Artsjournal blogger CultureGrrl has more extensive background information on Eric Lee, the new director appointed by the Kimbell — including this 2-year-old video interview with him at CET in Cincinatti. It turns out relatively little is known about Lee’s recent work as a museum director because Cincinatti’s Taft Museum, which he has run, has a [...]
Guest blogger GAIL SACHSON owns ASK ME ABOUT ART, is Vice-Chair of the Commission of Cultural Affairs and a Public Art Committee member. I left Jeff Koons’ Thursday afternoon lecture at Booker T. Washington and that evening’s lecture at the Nasher Salon convinced that I was perfect. Jeff Koons had told me and the rest of [...]
… about the lack of a downside to George Steel’s choice of the New York City Opera over the Dallas Opera: The New York Times actually hailed him in an editorial today: “Welcome, Mr. Steel.” The words “careerism,” “dump,” “contract,” “deny,” “betray” or “calculated” never appear in it. But then, the Dallas Opera is never [...]
BROADWAY AT THE BASS: Casa Manana released its schedule for its Summer Broadway at the Bass series over the weekend, and the thought that immediately jumps to mind is that each show also has a tie to some other incarnation. Three of the five (Little Shop of Horrors, Legally Blonde and Grease) were also successful [...]
Where does “the everyday” meet serious art? Jeff Koons, the international titan of the art world famous for his giant public art pieces – including the iconic Balloon Dog, above – discusses the topic on a recent episode of Think. Koons was in town for several events sponsored by the NasherSalon Series. Think airs Monday-Thursday [...]
Image from www.aapf.org Here’s a sampling of events honoring Dr. Martin Luther King this weekend, including Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Friday, January 16th – Citizen King at the South Dallas Cultural Center, 8 pm, $5 Saturday, January 17th – Black History Tribute Opening Reception at Art Hotel, 7 pm, Free Saturday, January 17th [...]
Arts&Letters Live kicks off tonight with author Stephanie Kallos. Her first novel, Broken for You, was a bestseller and a pick for the Today Show Book Club. I’m swept up by the finely drawn characters living in a small Nebraska town in her latest, Sing Them Home. Three siblings – a professor, a TV weatherman [...]
Crawford, the story of President Bush’s adopted hometown near Waco, was one of the best documentaries I saw last year (it screened at both South by Southwest and AFI Dallas). If you didn’t catch it at either of those festivals, the Video Association of Dallas is holding a free screening Monday night at 7:30 at [...]
I first heard Colin Boyd shortly after moving to Dallas in the early ’90s and was immediately charmed. His songs had all the elements I look for in a pop artist. They were melodic, witty, heartbreaking, literate. And he wasn’t an international superstar (just our local star), so you could see him perform without fighting [...]
KERA radio story: Expanded online story: Eric McCauley Lee is the new director of the Kimbell. He manages to combine Ivy League scholarship and art museum leadership with a love of the Southwest. Plus, he admires the work of Louis Kahn, the master architect behind the Kimbell. Most recently, Lee has been the director of [...]
