Henri Matisse Nu do Dos — or “Back I-IV” — is a landmark work of modernist art. So much so, Fort Worth’s Burnett Foundation decided it ought to sell its set. Problem is, they haven’t sold as a group.

Get a taste of TEDxSMU down at the Kessler and help choose the winner who will get to present at the annual conference.

How will Art Conspiracy run its new artist lottery this year? Judging by the video, the process looks….scientific.

Caroline Rose Hunt and Frank Risch will be recognized for their contributions to the arts in Dallas.

Long before the MacBook and the iPad, the Apple co-founder and former CEO dreamed that computers could be used to help unleash human creativity. He spent much of his life bringing that dream to fruition.

Three new sculptures were installed there this morning — as place markers for new multi-use buildings going up between Central and McKinney Avenue. One is even a black marble ‘water table’ by well-known Dallas stone sculptor Brad Goldberg.

This Big Deal winner gets to plan ahead for some saucy fun: La Cage Aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals.

Today in the roundup: Assessing the arts in Fort Worth, plus the logic behind staging classic plays.

A virtual survey of 60 artists, critics, gallery owners and others lead to the magazine’s bucket list of must-sees in Texas art museums — Caravaggio! Rembrandt! Donald Judd! — plus another list of Lone Star movers and shakers in the art scene. Now, on that list, Dallas has a revealing entry.

It’s another epic PBS doc in the Ken Burns style: handsome, solemn, thoughtful and safe. But while Prohibition relates the story we know – Carrie Nation, Al Capone, speakeasies and jazz — it has some we don’t. Like how a political minority could change America so drastically. Or how a young woman lent The New Yorker some wit.