Stephen Becker | June 6, 2011
An exhibition now at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth explores the foundation of Cubism – a style considered revolutionary in the early 20th Century. And a walk through the exhibition shows that it took two artists working as a team to turn the art world upside down.
Stephen Becker | June 3, 2011
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a musician who is finally living up to his name.
Jerome Weeks | May 30, 2011
A Philip Glass-Allen Ginsberg collaboration from 1990, ‘Hydrogen Jukebox’ is another smart bit of counter-programming by the Fort Worth Opera. The chamber opera about Ginsberg’s America, circa 1950s thru ’90s, can be potent, even ravishing — when it isn’t tiresome.
Stephen Becker | May 27, 2011
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a Texas singer who is as popular abroad as he is here at home.
Stephen Becker | May 27, 2011
Today in the roundup: A Spanish Abstract Expressionist in Dallas, Chinese dinosaurs and singers with big plans.
Jerome Weeks | May 26, 2011
A new study says there’s a strong link between cultural activities – either making art or enjoying it – and a person’s well-being. Interesting sidelight: This link has nothing to do with education or wealth, yet it’s different according to sex.
Jerome Weeks | May 25, 2011
In Fort Worth Opera’s production of Handel’s ‘Julius Caesar,’ there are three roles originally written for castrati — including Caesar himself. When Handel’s Italian operas became popular again in the 20th century, that presented an awkward problem. Welcome back – the countertenor.
Jerome Weeks | May 23, 2011
North Texas arts organizations received 10 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts — for a total of $275,000. The projects supported include tours to small towns in Texas, better online access, stilt dancing and a Genghis Khan exhibition.
Stephen Becker | May 20, 2011
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a pioneering artist who blended Native-American music with pop, blues, country, and jazz.
Jerome Weeks | May 20, 2011
It’s a perfectly ordinary building in a perfectly ordinary warehouse-and-office park. But inside, you can find a land grant from King Charles IV of Spain and blueprints of the Texas Centennial. Plus an original Dr Pepper soda fountain.