Tonight I am going to a preview screening of Doubt, the big-screen adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award-winning play. The film stars two of the best actors of our generation in the lead roles (Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman) and centers on a crime that may or may not have occurred at a [...]
1650 French Map …………………………………………………… Dragoon saber & scabbard The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: The Dallas Historical Society has been in the news recently because of the discovery of a famous Civil War letter. The letter — known as the Bixby letter and possibly written by Abraham Lincoln — was sent to experts [...]
Guest blogger Julie Hwang is Community Relations Director for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which serves as our guest film blogger for November. As a self-described film geek, I’ve seen A LOT of movies, but there have always been very notable lapses in my film going experience. I’ve only managed to see one film, [...]
Monday, I put up a post from guest blogger Gail Sachson about what she is thankful for in the arts, and today I’ve got more thanks to pass around. Besides just the general thankfulness of this time of year, we’re also calling attention to a two-hour program airing Thursday on KERA (90.1 FM) called Giving [...]
Brooke Shields swoops into town Tuesday night to speak at the Brinker International Forum, a co-production with the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. The event takes place at 8 p.m. at the Meyerson Symphony Center, and for you loyal readers of the Art&Seek blog, we’ve got you covered. If you’d like to attend the [...]
Click on the logo to watch the video: Get the Flash Player to see this content. In this episode of Think, Ann Williams, founder and artistic director of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, joins host Krys Boyd in the Scene segment. Think airs on Friday at 7:30 p.m. on KERA (Channel 13). It airs again [...]
I had a teacher who died this past March. He was a survivor of the Holocaust and an artist who lived in the Boston area. His name was Albert Alcalay, and he was a Serbian Jew who spent the years of World War II on the run until he was captured and held in a series [...]
If you made this past spring’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival, there’s a good chance you caught one of the 15 finalists announced Wednesday for the documentary feature Oscar. At the Death House Door, Glass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts and I.O.U.S.A. all showed at the festival, and each of them made the [...]
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is a lovely place to see a film. Wednesday night’s screening of Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits brought out a rich mix of die-hard film fans, Fort Worth Modern devotees, KERA members and even a Harvard alumnus who had taken classes with Alcalay in her college days. After the [...]
North Texas is home to a vibrant and budding gallery scene, with multiple galleries opening in the past few months. But, unlike museums, galleries rely on tasteful collectors interested enough in the work to purchase it. Without these patrons, many budding artists would have no means to emerge. John Reoch is one such collector. A [...]
