We’re off to hear The Brehms and the Inner City All Stars in Allen.

Jaap van Zweden produced some surprises Thursday night as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra went from music on a massive scale (Bruckner) to more modest masterpieces by Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Mozart.

Director Richard Linklater and stars Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey help us dissect their Carthage, Texas-set movie.

The Alamo comes to North Texas, Dallas’ black journalists give Beyonce some props and various hires and whatnot were announced: It’s the Friday arts news roundup.

One reason the Dallas Arboretum wants the expanded parking space that’s gotten people riled up is what’s opening there: its first major art exhibition. The show has so many exuberantly colorful glass doodads by Dale Chihuly, you wonder the sunlight doesn’t fry some plants like Museum Tower.

Glass2012 is organizing a series of events highlighting the medium over the next several months. Spot some glass and you may win an Art&Seek t-shirt.

What would a Thursday roundup be without a Cezanne auction, a soprano profile and a major new book on a major North Texas corporation?

He will soon become power-mad and fame-obsessed.

In which I recount a favorite personal anecdote and a bit of wisdom from the late architecture critic for The Dallas Morning News.

Art&Seek is giving away 4 pairs of tickets to see Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” at the 2p.m. performance on Sunday, May 20.