CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. A few reasons you might want to tune in: Lively is the CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. He orchestrated the fund-raising [...]
The paintings on display at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum depict small groups of prepared women — prepared to defend themselves, prepared to harm you if necessary. Sometimes armed with handguns or swords, they look unblinkingly at the viewer, their faces obscured by gas masks, ski masks or American flags. Not exactly a threat, but [...]
My very funny friend, author Sarah Bird, will be reading from her new comic novel, How Perfect Is That, tomorrow evening at the Borders at Preston and Royal — as you may have read in the News this morning. You may also know Sarah from her humor column in Texas Monthly – she was the [...]
Audio: Listen to the interview with Phillip Jones, president/CEO, Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau Phillip Jones: “We had our fifth annual City Arts celebration this past weekend. It was an incredible success, we had over 100,000 people who attended and that’s exciting, because we had several people — thousands of people who have never visited [...]
City Arts Festival Dallas iMedia Network hosted a special live program today at 2 p.m., a collective discussion of the state of the arts in the Dallas area, hosted by Lisa Embry, Dallas iMedia Network president/CEO. In the studio with her was an assorted dozen local arts leaders — from Jac Alder of Theatre Three [...]
Lydia Regalado is an arts educator and blogger who guest blogs for us about people coming together to make things. There were lots of art happenings this past weekend around Dallas: several openings, City Arts and the first Diorama-O-Rama charity event. Diorama-O-Rama is a group of local artists who come together to create dioramas, auction [...]
The Bomb by Robert Wilhite Put on your walking shoes and your thinking cap and give yourself over to artistic pleasure at a host of gallery openings in Deep Ellum, a free screening of The Wizard of Oz at the Nasher and the adjacent CityArts Celebration, featuring art exhibits, food booths and live music. Perhaps [...]
