What kind of impact can an artist residency program have on a community? What does it mean to be a “community-based” art project?  I’ve been thinking about this as I learn more about two fledgling Dallas residency programs, La Reunion in Oak Cliff and UT-Dallas in Deep Ellum.
If the questions intrigue you as well, then you’ll [...]

For your viewing pleasure, tonight’s episode of “Think” (airing at 7:30 p.m. on KERA-13) is embedded below. It features Dorothy Kosinski, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, talking about the museum’s upcoming J.M.W. Turner exhibit. Also, Rebecca Murphy, [...]

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, oil, 1812
The son of a barber, the grandson of a butcher, J. M. W. Turner never had the university education that might put him at ease among his society patrons or fellow members of the Royal Academy. Short and stocky, he was unmistakably a child of [...]

For your viewing pleasure, tonight’s episode of “Think” (airing at 7:30 p.m. on KERA-13) is embedded below. It features Dorothy Kosinski, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, talking about the museum’s upcoming J.M.W. Turner exhibit. Also, Rebecca Murphy, [...]

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, oil, 1812
The son of a barber, the grandson of a butcher, J. M. W. Turner never had the university education that might put him at ease among his society patrons or fellow members of the Royal Academy. Short and stocky, he was unmistakably a child of [...]

According to Variety, President Bush’s new proposed budget slashes federal funding for public broadcasting by more than 50 percent and possibly prepares for defunding it entirely.
The Bush budget lists no advance appropriation for fiscal 2011, and it also denies pubcasting any additional funding to assist in the transition from analog to digital broadcasting.
The proposed cuts [...]

Though the Deep In The Arts segment off the top may be a bit outdated, the rest of this Scene segment from last Friday’s “Think” provides some background on the fascinating “Texas Collects Asia” exhibit now open at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. Collection director Amy Hofland talks about what you will see [...]

Check back, because Rob Belanger, our guest blogger today, may return in the coming days with photos and some more insights from the collection. Questions for him about the exhibition at the Crow Collection of Asian Art? Leave them in the comments section of his post.   And if you’re looking for more, Crow director Amy [...]

You may not know the name Israel Isidore Baline, but I’m sure you know his music. He was better known by nom de plume Irving Berlin, and over more than half a century he wrote hundreds of songs – a number of which are still a part of the American musical consciousness.
Berlin is one [...]

North Texan magazine, the alumni organ of the University of North Texas, has a nice little story in the current issue about UNT grad Arthur Barrow, who went through a rather unorthodox audition process to become bass player in Frank Zappa’s band for two years. Zappa was known for his exceedingly high standards and [...]