Author James Crumley The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts gets its third-largest donation, $15 million from Sammons Enterprises, for the outdoor spaces around the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theater. Some parents and DISD teachers have expressed fears about students seeing images in the PBS arts documentary series, art:21. The first three seasons [...]
Ian Leson as the lead officer, Michael Federico as the second cop and Lee Trull as Katurian in Kitchen Dog’s The Pillowman The Dallas Morning News review The Fort Worth Star-Telegram review KERA radio story: Expanded online version: It’s hard for a stage drama to be terrifying. Terrifying isn’t just a matter of – gotcha! [...]
In October, the Nasher Sculpture Center will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a tip of the cap to its founders. In Pursuit of the Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, which opens Saturday, Sept. 20, offers not only an all-encompassing view of the couple’s prized possessions but also insight into their collecting [...]
The following review was written by Dallas music critic Olin Chism. Scroll down for links to what others are saying. It’s always risky to predict the fate of a new composition, but August 4, 1964 by Steven Stucky and Gene Scheer packs enough power that an extended series of performances seems a safe bet. The [...]
Dallas welcomes a pair of new contemporary galleries to the art scene this week, and each of them offered a glimpse into their points of view during preview parties Thursday night. Here’s a roundup of the night: CADD Art Lab The story: A collaboration of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (which includes Barry Whistler, [...]
Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and art conservationist. This Tuesday Sept. 23, Kara Walker will be talking about My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, her landmark exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Over the last few years there have been some really wonderful exhibits in the [...]
Among the performers at this weekend’s Jazz by the Boulevard festival in Fort Worth will be its new creative director, drummer Adonis Rose. The new job is one of several he’s acquired in North Texas since evacuating here from Hurricane Katrina: founder and leader of the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra, artist-in-residence at UT Arlington – [...]
Guest blogger Bart Weiss is Director of the Dallas Video Festival and president of Video Association of Dallas. This post is adapted from my column “bart chat,” which is part of videofest.news a weekly e-mail newsletter the Video Association sends out. In addition to the great blog that KERA is doing here, you can get [...]
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Quilts as an art form are getting quite a showcase in North Texas. Quilt Mania II is a staggered rollout of exhibitions at a dozen and a half venues from Plano to Arlington to South Dallas to Mesquite. It began last week at the Irving Arts Center with the opening of a show by Paul [...]
