What would a Thursday roundup be without a Cezanne auction, a soprano profile and a major new book on a major North Texas corporation?

He will soon become power-mad and fame-obsessed.

In which I recount a favorite personal anecdote and a bit of wisdom from the late architecture critic for The Dallas Morning News.

Learn how you can score tickets to the opening night performance of Lexus Broadway Series: Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’!

Arts District dust-up makes the Times, the Tonys have a few local ties, and some pretty pix of architects: it’s the Wednesday round-up.

The Nasher has a few new feathered friends.

Rem Koolhaas, co-designer of the Wyly Theatre in the Arts District, has occasionally issued controversial manifestos. His newest one is the occasion for a clear-the-decks career analysis in The New York Review of Books.

Didn’t break the national record for a single live opera simulcast in a stadium. But Saturday’s crowd was double the Dallas Opera’s original expectation of 7500.

Thursday night’s concert by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra was the finest of the season. Jaap van Zweden and an enlarged orchestra delivered massive thrills with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8

Heading into the weekend with the Friday Roundup, we get some pronunciation help on the 19th century’s master of the melodrama, jazzy stuff at the DMA, sharing sisters between Fort Worth and Dallas — and more!