A scene from Brokeback Mountain Today on Think, Krys Boyd interviewed author-screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana about their writing and the art of the screenplay. The two are perhaps best known for their Oscar-winning adaptation of Annie Proulx’ short story, “Brokeback Mountain.” But they have also collaborated on the TV programs that have come [...]

“Paris Hilton with looks and brains and talent.” That’s how the Dallas Museum of Art’s William Keyse Rudolph describes Sara Murphy in this entertaining interview with Krys Boyd taped today for Think. And he suggests today’s celebutantes could learn a thing or three from this friend of Fitzgerald, Picasso and Hemingway. She and her husband [...]

A monumental work of art or a terribly misplaced reminder of cruel history? Conquistador Juan de Oñate is a hero to some in El Paso who feel the Spanish contributions to settling the West is often ignored. To others, he represents oppression and violence, an attempt to obliterate Native American culture. When sculptor John Houser [...]

UPDATE 7 p.m. 7/9: Tickets are no longer available for the screening at KERA Thursday. But you can still catch the documentary on KERA TV Tuesday at 9 p.m. There are still a few spaces left for Art&Seek’s reception, special screening of The Last Conquistador and q/a with co-director Christina Ibarra at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow [...]

The subtitle for this mesmerizing little video is “500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art,” which helps explain one of the fascinating things about it: the facial continuities, the remarkable similarities among the women whom painters have selected and painted over the centuries. After all, there are no ancient Egyptian, Chinese or African women [...]

National Public Radio is significantly expanding the books coverage on NPR.org, says Publishers Weekly. They’ll run weekly book reviews and, to that end, have hired six new book reviewers, including Jessa Crispin, creator of the well-known, tart-tongued book blog, Bookslut, and John Freeman, former head of the National Book Critics Circle and a popular freelancer [...]

Lee Cullum interviews Bill Lively, CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Lively has led the campaign to raise more than $300 million to build the facility. At Art&Seek, we’re happy to bring you the full program, which first aired Monday night on KERA Television: Get the Flash Player to [...]

Guest blogger Gail Sachson is Vice-Chair of the Dallas Cultural Affairs Commission and an arts educator and advocate. The DMA is for Swingers: Swingers who bounce and bop and hop! Celebrating the Sara & Gerald Murphy exhibition and the life-style of the 1920s, Friday’s Late night at the DMA featured Trella Hart singing the music [...]

Next week, Art&Seek presents Conversation with Bill Lively, hosted by Lee Cullum. Lively is the CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. A few reasons you might want to tune in: Lively is the CEO and Founding President of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. He orchestrated the fund-raising [...]

Get the Flash Player to see this content. On May 28, KERA TV broadcast Recapturing Cuba: An Artist’s Journey, which follows Dallas artist Rolando Diaz as he returns to the country his family fled when Diaz was just seven. He rediscovers his old Havana neighborhood and also connects with the city’s thriving art scene. Today, [...]