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Picasso and Braque: Brothers in Art

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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.

This Week in Texas Music History: Frank Beard

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a musician who is finally living up to his name.

Review: ‘Hydrogen Jukebox’ at Fort Worth Opera

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.

This Week in Texas Music History: Don Williams

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a Texas singer who is as popular abroad as he is here at home.

Friday Morning Roundup

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Today in the roundup: A Spanish Abstract Expressionist in Dallas, Chinese dinosaurs and singers with big plans.

Go See Art, Make Music, Feel Better

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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.

Singing Handel’s High Notes

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.

North Texas NEA Grants Announced

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.

This Week in Texas Music History: Isidro López

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a pioneering artist who blended Native-American music with pop, blues, country, and jazz.

A Look Into the Dallas Historical Society’s Archives

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.