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 [...]
Urban Street Bazaar founder Julie McCullough Kim in front of her line of handbags, Enju. Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. Things couldn’t be better for DIYers in North Texas! This past Saturday, Urban Street Bazaar took place in Bishop Arts [...]
With the Impressionists at the Kimbell and all the King Tut hooplah taking over the Dallas Museum of Art, you might not have noticed that the other blockbuster exhibition in the area — and one that’s just a leettle more contemporary and risk-taking than the other two — closes this weekend. It’s your last chance [...]
Sheree helps little Amanda on the alto saxophone. Dr. Oliver Sacks told KERA’s Krys Boyd that music stimulates the imagination, keeps the body moving, and communicates at least as powerfully as language. Musicians even have larger brains. So why aren’t more communities exposing little ones to musical instruments?
