Guest blogger Greg Brown is the managing director of AFI Dallas International Film Festival. I’ve had the great opportunity twice in the last several weeks to participate in some fantastic conversations about movies. Coincidentally, both were organized by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The first was after a screening of Stop the Presses!, [...]
I finally got around to catching Shakespeare Dallas’ The Merchant of Venice this past Saturday up in Addison and was struck with how current some of the play’s themes are. No, not the stuff about helping out a friend in need and love and stuff like that — I’ve seen too many political attack ads [...]
Guest blogger Gail Sachson is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and the Board Liaison to the Dallas Arts District Alliance. In this post, she describes an arts-filled day in Dallas: Bill Lively, CEO of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, says it best: “It’s a great day to be in Dallas!” 8 a.m.: [...]
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an article examining the assumption that arts audiences are old and getting older, and that this is necessarily a bad thing (not surprisingly, for instance, older audiences have the time and money to attend opera and symphonies). Leon Botstein, college professor and conductor, wrote a related column in the [...]
Guest blogger Bart Weiss is Director of the Dallas Video Festival and president of Video Association of Dallas. I just got back from my first trip to the Austin Film Festival. I have been to every South by Southwest fest in Austin but somehow have never been to the AFF. Perhaps because it is a [...]
If you haven’t visited “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” at the Dallas Museum of Art yet (or you did and you want to learn more about the Boy King), this weekend features a pair of opportunities. Tonight, Dr. Emily Teeter from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago will give a [...]
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Frost/Nixon, the Ron Howard-directed adaptation of the Peter Morgan play, seems to be getting off to a rocky start. It opened the London Film Festival on Wednesday, and the first reviews have been less than kind, essentially saying that the largely interview-heavy piece doesn’t make the jump from stage to screen all that well. That’s [...]
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts announced today that CEO Bill Lively will transition into a new role — president of the Center’s Endowment Trust. The move, effective Jan. 1, will keep Lively as the Center’s chief fundraiser while allowing for a to-be-named CEO to take over the day-to-day operation of the Center. That [...]
Here’s two things you don’t often here in the same sentence: tax write-off and nudity. But you’ll experience both if you attend Thursday night’s Live Draw in Oak Cliff. The event is a unique fundraiser for Arts Fighting Cancer, the charity founded by AFI Artistic Director Michael Cain and features close to 10 figure artists [...]
