What makes a character great? Can an author know or exert control over how a reader will respond to that character? Best-selling author Wally Lamb discussed the topic with Think host Krys Boyd ahead of his recent appearance at Arts & Letters Live. Lamb’s newest novel is The Hour I First Believed (Harper Collins, 2008). [...]

Thursday night’s panel discussion from La Reunion TX and the Dallas Museum of Art was technically entitled “The Artist’s Studio as a Place of Work,” but it ultimately morphed into a conversation between audience and panelists on the mission of the artist residency. We go with the flow. Moderated by Fort Worth architect Mark Gunderson [...]

Saxophonist Tom Braxton will be performing in Carrollton tomorrow night with the North Texas-based Crosswinds Jazz Band as part of a benefit concert to increase awareness about ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Nancy Bass, wife of Crosswinds bandleader Brian Bass, was diagnosed with ALS four years ago, and proceeds from the $15 admission [...]

First Presbyterian Church of Ft. Worth brings Highland dancers, Scottish foods and 50 different tartan banners to its Kirkin’ of the Tartans worship service and celebration on Sunday. This kind of pageantry is irresistable to a girl whose middle name is Graham, yet I do not know what kirkin’ is exactly. The press release states: [...]

The Nasher Sculpture Center has named Jeremy Strick, the former director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as its new director. The move comes almost two years after its original director, Steven Nash, resigned. “Having worked with the Nasher Collection at the very outset of my career, I am especially delighted to be [...]

Dallas Art Fair founders John Sughrue (left) and Chris Byrne. On the surface, it seems like such a no-brainer: of course Dallas should have an art fair. Most big cities have them. And the area is rich with collectors who travel across the country to look at art and add to their collections. Starting next [...]

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: I realize I may be late to the party for Microsoft’s Photosynth tool, but I’m glad that I’ve finally arrived. I got turned on to it by the NPR show Talk of the Nation, which devoted a segment Wednesday to the tool’s many applications. In a nut shell, Photosynth combines photos [...]

Lea Foster and Yaseen Benhalim activate Dealey Plaza last Saturday with Islands of LA. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. If you caught the first hour of today’s episode of Think with Krys Boyd, then you heard the discussion about public spaces [...]

Cast from One in 3 (l to r): Liza Gonzalez, Emily Ko, Shauna McLean, Rhianna Mack, Mollie Milligan, Vanessa Pena, Constance Gold, Renee Miche’al, Jenni Stewart Excerpt from Jenni Stewart’s phone monologue as Rhonda: KERA radio story: Expanded online story: This is a scene from the Romanian film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days. (below, [...]

Gerald Peters Gallery, a longtime leader on the visual art scene, will close its Dallas gallery at the end of February — another victim of the economy. The departure of gallery director Ashley Tatum also was a factor, according to a press release issued Tuesday. The Gerald Peters galleries in Santa Fe and New York [...]